Romy's Baking and Cake Decorating

Soft molasses cookies I was intrigued when I saw  this cookie recipe  on Sprinkle Bakes' blog.  I love molasses cookies and thought they would make a nice change from the traditional Christmas sugar cookies with royal icing. Especially because of the work involved in icing cookies, the price of meringue powder these days, and the fact that my family just isn't that into the taste of decorated cookies.  I also wanted a chance to use my mom's cookie cutters that I inherited. These 1970's vintage impression cutters are so cute and I haven't had much success with them before. I thought this recipe might do the trick, based on the blog photos. Since there's only the 3 of us and I wasn't gifting any cookies, I decided to make only half the recipe.  It turned out to be very difficult to use the impression cutters because the dough is pretty soft and the cutters are very detailed, making it virtually impossible to release the cookies. I had to scrap the Santa Claus ...

  The family was getting together at Grandpa's for a 4th of July cookout and I was to bring dessert.  I thought of making strawberry shortcakes, but ultimately decided to make a Triple Berry Pie . I wish I could remember how I got the idea! I prepared to make  this recipe  found online on Taste of Home.  I'd made the pie dough the day before, and set out to start the recipe until, literally at the very last minute, I took a closer look. First of all several reviews mentioned that the pie came out runny and people recommended increasing the amount of cornstarch.  Then, it began to look odd to dot the filling with butter, and it looked even more strange that this recipe had half the amount of berries in the filling than every other recipe I compared it to.  I decided not to take the risk of changing this recipe around and find  another  recipe. I've been satisfied with the pies I've made from Sally's Bake Blog so I decided to go with it.  ...