It feels like it has been a very strange year, but I hope that everyone had an excellent holiday season! I don’t always have all the time in the world to bake, but it’s an important part of my life! Baking and some of the other crafty things I do are great distractions. Here are some of my favorites from 2025.
My husband often complains that I don’t make enough chocolate chip cookies. I figured that I would try this variation, with the addition of graham cracker crumbs. They were so good! The milk chocolate chips and the graham cracker crumbs add a sweetness you will enjoy.
One of my favorite cookies growing up was Iced Oatmeal Cookies. I have made a few variations, and this is the bar cookie version. You do have to process the oats, so they aren’t too chunky, but that’s the only complexity. These capture the flavor perfectly of the store-bought cookies and are wonderful.
I wasn’t sure about this recipe when I made these; I worried that they would be too plain. Boy, was I ever wrong! For those who don’t like super sweet or decadent cookies, these are for you. They remind me of a simple cake with a lovely cinnamon sugar topping. I wish the recipe would have made more.
This is one of many cookies that I have made with dried cinnamon apples. Yes, you can use fresh apples, yes you can use any variety of chips. I used the perfect cinnamon apple with cinnamon chip combination. They are sticky but bake up beautifully.
Peanut Butter Snickers Cookies
These cookies originated as a way to use leftover Snickers bars. Add peanuts, peanut butter, and peanut butter chips to that and you have a winner! These cookies have lots of ingredients, so watch the yield for this recipe.
This was one of the fudge recipes I made this year, based on a flavor of fudge that I had tried while on holiday. These use dark chocolate chips, but this is flexible. I used unsweetened coconut, as fudge is already sweet enough!
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