At Home: Vanilla Chocolate Chip Almond Biscotti

For this year's 5th Annual Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap, I decided to make Vanilla Chocolate Chip Almond Biscotti as a gift from What Micky Eats...At Home.  Biscotti is Italian for "twice baked" and is a favorite snack of both my Aunt Debbie and my Mother-in-Law, Bernice.  These cookies are great with coffee and tea in the morning, or as an after dinner dessert, and I had plenty left over to keep for myself as snacks for work.  The recipe makes a large batch, so it was perfect for a holiday cookie exchange such as this one!

At Home: Buttery Almond Cookies

For this year's 4th Annual Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap, I decided to make Buttery Almond Cookies as a gift from What Micky Eats...At Home.  I just love the flavor of almonds and it is really kicked up in this recipe with the use of real sliced almonds and almond extract.  There are many variations of this classic holiday cookie, but I think mine is pretty easy and uses no eggs nor milk - just lots of butter, hence the name.  This recipe is great to make large quantities for a cookie exchange such as this one.

At Home: Coconut-Cranberry Chews

I am so thrilled to take part in the 3rd Annual Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap. The basic idea of this cookie swap is to send out 1 dozen cookies to 3 food bloggers that you've been matched up with, and then you get to receive 3 different types of cookies from 3 different people that have been assigned to you. But the best part about this year's swap is that both Lindsay and Julie organized all this to support Cookies for Kids' Cancer. So with a cookie swap registration fee of $4, every dollar goes directly to this charity - raising over $13,778 this year. How awesome is that?

For the swap, I decided to make Coconut-Cranberry Chews as a gift from What Micky Eats...At Home.  I tried to go really festive with this combination of coconut, cranberries, and orange. In fact, these straightforward, tasty rounds are everything a holiday cookie should be.