Have you ever gotten a sugar cookie from Swig? They are thick, soft, buttery cookies with the perfect melt in your mouth texture and a beautiful dollop of frosting swirled right over the top. Classic Swig cookies have pink icing, but how could I resist using aqua food coloring? I have to say, after seeing these I don't think I could ever do pink. Aren't they just gorgeous!?!?!?! (Of course you can use YOUR favorite color in your frosting and totally personalize these.) I've recipe tested, adjusted, tweaked some more and am calling these hands down the best sugar cookie I've ever had. One of the secrets? My family LOVES almond extract, so I used almond instead of vanilla in the icing and OH.MY.GOODNESS. It is absolute heavenly perfection! Almond not your thing? Feel free to switch out vanilla but my fam swears that this little change knocks these out of the park over Swig cookies, so give it a try - I only add a 1/2 tsp, so it's not overwhelming, just downr
I spent some time on my stay-cation between Christmas and New Years playing around with making pasta! I've never made pasta before, but my hubby got me the KitchenAid pasta roller attachment set for my birthday in November and I've been dying to try it. What a fun process!! After making a few dough's and reading a TON of information on making pasta, (and binge watching Giada and Bobby Flay in Italy), I found this combination of ingredients to give me some pretty incredible results! My family agrees that it is going to be really hard to ever go back to regular dried pasta after enjoying this amazing stuff! Just this past weekend, (after all my experimenting), my hubby and I enjoyed a Saturday date day making fettuccine together and we seriously had so much fun! (To the point where we then made gnocchi together Sunday.) My hubby now thinks he is a pasta making expert and swears he is going to make it all by himself for me one night. I'll be completely happy with