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Lemon Cookie with Royal Icing

Meringue Powder Royal Icing

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Royal icing is a pure white icing that drys candy hard. You can color royal icing any color using food colors. Use natural food coloring if you are concerned about using artificial food colors. For lemon flavored icing, substitute 1 tablespoon of fresh lemon juice for the water. Royal icing is not ...

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Homemade Lemon Cookies

Lemon Cookies

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Lemon Cookies are easy, chewy, cookies bursting with real lemon flavor not lemon extract. You can adding lemony, hard royal icing or omit the icing and save about 16 calories 1 teaspoon of  added sugar per cookie. Add more or less lemon zest depending on your taste.

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World’s Dumbest Pizza

By: Daniel | Comments Off on World’s Dumbest Pizza | | Category: Caveat Emptor, Diet, Dieting, Dining Out, Sodium | Tags : , ,

Chili Frito Pizza

American pizza restaurants have developed some unique ideas for pizzas that turn the humble Italian pie into a creation that would makes Italian’s roll their eyes and wonder if Americans had lost their marble in addition to their senses. Pizza is one of the most ethnic popular foods in the ... more

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500 Calorie Cupcakes

By: Daniel | Comments Off on 500 Calorie Cupcakes | | Category: Breakfast, Caveat Emptor, Diet, Dieting | Tags : , , ,

Assorted Decorated Cupcakes

Americans wonder why they are overweight and cannot lose weight. It can’t have anything to do with their diet. It must be genes or hormones or nasty bacteria and viruses that’s turned them from svelte to obese. The truth in most cases is the problem is their diet, lack of ... more

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Gingersnaps


Recipe Updated 12-12-2020 to add the option for ground cloves. Gingersnaps are a crispy cookie variation of gingerbread, and are ideal for dunking in coffee or liqueurs. One 2-inch (2.5 cm) cookie sprinkled with sugar has about 55 calories and less than 10mg of sodium. Gingersnaps are traditionally rolled in ...

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Homemade Sugar Cookies

Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing

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Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing are crisp, thin cookies average about 75 calories per cookies without icing and have virtually sodium free when made with unsalted butter. Salted butter adds about 6 mg per cookie. Most cookie recipes call for 1/2 tsp. (2.5 ml) of salt. I normally omit added ...

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Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate Chip Cookie


Chocolate chip cookies are one of the most popular cookies in the United States and the most popular homemade cookie. It is so popular, prepared chocolate chip cookie dough is available at most grocers. But the prepared dough available today is not your mother or grandmothers cookie dough. Like most ...

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