e-cookbooks

Currant Cookies and a Cookie Cravings eCookbook Flash Sale

Friendship is a funny thing.

You can be the best of friends. Totally inseparable for weeks, months, even years. Then life changes. New friends come into your life, old friends drift away. Often it’s not even a conscious decision, thought or action. It just happens.

I was first introduced to these Currant Cookies thanks to a friendship I’ve known all of my life, a friendship of my mother’s that has been passed down to the next generation. Life comes full circle and somehow these cookies have become a part of it.

Back a few more years than I’d care to have on my calendar, my mom was set to deliver my little sister when she met her best friend Pam. My mom and Pam were both in the same hospital about to give birth to daughters. For years they had run in similar circles, in the same city, but hadn’t met one another. Yet people would always mistake them for one another. Similar mannerisms, style, beauty and height. It was a wonder they hadn’t met before. I guess bringing their daughters into the world at the same time made it their time.

They both named their daughters Holly. Well, my mom didn’t initially. I did that. My mom and dad named her Heather, but I refused to call her anything but Holly. My mom said she never did look like a Heather. She said Heather’s are wispy. Holly was a tub. So at 4 months old, Holly had a name change.

I’ve always been a bossy older sister. I blame it on this first act of self righteousness.

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Cyber Monday Deal: NEW Holiday Cookie Cravings eCookbook for just $.99

** CYBER MONDAY PRICES NOW CLOSED, THANKS FOR PURCHASING THIS GREAT COOKIE PACKAGE AT OUR REGULAR PRICE

I’ve been teasing about it for a few weeks, and the day is finally here. The release of Holiday Cookie Cravings.

To kick off the holiday season, Maria of Two Peas and Their Pod and I are joining the Cyber Monday fray and offering our brand new Holiday Cookie Cravings, filled with 10 favorite brand new Holiday cookie recipes in a gorgeous, full-color ebook, FOR JUST $0.99!

This super special price is available today only—Cyber Monday—and will return to the regular price tomorrow.

I got so excited about sharing all of these cookies with you I knew you’d want to see how it all came about, so here’s a behind-the-scenes video to show you how we created this sweet tasting project.

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Cookie Cravings Print and Digital Cookbook Giveaway

Chocolate chip or sugar, dipped in chocolate or stuffed, there’s hardly a cookie combination that hasn’t yet been discovered. Or is there?

I love coming up with new ways to share my love of food with others. That’s why I created Foodie Crush digital magazine—which by the way you still have a few more days to submit your favorite frozen treat recipe for the summer edition. I love concepting new and different ways to package recipes that makes my mouth water and stomach growl.

Food bloggers are some of the most inventive recipe developers in the world of cooking. And when it comes to cookies, Maria’s inventive combinations are at the top of the pack.

I recently teamed with Maria to create the e-cookbook Cookie Cravings, sharing 30 of her favorite cookie recipes with you. Some cookie recipes are new and some are revisits from her blog Two Peas and Their Pod. All of the recipes feature new photography and new behind the scenes stories.

I mean take a look at this Cinnadoodles recipe for sweet sakes.

Thank you to all who have purchased the e-cookbook digital package. And if you haven’t yet, you can purchase here. We loved providing delicious recipe for you and your families and your comments have been amazing!

And now at your request, we’ve added two more purchase options: You can now buy Cookie Cravings for your Amazon Kindle at the amazing introductory price of just .99—but only for the next week before the price goes up. And If you’re still craving the lovely printed page, we are offering a full-color, printed cookbook option for sale on Blurb.

And to thank you for your support I’m sharing the digital and the printed version of Cookie Cravings with you. It’s time for a giveaway!continue to the recipe… about Cookie Cravings Print and Digital Cookbook Giveaway

Announcing the Cookie Cravings Cookbook Plus a Giveaway

Hey! Guess what? We’ve birthed ourselves a cookie cookbook.

I’m thrilled to announce that Cookie Cravings cookbook is now available!

And to celebrate its arrival we’re giving away a KitchenAid 7-quart Stand Mixer just like the one Maria used to bake all these cookie wonders. Believe me, it got a workout. Oh, and a little known fact about Maria: If you can believe it, Maria doesn’t like to eat cookie dough. She’d rather eat the cookies baked! Which turned out just fine, more dough for me and Josh to snack on.

Okay, now I’m getting ahead of myself. First, the cookbook…

Maria’s Triple Chocolate Oreo Chunk Cookies from the Cookie Cravings Cookbook

I’ve partnered with Maria and Josh of Two Peas and Their Pod to co-publish their first e-Cookbook, Cookie Cravings. It’s been such a blast plotting, planning and BAKING. We’re thrilled to share it and a bunch of other downloadable goodies with you.

Cookie Cravings is a 78-page downloadable cookbook that includes all new photography, new stories and a month of cookie recipes: 15 favorite recipes from the Two Peas and Their Pod blog plus 15 new cookie recipes created specifically for Cookie Cravings. I can verify they are all delicious after nibbling my way through the cookie cornucopia as I photographed and styled them for the book. My skinny jeans are officially on vacation.

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Announcing > Cookie Cravings Cookbook and Nutella No-Bake Cookies

Yep, it’s been one of those weeks. As in: Awesome.

It started off with a fantastic weekend when we surprised Smudge and her 7 y.o. bestie with a trip to Vegas for the Tour Concert Debut of her fave Nickelodeon band Big Time Rush. I think I liked the concert as much as she did—hello boy crush? It was hilarious when she put two and two together and figured out—and was SHOCKED—to learn that her “teen idols” were all of 23 years old. Oh, show bizness.

Our visit to the Neon Boneyard was beyond our expectations and a weekend stay at the incredible Loews Lake Las Vegas was followed by an amazing food buffet—and I mean GOOOD as in crab legs, shrimp and champagne galore—at M Las Vegas—a Best-Of suggestion from one of my L.V. resident besties. Thanks Chan!

And then it was straight hone to the big project that’s been filling my weekends and night-times with even more love, more food—definitely not the diet kind—and more laughter.

I’m so excited to announce that I’ve partnered with Maria and Josh of Two Peas and Their Pod to photograph, design and co-publish their first e-Cookbook, Cookie Cravings.

Maria, who the Pioneer Woman herself affectionately calls “The Cookie Queen”, and I met over three years ago and we’ve done several fun projects together, including Maria’s contributing editor duties for Foodie Crush magazine. And I can verify first-hand that the girl can bake cookies.

Maria and Josh have been asked to do cookbooks before but for some reason or another it just didn’t work out. But now they’re sharing their very favorite cookie recipes as well as some delicious, never before published cookie creations.

And lucky me! Maria curated her favorite cookie recipes, and then created some amazing, brand new recipes, and I got to take pics of all of them, design the e-Cookbook and lend my years of publishing expertise to get the project rolling.

We’re so excited to share Cookie Cravings with you. And of course, Maria’s first cookbook is all about cookies, SHE IS THE COOKIE QUEEN, RIGHT?

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