Rich, gooey and loaded with pecans, these bars left us with sticky fingers and smiling faces.

The adults had hot tea with their vanilla cookies. We children had milk with ours.

Anything baked with pumpkin pie spice just smells like home to me.

Leave it to Grandma to turn a good cookie into a delight by adding a little chocolate.

Since oranges were my mom’s favorite fruit, Grandma came up with these cookies.

Decorating spiced wafers at Grandma’s house was a holiday tradition.

Grandma turned almost-overripe bananas into these tasty cookies.

It was my lucky day when I was picked to finish the last of the fudgy chocolate filling.

Grandma’s cookie stamp imprinted a rabbit onto each tea cake.

Grandma liked to sprinkle these cookies with chopped nuts.