Butterscotch is a type of confectionery whose primary ingredients are brown sugar and butter. Butterscotch is similar to toffee, but the sugar is boiled to the soft crack stage, not hard crack. Often credited with their invention, Parkinson’s of Doncaster made butterscotch boiled sweets and sold them in tins, which became one of the town’s best-known exports. They became famous in 1851 after Queen Victoria was presented…
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We all know chocolate and peanut butter is a match made in heaven. 🤦🏼♀️ It’s a no-brainer, really.I’m so-so on chocolate. I do love peanut butter. BUT, when they are paired together, I cannot resist! And, when mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are baked inside a most perfect butter sugar cookie envelope, there are no…
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Simple sugar cookies, with integral cut-outs filled with Jolly Rancher crushed candies fulfill our artistic desire for edible stained glass and a beloved buttered cookie all at once! Food is ART! Stained Glass Sugar Cookies Stained Glass Sugar Cookies Basic Sugar Cookie Dough:1 cup butter (or shortening), room temperature1 cup white sugar1 large egg2 tsp….
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Set out this buttery savory, salty, and honey-sweetened shortbread at cocktail hour for an elegant alternative anything else, OR enjoy with your morning coffee – You certainly enjoy your buttered everything bagel with a touch of honey with your cup a joe, right? Well, this is going to lead you to abandon THAT! These gluten-free…
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The first time Valerie and I baked homemade shortbread together I literally MELTED in awe on my way home. Half the batch was warm, fragrant, sweet, and a siren calling my name in the backseat of my car on the drive home. I literally nearly did not make it home – the aroma was orgasmic….
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Every year at Christmas I tell myself that sugar cookies are just too much work.The rolling out of the dough, time after time – the many, many sheets of baking – and then the frosting.And then, I continue to make them, over and over again.I think you just have to at Christmas, right. Christmas sugar…
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Perusing the aisles at my local grocery store, I discovered this little jar of cookie magic: Cinnamon Toast Crunch Creamy Cinnamon Spread. I’m quite guilty of roaming the “peanut butter” aisle at the store, googling and drooling over the new, interesting flavors and varieties that seem to show up on a regular basis. While this…
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As I was watching a Netflix (well, bingeing a Netflix show recently – YES, for SHAME! I DO watch TV and I can’t even remember the show), I found my mind wandering and dreaming of the days of Ted Lasso, but also the biscuits…and just shortbread in general.Buttery, sweet, salty, and simply supreme. I remembered…
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Chocolate can be rich, bitter, sweet, nutty, and even floral, depending on the type. And, of course, MY type is the cream of the crop – Righteous Cacao RAW Divine Mint Chocolate. THE VERY BEST, always. Chocolate can be well paired with so many different flavors, a but refreshing mint green is sweet and cooling,…
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No need to tire of shortbread yet.Try this recipe TODAY – Christmas – for the buttery, soft, sweet, salty homemade shortbread deliciousness I’ve hardly coaxed you into loving – topped with festive Peanut Butter M&M candies! Peanut Butter M&M Shortbread 1 cup butter, melted and cooled2 cups all purpose flour1 cup powdered sugar1 tsp. baking…
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