You can just barely sense the peppermint – but it’s there, nonetheless! Double Chocolate Subtle Mint Cookies 1 stick (8 Tbs. butter), room temperature1 cup white sugar½ cup brown sugar3 large eggs1 tsp. vanilla extract1/2 tsp. baking soda1/2 tsp. baking powder1/4 tsp. sea salt2 cups all-purpose flour1 1/2 cups chocolate chunks¼ cup Peppermint Schnapps Preheat…
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“Milk’s favorite cookie,” BUT BETTER! O.R.E.O. cookies, blended with tasty vanilla frosting for EXTRA creamy goodness, and folded into prepared chocolate cake mix make for the most amazing and EASY Chocolate Cookies & Cream Oreo Cookie “Slim” you could ever imagine. The cloudy, chewy texture is to die for! The only question would be…dunk for…
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I was recently asked how to craft a dairy-free dessert.Easy, peasy.I explained to her that with all the amazing plant-based options these days, ANYTHING is possible. Yes, anything!I tried to describe exactly how to prepare the Chocolate Saltine Scotcheroo treats I had just whipped up THAT very day.I was met with a blank stare. I…
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You can just barely sense the peppermint – but it’s there, nonetheless! Double Chocolate Subtle Mint Cookies 1 stick (8 Tbs. butter), room temperature1 cup white sugar½ cup brown sugar3 large eggs1 tsp. vanilla extract1/2 tsp. baking soda1/2 tsp. baking powder1/4 tsp. sea salt2 cups all-purpose flour1 1/2 cups chocolate chunks¼ cup Peppermint Schnapps Preheat…
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Crème de menthe (French for “mint cream”) is a sweet, mint-flavored alcoholic beverage. It is available commercially in a colorless version (called “white”) and a green version (colored by the mint leaves or by added coloring if made from extract instead of leaves). Both varieties have a similar flavor and are interchangeable in recipes, except…
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A simple search of “cake mix cookies” equates to a trillion different easy 3-ingredient cookie recipes. These all purport to taste like bakery cookies – soft, chewy, delicious – AND to be super easy to bake at home; after all, the cookie recipes only use three ingredients. Well, I chose to use a chocolate cake…
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Whether you enjoy soft and chewy, melt-in-your-mouth cookies, or crispy, crunchy, thin “crisp” cookies, I’ve got your back. These Double Chocolate Hazelnut Butter Cookies are the best of both worlds. You know, baking with shortening creates the softer, chewier cookies many of us adore. Baking cookies with BUTTER, crisps the cookies, making them flatter and…
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The rich, luscious, gooey “caramel” of dulce de leche, married to a salted caramel walnut butter, and then graced with dark chocolate chunks – there’s nothing better than these crumbly, buttery cookies. Dulce de leche, also known as caramelized milk, milk candy, or “milk jam” in English, is a confection popular in Latin America prepared…
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Is that a fig?It’s not a banana, that’s for sure.While the slices of sun-dried figs appear to be slices of dried banana, in these super yummy Chocolate Berry Fig Cookies, don’t be fooled. They are FIG-TASTIC, not banana baked goods. Most people don’t understand how great the union of chocolate and fig are. In fact,…
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Growing up, my all-time favorite ice cream flavor was “JaMocha Almond Fudge.”Things shifted and shimmied – for a time it was Butter Pecan, then Cookies n’ Cream. I loved a good Strawberry Swirl and then went through a phase of Half Baked Fro Yo.’ But, I do believe, my heart will always be with a…
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