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Buckeyes are hands-down my favorite candy. When I was a kid, my mom would make these little guys by the dozens. It’s the peanut butter-chocolate combination that can not be beaten. The salty and sweet flavor translates perfectly in this decadent fudge. I hope you …
The combination of peanut butter and chocolate is always unbeatable. When the crispy cereal is added, it’s a total winner.
Essentially, these cherry blossom cookies are butter cookies, with the juice of maraschino cherries added in for a sweet cherry flavor.
The original recipe called for semi-sweet chocolate chips; however, I prefer milk chocolate. As a result, the creaminess and chocolatey flavor come through and have a less harsh semi-sweet chocolate taste.
These Peanut butter cups and Pretzel cookies are moist and tender.
The peanut butter flavor works well with pretzels and chocolate chunks. I add flaky sea salt on top for good measure.
My Nutella stuffed fudge cookies are pretty unique. It’s rich, decadent, and that Nutella center is perfect.
This recipe for these Rollo Stuffed Brownies is fantastic. It is a hearty, rich cookie with the familiar taste of Rollo candy bars.
These Chocolate Chip Toffee Cookies Are next level. They are the kind of cookie that makes you sneak from bed at night to the kitchen because you know they are a perfect companion to a tall cold glass of milk.
The chocolate adds a creamy sweetness, and the pumpkin is in the background supporting the chocolate together, forming a cookie for all seasons.
My NYC Mega Milk Chocolate and Walnut cookies have slightly crispy edges, and the interior is a tad under-baked and delicious
My White Chocolate, Cherry, and Pistachio Cookies are unlike any cookie you have had. The cookie is soft, moist, and packed with flavor. The white chocolate is smooth and creamy. The cherries add a sweet note that comes through nicely, and the pistachios provide a unique texture and saltiness that ties this cookie together.
Bake a batch of Cherry Chocolate Chip Valentine Cookies this Valentine’s Day to share with your Valentine. It’s a 20-minute easy recipe.
If you love blueberries, you’ll be crazy for these cookies! Recently, I purchased a cookbook from Christina Tosi. She is the owner of Milk Bar, a bakery in New York City, and is known for her amazing cakes. I love her recipes. Her recipes are …
My Chocolate Drop Cookies are made from soft dough and dropped onto a baking sheet in balls; they are a simple, old-fashioned treat that can be customized.
When I am looking for a new cookie recipe, it’s kind of like, been there, done that. It is rare to find something that is not on every baking blog out there. I first saw this recipe on the Bon Appetite web site, and I …
When you look through my recipes on this site, you will see specific trends. I like pie, cookies, and chocolate and raspberry together. I changed out the margarine for butter and cut the amount in half. As I just mentioned, this recipe for Raspberry Chocolate …
As far as this blog is concerned, 2019 has started very slowly. I have only posted one blog so far this year. I guess I have good reasons that, my mom passed away just after Christmas, and I started a new job as well. Also, …
I love cookies with lots of different textures and flavors. Our Kitchen Sink cookies, which incidentally have everything in them but the kitchen sink, are amazing. We took them to a holiday party a couple of weeks ago and a guy I never met before …
My Pecan Sandies are a combination of flaky shortbread and toasted pecans. Before starting this recipe, I had never had a homemade pecan sandie. I like the “cookie isle sandies,” but felt that I could do better. Our …
Who doesn’t love Danish Butter Cookies? The name says it all, “butter”. Several years ago Dale and I bought a cookie press. It changed our world. We made butter cookies by the hundreds. Every cookie was the same and came out perfectly. Perfectly, that is, …
I like baking when the weather is cool. My Blueberry Billionaire bars are perfect for chilly days. It’s early fall here in Indiana and I couldn’t be happier. I have never enjoyed the summer weather. I hate being hot. If I could get away with …
I have been working on this recipe for White Chocolate Macadamia Cookies a while now. It was a tricky recipe to get right. I knew what I wanted the result to be, but the cookies came out very flat or hard and chewy. I have …
Our Peanut butter Chocolate Swirl Bars are crave worthy. About six month ago Dale and I went low carb. Under ANY circumstances, a diet of any kind is not pleasant. It is especially hard for those of us who publish a baking blog. Our Peanut Butter – …
Our Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies with Sea Salt recipe is more complex and a far cry from the first cookies I made when I was a teenager. I was in the seventh grade, it was the first year that our school required the boys to …
Most people already have their favorite recipe for chocolate chip cookies. That doesn’t seem to stop us food bloggers from posting hundreds of new recipes every year. My recipe is an original, I did not change one single thing, I guess you can say that …
When I started thinking about creating a strawberry-chocolate cookie, it was clear that I wanted the flavor to come naturally without making the cookies too dense and moist because of the water content in strawberries. After a few attempts, I came up with the perfect …
Thumbprint Jam Cookies are great for the busy baker! Is it me or is this year passing by at lightning speed? I swear it was January last week. I find myself over scheduled most days. What, with working, blogging, and running our online record store …
Have you ever sat in an all-day meeting at work that seems drain your soul? I mean, the idea of sitting in a hot meeting room with people you don’t necessarily like spending time with, is the worst and don’t get me started about …
If I’m honest with you, I have never made these Double Chocolate Chunk cookies. It wasn’t until today that I even saw the recipe. My husband, Dale bakes them and is known far and wide for this chocolate masterpiece. It is a recipe he has …
I like to think of French Meringue Cookies as the angel food cake of cookies. They are light, slightly sweet, and easy on the calories. The origin of Meringue is traced back to the 17th century in a Swiss village. Over the next few hundred …