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Nutella-Hazelnut Cookies

February 7, 2012 | 51 Comments | Email | Print
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I’m not sure if you’ve noticed it or not, but there is a serious lack of recipes that include Nutella on this site. Maybe it’s never something you thought about, or maybe you’ve been asking yourself why in the world I don’t have any Nutella recipes. Well, it almost shames my foodie heart to tell [...]

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Granola Cookies

January 13, 2012 | 24 Comments | Email | Print
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These cookies are an absolutely brilliant invention – you take a relatively “plain” cookie base and then throw in chunks of granola, nuts, dried fruit and coconut. It’s one, big, cookie-sized hunk of granola that you can walk around and eat. Genius, I tell you. I have always been a huge fan of granola but [...]

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Peppermint Whoopie Pies

December 15, 2011 | 66 Comments | Email | Print
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Oh how I love the combination of chocolate and peppermint. This time of year I typically turn to peppermint bark to get my fix, but this year wanted to try something new and fun. I’ve experimented with some different types of whoopie pies recently (pumpkin, red velvet, and s’mores) and thought that a peppermint whoopie [...]

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Gingerbread Men Cookies

December 13, 2011 | 53 Comments | Email | Print
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Gingerbread men cookies are such an epitome of Christmas baking, but I never tackled them for one primary reason – all of the gingerbread cookies I had ever tasted were pretty much the equivalent of a rock. Unless you’re talking about biscotti or pizzelle, I am a diehard soft and chewy cookie person. Crunchy cookies [...]

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Nutter Butter Snowmen

December 9, 2011 | 41 Comments | Email | Print
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I love the kitchen, I love baking and I love making edible creations. However, I tend to not consider myself a very “creative” or crafty type of person. Like, I would have never thought of these cute little snowmen on my own (thank goodness for Pinterest!). But once my eyes saw these adorable little guys, [...]

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Lofthouse Style Frosted Sugar Cookies

December 7, 2011 | 104 Comments | Email | Print
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Food is a powerful thing, isn’t it? Sometimes it’s a particular smell that can jolt our memory and transport us back to a great aunt’s kitchen on a warm summer day, and sometimes it’s taste. These cookies hit me with no warning. As soon as I took a bite I was immediately 18 again. I [...]

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Pumpkin Cookies with Brown Butter Icing

October 26, 2011 | 51 Comments | Email | Print
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Although I declared my less-than-enthusiastic nature towards the Halloween holiday, I am still in gung-ho mode for everything and anything pumpkin. The bonus to baking with a ton of pumpkin this time of year? Any leftover that gets moved into the refrigerator can be stirred into oatmeal, applesauce, yogurt, ice cream… you name it, and [...]

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Chunky Peanut Butter Cookies

September 7, 2011 | 43 Comments | Email | Print
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Thanks to tropical storm Lee, it has been quite soggy here in Pittsburgh since Saturday. Grey skies, a constant rain with some downpours splattered in, much cooler temperatures, and overall pretty dreary has been the norm for the last few days. For the most part, I revel in weather like that – sometimes there is [...]

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No-Bake Peanut Butter Butterscotch Crisp Cookies

September 2, 2011 | 43 Comments | Email | Print
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Sometimes it’s nice to slow life down just a little bit. Stop and smell the roses. Doesn’t it feel like we’re always rushing somewhere? Or rushing to get something done, so we can move on to the next thing or hurry out the door? I feel like life moves way too fast in our uber-ambitious [...]

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Triple Chocolate Oreo Chunk Cookies

September 1, 2011 | 40 Comments | Email | Print
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While the Thick and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies are my all-time favorite, stuck-on-a-desert-island, need-them-to-survive cookie, I can’t help myself when it comes to trying all sorts of new cookie recipes. Enter these insanely sinful chocolate cookies, created by the queen of awesome cookies, Maria of Two Peas and Their Pod. She creates some of the [...]

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