Bake or Break

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View more photos Quinn tends to be a bit more ambitious in my baking than I am. He thought these cookies would be a great addition to my holiday baking roster. I agreed that they looked and sounded delicious, but I wasn’t sure about the painstaking efforts involved in making them. I came up with [...]

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Chocolate Chess Squares

View a printable recipe or more photos As many of you can attest, I’ve been up to my elbows in cookie dough for several days. Taking a bit of a detour today, these squares pack a big sweet punch! A classic Southern recipe, chess squares pop up all year round, not just for the holidays. [...]

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Snickerdoodles & Chocodoodles

View a printable recipe or more photos Today’s holiday baking offering is a Snickerdoodle that offers a little twist as an option for chocolate fans. As many cookies as I’ve baked, I have never made Snickerdoodles, one of the most common cookies around. I actually have a good reason for never having made them. As [...]

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Pecan Date Cookies

View more photos Day 5 of holiday baking, and deeply immersed in cookie mode. Today’s offering, bursting with flavor and pecans, is a wonderful traditional cookie ideal for the holiday season. Some times, old habits die hard. For me, no baking spree is complete without a cookie like this. Simple, traditional and, more importantly, full [...]

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Chocolate-Macadamia Nut Clusters

View more pictures Still more holiday baking…. As an added bonus, today is also National Cookie Day. It’s not often that I bake with coconut. Quinn is vehemently opposed to it. However, with all the holiday baking I’ve been doing, it’s much easier to justify baking with it. There are plenty of people out there [...]

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Pistachio Oat Sandies

View a printable recipe or more pictures Day three of holiday baking… Every year, I am overcome with the need to buy far too many of those holiday magazines. I have come to accept that I will buy them, although I don’t think I’ve bought as many as I did last year. I’m trying to [...]

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