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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 [...]

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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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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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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The holiday baking saga continues…
As I’ve confessed many times before, we are big fans of peanut butter. Even better to some of us is the combination of peanut butter and chocolate. While that combination can no longer be seen as original, something surely can be said for [...]

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With the holiday season officially upon us, I have moved into heavy baking mode. This time of year, I especially love to bake cookies and other treats for giving to family and friends. I have stacks of recipes, old and new, to try out. I would [...]

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I was tasked this week with baking something that Quinn’s parents could take with them to St. Louis for Thanksgiving. I started thinking about what kind of baked good would be most likely to survive an airplane ride, and decided that biscotti would be just the thing. [...]

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I am a loyal reader of King Arthur Flour’s The Baking Sheet newsletter. In the summer edition, one of the recipes that grabbed my attention was for this chocolate-caramel cookie. I am actually not a huge fan of caramel, but Quinn definitely is. Always aiming to [...]

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I have made this recipe many, many times, with nothing but rave reviews. It’s been some time since I whipped up a batch of these, but, recently, I dusted it off for a co-worker’s birthday.
In the past, I have always made these as cookies. For something different (and as a time [...]

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