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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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I have been drooling over The King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion: The Essential Cookie Cookbook for ages. It’s a bit hard to justify buying a new cookbook when I have stacks of them with recipes tagged that I’ve not gotten around to trying yet. Recently, though, I [...]

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Recently, while visiting our friends in North Carolina, we were privileged to have dinner at Magnolia Grill, one of Gourmet magazine’s top restaurants of 2006. After appetizers, entrees, and desserts, we can now all enthusiastically attest to its goodness. As an added bonus, I was treated by our [...]

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When I first heard about World Nutella Day, I knew that my love of that wonderful chocolate-hazelnut spread required me to participate. That decision was the easy part. Knowing what to contribute was the hard part. Then, inspiration hit me as I drove home last night. [...]

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In my continuing obsession with all those holiday magazines, these cookies come to you courtesty of Paula Deen’s Christmas. This time of year, one of the most important considerations when baking cookies is how they look. Most holiday cookies are to be given away, so [...]

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I found this recipe in Martha Stewart’s Baking Handbook while I was looking for another recipe. The book just kind of fell open to the page with the recipe and picture. Instantly, I changed gears and decided that these had to be made immediately.
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I haven’t been in much of a baking mood lately. I’m not really sure why, but I just haven’t. I’ve been trying to talk myself into it by looking through recipes in hopes of finding inspiration. However, where I actually found my inspiration was in [...]

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An alternate name for these cookies would be Cleaning out the Pantry Cookies because that’s basically what I did. I was staring at my pantry shelves trying to think of something to bake when I realized that I had accumulated so many different things from my baking [...]

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For my birthday last month, my sister gave me How to Be a Domestic Goddess. After reading through it for the past month, I finally dove in and made something today. These cookies intrigued me. I don’t think I’ve ever tasted cookies with white chocolate and pistachios, much less made [...]

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I came across this recipe in last month’s Southern Living magazine and quickly decided that I should make these cookies as soon as possible. These peanut butter cookies are made with a NutRageous candy bar chopped up and stirred in the dough. My only delay in getting them made has been [...]

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