Bake or Break

Salted Caramel Cookie Bites

Sweet and salty has become a bit of a theme this month in my kitchen. Just last week, there were those Salted Caramel Pecan Bars. And, the week before that, I shared these lovely Fleur de Sel Chocolate Chip Blondies. Hopefully, no one minds the repetition. I, for one, adore the sweet and salty combo.

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Oatmeal Date Cookies

View a printable recipe or more photos Fun fact: I do not like raisins. Not even a little bit. I do, however, very much like oatmeal cookies. They're chewy and cinnamon-y and just plain yummy. Of course, oats and raisins have long been joined together in cookiedom, so finding oatmeal cookies without raisins is usually a challenge. So, I usually make my own oatmeal cookies, substituting something like dates or currants for the raisins to make them more me-friendly.

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Granola Cookies with Chocolate and Roasted Almonds

View a printable recipe or more photos The first time I flipped through At Home with Magnolia, I was intrigued by these cookies. I am a big fan of granola and have been tempted more than once to make my own granola bars. Somehow, though, I'd never thought to put granola in cookies.

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Zimtsterne

View the original recipe or 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. [...]

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