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My Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies

View a printable recipe Last month, BoB quietly celebrated two years of baking and blogging. I tried desperately to come up with some clever, unique way to mark that mini-achievement. Sadly, nothing seemed to come to mind. Then, I thought if BoB is all about baking, why not share with you one of my very favorite recipes?

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Marbled Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

View a printable recipe or more photos As a general rule, I'm not much of a fan of the standard chocolate chip cookie. In fact, you'll find that the pages of BoB do not contain such a cookie. I usually like something else tossed in there with the chocolate. Maybe some nuts or dried fruit or whatever else catches my attention from my pantry shelves.

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Oatmeal Raspberry Bars

View the original recipe or more photos Most times when I make a recipe, I have spent a good deal of time looking for one with something specific, whether it be an idea I have or just an ingredient I have on hand. If I’m wanting brownies, for instance, I may look through ten cookbooks, [...]

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Chocolate Monster Cookies

View a printable recipe or more photos It seems like everyone has a recipe for a huge, decadent cookie, known usually as Monster Cookies. I’ve certainly made them before. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any with a chocolate cookie. I also started thinking that I don’t bake nearly enough with cashews. [...]

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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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Monster Cookies

View a printable recipe or more photos 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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