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S’more Sandwich Cookies « urban strawberries. Still sticky, gooey, and yummy, just in the form of a cookie, these S’more Sandwich Cookies are perfect for a summer barbeque or picnic. They taste close to the original, but no camp fire is required. Phew, because it’s too dry and too hot for a fire anyway. I had a lot of fun {especially with the kiddos} creating these and playing around with different marshmallows and chocolates.

In the end, I used Kraft’s new “StackerMallows,” cutting off a third of each marshmallow to fit my cookie. After “toasting” the marshmallows, I’d put a dab of marshmallow cream to be sure the top cookie wouldn’t slide off of the stiffer toasted side of the marshmallow. I chose milk chocolate chips because they seemed to melt quicker, and reminded me more of the original Smores with Hersheys. Hope you enjoy! (Inspired by My Kitchen Addiction) Makes about 4 dozen plain 2 inch cookies, and about 24 sandwich cookies For the cinnamon sugar coating: 1/4 cup granulated sugar 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon Like this: Dunkaroos, the treat from down under. Kids, you have less than 24 hours left to vote on Whit’s Amuse Bouche’s wedding amuse bouches.

Just go there and do us all the favor! I’ll be picking the winner at 5 pm Central time tomorrow, and you’ll be winning French Fridays with Dorie, and the baked good from this blog of your choice! Boom-boom-boom and a zoom-zoom (just shake ya rump!) Now, everyone probably noticed what a flashback mood I’ve been in recently, what with the old school song quotes and the fruit roll ups, but I have been saving the most awesome flashback of all.

See, I ate A LOT of junk food back in my day. When I say a lot, I mean like 99% processed, heavily marketed on television kind of junk. No shame, it is part of what has made me, me. But now, I don’t. But something gets into me when I think about frosting in a plastic container. And I thought I was worldly, because dunkaroos, were so CLEARLY an Australian treat. Ah, young love. Anyway, dunkaroos. Homemade Dunkaroos graham cracker recipe from Smitten Kitchen Love, A Recipe Blog: Homemade Milanos. Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies. My family loves my soft peanut butter cookies and my Nutella peanut butter cookies, so I decided to create a chocolate version of this fave. That was easy to do by just substituting some of the flour with cocoa powder.

Nice and soft and full of chocolate peanut buttery flavor, yum! I love this dough. It’s such an easy recipe and comes together nicely. I haven’t substituted butter for the shortening, so if you decide to do that I’m afraid I can’t offer up any experienced advice. I have used both regular shortening and butter flavored shortening, both with great results. Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookiesprintable version 1/2 cup shortening (or butter flavored shortening)3/4 cup creamy peanut butter1 1/4 cups firmly packed light brown sugar3 tbsp milk1 tbsp vanilla1 egg1 1/4 cups all purpose flour1/2 cup cocoa3/4 tsp salt3/4 tsp baking soda Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

Combine shortening, peanut butter, brown sugar, milk and vanilla in large bowl. Combine flour, cocoa, salt and baking soda. Turtle Fudge Chocolate Chip Cookies | Baking Junkie. Recipe from Martha White Hi friends! Sorry if it seems like things have been a bit slow around here. I think I am finally caught up from our trip to DC. I considered documenting the trip in food for a post, but it was all so good I just dove right in all the time! I will say that we visited both Sprinkles and Georgetown Cupcake, and quite conveniently they are located just a few blocks from each other. The consensus of the group was that the customer service was better at Sprinkles, but the cupcakes were better at Georgetown Cupcake. If you’re ever in the DC area I would recommend checking out both (one can never sample too many cupcakes)! Now onto these cookies. I have made cookies from a cake mix before, but never from a muffin mix. Turtle Fudge Chocolate Chip Cookies Printer Friendly Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Happy National Peanut Butter Cookie Day! Secret Ingredient Chocolate Chip Cookies - Once Upon A Chef. In the food world, there are few things as elusive or sought after as the perfect chocolate chip cookie. This recipe from my friend Carrie has my vote. When she first sent it to me, I thought “Geez, she sure threw the whole kitchen sink in there.”

But Carrie is a great baker so I tried them, and I don’t think I’ve ever had a better chocolate chip cookie. To be fair, there are several “camps” when it comes to the perfect chocolate chip cookie: there’s the flat and crispy, the soft and chewy, the puffy and cakey, the nuts or no nuts, the list goes on and on. What I love about these cookies is that they have that amazing combination of crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside; they’re not too flat and not too puffy, they’re chock full of all kinds of stuff — they’re just right.

The secret ingredient? The second, believe it or not, is shredded coconut! Servings: About 25 cookies Ingredients Instructions Add your review or comment! Peanut Butter Bacon Cookies. Sometimes I have imaginary phone conversations. Ok… this happens a lot. They go a little something like this: Hello..? Yes, hi. I’d like to speak with the person in charge of making up all these clever food holidays like today’s Bacon Day. Oh, that’s you? How about a pizza and beer holiday every Friday of the month. Can we make everyday at 3:30 in the afternoon National-Go-Ahead-And-Eat-A-Brownie Moment? No? Ok…. I gotta run. Interested in other ways to celebrate bacon!? How about Brown Sugar Bacon Waffles or BLT’s with Homemade Mayonnaise!? Bacon and peanut butter!? I had never heard of this combination until a friend told me how her grandfather used to make peanut butter and bacon sandwiches for all the grandkids to eat.

So how do these cookies taste? Peanut Butter Bacon Cookies adapted from The Gourmet Cookbook makes 15 cookies about the size of your palm Print this Recipe! 1 cup all-natural chunky or smooth peanut butter 1 cup sugar (1/2 cup brown sugar and 1/2 cup granulated sugar) 1 egg. Best Chocolate Cookie Recipe | Chocolate Chip Crack Cookies.

Warning: These chocolate cookies are crack, just like the title and photo suggests (but it isn’t really the hard stuff in the photo. Powdered sugar and palm sugar were the prop fill ins.) Need your chocolate cookie fix? Here’s a little something for you adapted from the latest book of the dessert masterDavid Lebovitz, “Ready for Dessert“. David’s chocolate crack cookies are highly addictive chocolate bombs of ecstasy that he originally crafted in the kitchen of Chez Panisse. He innocently claims the name comes from the “craggy fissures.” At that time it was more appropriate to come up with a safer name for the masses for these incredible chocolate cookies, so there were several aliases used on the menus.

Sounds kinda fishy to us. David’s original chocolate crack cookie recipe calls for sending a mass of almonds through the food processor be pulverized, however our food processor is amongst the dearly departed so a little improvisation took place. Luxardo~our libation of choice. Hello! Lemon Ricotta Cookies with Lemon Glaze Recipe : Giada De Laurentiis. Nutella Filled Cream Cheese Cookies for World Nutella Day!!! Ah, World Nutella Day! A few years ago I made myself a cup of Nutella Hot Chocolate, posted it on my blog and sent the link to Sara of Ms. Adventures in Italy and Michelle of Bleeding Espresso, so I could participate in World Nutella Day. I never thought it would become one of my most popular recipes to date! So, this year, I prepared a bit better and started thinking of Nutella recipes a little more in advance.

Tell me, are you making Nutella recipes today or are you dipping your spoon into a jar and enjoying Nutella "au naturel"? Nutella Filled Cream Cheese Cookies(dough recipe adapted from Michael Smith via Food Network Canada) 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temp. 1 - 250g package of cream cheese, room temp. 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar 2 eggs, room temp. 1 tbsp vanilla extract 1 tbsp corn syrup 3 cups all purpose flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp salt Nutella, for filling 1/3 cup granulated sugar (for rolling)

Tea & Cookies. Orange Marmalade Cookies | Iced Orange Cookies. Rarely does a new cookie recipe make it into our abode’s “must make” repertoire. With our household favorites being so loved (like the chocolate chunk, snickerdoodle w/ Viet cinnamon, and oatmeal rum raisin recipes), a new find has to be pretty damn good to pass up baking an old favorite. These orange marmalade cookies with orange zest icing are pretty damn good. The showstopping goodness of these cookies come from the icing. The cookie itself, despite being quite luscious, is merely a vehicle in which to consume the slightly tangy, citrusy sweet orange icing. Of course it helps that we have slug-the-one-next-to-you-OMFG-these-are-amazing oranges growing in our garden with which to make the orange icing. fresh orange zest makes the icing fragrant and fabulous For this recipe we highly recommending finding the best oranges you can.

We’ve played around with different orange marmalades for the cookie recipe. Be generous with the fresh orange zest -Todd Yield: 36 cookies Ingredients: Cookie Dough. Peanut Butter Crunch Cookies. Girl Scout Cookies Copycat Recipe: Easy No-Bake Samoas Caramel deLite Cookie Bars | The Family Kitchen. It’s that time of the year again. Girl Scout Cookie sales are in full swing, and so are the inevitable cravings that come along with pondering all the classic flavors. There are lots of homemade versions of Samoas (or Caramel deLite’s) on the internet, but the cookies can be tremendously time consuming, not to mention downright messy. So, I set out to make a quick, no-bake bar version resplendant with all the favorite flavors of the Samoa cookie, without any of the hassle. In fact, without any hassle at all. You don’t need to fire up your oven or heat up your stovetop. These cookie bars can be made using just three bowls and your microwave in about 10 minutes.

No-Bake Samoas Bars 1 cup 60% cocoa chocolate chips1 stick butter1 teaspoon vanilla2 1/2 cups (approximately 20 cookies) sugar cookies1/4 cup sugar55 caramels, unwrapped1/4 cup milk1 cup coconut, sweetened, finely shredded In a large bowl, place all of the unwrapped caramels and milk. Honey Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies. Don’t forget the milk Rummaging through our kitchen’s “don’t know where else to put it” box, we pulled out this mysterious cookie recipe. It was written in a clean gracefully-looping woman’s handwriting with nothing more than very basic ingredients and instructions. Neither of us had a clue who had given it to us, but that’s not about to stop us from trying a new cookie recipe. The recipe reminded us of these fantastic “Cowgirl Cookies” we get bakery whenever passing through Bishop, CA.

Oats, honey, raisins, chocolate chips, sunflower seeds, coconut flakes. Immediate consensus on the freshly baked cookies was “deliciousness.” The honey is the main sweetener in the cookies, lending them a soft texture and nectar sweet flavor. Thank you Mystery X person, who ever gave us the recipe. . - Todd and Diane Yield: 48 cookies Total Time: 1 hour Feel free to add nuts, change or add to the dried fruit, or macerate the dried fruit to make the cookies just how you like your favorite trail mix. Directions: Peppermint Pixies. Maybe it's the season, weather or just something in the air but lately I've been having a peppermint craving, the more intense the better it is. Since it's Christmas, I decided to make an ordinary chocolate cookie a little extra ordinary so that's how these peppermint pixies came to existence. Commonly called chocolate crackles, chocolate crinkles and chocolate snowcaps, these cookies are delicious and bursting with chocolate flavour all on their own.

The addition of creme de menthe and peppermint oil elevates them to another dimension and makes them seasonally special. As a child I recall fairy tales which often portrayed pixies as short and ill tempered little creatures. Therefore it would only be fitting to call these peppermint pixies because although they are tiny, they pack an intense mighty minty punch!

Fresh and cooled after baking, they are crisp on the outside and chewy on the inside. Peppermint Pixiesyields about 2 dozen Method. Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies « Amandeleine. I wasn’t lying about the Oreos. This is actually a thing. This is a whole Oreo stuffed inside a very large, very delicious chocolate chip cookie. This is serious business people. I don’t joke about cookies inside of other cookies. I don’t even have good flavour text to go with this recipe. It’s exactly what it sounds like. Make cookie dough. Scoop dough. Smoosh around a double stuff Oreo in its entirety. Bake. Eat. Yeah. So I’m just going to drop this recipe in front of you guys and back away slowly. Recipe from Picky Palate via BonAppetit.com This is not my usual Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe, but I suspected that mine would spread too much and reveal its delicious innards prematurely, so I used the cookie recipe included in the original recipe.

Ingredients Directions Preheat oven to 350 degrees.Cream butter and sugars together with a mixer until well combined. Makes about 2 dozen enormous cookies. Like this: Like Loading... Chocolate espresso sandwich cookies. Oh. My. God. These cookies are quite possibly the best I've ever had. The rich moist flavor from the chocolate combined with the creamy espresso filling is just to die for. If you're in need of a chocolate fix, then these cookies are perfect and will have you craving them for days. 1 1/2 cups plus 3 tablespoons flour 3/4 cups plus 1 tablespoons cocoa powder 3/4 cups sugar 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon instant espresso powder 15 tablespoons (1 7/8 sticks) butter 8 ounces white chocolate 1/2 cup heavy cream 1/4 teaspoon instant espresso powder In a small saucepan over medium heat, bring the cream to a boil.

Preheat the oven to 350°F. On a floured surface, roll the dough until it’s about 1/8 inches thick. Bake for 12-15 minutes. On a work surface, place half of the cookies upside down. These cookies are a process, but you won’t think twice about the time it took to make them as soon as you put one of these babies in your mouth. Key West coconut butter lime cookies. These cookies are the result of a total fail.

I got the idea to make coconut butter from Edible Perspective and, while I had such high hopes for it, I just didn't like it. First, I used shaved coconut instead of coconut flour and I couldn't get it completely smooth so there were little pieces of coconut throughout. Second, and most importantly, I love the smell of coconut, but I don't really like the taste of it! I attempted to improve the flavor a bit by adding a little lime oil, but it didn't work. I didn't want to waste it so I stuck it in the fridge until I could figure something out to do with it.

What is it about the smell of coconut that makes you think of the beach and summer? Before I give you the recipe, I present: Cookie Art, by Tara. :) Key West coconut lime butter cookies Adapted from Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook, 75th year anniversary You can purchase your lime oil from Boyajin; I gotta say, they are well worth the money. Ingredients Preheat oven to 375F. Cookies and Cream Cookies. Oat-Rageous Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe | Reader's Digest Version.

Chocolate Turtle Cookies. Chocolate-Covered Peppermint Cookies. Triple Chocolate Cookies Recipe | Reader's Digest Version.