Salty Chocolate and Caramel Turtle Cookies. I don’t like nuts in my desserts. I like nuts on their own – almonds, peanuts, walnuts and more. But when they are mixed into my cookies or brownies or ice cream or bacon, it’s a no-go. Peanut Butter Pretzel Truffles. These truffles might be life-changing.
They are so fabulously delicious, that when I look at them I can barely think straight. And dare I say, they aren’t exactly terrible for you? I mean, I used natural peanut butter. And a sprinkling of pretzels. And you could use dark chocolate as a coating. I, of course, used the milkiest of milk chocolates I could find. Pumpkin Spice Cake Balls. Update your google readers! You still have over 24 hours to enter the food processor giveaway!
Speaking of, your favorite Holiday memories are seriously choking me up. Even my husband was talking about them when he got home from work last night. Salted Mudslide Cookies. Mocha Coconut Fudge. Ugh. I’m really sorry to have to do this to you. Really. Because I’m sure you have plans tonight and all, that include like, watching six episodes of Friends, eating a dinner of crackers, cheese and wine and then not doing laundry and not cleaning the bathroom. Mocha Almond Fudge Cookies. Nuts in cookies. Cookies with nuts. Few things in life make me cry like biting into a warm, chewy cookie only to chomp down on a rock hard nut. Fat Fluffy Snickerdoodles. Guess what?
Easy No-Bake Peanut Butter Cookies. If the yellowed index card doesn’t give it away, the “White Karo Corn Syrup” ingredient must. It’s another gem from the depths of Mother Lovett’s never ending recipe collection. And you can imagine my excitement when I found this, for they are made with an ingredient I absolutely adore: graham cracker crumbs. True story: sometimes I melt butter in the microwave, add graham cracker crumbs, add marshmallows, then add chocolate chips and microwave again for a “s’mores bowl.” Oreo Balls. Update your google readers! Remember the pumpkin spice balls dipped in chocolate? They are the offspring of these Oreo balls. If you’ve never had Oreo balls before, they can be described as ‘cake-like,’ truffles, or the-best-thing-you’ve-ever-eaten-in-the-entire-world.
Not only do they taste incredible, but they are SO EASY. All you need is a package of Oreos and one block of cream cheese. I use my large food processor for this one, and mix the Oreos into crumbs first. I cut the cream cheese into chunks before adding it. Once the Oreos have warped into crumbs, I add the cream cheese chunks and let the food processor go to town. It creates an Oreo ‘dough.’ This dough is. Peanut Butter Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies. There is only one thing worse than you having to stare through the screen at these cookies. And that’s listening to me talk about how incredible they taste. Or… I guess it COULD be worse – I could remind you for the 3700th time that the only way the peanut butter + chocolate combo (aka life itself) gets better is by adding banana, but whatever.
I wouldn’t want to bore you. But obviously, these cookies do contain three of my favorite things in the universe. I baked them in the morning, which meant that I ate cookies for a very balanced lunch and dinner. Baklava Recipe. I’m about to bombard you with pictures, so let’s just get this out of the way. Sold yet? Here’s the deal: I’ve wanted to make baklava for YEARS. As a firm believer of the nuts-stink-in-desserts camp, this flaky treat has always made the cut. In fact, I’m pretty sure that for the first like, 15 years of eating this, I didn’t even know it was nuts. I just thought it was some sort of delicious, caramely heaven thing. No one in my family ever made it, but a few of my mom’s friends would graciously gift us some around the holidays and I would often hog it all to myself, saving one last piece for my mom.
I knew I wanted to put a tiny bit of my own spin on the flavor, so I added cardamom and vanilla beans. I also used mostly pecans, then almonds and pistachios. Butterball Cookies. Click here to update your google readers! This is another cookie that I would make with Mother Lovett while she was still kickin’. If you have someone in your life that prefers treats on the milder side and does not like thing’s very sweet, this cookie is for them.
However, I have zero concept of someone thinking a food is too sweet. Cake Batter Chocolate Bark. I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited to share a recipe with you.
Or to lick a bowl. The secret ingredient here?