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If you like your oatmeal cookies thick and kind of soft in the middle, try these. They don’t spread much, and the pudding keeps them from getting hard. I made mine in a range of sizes and decided I like them about medium, but next time I might try making them as big as scones! [...]
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I’ve eaten my share of delicious vegan cookies, but last week I baked a batch that just might have been the best ever! The cookies, which are dramatically large and perfect for bake sales, are from a book called Whole Grain Vegan Baking by Celine Steen and Tamasin Noyes. It’s a recipe treasure trove for [...]
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The first thing I think of when someone mentions St. Louis is The Gateway Arch, but the second would surely be the Gooey Butter Cake. A regional favorite with multiple stories surrounding its origin, the Gooey Butter Cake is a thin, dense, rich coffee cake invented by German bakers in South St. Louis. The original [...]
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Today’s cookies were baked in honor of our friend Stephanie, who went to Hawaii and brought us back a giant bag of Macadamia Nut Hershey’s Kisses. Did you even know that such a Kiss existed? I had no idea, but from what I’ve read you can purchase them in Hawaii and in a few select [...]
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This recipe was a test to see how self-rising flour would work in a double chocolate cookie. Regular all-purpose flour mixed with baking powder and salt would have been just fine, but I wanted to see if the soft winter wheat used to make White Lily would have any impact on the overall result. The [...]
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These oatmeal cookies might be a little different than what you’re used to. With more butter and less egg, they’re thick and dense, but still soft in the center. The ones in this picture are what I’d call regular size, as they’re made with a rounded tablespoon of dough…. But for the second batch, I [...]
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A lot of people put instant pudding mix in their chocolate chip cookies, but did you know it can also be used in oatmeal cookies? As in the chocolate chip variety, the pudding mix helps keep the inside soft and the outside crisp while adding a little flavor. For today’s batch, I used a combination [...]
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These bars are a little over the top, but if you like the idea of Magic Cookie Bars combined with cheesecake, they’re worth a try. I was going for really tall Magic Cookie Bars, so rather than just pour on the Eagle Brand to hold all the chips together, I mixed it with cream cheese, [...]
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