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Pulling a sheet of cookies out of the oven and having to tell a couple of seven year old girls “Sorry ladies, your cookies didn’t turn out” is no fun, and I know because I had to do it this morning after trying out a new sugar cookie recipe – one recommended as melting tender [...]
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A few months ago, I spent half a day trying to clone Almondinas – thin, sweet cookies which I can best describe as a cross between Melba toast and biscotti. They were very popular in New York in the 90’s, and are now sold all over the country in major grocery stores. My clone was [...]
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Here’s the second biscotti recipe of the day. Like the previous biscotti, this one doesn’t have any oil or butter so it’s hard, crunchy and well suited for dunking. I love it this way and am glad I tried it, since I usually make versions with at least a couple of tablespoons oil. This is based [...]
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I had fun making these. They came out rock hard and perfect for dunking into coffee or wine. There’s no oil or butter in this recipe, so I suppose that is key to the tooth-threatening texture I happen to like. What I didn’t love was the cornmeal. The brand I bought from the bulk bin [...]
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If you haven’t noticed by now, I never stick with one cut-out sugar cookie recipe. There’s always a new and better (or sometimes worse) recipe around the corner. Luckily, this falls into the “better” category. I found the original version of this recipe on a board for budget travelers (I wonder if they know about [...]
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One more recipe for today. This was posted in the comment section by Kay, who said she received some of these cookies as a holiday gift and fell in love with them. I pasted the recipe below as Kay wrote it, but put “butter” in parenthesis because that’s what I used. I also found that [...]
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I was a little worried we’d be up to our ears in Girl Scout Cookies and that I’d have to make loads and loads of Ice Box Cakes, Thin Mint Crusted Pies, and Girl Scout Cookie Trifles. Not the case. Fuzz and her pal AK stood in front of Sam’s Wholesale Club Saturday night and [...]
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Today’s cookie, which I’m packing up and taking to a party tonight, is a spin-off of the biscotti on my Top 10 list. That is, Gourmet Magazine’s biscotti. It’s a great recipe, but I decided to give it a Mexican theme and added espresso powder, Mexican vanilla, pecans and cinnamon. Hershey’s cinnamon chips would be [...]
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