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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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Biscotti seemed like the perfect cookie for today so I did a search and found a great recipe – Double Almond Biscotti by Pam Simmons. The intro to this recipe, which I found on Recipe Goldmine, says that Pam developed it in her test kitchen and it became the most popular biscotti in her office. [...]
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Easy to work with! Cream Cheese Sugar Cookie Cut-Outs 2 sticks unsalted butter, room temp 3 ounces cream cheese, slightly soft 1/4 teaspoon salt (omit if using salted butter) 1 cup granulated sugar 1 egg yolk 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter, cream cheese and [...]
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TGIUUBD! That stands for Thank God it’s “Use up Banana Day”. This special day comes around every 6 months. It starts when my daughter launches a campaign to buy bananas, which no one in the family really eats – including her. Not wanting to hinder the natural evolution of her mercurial little taste buds, I [...]
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