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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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One thing I noticed while making batches of cookie bark is that baking at a low temperature for a longer amount of time almost always results in an evenly cooked and very crisp product. Recently, I’ve been applying this to some of my miniature cookie recipes. I’ve always loved teeny tiny cookies, but prefer them [...]
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This is the type of day where I most definitely should not have sweet and salty treats in the house, but I couldn’t resist! These Salty Chocolate Chunk Cookie were at the top of the Epicurious popularity box, and given the photo and reviews, I had to bake them. Plus I was interested in [...]
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Yesterday I made our neighbors a batch of cookies as a thank you gift for helping me take care of a lost dog on Thanksgiving. I’d planned on chocolate chip, but wanted to do something a little more special, and made a version with buttery toasted nuts and coconut. Perfect timing! Because later that day [...]
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I’ve been trying to perfect this cookie for the past week and finally got it right. At the end of the day, it’s just a chocolate chip cookie, but I think it’s a really good chocolate chip cookie and a little different. The cookie that inspired this one was from Kim Boyce’s book, Good to [...]
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I’m still on a giant cookie kick, and since I already posted a 9-inch round pumpkin and double chocolate cookie, here’s a large, perfect-for-decorating, chocolate chip. So far, the key to baking these large, easy-to-slice cookies has been using a low heat (300F) and baking for 30 to 35 minutes. This one bowl recipe gives [...]
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This recipe is adapted from the back of an All-Bran cereal box. It has a little more flour and a little less butter than the usual Toll House recipe, plus it includes 1/2 cup of softened bran which bulks up the cookies and lowers the calorie count ounce per ounce. Not that these are low [...]
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Too bad the deadline for the Nestle Toll House Tales contest has passed, because I finally came up with a cookie and story. I was going to write that this cookie was inspired by a recipe I received years ago from a waitress in the Neiman Marcus tea room — a recipe I unknowingly paid [...]
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