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Today’s recipe is a twist on Nutella Lava Cookies, only instead of adding toasted hazelnuts, you add a tiny bit of hazelnut extract and a topping of peanut butter and chocolate hazelnut spread. Since I’ve been trying to use up the new Jif chocolate hazelnut spread I bought a few weeks ago (and love), I [...]
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I’ve been on a mission to find the best cookies in Austin, and this week Todd brought home one of my old favorites — a black gold cookie from Upper Crust bakery. They’re big, fat, and stuffed with walnuts, but I couldn’t eat the whole cookie in one sitting so I put it away. …
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Looking for Valentine’s Day ideas, how about chocolate in the form of a gigantic cookie? Like the other Levain copy cats, these are big, fat, and have fudgy soft centers. The ones I tried in New York were very dark and had peanut butter chips and I’ve found this recipe to be very similar — [...]
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A few people asked for ways to use chocolate extract. It’s a new product for me too, but based on the brownies from yesterday and the cookies I baked this morning, I think chocolate extract would enhance just about anything with chocolate. As for today’s chocolate extract infused treat, I went with this simple cookie. [...]
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Wow, I can’t believe it took me so long to try Emily’s creation, but I was in the mood to stuff something with Oreos and her Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Cookies from Halloween 2010 came to mind. And what’s funny is it is almost a year to the day she made it! Thanks for such a [...]
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This weekend Fuzz and I donated some homemade treats to a local bake sale. On our way out, we picked up a few items for ourselves, including a cupcake which Fuzz ate in the car on the way to Karate class. Fuzz has eaten lots of cupcakes in her 10 years, but this one must [...]
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One of my pet peeves while traveling is hotel rooms without coffee makers. From the hotel’s point of view, there are probably a million reasons not to have coffee makers; but from a traveler’s standpoint, it’s a huge inconvenience to have to get dressed to go to the lobby and buy coffee or pay $15 [...]
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The day I need to bake a recipe using metric, my scale battery gives out. Radio Shack, here I come — and maybe I’ll bring you cookies! “Hello, Radio Shack kids behind the counter who are always so helpful in assisting with my peculiar type battery needs. Would you like to try my chocolate cookies? [...]
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