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The other day someone asked me if I thought 4 sticks of butter (1 pound) was too much for a recipe. Expecting to find the 4 sticks butter balanced out by 3 or 4 cups of flour and plenty of sugar, I took a look at the recipe, which happened to be this one – [...]
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This cookie was created in response to a question in the comment section. Renee wanted to know how certain companies “ribboned” things like peanut butter, caramel and chocolate through cookies without the ribbons soaking into the dough. I really didn’t know the answer, but did some experimenting and came up with this. Remember, yesterday I was working [...]
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Okay, I have one more and that is IT. Finito. No more cookies today. This recipe was a winner in the 1994 Bake-off contest. It was created by a former WAC named Betty, who used her prize money to buy a car which she named “The Chocolate Coconut Cruncher”. Every time I come across this [...]
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Well, here we are, halfway through another Monday (at least in North America). I hope everyone had a good weekend. We stayed around the house, played a lot of Uno and Texas Hold ‘em, took my mom to Luby’s, took down the Christmas tree, watched movies…..all in all, pretty relaxing. Today’s not too frantic either, [...]
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I’m embarrassed to admit this, but for the past few days I’ve been completely obsessed with cloning Selma’s cookies. If you’ve never heard of them, they’re these big, fat, unreasonably large cookies loaded with chunks of chocolate and candy. Selma sells them from her website, but you can also buy them in Las Vegas and [...]
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This recipe was included in a Redbook Magazine interview with Giada De Laurentis. When I first saw it, I wanted to run to the kitchen and try it out, but I was on an airplane so that wasn’t possible. Now I’m home in my messy house with loads of laundry and a batch of these [...]
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Wait! Here’s one more thing before I take a little 2008 break. This is an old oatmeal cookie recipe, but I scaled it down and added the metric weights. These were jumbo cookies, so I used jumbo sized raisins. Small Batch Jumbo Oatmeal Raisin Cookies 3/4 cups all-purpose flour (94 grams) 1/2 teaspoon baking …
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