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Samoa Sheet Cake
So, first – let me tell you about my weekend. Then we’ll get to this DELICIOUS Samoa Cake recipe. I took a couple of extra days off before the long Memorial Day weekend, mostly to prepare for my daughter’s birthday party and get the girls to and from dance recital and rehearsal, which this year fell on Thursday and Friday evening. NBD. Right? Yeah. So Thursday brought some (SCARY) severe weather to my part of the world, and of course that only happens when my…
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Chocolate Dipped Holiday Cookies
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #NestleHolidayBaking #CollectiveBias My daughter had a couple of friends over last weekend to play for a few hours for a “BFF Gift Exchange,” and because she’s just like her mother, she wanted to decorate for her party and create a dessert table to display our cookie creations. The girls had pizza for lunch and we made some chocolate covered cookies with fun decorations for dessert. It’s a quick and…
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Dark Chocolate Dipped Energy Bites
It happens occasionally, that I’m going about my day, maybe enjoying a little energy bite out of my refrigerator when I’m like, WAIT! Why haven’t I shared these with you guys yet? I guess I get tunnel vision sometimes, always dreaming up the latest and greatest dessert idea that I guess I just overlook my everyday favorites. This is totally an everyday favorite. I’ve been making these energy bites for a couple of years now. I’ve adapted the original recipe just a teensy-bit, but recently decided…
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Chocolate Chip Graham Cracker Bars
You can actually SEE how delicious these are. You can see the powdery sugar stuck to the gooey, chocolaty graham cracker cookie. You can SEE it, can’t you? And yup – they taste just as good as they look. Maybe better. I broke all of the July-in-Kansas rules today and turned my oven on. Yes, I turned my oven on even though it was exactly 900 degrees outside today. And with the heat-index, it felt like 950 degrees. But I just had to make these…
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Layer Cake
I’m in that place again. I’m in that place where I have a birthday party looming in the not-so-distant future and I’ve done ZERO to get ready for it. I haven’t ordered my decorations, started crafting my banners or even planned the meal. The party is in eight days. Oh, and I have that whole job thing, plus kids and dance classes and dinners and bathtimes and storytimes and homework and about eleventy-bazillion deadlines to meet before then. I am fuh-reaaaak-ing out. Why do I…
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Three Layer Oreo Bars
So my life goes like this: yesterday my husband was out with his buddies, so I had an evening to myself. The girls went to bed at 8pm, and I marched right now the stairs, made a big glass of iced tea, bought the girliest-chick-flick ever, and pulled out my big stack of neglected magazines. It was awesome…for about three minutes. Precisely three minutes into my chick-flick, my youngest daughter was calling from the top of the stairs. It was “fundering” and she was scared.…
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Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies
I have to say that I had very low expectations for this recipe. It just didn’t really appeal to me at all for some reason. It wasn’t until my brother requested these for this birthday dessert that I finally broke down and made them. They are actually quite delicious. The chocolate chip cookie is firm but soft, and even the Oreo cookie softens up a little bit in the middle of the cookie. I will now humbly admit that I should’ve tried these years ago.…
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Iced Oatmeal Cookies
In my mind, there are only three excuses for a crispy cookie: gingersnaps, Oreos, and a few that you can buy from the Girl Scouts. That’s it. Otherwise, cookies should be chewy. It should be a law. Oh, I guess biscotti is ok too – but I don’t really consider that a cookie, (even though it totally is a cookie) so I’m not going to count it. But even so, out of all of the millions of cookies out there, only four should be crispy.…
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White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
My family and I took a quick little road-trip this week. It’s the week before my oldest daughter starts school, so we took advantage of the gorgeous and unseasonably mild weather and hit the road. I’ll post more about our trip this weekend in my Out and About Series, but we had a really, really good time. And even better – we were only in the car for about three hours at a time! Rather than relying on fast-food or gas station snacks along…
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Tiramisu Macarons
While I was making these the other day, my Mom called me, and asked what I was doing. I told her I was making Macarons, and she said “Macaroons?” No…MacaRONS. Different. Then, I tried to explain to her what they were – kind of like a meringue sandwich cookie, though with an almond-flour base…but I’m still not sure if she knew what I was talking about. So, here you go Mom. MacaRONS. (Mack-uh-RONs). I’m very confident that I didn’t do a good job explaining them…
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Dark Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie
During the winter months, I turn into a pantry-hoarder. I tend to over-stock my pantry on trips to the grocery store, buying one or two of every possible pantry staple, so I always have everything I need for all of my baking whims. Then, when I use something, I just replace it and I can make it through the entire winter without having to run out for ingredients when I decide to bake. It’s great, for a while. But then, I end up with way…
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Easter Candy Cookies
My girls have been begging me to make chocolate chip cookies for a few weeks now, but my dessert menu has taken me in other directions. With Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day and now Easter, it always seems like there’s been something else to make. Then, when browsing my Pinterest boards, I found these cookies that I’ve wanted to make for a LONG time, so I decided I’d made them wait long enough. Easter candy cookies! Basically, they’re really big, chewy, fat chocolate chip cookies…
