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Cardamom Snowball Cookies

Cardamom Snowball Cookies
Comments : 1 Posted in : butter, cookies, dessert, intermediate, recipe, snack, sweets on by : Jeanette Rueb
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American cookies and baked goods are often made with more sugar than anything else. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a sugar fiend and definitely don’t have a problem with it, but sometimes, I like to change things up. A few months ago, I made some Italian cookies with chocolate and black pepper. If you made
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Banana Bread

Banana Bread
Comments : 1 Posted in : alcohol, baking, banana, bread, breakfast, cheap, chocolate, dessert, easy, food, recipe, rum, snack, sweets on by : Jeanette Rueb
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Banana bread is one of my favorite treats. It’s just cakey enough to make my body think I’m giving it a real dessert, but it’s ever so slightly healthier for you. It’s high in fiber and a classic baked good in any American kitchen. In the past, we’ve had banana pumpkin bread, which had a
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Edible Cookie Dough

Edible Cookie Dough
Comments : 1 Posted in : cookies, dessert, easy, family, food, fun, no-bake, snack, snacks on by : Jeanette Rueb
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Sometimes you want something sweet but don’t necessarily want to put in the effort involved in baking. Maybe you’re having a lazy weekend with your friends, or maybe you’re cuddling up for a movie night with your sweetheart. Whether it’s one of those reasons, a bad day (or week), or just because you’ve got a
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Cake Cookies

Cake Cookies
Posted in : baking, cake, cheap, chocolate, Christmas, cookies, dessert, easy, food, recipe, snack, strawberries on by : Jeanette Rueb
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If you’re experiencing the holiday rush and need to make a lot off cookies stat, here’s a trick that will save your sanity for sure. Cake cookies are exactly what they sound like. You use store-bought cake mix to create fast, easy cookies. Make them as simple or as wild as you want, the base
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Cranberry and Orange Shortbread Cookies

Cranberry and Orange Shortbread Cookies
Comments : 1 Posted in : bake, baking, butter, Christmas, citrus, cookies, dessert, easy, food, orange, shortbread, sweets, Thanksgiving on by : Jeanette Rueb
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For my choir’s winter concert, we had to bring baked goods for our audience to enjoy during intermission and after the concert. Each of us was tasked with bringing a dozen cookies. For those who didn’t have time to make something to bring and didn’t want to just go out and buy something from the
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Pumpkin Pasties (Hand Pies)

Pumpkin Pasties (Hand Pies)
Posted in : bake, baking, cheap, dessert, easy, fall, food, pie, pumpkin, pumpkin spice, quick, snack, sweets, vegetarian on by : Jeanette Rueb
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I’ve been going through the Harry Potter book series lately, and, on several occasions, pasties are mentioned. I had no idea what a pasty was, so I looked it up one day, after hearing about pumpkin pasties for the second or third time. They’re hand pies, which I had heard of before, but which I had
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Currant Cordial

Currant Cordial
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Happy Halloween, my spooky friends! Your treat for tuning in is a delicious recipe for a sweet cordial, but the trick is that you have to wait for it to be ready! Halloween is my favorite holiday, and while I could spend the entire post telling you all about superstitions and pagan lore and fun
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Limoncello

Limoncello
Posted in : alcohol, cheap, dessert, drink, drinks, easy, intermediate, Italian, lemon, summer, vegan, vegetarian on by : Jeanette Rueb
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Limoncello is an Italian liqueur made with lemon peels, alcohol, sugar, and patience. If you want to put your leftover naked lemons to use, make a double batch of this recipe and then use the fruit and any leftover alcohol to make hard lemonade (or regular lemonade)! This is a set-it-and-forget-it recipe with a quick prep
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Red Wine Hot Chocolate

Red Wine Hot Chocolate
Posted in : alcohol, chocolate, dessert, drink, drinks, easy, funny, humor, milk, quick, wine on by : Jeanette Rueb
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Last winter, people got really excited about red wine hot chocolate. I thought it sounded kind of dumb, so I let it be. Well, here I am, months later, faced with a chocolate craving and a remaining third of a bottle of merlot. So I said, screw it, let’s try it. I’m going to come
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Lemon Mug Cake

Lemon Mug Cake
Posted in : cake, dessert, easy, food, fruit, lemon, no-bake, quick on by : Jeanette Rueb
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This recipe is brought to you by Mother Necessity. Back in May, I was scrambling to put together a birthday dinner for my hubby after a busy day, and I realized partway through that I hadn’t made him a cake or a pastry or anything. Crap. So, I scrambled to toss something together, and after
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