OK, time to get your creepy on. As I have mentioned most past years, Halloween isn’t really my thing — nor is Valentine’s Day or Arbor Day — but it is an excuse to make some treats, so here we go! This year, it’s these Mexican Chocolate Day of the Dead Sandwich Cookies. I made sort of similar ones last year, but this year, changed out the flavor profile to add cinnamon and some spice to the chocolate, hence the reason I am calling them Mexican chocolate. They actually turned out super yummy and when I had a friend try one today, prefacing it with “it’s sort of like an oreo”, the response was “that is a million times better than just an oreo!” 🙂
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Cranberry Cardamom and Toasted Pine Nut Oatmeal Cookies with White Chocolate Mini Chips
My mum has an expression for using random ingredients and/or leftover food for a meal which roughly translates to “sideways through the refrigerator”. Sometimes it feel like that when I throw random things together in my drop cookies. This time: dried cranberries, white chocolate mini-chips, pine nuts, oatmeal, and a healthy dose of cardamom. Delicious combination, even if it is a bit unorthodox!
So, S’Mores. If there is one thing that my non-American friends don’t get (well, besides peanut butter and jelly sandwiches… they don’t really get that either!), it’s s’mores. Yes, we toast (or set on fire) marshmallows, and smoosh the softened marshmallow between graham crackers with part of a Hershey bar. And then try to eat that overload of sweetness without making too much of a mess. Yeah, ok, s’mores are a little odd. Maybe I don’t get them either. 🙂 So I made a new and improved mini-cupcake version for the BBQ Party that I attended last weekend: homemade mini-graham crackers, chocolate mini-cupcakes, from-scratch marshmallow cream and the obligatory piece of a Hershey bar. A “civilized” version of the s’more, if I do say so myself!
Back at it with my unique flavor combinations: this time, Coffee, Chocolate and …. Cardamom! I think that you all know that I have this absolutely love for cardamom and it pairs really really nicely with coffee, so why not combine the flavors in a cookie. Besides, it makes the kitchen smell amazing on a Sunday morning.
Sometimes, the old favorites are the best. Case in point: chocolate chip cookies. Nothing is quite as magical as a plain old chocolate chip cookie — in this case with chocolate chips, white chocolate chips and butterscotch chips — because I happen to have all three kinds in the house. Now, where’s my glass of milk?