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Cookies, Desserts, Sweet Snacks

Blueberry Almond Linzer Cookies

Here’s something to cheer up a Monday afternoon, first Monday of Spring (one where Boston saw “a plowable snow event”, as they so eloquently say these days). Millefleur of Blueberry Almond Linzer Cookies. OK, I didn’t actually make a thousand of them, but they are cute and small and a batch of cookie dough did make a whole bunch. Similar to may of the linzer cookies I make, these have a double dose of almond (almond extract and almond meal) as well as double blueberry (blueberry sugar and blueberry jam).
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Cookies

Deluxe Double Chip Butterscotch Chocolate Chip Cookies

In honor of the Most Interesting Man Alive announcing his retirement, and his signature line: I normally don’t make big (as in, larger than my hand) cookies, but when I do, they might as well be these here Deluxe Double Chip Butterscotch Chocolate Chip Cookies. Because they’re delicious.
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Cookies, Sweet Snacks

Homemade Teddy Grahams

Here’s one perfect for kids. I’ve made Oreos before. I’ve made Goldfish. So there are two Nabisco-inspired products. And now, Teddy Grahams. Kid-sized (or adult too, I guess) graham crackers, perfect for dunking in milk. My graham cracker recipe in general is really good, if I say so myself: the perfect balance or cinnamon and honey. And these also would be great as cupcake toppers. I found the little teddy bear cookie cutter on Etsy.
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Cookies, Sweet Snacks

Mexican Hot Chocolate Cinnamon Chip Cookies

I apparently am still enthralled with cinnamon chips. It started in the fall — apparently autumn is a cinnamon season when I could even still find cinnamon chips in the shops — but now that I have a huge stash of them, I am trying out all sorts of things. To wit, these spicy chocolate cookies with cinnamon chips. They smelled amazing whilst baking and taste even more amazing. A bit spicy (with chili powder in the almost-brownie like batter) and lots of cinnamon. Yum.
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