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    Snowball Cookies

    It’s about that time of year again when I throw caution to the wind and forget all my resolutions to eat and be healthy and refocus my attention on cookies instead.  It’s the time when I indulge in nostalgia and buy extra sugar, flour, and butter, casually forgetting how I told myself maybe it would be best not to have much of these things in the house.  When the holidays roll around, all bets are off.  (And I’m easily swayed by the manipulative world of the Food Network telling me that eating indulgent food will improve the quality of my life.) We kicked off the season with this recipe for…

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    Chocolate Peppermint Ganache Cookies

    The holiday season has officially begun, and even though we likely all overate this week5, today is nevertheless a day when I feel like celebrating by breaking a few rules.  I try pretty  hard all year, but no matter what I tell myself, I know that at Christmas, I will feel slightly cheated if I don’t get to enjoy making and eating a few cookies with a bunch of butter and sugar.  Not “breakfast cookies,” not “date-sugar” cookies, not “sneak-in-a-vegetable” cookies, just regular old nostalgic Christmas cookies. BUT!  Since this is to be treated as a celebration and a rare occurrence, when I do make some naughty cookies, they have to…

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