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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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Flourless Pumpkin Coconut Cookies
When we have potlucks at work, we always pass around a list so everyone can sign up for something. I’ve been banned from bringing desserts because for some reason, my coworkers are suspicious that I will sneak vegetables into the cookies like a parent trying to trick a kid. And by gosh, they’re not wrong. But if they would just give me a chance, I would knock their socks off! They have no idea what they’re missing! Honestly, it had never occurred to me to combine pumpkin and coconut, but what can I say? My preconceived ideas were proven wrong, and I had my mind blown by how much I love…
