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It Wouldn’t Be Christmas Without Whipped Shortbread Cookies
I make these cookies every year at Christmas, and I always love how they taste! I love the way they melt in your mouth and taste little pieces of buttery goodness. The trick to making great shortbread is to whip the butter and sugar until it’s almost white. I use this tip with most of the cookies I make, the cookies turn out better. These cookies are the perfect addition to your holiday baking, and they make a perfect gift as well. I hope everyone is enjoying the Holiday baking as much as I am! INGREDIENTS 2 cups butter 1 cup sugar 4 cups flour 1/4 cup cornstarch DIRECTIONS…
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Homemade Twix Bars Will Make Your Holidays Sweeter.
I used to manage a bakery that made the best homemade Twix bars and I have been trying to replicate the recipe for a couple of years now. I get close but there was always something missing. This recipe is the closest I have ever come! With this recipe, you need to have patience. If you put the next layer on and the one below it hasn’t cooled it will not set properly and you will have everything running together. If you love Twix bars you will love this recipe. It is the perfect combination of shortbread, with creamy caramel and topped with chocolate. Here are some tips for making…
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The Best Fudgy Chocolate Crinkle Cookies That Will Make The Holidays Better!
If you never had Crinkle Cookies, you really need to ask yourself WHY? These cookies are like bite-sized brownies lightly covered in icing sugar, so they are chocolatey and sweet! You can make Chocolate Crinkle Cookies or Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies. Both of them are delicious but the chocolate ones always remind me of the Holiday season. I don’t make these cookies often cause I tend to be the one that sits there and eats them all in one sitting. Let me know what your favourite Holiday treat is! INGREDIENTS 1 1/2 cups sugar 1/2 cup vegetable oil 4 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla 2 1/2 cups flour 1 cup cocoa powder 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoons salt 1/2 cup icing sugar 2 tablespoons cornstarch DIRECTIONS In…
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The Best Southern Pecan Pie Recipe.
I spent a little time in Atlanta in the early 2000s and we went to this Farmers Market and they had some of the absolute best Pecan Pie I’d ever had, even to this day I would say it’s some of the best. If you’ve ever been to Atlanta or the Southern United States you know that they really do have the best pecan pie! I still think about this pecan pie often and have tried to recreate it many times. I think I have come pretty close to it with this recipe. The secret I find is in the corn syrup. For the longest time, I was only using…
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Classic Blueberry Galette Are the Best Desserts
I became obsessed with galettes on a trip to Vancouver. Kevin and I went to Terra’s Breads and they have a blueberry tart that I fell in love with. I ordered just one to start and by the end, I had eaten three of them. It was so delicious that before we left Vancouver on that trip we made one more trip to Terra’s Bread to get a few more for the drive home. Every time now that I am in Vancouver I have to make a trip there to purchase some of those tarts to hold me over until the next time I go. I decided to try and…
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It’s True, Blondies Do Have More Fun!
This recipe came along when I asked on Instagram stories what kind of recipes people wanted to see. My friend Nicole, who makes amazing bath bombs, asked for a blondie recipe. There were a lot of terrible blondie recipes that came out of this. Some were extremely dry that weren’t even worth eating, others that no matter how long I baked them came out raw in the middle and some were alright but not great. I couldn’t be happier with how this recipe turned out! They have great flavour, are not dry, and are not overly sweet which I was scared they would be with 3 cups of brown sugar…
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Have Left Over Halloween Candy? Make Cookies With Them!
This Halloween was different, and I knew it would be, but we only had 6 kids come to the door to Trick or Treating. Needless to say, we had a lot of candy leftover. Kevin ate all of the chocolate bars and left all the Smarties for me! Instead of slamming them back like little shooter boxes, I decided to make cookies with them. I only had enough Smarties for a half recipe but they hit the spot! The best thing about this recipe is you can use any type of coated candy you’d like, M & M’s, Mini Eggs anything that has a hard outer shell you can use.…
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The Best Cinnamon Rolls You’ll Ever Eat!
This is my friend Rachel’s recipe and I have to say these are the best cinnamon rolls I’ve ever had! They are the perfect combination of cinnamon and brown sugar, I’m sure you could add raisins if you felt the need, but I have never felt that. I will warn you these will take a little bit of time, but they are absolutely worth the effort. Some helpful tips for making these: use fast-rising yeast. take your time, these need time to rise and you can’t rush them. make sure your house is warm, so make these on a colder day when the furnace is running. use room temperature ingredients,…
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Old Fashion Ginger Snap Cookies, Just like Grandma Made
When the snow starts to fly all I want to do is wear sweaters and pack on the Winter weight. This time of year I tend to lean towards the more spicy flavors, the ones with some ginger or cloves in them. Gives you a warm feeling from the inside out. I made these cookies the other week and then I had to remake them. The first batch I made tasted delicious but I over-baked them so when they cooled they were hard. Not hard enough that stopped me from eating them, but hard nonetheless. This time they turned out perfect, and not that I minded the over-baked ones, but…
