Magic Cookie Bars

My mom has the magic touch.  No, she’s not a magician, but sometimes I wonder.     😉  Whenever I worry about something (which is a daily ritual for me) she always knows what to say to put my mind at ease.  She gives me great advice no matter what the topic is.  I could go on and on.  I love and admire her so much that words don’t seem to do her justice.  What better way to honor her (and all moms) with these magic cookie bars. These gooey cookie bars are loaded with chocolate, coconut, and nuts. Magic …

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Light Fudgy Brownies

Do you know how the brownie came about?  I’ve made a lot of brownies (who hasn’t?), but after making this latest batch, I was curious.  Go go Google.  Here’s some Food History 101.  For the Chicago (Illinois, USA) 1893 World Fair, a woman by the name of Bertha Palmer requested a dessert for the ladies in attendance of the Fair.  She wanted someting that was cake-like but smaller in size.  A chef at Chicago’s Palmer House Hotel created what we all know now as a brownie. Since then a million bazillion brownie recipes have been invented.  (Yes, I counted.     😉 )  They can be fudgy or …

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Flourless Peanut Butter Cookie Sandwiches

Last week I posted about these delicious Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies.  I made them for our neighborhood Easter potluck dinner.  While I knew they’d be a huge hit with the adults I wanted to do something a bit more fun for the kids so I turned some of those cookies into these cookie sandwiches.  Who am I kidding, these were fun for us adults too.     😉  You know what the best part about these cookie sandwiches is?  Well, aside from the fact that they are awe-sooooome, they are still gluten-free! These flourless peanut butter cookies are filled with a layer …

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Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

The rules for following a gluten-free diet are easy to understand, right?  Simply don’t eat anything with gluten (i.e. wheat, barley, and rye).  As it turns out, what seems like simple rules are actually a total pain in the butt.  Almost everything seems to have one or more of those ingredients in it.  Better still, sometimes they are hidden in things like “natural ingredients” and you just get blind-sided by them.  If you are choosing to avoid gluten because you want to, then usually that’s okay, but if you have celiac disease that can result in a very uncomfortable couple of …

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Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies

I like to watch the food network channel.  Sometimes I can find good recipes and at the very least I almost always get inspiration for creating new ones.  One day we were flipping channels and ended up on Kelsey’s Essentials.  The recipe of the day just happened to be banana cookies with a combo of ingredients I’d never seen before.  That caught my attention for a little while, but I wasn’t feeling inspired to make them.  My husband said, “We need to make those.”  You got it, dude!  He was my inspiration for whipping up these cookies.     🙂 These cookies are the perfect combination …

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