Coconut Ice Cream Sandwiches Dipped in Chocolate and Pistachios

How did I use those homemade Chocolate Wafers that I made last week?  Drum roll please…  I initially wanted to make a straightforward ice cream sandwich.  You know, the rectangle shaped ones where the chocolate cookie part unfortunately sticks to your fingers.  Um, yeah, the simple beginning somehow snowballed into this amazing concoction.  Hey, I’m not complaining.  I’m super happy with the end result, even if I strayed a little bit from my original intent. I’ve sandwiched homemade coconut “ice cream” in between two chocolate cookies, dipped half of it into chocolate, and sprinkled chopped pistachios on top. Coconut Ice Cream Sandwiches Dipped in …

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Chocolate Wafers

A few months ago I thought I’d pick up some chocolate wafers from the grocery store.  I wasn’t sure if I was going to use them or not but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to have them in the house for when I needed them.  Holy cow, they are expensive!  Forget it.  I put them back on the shelf.  I’m funny.  I’ll spend $6 for a little block of feta cheese, but I refuse to spend almost $5 on a small sleeve of chocolate cookies.  Maybe it’s because I expect cheese to be relatively costly, but not a box of simple cookies. …

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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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