Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

No Christmas is complete without crinkled cookies. Can you believe this is the first year that I’ve ever made a crinkle cookie?  I’m stunned.  I’ve made about a bazillion cookies and the crinkly ones never seemed to make the cut.  I’ve been missing out.  No mas. First of all these cookies are mad easy to make.  I don’t know about you but I could do with a little easy in my life, especially this time of the year and also especially when I’ve been making more complicated cookies. These are beautifully covered in my precious (aka powdered sugar) so of …

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Chocolate Pecan Bars

If you bake one thing for the holidays it MUST be these bars. Seriously guys, these bars are freaking amazing.  You should make these for Thanksgiving dessert next week.  You know, because it’s the holiday where  you fill up a huge table full of everything that you could possibly make.  (Holy crap I can’t believe next week is Thanksgiving.) These bars have a shortbread crust which is topped with gooey pecan goodness.  Oh oh, aaannd, these bars have chocolate in the pecan layer!  How can you go wrong with that? The below shot is what it looks like in all …

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Double Chocolate Snowball Cookies

Is bigger better?  (With cookies, you probably know my husband’s answer to that.) Cell phone companies think bigger is better.  Do you remember when our flip phones kept shrinking in size with every passing year?  The smaller the better.  Now the newest cell phone model is bigger than the year before.  My husband and I recently got new cell phones. We each got different models, but both are bigger than the ones we replaced.  In reality my new cell phone is only a few extra milometers but it felt like a huge change.  I almost felt like my 3 year …

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Oatmeal Cream Pies

Mmm cookies. My husband loves Little Debbie’s Oatmeal Cream Pies.  For the record, he really loves almost any cookie (my kinda man), but lately he’s been on a Little Debbie food kick.  Thankfully I’m not easily tempted by her cookies and brownies.  I’m more of an Entenmann’s kind of girl and I have no will power when it comes to “E’s” cookies and doughnuts. My husband pulled some extra long hours at work last week so I thought that I’d bake him something special.  Maybe something like a Little Debbie treat?  Insert evil laughter here… Sandwich cookies are cool.  It’s like getting two cookies for …

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Pumpkin Snickerdoodle White Chocolate Chip Cookies

Are you guys sick of pumpkin foods yet?  I hope not because I’ve got another good one for you. I had two out of three failed recipes over the weekend.  That’s not good odds.  So what do I do?  I bake cookies.  The failures were probably a blessing in disguise because I need to start baking cookies for the holidays.  Yes, I start this early and freeze them.  I bake dozens and dozens of cookies and baking them ahead of time is really the only way to go (unless you want to bake for 9 days straight… all… day… long… not ideal). …

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