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Chocolate Peanut Butter Crispy Bars

Yep, two desserts in a row. I baked a couple things for Mothers Day, but other than that I’ve been eating mostly just salads and random combinations of beans, grains, and vegetables that don’t seem creative enough to warrant a blog post. So you get dessert instead!
My sister [...]

Brown Butter Rhubarb Bars

I didn’t get to celebrate Mothers Day with my mom because she is in Berlin, but I I know if she’d have been here, she would have loved these bars. I’m definitely planning on making them again when she’s back in this country!
When it’s rhubarb season, my mom makes sure [...]

Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

Some Mondays are just crap. I really try to be an optimist, embrace every day, live life to the fullest, and all that other Tony Robbins type stuff (and honestly, the only exposure I’ve had to Tony Robbins is thanks to a five year old son of two life [...]

Brown Butter Toasted Oat Cookies

I don’t know if I’ve just been living under a rock, but the whole brown butter concept is still relatively new to me. The idea of keeping butter on the stove just until the milk solids begin to brown to add a nutty flavor is definitely intriguing, but I [...]

Apple-Cinnamon Whoopie Pies

I didn’t know what a whoopie was until about a year ago, and didn’t try one for the first time until last night. According to the not-always-so-reliable Wikipedia, they started in Pennsylvania so maybe it’s taken awhile for them to get to California. Who knows. But I [...]

No-bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars

I want to preface this post with an acknowledgement. Yes, I realize I WAY over-edited that photo. My new camera and my recently downloaded copy of GIMP 2.0 have been so much fun to play with, I haven’t really figured out when to cut myself off. The [...]

Lydia’s Austrian Raspberry Shortbread

I don’t know who Lydia is, but I want to meet her and tell her that this is one of my family’s absolute favorite Christmas cookie recipes. You make and freeze shortbread dough, then grate half of it into the baking pan, spread some raspberry jam over that, then [...]

Peanut butter-filled Chocolate Cookies

How is it possible that I’ve been married for TWO YEARS? I’m really starting to feel like an old lady! We’re not big on lavish gifts, and now that we’re living so far from home, we really don’t need to buy each other any more stuff, because not [...]

Chewy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

I may still be suffering from holiday treat overload, but my family hinted that they would enjoy some cookies, and my husband asked specifically for oatmeal chocolate chip. I made a batch of these and using my New Years will power, only ate one! Everything is fine in [...]

Matteson Squares

Here it is: the holy grail of Christmas cookies. Fudgy brownies topped with a layer of mint buttercream and a hard chocolate shell on top.
For as long as I can remember, these have been everyone’s favorite. When my mom’s family gets together, these cookies are in high demand and we [...]