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Category Archives: Cookies & Bars
Mini Rosehip Graham Crackers
Other than their occasional presence in tea and jam, rosehips haven’t surfaced much in my life. I suppose they’ve been overshadowed by the ubiquitous flowers of the same plant: roses, which have an entirely different scent and flavor than the … Continue reading →
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Tagged baking, baking with rose hips, baking with rosehips, cookies, dessert, desserts with rose hips, desserts with rosehips, digestive biscuits, graham crackers, homemade graham crackers, recipe, rose hip, rose hip cookies, rose hips, rosehip, rosehip cookies, rosehips
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Mulberry Oat Cookies with Nutmeg and Brown Butter
After a recent dinner out, my dad and I popped into a tiny grocery store and picked up a random sampling of items: Mexican cactus fruit, uniquely flavored popsicles (think salted chili cucumber), and a bag of dried white mulberries … Continue reading →
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Tagged baking, brown sugar, browned butter, cookies, dessert, dried mulberries, food, mulberries, mulberry, nutmeg, oatmeal, oats, recipe, soft cookies, spice, sweets, vanilla, whole wheat flour
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In Love with Absinthe: Sazerac Cookies
The label on the bottle of absinthe in my cupboard boasts that its “complexity comes from the use of fine brandy, star anise, wormwood, lemon balm, hyssop, meadowsweet, basil, fennel, tarragon and stinging nettles.” A tiny whiff of it, and … Continue reading →
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Tagged absinthe, absinthe cookies, absinthe dessert, anise, aniseed, baking, baking with booze, boozey, boozy, bourbon, cocktail, dessert, lemon, recipe, rye whiskey, rye whisky, saint george spirits, sazerac, sazerac cookies, sazerac dessert, St George Spirits, sweets, whiskey, whisky
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Cardamom Banana Bites
The banana bread of my childhood was my dear grandma’s crumbly and walnut-laden loaf. I can still taste it now, slathered with the synthetically smooth margarine she always stocked. Being the only banana bread I knew, I really enjoyed it … Continue reading →
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Tagged baking, banana, candy, cardamom, chocolate, cocoa, dessert, recipe
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Rhubarb Rum Sandwich Cakes
Whenever I see the word rhubarb, I hear it in my sweet paternal grandmother’s voice. I don’t have a distinct recollection of her making a rhubarb dish, but she was a prolific pie and candy maker, so it’s certainly possible. … Continue reading →
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Tagged baking, cookies, dessert, recipe, rhubarb, rhubarb cookies, rum, sailor jerry, sandwich cakes, sandwich cookies, spiced rum, spring, vanilla bean, whoopee pie, whoopie pie
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