Cookies & Bars – Kale and Caramel

JASMINE MATCHA SNOWBALL COOKIES (VEGAN).

Despite the season’s best efforts to woo me with cakes and cookies and pies (even those coming out of my own kitchen), I’ve been doggedly drawn to savories this winter. I crave soups and broths, piles of steaming veggies and…
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TRIPLE MEXICAN CHOCOLATE CHUNK COOKIES (VEGAN).

This post was created in partnership with Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker to celebrate National Chocolate Day! All opinions are my own. I’m a total Halloween failure. I nailed it as a kid: Pippy Longstockings (with the red hair, I was a shoe-in), a…
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TART CHERRY, CHOCOLATE & HEMPSEED NO-BAKE OAT BARS FROM ALTERNATIVE BAKER.

For a long while, I felt like life was mostly endings. Deaths and sicknesses and hearts broken. My mother diagnosed with cancer in the same stroke as a relationship ended. Everything felt heavy. My words were heavy. My limbs moved…
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PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE CHUNK BARS WITH SALTED CHOCOLATE DRIZZLE.

For a day and a night, the wind moved like it had to blow to keep the earth turning. It was not particularly cold or warm, not a sultry Santa Ana or whatever other sexily named wind that blows in…
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SALTED CARAMEL CHOCOLATE CHUNK COOKIES + A BIRTHDAY PICNIC!

A) I have cookies. Smothered in salted caramel. Made with coconut sugar. (!) B) It’s my birthday. (!!) C) We had a picnic. (!!!) D) There are pictures of every single earth-shatteringly caramel-y, picnicky, people-I-love-being-adorable moment. (!!!!) I’m going to…
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MATCHA & JASMINE MACARON ICE CREAM SANDWICHES + A GIVEAWAY!

If I had to boil everything in life down to just three things—three things I really believed in with my whole heart—I might settle on love, flowers, and ice cream sandwiches. Matcha macaron and jasmine green tea ice cream sandwiches,…
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PEANUT BUTTER & STRAWBERRY JAM THUMBPRINT COOKIES.

There is so much to say about this down-home, comforting, mmm-inducing, sweet-savory melding gem of a cookie that I hardly know where to start. I’ll begin at the beginning: I discovered the peanut butter and jam thumbprint cookie one summer…
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CHOCOLATE SHORTBREAD SANDWICHES WITH BOOZY WHIPPED CREAM & CINNAMON CARAMEL.

I write this as someone who typically eschews any form of crunchy cookie: These chocolate sables from the Kitchy Ktichen’s cookbook are amazing. And, though the lovely Claire makes them into sandwich cookies with salted caramel, I wanted a little…
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MEXICAN CHOCOLATE BROWNIES WITH COINTREAU WHIPPED CREAM.

There’s something sacred about spice mixing, an alchemical process that allows flavors to become something other than themselves—and transform your experience of eating them at the same time. Here, cinnamon coaxes chocolate out of its shell, nutmeg elicits sweetness, and…
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THE KITCHY KITCHEN’S CHOCOLATE STOUT BEER BROWNIES.

A couple weeks ago I had the pleasure of spending the afternoon with Claire Thomas of The Kitchy Kitchen, whose near encyclopedic, eponymous cookbook just came out. Claire happened to have brought with her a boatload of insanely delicious baked…
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THE BEST BROWN BUTTER CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES.

There *may* have been a time before when I posted a recipe for what I then believed were the best chocolate chip cookies in the world. I would now like to repent, humbled as I am before the altar of…
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ROSE MERINGUES

Rose meringues, anyone? With some neighborhood-foraged roses and jasmine. Recipe modified from Boulder Locavore. Preheat oven to 350 and line 1 cookie tray with parchment paper, or lightly oil. Beat 1 egg white with an electric mixer until foamy, about a…
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