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Jun 25

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Gluten Free Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Back of the bag recipes have sustained us for ages. Our grandmothers clipped recipes from paper board cylinders of oatmeal, from the backs of chocolate chip bags, and ordered recipe booklets from Betty Crocker and Jello. Some of those recipes stand the test of time because manufacturers just keep putting them on the packages, like the Toll House chocolate chip cookie recipe. But others are lost to the ages because there was no where else to get them. It’s in that spirit that I’m bringing you these cookies from the back of the Trader Joe’s Rolled Oats bag. (And we all know how transitory products can be at Trader Joe’s.)

So, oatmeal cookies. But not just oatmeal, Gluten-Free Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip.
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Feb 9

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Ovaltine Nutella Cookies

World Nutella Day coincided with the SuperBowl this year and they basically cancelled each other out on the food front for me. I did make guacamole. You can’t have the Superbowl without guacamole. Anyway, I’ve been playing a little catch up, so instead of just going the Nutella route, I did one better and came up with these Ovaltine Nutella cookies, because, well, just because.
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Dec 14

Yes! More Cookies: Anzac Biscuits Dressed Up for the Holidays

Originally, I was thinking about making these No Sugar Oat Drops, but it being the holidays I decided they were maybe a little too close to a granola bar…a little too healthy (yes, I’m crazy). I even bought the overripe bananas at the grocery in anticipation of making them, but then settled on a batch of Anzac biscuits.

Anzac biscuits are a brilliant invention all their own. Coconut, oats, brown sugar, butter, Lyle’s Golden Syrup and a little baking soda and water. What’s not to like? But since the holidays are all about gilding the lily, I thought I’d dress ‘em up a little. By altering the recipe, it’s not strictly an Anzac biscuit anymore, but it’s an oaty, coconutty drop of delicious, that’s for sure, and with a couple of additional tweaks, it just gets better. So coconut, oats…plus what?
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Nov 20

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Cranberry Chocolate Chip Butter Cookies

Around here, Thanksgiving is all about the old favorites and not deviating from them one iota. It’s the one time of year we have stuffing and sweet potatoes simmered in butter and spices, so there’s almost no need to add anything new. Almost. I might sneak in Lisa Fain’s Ancho Creamed Corn in place of our usual corn pudding. :) But that being the case, I’ve been on a cookie baking kick…so here’s this week’s cookie — cranberry chocolate chip butter cookies.
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Nov 13

Just Ginger Cookies, Not Gingerbread

One of the best things I’ve ever eaten in an airport was a ginger slice in Auckland, New Zealand. Think of a bar cookie with an almost shortbread-like crust, topped with a thick ginger icing. But this is icing with fire power — the ginger is no afterthought and doesn’t play second fiddle to molasses or cinnamon or allspice or anything else.

Right about now everyone goes crazy for gingerbread with its earthy, spicy richness, chock full of molasses, nutmeg, allspice, and oh yeah, ginger. And I’m right there, too. I made a batch of molasses (really, gingerbread) cookies a couple of weekends ago from a Prudence Penny recipe from waaaaaay back. But they weren’t much to talk about (um, hard and stale at the same time on day 2?). So then yesterday while doing a little DailyCandy catch up reading, I came across the Meatball Shop’s Ginger Cookie recipe with a ginger lover’s triple-threat: fresh, ground and, yeah crystallized. No molasses in sight! All I can say is, thank you Daniel Holzman and David Chernow.
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