Growing up my siblings and I always had a Little Debbie in our lunches. One of my favorites is the Star Crunch- you know the one: that chocolate-caramel-rice crispie patty. I dream one day of coming up with a version of my own and this was the first stab, so to speak. I found this...
These cookies are great for using up sub-optimal eating bananas. The consistency is a bit chewier than a muffin, not as crumbly as cakey cookies and they stay pretty moist overall. They are what I like to refer to as excellent ‘breakfast cookies’ for the following reasons: 1) the texture is perfect with coffee 2)...
I love malted milk balls and I thought they would be awesome in a cookie. Turns out, so did other people, as a quick search on recipezaar.com turned up this recipe. I was disappointed, however, that the dough wasn’t chocolate, which I thought was the obvious choice. So I came up with a chocolate version...
So, the inspiration for this recipe is from this one from Woman’s Day. This recipe was supposed to have pistachios in place of almonds, but it seems that the Salmonella scare has eliminated all the pistachios in the Chicagoland area. Nevertheless, we press on, nobly tricking my coworkers into thinking these are pistachios using chopped...
Peanut butter eggs are my ‘hands down’ favorite Easter candy. Every year I look forward to when I can find those delectable little yellow packets at the front of the grocery store. In my opinion, they are the quintessentially perfect peanut butter-to- chocolate ratio, second only to the king size Reese’s cups and leaving the...
