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Marshmallow Sprinkle Rice Crispy Bars
These crispy rice bars have a chewy, marshmallow topping and can be customized with colored sprinkles for any occasion. During our time in the cookie shop, holidays were the most fun time of all. With the delicious scents of cookies baking all around us, the creative juices flowed constantly. Motivated by the wild success of the Peanut Butter Chocolate Crispy Rice Bar, we couldn’t help but wonder what else a simple Crispy Rice Bar…
Frosted Marshmallow Brownie
This is not your average, made-from-the-box brownie. Dense and moist, with a pillowy marshmallow layer, and topped with homemade chocolate buttercream, this is what brownie dreams are made of. This brownie is in my personal baked goods hall of fame. Dense and moist and a dreamy creation, it is not your average frosted brownie. The chocolate buttercream frosting is so creamy and the marshmallow layer is so fluffy. I hope they…
Stacked Cracked Pavlova
Crispy meringue layered with cream cheese whipped cream, more crispy meringue, another layer of whipped cream, and any fruit you like. Delicious and sweet, light and refined. Meringues sound harder to make than they actually are and much more delectable and heavenly than you might imagine. Why we all don’t consume more crispy meringue, with all the possible filling varieties, is beyond me. Crispy meringue is sweet and…
Peanut Butter Chocolate Rice Crispy Bar
I’m not trying to be dramatic, but if you like peanut butter, chocolate, and crispy chewiness, this may be one of the best things you’ve ever eaten. I live in Central Pennsylvania and have for 24 years. Pennsylvania is home to multiple chocolate companies. The famous Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup was created in 1928 in Pennsylvania. As I mentioned in my Pennsylvania Tango cookie recipe, to this day, the locals love peanut…
Fudge Walnut Brownies
Walnuts and Brownies are great together. Add an extra dose of smooth chocolate and bam! Happily married! I like walnuts and brownies together, the use of nuts are great for cutting sweetness, which can be a good thing, but not with a brownie. Cocoa is already bitter. If you want sporadic nuts throughout the brownie, it’s not an issue, but if you like a lot of nuts, which I suspect you do if you are eating a walnut brownie…
Cream Puffs
This Pâte à Choux is simple to make and extremely versatile. We love it filled with Cream Cheese Whipped Cream or Easy Chocolate Mousse. Cream puffs are tricky until you know that the addition of the extra egg white will make your life easier and almost guarantee success. With this recipe, you don’t need to poke a hole in the puff when it’s done to let steam out. The puffs bake up nice and dry on the inside (unless…
Pennsylvania Tango Cookie
A Tango takes two. It takes romance and drama. Chocolate and peanut butter dance and swirl together in perfect balance in this cookie. Pennsylvania is home to quite a few chocolate companies. The famous Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup was created in 1928 in Pennsylvania. To this day, the locals love peanut butter and chocolate treats. This recipe was created in our home kitchen in central Pennsylvania…
Double Chocolate Chip Cookie
Do you have a brownie in cookie form? You do now! The brown sugar, chocolate chips, and cocoa in this recipe snuggle up to your taste buds with the pleasing chew of a brownie. A chocolate chocolate chip cookie – I wanted one. In fact, I needed one. Not the fudgy, super chocolatey Chocolate Crackle Cookie, I already had that. No, this needed to be a chocolate chip cookie, but with a chocolate dough. It needed enough chocolate…
Graham Cracker Slam Cookies
Graham cracker with chocolate! How can you go wrong? All the glory of a s’more, marshmallow optional. This cookie highlights the graham flavor which melds into the milk chocolate scrumptiousness. This cookie’s original name is Jake, the Graham Cracker Cookie. It’s the name we sold it under in the cookie shop. Our customers knew it as “The Jake”. Our family still calls it “The Jake.” The original name came about at my kitchen…
Chocolate Crackle Cookies
Chocolate crackle cookie, crinkle cookie, brownie cookie, wagon wheel. Whatever you call it, this cookie is a chocolate dream come true, with its fudgy chocolate center and powdered sugar that melts on the tongue. In my childhood memories, I remember this cookie fondly. In eastern Idaho, it was called “The Wagon Wheel”. Years later as an adult, I made the recipe from the family recipe box. It was NOTHING like I remembered…
Chocolate Cream Puffs with Best Easy Chocolate Mousse
A decadent twist on an old favorite, the chocolate cream puff is just as versatile as the classic Cream Puff. Fill with Missy’s Best Easy Chocolate Mousse and drizzle with chocolate glaze, then watch them disappear! One day, I was making cream puffs, filling them with chocolate mousse and dipping the tops in chocolate glaze, which IS yummy, but I thought, “Why haven’t I made a chocolate Pâte à Choux before?!” I started testing…
Coconut Lime Shortbread
Coconut and lime pair together in this shortbread for a refreshing cookie experience. These cookies are crisp, light, and melt in your mouth. Shortbread cookies are just so satisfying to make. The dough is simple and you can fit a lot of dough on the cookie sheet as it does not spread out much. And just as soon as they cool, they are beautifully crisp and stay that way for two weeks if properly stored in an airtight container…