I love a good classic cookie just like the next person. ESPECIALLY around Christmas time. However, sometimes classics need to be spiced up just a little bit. Anyone else with me?
On this episode of Blaire adding Maldon flaked sea salt to anything and everything, we’re revamping the classic peanut butter blossom cookie.
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You’ve been tasked with making dessert for Thanksgiving or Christmas (or let’s be honest, for any other get together…), and you want to please everyone. Grandma likes pumpkin pie, but your Dad would kill you if you didn’t have apple pie out on the dessert table. And you secretly loveee pecan pie. What do you do? Make these Ultimate Holiday Pie bars. That’s what you do.
This 3-in-1 pie bar that includes cinnamon apples, crunch and richness from pecans and notes of pumpkin all in one bite is bound to be a staple at your dessert table this holiday season. All of this deliciousness sits on top of a fool-proof cinnamon shortbread.
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There are just some classics that should always be on the menu around the holidays. For me, it’s pigs in a blanket.
However, just because they’re classics, doesn’t mean we can’t amp up the flavor in them. Enter: The Party Pigs….
Even though it hit 90 degrees last week in DC, I am still hopping on the pumpkin train in the kitchen hoping that sends some signals to mother nature to cool it off a bit. Should work, right?
If not, I still end of with a kitchen full of baked goods, so I’ll call that a win.
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Every year, I look forward to Christmas Eve dinner for one reason, and one reason only (whelp, besides my family’s competitive game of left right center). My Aunt LJ makes THE best bread that she serves with dinner, which was the inspo behind these ham and swiss pinwheels.
The secret ingredient? Spice Island’s Beau Monde seasoning. Which, by the way, Aunt LJ was so kind to include in my Christmas stocking this year. Anddd not gonna lie, getting my hands on her secret ingredient might have been one of the best Christmas gifts. Ever.
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Not going to lie, sharing this samoa cookie inspired banana bundt cake might be one of my proudest baking moments yet.
It has all the components of my ALL TIME FAVORITE Girl Scout Cookie – THE SAMOA – aka it is filled with chocolate, caramel and toasty coconut flakes. YUM.
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Ever make an authentic shepherd’s pie? Nope. Me either.
What I DO know, however, is what the basics of a shepherd’s pie are. It typically includes:
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