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Steak & Stout Hand Pies

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Savory and hearty, these Steak & Stout Hand Pies are the ultimate cold weather comfort food. Steak, carrots, potatoes, and peas are mixed together and cooked with a stout-based sauce before being folded in a flaky, tender pastry crust. What’s better than being able to warm your hands while warming your belly? Something spooky is …

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Caramel Apple Crumb Bars

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With a lightly spiced apple filling, these Caramel Apple Crumb Bars are the perfect dessert to celebrate the cooling weather, changing leaves, and the season of sweaters, apples, and corn mazes. Moist and tender with just the right hint of sweetness, these bars are both comforting and addictive. Despite the fact that it is still …

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Piña Colada Cupcakes

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Sweet and refreshing just like the blended island cocktail, these Piña Colada Cupcakes are incredibly moist and balanced that you’ll almost forget that you’re eating a cupcake and not sipping on a drink. Every once in a while, I make something that actually surprises me. As someone who isn’t a big fan of hot weather …

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Banana Pudding Cream Puffs

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Banana pudding is one of those things that is simply irresistible. Nilla wafers are topped with a banana cream and slices of bananas to create a dessert that is absolutely addicting. Just take a look at New York’s Magnolia Bakery. The banana pudding is probably their number one seller and there are plenty of recipes …

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Orange, Pear, and Cranberry Jammie Dodgers

Cookies Sandwich Cookie Shortbread

These Jammie Dodgers were born out of my love for Doctor Who (because what Whovian doesn’t remember or love the scene where the Eleventh Doctor tries to ward off the Daleks with a Jammie Dodger?!), my love for winter fruits, and my love of all things British. Funnily enough, I never had a Jammie Dodger while …

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Pumpkin and Cranberry Biscotti

Biscotti Cookies

This is my favorite time of year.  I love when the last leaves fall from the trees leaving their limbs completely bare, when the wind picks up and gives those first warning signs of winter, and obviously, I am all about Thanksgiving and the insanely quick approach of Christmas right after it. These Pumpkin and …

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Blackout Chocolate Shortbread Sandwich Cookies

Cookies Sandwich Cookie Shortbread

This week’s cookie is the perfect recipe to roll out just days before Halloween.  For one thing, they are all about the chocolate.  And let’s be real–who doesn’t dig through their candy haul at the end of the night in search of something chocolatey?  (I was all about those Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and Snickers …

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Apple Spice Snickerdoodles

Cookies

There are some classic cookies that are a winner no matter how old your are.  Snickerdoodles are that type of cookie–you can bring them to a holiday cookie exchange, bake them for a kid’s birthday party, or just leave them in a container on your countertop to return to whenever a craving for something sweet …

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Hot Toddy Shortbread Cookies

Cookies Shortbread

As the weather starts to drop, it’s not surprising to feel a tickle at the back of the throat or a bit of congestion.  One of my favorite remedies for a sore throat has become the Hot Toddy.  The hot water, whiskey, lemon, and honey combination is just perfectly soothing.  I always like to take …

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Pumpkin Pie Cookies

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I’ve been obsessing about apples for the past couple of weeks, but let’s be honest, apples aren’t the only star of the season. What kind of baking blogger would I be if I didn’t put up a single pumpkin recipe during the autumn season?  A hugely disappointing one, that’s what!  But don’t worry, because the …

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