sticky toffee pudding cookies - stacked - toffee sauce - dripping - walnuts - dates

Sticky Toffee Pudding Cookies

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This week, these cookies once again play on my obsession with British baking.  (Funnily enough, the measurements are wholly American.) More importantly, these cookies stem from my obsession with the Great British Bake Off (& the SortedFood YouTube channel–every time they make or mention sticky toffee pudding I just want to hit the kitchen and …

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snickers cookies - above view - salted caramel - nougat - chocolate - peanut butter

Snickers Cookies

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This might be one of my more involved cookie recipes, but it may also be one of the best things I have ever baked. Filled with the flavor of peanut butter nougat (recipe linked below), these taste exactly like a Snickers bar & it’s just about impossible to keep your hands off of them!  When …

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Irish Coffee Shortbread Sandwiches

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San Francisco is one of those cities that has somehow become synonymous with Irish Coffee thanks to the Buena Vista and its place in the drink’s origin stories. The real, lesser known tale, tells the story of Joe Sheridan–the bartender who brought Irish Coffee to the Buena Vista–and the passengers of a Pan Am flight that was forced to turn around and land due to bad weather. Cold and tired in Foynes, Ireland, Sheridan was called in to warm the passengers up; he slipped some Irish whiskey into their coffee, topped it off with a pouring cream. When someone asked him if the coffee was Brazilian, Sheridan said, “No, it was Irish coffee!”

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