BROWN BUTTER ROSE BAKLAVA COOKIES.

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Baklava is one of those desserts that are super addictive, once you have one, you want to keep going! This rolled phyllo pastry desserts are a Middle Eastern specialty that are typically filled with pistachios, assorted nuts, drenched in butter and are glazed in a honey or rose simple syrup. I thought to myself wouldn’t it be interesting to add this delicious crunchy, nutty, honey dessert into a cookie? The brown butter in the sugar cookie dough complements the nuttiness of the baklava and a touch of rose water adds a floral dimension. Chopped pistachio, chopped walnut, rose petals and a heaping scoop of chopped baklava get mixed in to create a sweet, fudgy studded sugar cookie.

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Spelt + Sage + Brown Butter Cookies

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Sage and brown butter are a tale as old as time. As golden cubes of butter melt down and sizzle in the pan, in go the light green sage leaves, releasing an alluring herbaceous aroma along with heady notes of browning butter. The sage crisps up and darkens as the butter turns into a dark amber hue. The crisped sage gets rubbed into the sugar mixture to further release its aromas. The addition of spelt enhances the nutty quality of the brown butter and adds a touch of dimension to the cookie. If desired a quick roll or dusting of sage rubbed sugar makes for a beautiful cookie.

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SPARKLY CRUNCHY CORNFLAKE TOFFEE COOKIES

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These iridescent, crunchy, toffee bourbon laced cookies will definitely be the star at any party! These cookies have this moreish quality to them that just make you want to grab another after another. I opted to make homemade bourbon vanilla toffee, which was surprisingly easy to make but you could easily sub in store bought if you can’t be fussed. Instead of using plain cornflakes I used Christina Tosi’s cornflake crunch recipe to add more depth of flavor to the cornflake. I did not get the hype of this cornflake crunch until I ate it ...it is highly addictive! The husband and I were munching on toffee and cornflake crunch all afternoon that I had to make a second batch of cornflake crunch...lol. The brown butter cookie dough acts like a vehicle for all toffee and cornflakes and it’s the best thing ever! I dusted these puppies in a heavy dose of edible gold glitter, and I think they are just perfect!

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Tahini Oreo Cookies

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Thick, chewy cookies have a special place in my heart and these tahini Oreo cookies fit that bill perfectly. Sweet vanilla tahini gets added to a classic brown butter cookie dough to create at thick, chewy rich cookie that offers a perfect toothsome bite. The addition of Oreo add a touch of sweetness and bites of chocolatey goodness through the cookie. These cookies get rolled in mixture of black and white sesame and get topped with Oreo dust for a very visually striking cookie. These cookies taste so good right out of the oven! They are perfectly balanced with the right amount of sweetness and notes of nuttiness.

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TOASTED COCONUT + LIME CURD + MACADAMIA NUT COOKIES

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If a cookie could transform itself into warm sands of a tropical island with soft coconut breezes, this cookie would be it! Toasty coconut and buttery sweet macadamia nuts get tossed into a lime zest sugar cookie to create a superbly soft and buttery cookie dough base. A simple, zippy, zesty lime curd then gets nuzzled into the cookie to create a delightful puddles of lime goodness. As the cookies bake up the notes of coconut amplify and the macadamia nuts get extra buttery! The lime curd becomes slightly thicker and provides the perfect amount of creaminess and tang to round the cookie together. I’m not even the biggest coconut fan but I really liked these!

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Italian Rainbow Cookies - Drop Cookie Style

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I love Italian rainbow cookies, they are one of my favorite holiday cookies out there! So this year, I set out on making a drop cookie style version of the beloved classic rainbow cookie and here it is! I love the way this cookie came out! They taste surprisingly similar to the actual rainbow cookie with a little more softness and crispiness in the texture. I found that letting them cool for a day really brings those quintessential almond flavor and raspberry jam notes out. You could swirl these cookies to have a more marble effect but I like the way they looked as parallel lines, like the original rainbow cookie! These cookies are sweet, they are nostalgic and they are perfect if you are a fan of rainbow cookies!

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Dark Chocolate + Peanut Butter + Marshmallow Fluff Cookies

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These deep, dark black cocoa are laced with notes of brown butter and have the most incredible chew to them. Swirls of honey roasted peanut butter, nutty peanut butter chips and puddles of sweet thick marshmallow fluff make this a chocolate and peanut butter lover’s paradise.

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Chewy Blueberry Corn Lemon Cookies

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These chewy blueberry corn lemon cookies are everything you love about cornbread, blueberry pie and lemon cake in cookie form! These cookies develop a delightful crispy crunchy edge while staying ultra-soft and chewy inside. The cookies have a wonderful texture from the cornmeal and are loaded with the delicate sweet notes of corn from the freeze dried corn powder. Fresh blueberries are key here, they add the perfect amount of tang and freshness without staining the entire cookie blue. A quick roll in corn sugar makes these cookies sparkle while adding a bit of crunch. Finish these cookies with freeze dried corn and freeze dried blueberries for an extra layer of crunch.

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Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Whisky Cookies

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These cookies are my take on the classic chocolate chip cookie. By subbing in brown butter, adding freshly chopped chunks of chocolate, a hefty spoon of salt and a dribble of whisky, the humble chocolate chip cookie is transformed into something even more special. No matter how many cookies I make, this brown butter chocolate chunk whisky cookie is always the cookie of choice by the husband. I don’t blame him, these cookies are highly addictive with the perfect amount of crispiness around the edges and the softest chewiest center. They are studded with 70% dark chocolate chunks and have the lightest touch of whisky to amplify the nutty notes of brown butter in the dough.

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Whisky Brown Butter S’mores Cookies

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Everything you love about s’mores by the campfire but in cookie form. Nutty warm graham cracker cookie crumbs, a touch of spicy sweet whisky, gooey marshmallowy fluff, flecks of golden brown butter and deep smooth dark chocolate puddles.

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PASSIONFRUIT MERINGUE PIE COOKIES

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These cookies taste like a passionfruit meringue pie. The cookie dough is laced with buttery brown butter notes, graham cracker crumbs and swirls of marshmallow fluff for extra chew. Each cookies is filled with smooth, tart and sweet tropical passionfruit filling. The zip and tang of the passionfruit, the buttery graham cracker cookie dough along with with a swirl of marshmallow fluff give this cookie that signature meringue pie feel.

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Strawberry Tahini Streusel Cookies

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These thick chewy tahini cookies are filled with bright sweet notes of strawberry, nutty sesame seeds and warm notes of brown butter. The addition of tahini makes for a delicious toothsome cookie that is packed with flavor. The ubiquitous flavor combo of strawberry and peanut butter might have a rival because the combination of strawberry and tahini are somehow even more perfect. The crumbly buttery streusel topping feels like you are eating the best part of the muffin while eating a cookie!

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Lucky Charms Sugar Cookies

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Nothing feels more magical than a thick chewy sugar cookie decked out in rainbow marshmallows and gold luster dust. These lucky charms sugar cookies have a little bit of oat flour and cereal flour to amp up the texture and depth of the sugar cookie. I also added a bit of bread flour as well to create a thick soft chewy cookie that stays soft for days.  The marshmallows though, they are the real stars. They make this cookie taste so nostalgic and just plain magical. The marshmallows inside the cookie become chewy and sticky while the marshmallows outside remain crunchy just like the ones in the box. A dusting of golden luster dust makes these cookies look like they are they type of cookies you’d find on the other side of the rainbow.

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Dark Cocoa + Red Currant Sugar Cookies

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Fudgy, crinkly, chewy dark cocoa sugar cookies get stuffed with fresh red currants to create a delicious rich cookie with pops of tart juicy goodness. The fresh red currants cleanse the palate from the intense sweet dark chocolate notes, creating a cookie that is irresistible with its contrasting notes.

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Cakey Soft Strawberry Lofthouse Cookies

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The texture on these lovely soft cakey cookies is something in between a buttery thick Lofthouse cookie and a cakey fluffy Black and White cookie. Soft and plush, super easy to whip up and filled with fresh sweet strawberry notes! Thanks to Icelandic Provision’s creamy, fruity and tangy strawberry lingonberry skyr, these cookies puff up beautifully and are balanced with perfect hints of strawberry and tang. Dress these cookies up with the skyr glaze for the most beautiful looking cookies!

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Raspberry + Grapefruit + Passionfruit Sugar Cookies

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I love Sarah Kieffer’s Neopolitan cookies. These cookies are a fun simple play on the classic sugar cookies. I took Sarah’s Neopolitan cookies and was inspired to add my own flavors. This fruity sugar cookie uses tangy tropical passionfruit, bitter and sweet grapefruit and vibrant juicy raspberry to create a beautiful sunset looking cookie. Tiny bits of passionfruit and raspberry ‘chocolate’ get folded into the dough and melt in the oven to create pockets of fruity liquidy goodness.

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Brown Butter Tahini Cranberry Cookies

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Tahini and brown butter are a match made in heaven. The nuttiness and warmth of Soom’s premium tahini plays perfectly with the flavors of brown butter. Together they create a cookie that is so rich, chewy and lush in every bite. To contrast the nutty notes of this cookie dried cranberries and candied cranberries get added for a pop of freshness and tang. These cookies are unbelievably delicious and are perfect for the holidays!

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Toasted Marshmallow Red Velvet Cookies

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Nothing says cozy winter vibes more than roasting marshmallows by the fire. Just the thought of toasted marshmallows makes me all cozy and fuzzzzy! I’ve been playing around with the idea of a red red velvet cookie for a bit but wanted to add a fun holiday twist to them, so I though why not torch the fluff to get a toasted marshmallow feel.  And that is exactly what it needed! These cookies are super rich and chewy, so fudgy and delicious and have the perfect amount of chocolate. The roasty marshmallow flavor compliments the chocolatey notes of the cookie and add depth to the cookie. I added a few white chocolate curls on top for a touch of sweetness and texture.

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Chewy Cap’n Crunch Cookies

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These cap’n crunch cookies are so so so soft + chewy, so brown buttery, filled with notes of brown sugar, hints of nuttiness and have so much depth of flavor from the cap’n crunch cereal. It’s such a low fuss recipe and very big on flavor. Chewy cookie lovers you are going to looooove this one. The key is to underbake these cookies so they stay super chewy.

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Chewy Fudgy Marshmallow Fluff Pumpkin Cookies

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Most pumpkin cookies focus on pumpkin spices and not the pumpkin itself. Pumpkin is such an underrated flavor and as much as a I like the flavors of pumpkin spices, sometimes the spices overtake the natural flavor of pumpkin. The flavor of pumpkin is earthy warm and sweet, similar to the flavors of a persimmon or sweet potato. These cookies skip the heavy pumpkin spices and just focus on the pumpkin. The addition of marshmallow fluff counteracts the cakey texture that pumpkin tends to create and create a super fudgy, chewy texture that is undeniably addictive.

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