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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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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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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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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BUCKWHEAT + ALMOND + APRICOT COOKIES

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Chewy, warm nutty buckwheat cookies are loaded up with chopped juicy dried apricots and toasty crunchy almonds. These cookies have a whole lot of buckwheat flavor while being deliciously chewy and thick. Each cookies gets topped with a delicious Valrhona Almond Inspiration feve for a creamy, sweet dimension.

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Dark Chocolate & Rose Cookies with Nutella Centers

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Rich, deep and sensuous. Just a few adjectives to describe these lusciously chewy dark chocolate cookies. Shards of dark 70% gianduja chocolate get folded into a luxuriously chocolate sugar cookie dough and then get stuffed with a frozen Nutella dollop. Once baked, these chocolatey cookies brim and beam with warm chocolate puddles, centers and chasms. A showering of more chocolate, rose petals and flaky salt make them not only beautiful but texturally delightful. All you chocolate lover this one is for you! Grab your best chocolate and make yourself a batch.

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Cardamom + Bay Leaf + Brown Butter + Rum Blondies

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These chewy blondies are ladened with nutty brown butter notes, toasty sugary hints of rum, hints of floral bay leaf and imbued with both green and black cardamom pods. If you are not familiar with black cardamom, it is the larger, more savory relative of the green cardamom. Black cardamom lends a subtle smoky, camphor like tone to these blondies while the green cardamom adds warm citrusy, peppery flavors. The marriage of these ingredients leaves you with a flavor packed dessert that is unlike any blondie you’ve ever had! Perfectly chewy and so easy to whip up!

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Lush Lemon + Basil Sugar Cookies

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Refreshing, bright, tangy lemon mingles with minty, sweet, peppery basil in an ultra-soft chewy sugar cookie that is addictively soft and perfectly balanced. Fresh basil gets ground with sugar creating a not only very flavorful but also very beautiful sugar! Once you make basil sugar you know that it won’t be the last time, its absolutely gorgeous and versatile. The aroma itself is so inviting and lovely! Pair that with the freshness and crispness from the lemon zest and you’ve got yourself a bright cheery cookie that borders on that sweet and savory territory! Perfect for those who don’t like desserts too sweet. A final note on these cookies, be sure not to overbake them or else you’ll miss on that ultra-plush, soft chewy texture that makes these cookies unbelievably addictive.

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Blueberry & Candied Thyme Sugar Cookies

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These bright beautiful blueberry cookies are the perfect cookie to make for your holiday cookie boxes! Bright jammy wild blueberries get made into a jam that gets swirled into the sugar cookie base along with some homemade thyme sugar. The thyme provides a citrusy, woody touch to the cookie while the blueberries add sweetness and fruitiness to the body of the cookie. I rolled each one of these guys in some fresh thyme rubbed sugar and topped them with blueberry powder and candied thyme. If you have not made candied thyme you should! It was so easy to make and so so beautiful! Perfect for decorating your holiday desserts!

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Classic Chewy Earl Gray Sugar Cookies

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Sometimes you want a simple, classic chewy earl gray cookie and these fit the bill perfectly. These cookies are based off of Sarah Kieffer’s classic chewy sugar cookie recipe and are transformed into earl gray cookies by subbing earl gray sugar into the cookie dough and rolling the cookies in earl gray rubbed sugar. The coarse earl gray tea dotting the cookie adds beautiful dimension, texture and flavor to the cookie. These are pillowy soft, delightfully chewy and perfect to eat with a cup of hot earl gray tea. Now who wouldn’t want that?

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Chewy Crackled Matcha Sugar Cookies

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These thick chewy cookies get smacked with a spoon right after coming out of the oven to get crackly tops filled with deep chasms of matcha goodness. The gooey centers ooze out a bit from within when they are hot and when you take a bite, they are pure bliss (especially right out of the oven!) These cookies are filled with matcha flavor!. They have a whopping two tablespoons of matcha in the dough and are then rolled in matcha sugar to ensure that you get those delicate grassy earthy sweet green vanilla notes that make matcha so delicious. Be sure to get yourself some high quality matcha for these cookies, they are worth it!

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Raspberry White Chocolate Sugar Cookies

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These delightfully chewy sugar cookies are infused with tart puckery raspberry, fragrant sweet vanilla and rolled in sparkling white sugar. Each cookie is topped with delicious Valrhona raspberry inspiration feves, Waina white chocolate feves and a generous sprinkling of crushed dried raspberries. They are almost too beautiful to eat. I think they might be the prettiest cookies in my cookie boxes this year!

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Super Chewy & Soft Cinnamony Gingerbread Friends

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These gingerbread cuties are seriously the most chewy, soft gingerbread cookies I’ve had! They are lightly spiced and have the perfect amount of cinnamon, ginger and molasses. I don’t like my gingerbread cookies to be too spiced but these are the perfect balance of sugar and spice and everything nice :) They are just delightful to each right out of the oven.

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Flourless Chocolate Walnut Cookies

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This cookie is pretty magical. No oil, no butter and no flour yet they are probably the most delicious chocolate cookie you’ll ever have! These cookies chewy and very chocolatey with a nice nutty edge from the walnuts. Finish them off with a little flaky salt and watch them disappear. Naturally gluten free and dairy free too!

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