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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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 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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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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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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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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