Rainbow Confection

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Coconut Thumbprint Cookies with Salted Caramel

One of the best parts about the iPad is that you can get magazines on it. Not only do the magazines add cute little animations, and the pictures look amazing, but you can easily save recipes as screenshots. I use this fridge mount to display recipes on the iPad (from magazines or the internet) pretty much 99% of the time I am cooking - it is super useful. 

I mention this, because I found this delicious cookie recipe in the Martha Stewart Living magazine! They are definitely as tasty as they look. 

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Oatmeal Cookies

I REALLY don’t like raisins. As a result, I did not have a delicious oatmeal cookie until I took matters into my own hands.

Generally, I make these with chocolate chips, but I had some Mini M+M’s on hand. Really, any mix in would work. The recipe is provided below. 

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Holiday Bites

I first made these Holiday Bites (Pretzel Bites? M+M on a Kiss on a Pretzel? Generic Name for melting pre-made things together?) with my Aunt when I was in high school, back when you could still find pretzels shaped like little circles. In recent years, I have been unable to find those Hershey’s Kiss-sized pretzel circles, so I opt for the less-cute-but-actually-available option of regular mini-pretezels.  

These are definitely some of the easiest “Christmas Cookies” out there, but I still wanted to spotlight them here since they are so good. Pro-tip: these are best stored in a fridge to keep the chocolate from melting, and as a bonus, I think that they are more delicious cold than at room temperature. The recipe is provided below. 

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Gingersnaps

Gingersnaps are a classic Christmas cookie. Additionally, if I didn’t make these, I’m not sure how I would use up all the molasses I bought specifically to make gingersnaps. It’s a vicious, delicious cycle. The recipe is provided below. 

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Super-Soft Snickerdoodle Cookies

It is almost Christmas! It is less than 2 months away, so I can actually start saying that now without people sighing too much. (I can’t, however, start decorating until after Thanksgiving…)

On that note, I can make the cookies that can be considered “Christmas Cookies” as long as I don’t go for the ones that look like Rudolph or Christmas trees.

This is actually the THIRD time I have made these cookies, so they are certifiably delicious! The recipe is provided below.

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Fluffernutter Cookies

I decided to start my blog with a recipe for Fluffernutter Cookies!!!

In the realm of food, I definitely prefer baking, but I plan on posting recipes that focus on cooking real food too. (Real food = things that prevent me from suffering from vitamin deficiencies.)

As my preference lies with sweet treats, the blog is themed / named after that . (Thanks Liana for the idea!)

Anyways, my goals are to both document my cooking experiments and share recipes I like. Enough with all the backstory, here is the recipe for the delicious looking cookie you see above:

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