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Winter Cookies

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Pretty Italian Cookies

Not sure if you’ve figured it out yet, but I’m Italian. So anise cookies are kind of this thing my family likes to make. I’m not a fan of licorice, so the cookies aren’t my first go-to cookie. However, I have no problem making them, especially since I get to decorate them.

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Gather the goods, just no need for the remote

 

You will need:
2 cups flour
3/4 cups sugar
1 tsp baking powder
3 eggs
1 1/4 teaspoon butter
2 tablespoons anise oil

Icing:
1 cup confectioner’s sugar
2 teaspoons milk
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350. Mix the butter and sugar until smooth. Add eggs and anise oil and continue mixing until combined. In another bowl, mix the flour, baking powder. Add dry mixture to wet in small batches until combined.

With a spoon, drop small one inch cookies onto baking sheet. Bake for about 12-15 minutes. Let cool on cooling rack.

While those are cooling, mix the icing ingredients until smooth. I added some red to make the icing colorful, then dipped them into the icing and put back onto the rack. Decorate with sprinkles or whatever you’d like. Enjoy!

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Food

Buy Me Something II

Oh, wow. I just found this place in New York City that has cookies I’m craving. No, I’ve never had them, but I really, really want to try them. Their “compost cookie” is filled with pretzels, potato chips, coffee, oats, butterscotch, chocolate chips. I mean, it can’t be bad, right? The place is called momofuku milkbar and the cookies are $12 a tin. Tempting to buy…. tempting.

Compost Cookie

And then they have these blueberry and cream cookies that I’m drooling over.

Blueberry and Cream Cookie

 

 

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Food, Sweet

Hot Chocolate Rice Krispy Treats

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Every Rice Krispy Treat starts with a little love and innovation. I haven’t made regular Rice Krispy Treats in awhile, and honestly I wasn’t going to start now.

It got a little cold out, so inevitably I immediately thought of making hot chocolate. Then genius struck – Hot Chocolate Rice Krispy Treats. So while I melted the 3 tablespoons of butter and the bag of marshmallows, I dumped in a bag of dry hot cocoa mix. Folded in the six cups of Rice Krispys and then pushed it into a brownie pan.

But it was missing something, so I melted a quarter cup of chocolate chips in the microwave. In ten second intervals, melt the chocolate until you can smooth it out, then more it over the treats.

Hot Chocolate Rice Krispy Treats

3 tablespoons butter
1 package (10 oz., about 40) Jet Puffed Marshmallows, 10 oz
OR
4 cups JET-PUFFED Miniature Marshmallows
6 cups Rice Krispies cereal
1 package of Hot Chocolate Mix

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Food, Sweet

Caramel Apple Rice Krispy Treats

Who doesn’t like caramel apples?

So I still had apples hanging around the house, but there was no way I was going to just eat an apple. Seriously, I’ve been in a slump of not making anything too exciting, so I took an evening of being lazy around the house and decided to do something about my sweet tooth. So what did I come up with? A craving for Rice Krispy Treats that lead to a great dessert. If you like caramel apples, you’ll like this.

Basically, it’s the same as a Rice Krispy Treat, but you’ll have to also buy some additional ingredients.

Get:
6 cups of Rice Krispy cereal
A 10 oz bag of regular marshmallows
3 Tablespoons of margarine
1 Granny Smith apple
1 Tablespoon of cinnamon

For topping:
15 caramel candy cubes
1 Tablespoon of water

Peel and dice up the apple. Saute in a pan with 1 of the tablespoons of margarine and the cinnamon. Cook down until the apple is softened.

The house started smelling like apple pie at this point.

Add in the bag of marshmallows and the rest of the margarine. Cook down until all the marshmallows are melted.

Almost there….

Start folding in the Rice Krispies, one cup at a time until everything is in. Put into a brownie pan and let it cool.

While that is resting, in a clean pan, add the caramels and cook on low with the water until it melts and is smooth. Then drizzle over the treats, let rest, cut up, and enjoy!

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