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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Lemon Olive Oil Cake

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This plush delicious olive oil cake is so easy to make and absolutley divine. It’s super simple to make and will bake up in less than 40 minutes! Sprinkle a little bit of powdered sugar and top with your favorite fruit and you will have the loveliest little snacking cake.

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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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Salted Caramel Swirl Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars

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hese salted caramel swirl pumpkin cheesecake bars have a delicious brown butter graham cracker crust and have the most luxuriously silky pumpkin filling. The pumpkin filling is loaded with lots of warm, snuggly autumn spices and has the perfect amount of sweetness from the salted caramel swirl. If you find cheesecakes to be intimidating don’t be! These bars are so simple to make and are a dream to eat up. They are the perfect mix of pumpkin pie and caramel cheesecake all in one!

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Black Velvet Cake + Salted German Dark Chocolate Buttercream

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The softest, plushest most decadently dark chocolate cake you will ever have. The texture on this cake is so devilishly moist. This cake is honestly superb on it’s own, you can snack on it without any frosting and I promise you will be a happy camper. But if you are interested in going all out, this cake deserves a delicious frosting. This salted dark chocolate pudding buttercream aka German buttercream, is so velvety smooth and absolutely delicious thanks to the addition of homemade pudding! Pair these two together and you won’t be able to put your fork down. You’ve been warned!

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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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Brown Butter Buckwheat Pumpkin Snack Cake

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This is the softest, plushest little pumpkin cake. This lovely little snack cake is slathered with a delicious maple, mascarpone cream cheese frosting dolloped with spiced jammy pumpkin butter. This cake has the lushest texture and is a dream to whip up. The flavors of brown butter and buckwheat paired with the spices heighten the nutty notes on this cake and make this cake just all that more special.

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Chewy Soan Papdi Cardamom Cookies

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What is Soan Papdi? Soan Papdi, also known as patisa is this incredibly flaky, flossy, cotton candyesque Indian dessert that is made with ghee, gram flour, cardamom and sugar. The ingredients are humble but the texture on this dessert is unbelievable. I’m not a big Indian dessert fan but this dessert does it for me! It’s texture is unparalleled! Combining the soan papdi with a gram flour sugar cookie infused with saffron milk, pistachios and cardamom created a cookie that complemented the flavors of the soan papdi and served kind of like a vehicle for this delicious dessert (because soan papdi is a very very messy dessert!) It’s the perfect fusion of American and Indian flavors.

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White Peach Mascarpone Tart

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Buttery rough puff pastry gets topped with honey sweetened mascarpone pastry cream and topped with fresh peaches and raspberries. The delicate, sweet white peaches get poached in a fresh, crisp white wine poaching liquid sweetened with orange blossom, vanilla and hints of lemon. The sweetened poached peaches get arranged on a honey sweetened mascarpone pastry cream, along with the peach poaching liquid reduction. The subtle hints of lemon and white peach in Cakebread Cellar’s Chardonnay add the perfect dimension of tang and freshness to the poached peaches while pairing perfectly with the thick creamy mascarpone cream.

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Blueberry Skyr French Toast

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French toast is all about that custard soak and this soak is filled with notes of blueberry and a touch of tang thanks to Icelandic Provision’s blueberry & bilberry skyr. The addition of skyr gives this French toast a buttermilk vibe without having to buy any buttermilk! Serve these fluffy light custardy French toasts with a schmear of blueberry skyr, a drizzle of maple syrup and fresh blueberries for a perfect Sunday brunch!

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Yuzu + Mint + Lime Mojito Cookies

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These ultra- soft chewy sugar cookies are inspired by the fresh, minty Mojito cocktail. Refreshing, zesty, tangy lime mingles with sweet, fresh mint and citrusy floral yuzu chocolate. I was inspired by the basil sugar I made a while back to create a mint sugar. The fresh mint gets ground with white sugar to create a flavorful and very beautiful sugar! Once you make this mint sugar you’ll never go back to plain old sugar, it is absolutely gorgeous and versatile. The aroma itself is so inviting and lovely! The entire cookie is bursting with bright citrus flavor from the lime zest and yuzu chocolate. 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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Sour Cherry Pecan Brown Butter Oatmeal Cookies

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If you can get your hands on fresh sour cherries you need to make these delicious sour cherry pecan brown butter oatmeal cookies. The cookie dough base is loaded with buttery pecans, nutty oats and is laced with deep golden brown butter. Sugared sour cherries get mixed in to create a perfect tangy juicy touch to this cookie. These cookies are so soft and chewy! They are simply irresistible.

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Fig Leaf & Plum Posset with Pomegranate Pluot Granita

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Plum season is in fully swing and what better way to enjoy them than this cool refreshing 5 ingredient fig and plum posset! Fig leaves and fresh plum juice get added to sugared cream to create the loveliest little posset that is creamy, thick and perfectly sweet and tangy! This is my first time using fig leaves and I am in love! The fig leaves impart a slightly coconutty vanilla note to the posset while adding the lightest bit of vegetal flavor. The sweet and slightly tart flavor of the plum rounds out this dessert and pairs so well with the delicious pomegranate pluot granita. If you haven’t tried posset yet you definitely need to!

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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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Mini Batch Peach & Cloudberry Skyr Scones

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I always thought I didn’t like scones…until I developed this recipe. These scones are golden and tender, ultra-soft and delicate in the center and have the most beautiful biscuit like exterior. They are sweet enough but not cloying. The addition of Icelandic Provision’s Peach and Cloudberry Skyr skyr adds a boost of moisture and tang that make these scones almost muffin like. If you like muffins but are always weary of scones due to their dry nature you should definitely give this recipe a go! Swipe on Peach and Cloudberry skyr on a hot scone and enjoy just like that or make a quick Peach Skyr Glaze to put this scone over the top.

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STRAWBERRY, BLACK + WHITE SESAME NEAPOLITAN COOKIE.

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Nutty toasty black and white sesame get paired with bright fruity strawberry in the loveliest sugar cookie dough! This riff off @sarah_kieffer Neapolitan cookie is inspired by halva, peanut butter jelly sandwiches and toasty nutty thick tahini.

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Mini Blueberry Skyr Donuts

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These cute blueberry skyr mini donuts are the perfect treat to whip up when you are craving donuts! Thanks to the thick creamy blueberry skyr and leavening agents you can have a batch of delightfully cakey, old-fashionesque donuts in less than hour! Once they are fried up roll them up with this super easy blueberry powdered sugar. With just a few simple ingredients you can have a batch of hot, homemade delicious blueberry donuts!

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Salty Espresso Buckwheat + Browned Butter Chocolate Bar Cookies.

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Brown butter, buckwheat and espresso come together to create a deep rich cookie that you can sink you teeth into. These cookies bake into large round cookies that are flat, chewy and rich with warm nutty buckwheat notes. To intensify that nuttiness, browned butter is added for more depth and warmth to the cookie. A hefty spoon of espresso powder is added to create another dimension of flavor. But the real key to a stellar chocolate chip cookie? Using high quality chocolate! This cookie dough gets a whole bar of 70% chocolate added to it. The freshly cut deep dark chocolate chunks pair beautifully with this cookie and turn into these gorgeous puddles of chocolate. This cookie would not be complete without a showering of flaky salt.

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