Malted Whopper Brownies

Jun 30, 2014 | By Melissa

Get ready. These brownies are all kinds of amazing. The actual brownie part is fudgy and malt chocolate flavored and full of chewy pockets of baked-in malt balls. Topped off with a rich ganache and more malt balls? Are you running for the kitchen yet? Are you checking your cupboards for that enormous, movie-size box […]

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brownies & bars, sweets

White Chocolate Macadamia Blondies

Apr 19, 2014 | By Melissa

When I was little, white for Easter was always a big deal. (At least where shoes were concerned.) And even though I no longer go out and buy new, flowery dresses and patent leather Mary Janes for church on Easter morning, the color white is still a symbol of the season for me. Blondies (the […]

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brownies & bars, sweets

S’mores Brownies

Jul 03, 2013 | By Melissa

When I was a kid, my dad taught me how to slow-roast a perfect marshmallow. We would head outside after polishing off our hamburgers and huddle over our charcoal grill, patiently rotating marshmallows one at a time over the embers. I felt this intense sense of victory every time I managed to get my marshmallow […]

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brownies & bars, SRC, sweets

Gooey Brown Butter Toffee Bars

Jun 10, 2013 | By Melissa

Maybe you noticed that I have been sharing a lot of fruity and peanuty baked goods lately. Maybe you remember that those aren’t really my thing. Most of the baking I have been doing for the last few months has actually been for others to enjoy. I’ve been taking a break from sugar in hopes […]

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celebrate, cookies, sweets, Winter

Chocolate Peppermint Pinwheels and Cookie Parties

Dec 14, 2011 | By Melissa

So our annual cookie party was last week! I baked and I baked and then I baked some more. I think I made more than 30 dozen cookies in total. And then I decorated. And thankfully my sister-in-law had mercy on me and came and helped me decorate. The key to keeping yourself sane when […]

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brownies & bars, quick & easy, sweets

Magic Cookie Bars

Dec 02, 2011 | By Melissa

So. Now is a good time to tell you that I am a fan of cookies. Maybe you already knew that. You might also be able to guess that Christmas is one of my favorite seasons (for so many reasons!), in large part because cookies have a huge showing this time of year. At my […]

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Oatmeal Butterscotch Chip Cookies

Oct 10, 2011 | By Melissa

I don’t know about you, but I never understood the distaste most of my childhood friends had for oatmeal cookies. The oatmeal cookies that came out of my mom’s kitchen were always chewy and delicious! Yet somehow my friends preferred those rock-hard Chips-Ahoy cookies to anything baked from scratch. Silly friends. I love oatmeal cookies. […]

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