Almond Shortbread Fingers

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Since it's almost Halloween, I figured some fake blood and body parts were in order...

Chocolate Sugar Cookies

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I was worried that Chocolate Sugar Cookies would be too boring and cliche, so I spiced them up with some adorable holiday decorations...

Pumpkin Buttermilk Donuts

Donuts mean Halloween to me. Pumpkin, donuts, Halloween, chocolate milk, they all go together, right?..

Pumpkin Cookie Bars with Cinnamon Icing

One nice thing about pumpkin is it is naturally wet, which means you can use it to replace eggs in a baking recipe. Lots of pumpkin recipes are sort of naturally egg-free. Which is nice for the egg-allergy crowd. ..

Bacon Cheese Pecan Bites

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I'm calling these A.C.A.B. Pecan Bites, named after a culinary code that my husband and I seem to agree on: when all else fails, *A*dd *C*heese *A*nd *B*acon. ..

Chocolate Cheesecake

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To make this cheesecake, I started with my great-grandfather's recipe. We knew him as Grandpa Chuck, but when he was cooking, he preferred Chowhound Charlie, making the official title of this recipe "Chowhound Charlie's New York Cheesecake."..

Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Cookies

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These cookies were inspired by one gorgeous bag of dark brown sugar. They are soft, chewy cookies with a rich molasses flavor. Match made in heaven, if you ask me...

Banana Pudding

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The Fruitarian has been begging for another taste of this pudding. Of the hundreds of recipes on this humble blog, this pudding, and the parfait I made with it, are his most memorable...

Peach Plum Crisp

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And as long as I have the equivalent of two 5-gallon buckets full of fresh plums in my house, I suppose some plum desserts are in order. I adapted my favorite peach crisp recipe to incorporate the plums, and this delightful late summer dessert was b..

Dark Chocolate Coconut Cookies

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I new the dark cocoa powder would be transforming itself into cookies. Chewy cookies. Heavenly chewy dark chocolate cookies with coconut. Just the thought of it brings a smile to the face...