Chocolate Peanut-Butter-Chip Cookies
This recipe is from the back of the bag of Reese’s Peanut Butter Chips. The cookie is fabulous! It’s like a peanut butter cup in cookie form 🙂 My daughter made these cookies for a Back of the Box themed Cookbook…
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Cowboy Cookies
I have no idea why these cookies are called “Cowboy Cookies”. Coconut, oats and Rice Krispies don’t scream cowboy to me. Well, maybe the oats do. Legend has it that Laura Bush made these cookies popular after she submitted a…
Apricot-Coconut Bars
Feel like baking this weekend? Try these! They are delicious, and one of my favorite bar/tray bake recipes. The bars are buttery, crisp, jammy, and coconut-y all at the same time and there is a pronounced taste of real apricots…
Madelienes
Madeleines. What are they anyway? Almost a cookie but really a slightly dry cake? Yes, that’s right! No frosting? Nope, but they are often dusted with powdered sugar. No caramel swirl? Never! No bits of chocolate? Well, Starbucks dips the…
British Pork Pie
Finally! A Pork Pie recipe that is pretty darn good and not that hard to produce! My Dad, a traditional Yorkshire-man, loved pork pies. I really, really wish he were still here to taste my version. To my mind, this…
B.O.B. Brownies
Google “Back of the Box” recipes and you’ll get lists such as The 10 Best Back-of-the-box Recipes from Epicurious, or Buzz Feed or The Daily Meal. It’s never the 20 best back-of-the-box recipes or 100 best back-of-the-box recipes. Nope. Just…
Double Chocolate Marble Loaf
Weekend Cake! Isn’t that a delightful subcategory of dessert? According to Dorrie Greenspan it’s a French concept. Weekend Cake is good for anything from breakfast through late night snacking. Weekend Cake travels well, too, and is long lasting—best if left…
Polly’s BBQ Sauce
Homemade BBQ sauce is easy to make and it tastes so much better that that squeeze bottle of chemicals with a two-year shelf life! And you can use it on anything! Chicken, ribs, burgers, steak… 🙂 The original recipe for…