Chocolate Dumpster Cookies

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I had to work this weekend, and although I love my job, working on a Saturday really isn’t my thing. Unless, of course, you are working on the set of a photo shoot and get to take a bunch of swag, like chocolate and cereal, with you. That helps to make working on a Saturday not so bad. Baking with chocolate isn’t something I do frequently because chocolate is expensive and I find it hard to justify buying something expensive … Read More

Strawberry Cream Cheese Cookies

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One last post before I unplug for the weekend. After work tomorrow I plan on spending the weekend with my Valentine. Fingers crossed that I’m able to fight off this cold that has been plaguing me all week so we can enjoy our time together.There’s a little story behind these cookies… One Valentine’s Day when I was 15 and a sophomore in high school I had a boyfriend who was a senior. We dated for almost two years, practically an … Read More

Mint Hot Chocolate Cookies

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I’m thinking of turning Monday mornings into a time for weekly wedding updates. Everyone okay with that? Mmmkay good. What’s become very evident to me over the past week and a few days is that I’m a very decisive bride. One who doesn’t dilly-dally over decisions in the least bit. And since Joey and I didn’t want a long engagement, it works out well. Decisions Made:*Date: July 9!*Ceremony and reception locations: Check!*Dress and veil: Check and Check! In other news, … Read More

Iced Eggnog Cookies

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Did you hear that this week has been declared cookie week? Well now you know and we can get to baking! I’m not entirely sure who named it cookie week. Though I do suspect that The Pioneer Woman had something to do with it. I realize I’m a bit late partaking in cookie week festivities. But just because cookie week is almost over doesn’t mean the baking needs to stop. In fact, it’s just begun. A few weeks back while … Read More

Molasses Crinkles

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  In my opinion, there’s a lot to love about Thursdays. I think it has something to do with the anticipation of the weekend and the fun that’s coming. Especially in the case of this weekend! Joey and I will be meeting up in Minneapolis for another Bethel football game and to spend some time with his family, including his aunt, uncle and cousins from Wisconsin. Don’t worry, I’m already charging my camera and have set a reminder on my … Read More

Candy Pumpkin Peanut Butter Kisses

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It’s official. The Sunday night blues have set in yet again. Typically I consider myself a happy, positive person, but it’s tough to find the joy in Sunday nights sometimes. After a wonderful weekend with two of my favorite people in the whole world I now find myself cleaning up my apartment and getting ready for the week ahead with my mom traveling home in one direction, and Joey heading home in the opposite direction. Lately, what Joey and I … Read More

Oatmeal Raisin Peanut Cookies

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  As much as I enjoy a good recipe, I’m just as much a sucker for all things pretty. I’m not overly girly, but give me a piece of lace, a ruffle, floral pattern or cookies tied up in a ribbon and I swoon.  Fact: When I was a little girl, my mom hardly ever let me out of the house without a giant bow perched atop my head. To this day, I plan to do the very same thing … Read More

Confession and Cookies Time: Alfajores

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Working as an editor makes writing as a blogger absolutely maddening at times. Throughout the day, I’m constantly thinking about editorial direction and cohesive themes to the pieces and recipes I’m putting into place. There’s a rhyme and a reason for everything, and every recipe serves a purpose. But life as a blogger isn’t nearly as cut and dried. Blogs by their very nature are extensions of the people who write them, and just like people are multi-dimensional, so are … Read More

MultiGrain PB&J Breakfast Cookies

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Is it Monday already? If so, I seriously can’t believe it. Every time I go somewhere on the weekend, it becomes so clear that two days just isn’t long enough to get everything done, be rejuvenated and just be wherever you are. J and I made the trek out to Wisconsin for a weekend with some of our favorite people: J’s aunt and uncle and their four very cute kids. I wish I had some photos of the weekend, but … Read More

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

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You all had to know another pumpkin recipe was waiting in the wings. After the great pumpkin hunt last week I could hardly wait to start cooking and baking up all sorts of pumpkin-related goodness. Not long after the pumpkin pasta, three days to be exact, I baked up a batch of these Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies. And since I like to send J on his way back home with a treat for the car ride, I packed theses babies … Read More

Coconut Lace Cookies

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Another Monday, another weekend come and gone, and while I’ve never really been the type of person who loathes Mondays, I do loathe the end of the weekend for the sole fact that it means J. and I have to part yet again. As I write this on Sunday night he’s back in the car on his way home to Illinois. I, on the other hand, am cuddled up on my bed watching Netflix on my computer and taking comfort … Read More

Nutella Chocolate Chip Cookies

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I’ve been a real-life, full-time working girl for three whole days now and boy is it tiring! Tiring in the best sort of way, in the my-brain-is-exploding-with-new-information sort of way. Yet despite thinking about food all day at work, I still somehow find myself baking and cooking at the end of the day to decompress and relax.  This morning I woke up to a sky full of rain, I have a new Netflix movie coming my way this afternoon, a … Read More