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Best Cookie Recipes

Family favorite cookie recipes – every flavor you can imagine! From chocolate chip cookies to peanut butter, shortbread, snickerdoodle cookies and more you’ll find easy recipes here perfect for every day or any holiday.

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Why should you use my recipes? I’ve been creating recipes for over 15 years and have written two cookbooks. My recipes are mostly sweet, sometimes savory with easy to find ingredients and they work. Read More About Me

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Easy homemade recipes your family will love to make over and over again.

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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Bread Recipes

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Pumpkin Spice Appreciation

We love pumpkin spice recipes and they’re good starting NOW!

Fall

Homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice (DIY Recipe)

Apple Recipes

Have too many apples? Let’s bake with them!

Favorite Brownies and Bars

Baking Resources

Baking 101

Baking really is easy to do once you know the basics. This is your one stop resource for all the baking tips and tricks you need to make any dessert you love.

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Crazy for Cookies, Brownies, and Bars Cookbook

85+ Recipes for the best cookies, brownies and bars on the planet. An Amazon Editors’ Pick in Best Cookbooks, Food & Wine.

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