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Peanut Butter Blossoms cookies are perfect for any holiday or bake sale

A soft peanut butter cookie with a chocolate kiss center is the perfect combination! As much as we love a classic chocolate chip cookie or peanut butter cookies, I crave the sweet and salty combination of chocolate and peanut butter! Family Favorite Cookie Recipe My daughter’s favorite part is adding the chocolate kiss to the cookie, but I think that’s only so she can sneak extra chocolate kisses! If you have kids, this is a great recipe to make with them, as there are plenty of things they can help with from scooping the dough and rolling it into balls to pressing the kiss into the baked cookie! How to Make Peanut Butter Blossoms Here’s a quick overview for this...

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Cauliflower schnitzel sandwiches are happening! 

Get ready. A super crunchy, crisp, flavorful bite is right here waiting for you! This is my trashed up attempt at an Octoberfest recipe. Instead of making any kind of meat schnitzel, we’re using a veggie. I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW. 2009 me is like who are you and how is this happening and how is this your life? Well it is and it’s good. You’re going to be into it! I promise. There are a couple steps here and the finished product is a flavorful sandwich stack that you won’t be able to stop thinking about.  First, we have to bread and crisp up our cauliflower. Easy! Slice it into big pieces, like this. In order to make...

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A fun Hocus Pocus recipe perfect for a Halloween party or a family movie night, this Hocus Pocus Cake is colourful and fun – both inside and out!

Halloween Cake Recipe Our family’s favourite Halloween movie a few years in a row now has been Hocus Pocus. It’s the perfect family Halloween movie – fun and nostalgic for the grown-ups, while not getting too scary for the kids. We had wanted to host a Halloween party this year, but between my work trip to DC and a two week family vacation to visit my best friend and her family in Houston, TX, there is just no way that I can swing a giant party this month, so instead Ella and I compromised on a small movie night with friends, complete with themed snacks and some witches’ brew slime. This cake looks super complicated – especially the fun frosting...

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Cauliflower schnitzel sandwiches are happening! 

Get ready. A super crunchy, crisp, flavorful bite is right here waiting for you! This is my trashed up attempt at an Octoberfest recipe. Instead of making any kind of meat schnitzel, we’re using a veggie. I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW. 2009 me is like who are you and how is this happening and how is this your life? Well it is and it’s good. You’re going to be into it! I promise. There are a couple steps here and the finished product is a flavorful sandwich stack that you won’t be able to stop thinking about.  First, we have to bread and crisp up our cauliflower. Easy! Slice it into big pieces, like this. In order to make...

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A fun Hocus Pocus recipe perfect for a Halloween party or a family movie night, this Hocus Pocus Cake is colourful and fun – both inside and out!

Halloween Cake Recipe Our family’s favourite Halloween movie a few years in a row now has been Hocus Pocus. It’s the perfect family Halloween movie – fun and nostalgic for the grown-ups, while not getting too scary for the kids. We had wanted to host a Halloween party this year, but between my work trip to DC and a two week family vacation to visit my best friend and her family in Houston, TX, there is just no way that I can swing a giant party this month, so instead Ella and I compromised on a small movie night with friends, complete with themed snacks and some witches’ brew slime. This cake looks super complicated – especially the fun frosting...

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