Category: Desserts

  • Thin Mint Ice Cream!!!

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    I just made this for dessert and had to share: Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookie Ice Cream in the Vita Mix 1 cup milk (skim, 1% or 2% will work) ½ cup sugar ¼ cup nonfat dry milk 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 4 cups ice cubes 6 Thin Mint Girl Scout cookies (in addition…

  • On the hunt for yummy and healthy foods

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    As you may know I (and probably about 1/3 of the rest of the country) am trying to eat healthier. There is nothing like a new year to inspire a fresh start. For real this time. I mean it. So I posted on Twitter that I was looking for some yummy and healthy sweet snacking…

  • A Virtual Cookie Exchange

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    Getting ready to bake for Christmas and need some tried and true, really yummy cookie recipes? Or do you have a recipe to share? Below you’ll find a sampling of cookies my friends and I have baked through the years for Karen’s Annual Cookie Competition Exchange. If you have any cookie recipes to share, please post on…

  • Get ready for a virtual cookie exchange

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    Fire up those ovens (or at least your keyboards)! Today I attended a ninth annual cookie exchange (I’ve only missed one through the years) and it got me thinking… we need to have a virtual cookie exchange! I bet you have at least one, if not more, tired-and-true cookie recipe you would be willing to…

  • Reunited and it tastes so good…

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    Many years ago, when I was a sweet little undergrad at the University of Florida, (I can’t help but to fit that UF thing in a lot right now. Go Gators! Anyhow, back to the story…) I loved to bake a secret peanut butter and chocolate cookie. These cookies ROCKED. A little crispy yet still a tad chewy chocolate on…