raspberry hazelnut thumbprint cookie recipe | writes4food.com

Christmas cookie-palooza: Hazelnut thumbprints.

Ahhhh … it’s Christmas cookie time, friends! Are you ready? Have you stockpiled your granulated and powdered sugar, butter, flour and vanilla? Refreshed your spice cabinet? Bought all those nuts and dried fruits and sprinkles? Here’s …

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cut out butter cookies with sparkling sugar

Pretty fall cut out cookies.

Thanks to comfortable, albeit dry, weather over the past five weeks or so, fall leaf color around here is amazing. The maples are especially glorious. So naturally they prompted me to bake these: beautiful fall cut …

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recipe for homemade almond flax granola | writes4food.com

Homemade almond granola, perfected.

Here it is: granola perfection. Toasty brown, not too sweet, with a kick of sea salt, and clumpy enough to eat out of hand. I’ve worked this recipe over and over, and now it’s Perfect Homemade Almond Granola.

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Lemon olive oil cake with blueberry compote.

This Lemon Olive Oil Cake couldn’t be any easier (if you don’t have lemon-infused olive oil on hand, use good EVOO). But the Blueberry-Thyme Compote topping makes it extra special. Make this cake your go-to all summer long, varying the compote as different seasonal fruits come along. And if you happen to eat this for breakfast, I won’t judge. Get the recipe over on writes4food.com!

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4 ingredient almond shortbread cookie recipe

4-ingredient almond shortbread cookies.

These 4-Ingredient Almond Shortbread Cookies are stupid easy and ridiculously delicious. Not too sweet and perfect with coffee. Old-fashioned and totally modern. You probably have all the ingredients on hand. Get the recipe on writes4food.com!

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Chocolate red wine bundt cake.

Sure, you could purchase something for your sweetie this Valentine’s Day. (Hurry: Time’s running out!) Or you could make something from scratch and from the heart. Which isn’t to say that you have to fuss, or extend yourself or buy any fancy ingredients. I’ve a hunch you have everything you need for this simple, one-bowl Chocolate Red Wine Bundt Cake right in your kitchen. Get the recipe on writes4food.com!

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Salty chocolate shortbread cookies.

Everyone — everyone! — is making these: Alison Roman’s recipe for Salted Chocolate Chunk Shortbread cookies. Like everything on the interwebs these days, comments vary, from “amazing” to “meh” to “disaster.” I had to find out what the fuss is all about. And I have to say: these cookies are pretty amazing — but there are some little tricks to make them a bit easier to deal with. Get my version of the recipe on writes4food.com!

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Christmas cookie palooza: Orange butter cookies, two ways.

So here you go: The last installment of 2017’s edition of Christmas Cooke Palooza: Grandma’s Frosted Lemon Cookie recipe reimagined with orange flavoring and chocolate. Make ’em either way: Orange Kiss Cookies or Glazed Orange Cookies. Happy holidays, folks! As a thank-you for your friendship, here’s a bonus for you: Between now and midnight, December 1, hop over to writes4food.com, comment on one of the Christmas Cookie Palooza recipes, and you’ll be entered into a drawing to win a copy of The Findlay Market Cookbook. Cheers! Bryn

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