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Chocolate Walnut Quinoa Cookies (Gluten-Free)

April 23, 2014 by Erica

Chocolate Walnut Quinoa Cookies
Yesterday I thought I was playing a sneaky trick when I asked on Facebook whether you wanted a quinoa recipe today or a cookie recipe. Usually when I do that, I’m shocked how many people choose the healthy option! But this time, a reader named Sarah saw right through me and said she wanted both. Well, in fact, that’s exactly what I was going to do either way.

Because I made quinoa cookies!

Chocolate Walnut Quinoa Cookies
Quinoa cookies?!?!

Quinoa cookies. Don’t be scared. Unless you’re scared that your inner cookie monster will come out and eat half a batch of cookie dough. In that case, you should probably run for the hills.

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Three-Ingredient SunButter Cookies

January 20, 2014 by Erica

You may recall from my recipe fails post the sunflower seed butter cookies I tried to make last year. The ones that turned green.

Accidental green cookies, no matter how delicious they taste, are a fail. (And those ones didn’t taste that delicious, either.) But I still wanted to make SunButter cookies. Maybe I don’t learn from my mistakes? But maybe I do, because in this case I learned that baking soda was the culprit – it reacts with the chlorophyll in the sunflower seeds to cause that, um, interesting green color.

The solution was obviously to just leave out the baking soda. Enter three-ingredient SunButter cookies!

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Three-Ingredient Mint Meringues (Gluten-Free)

December 16, 2013 by Erica

Well, I think I included my elevator pitch for these cookies nicely in the title of this post: Three ingredients. Mint meringues. Gluten-free. Oh, but did I mention they’re made with not just any mints but Andes mints?!

It doesn’t get much better.

These are a Christmas classic from the archives of Mom, and they are my all-time favorite.

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Chunky Lola Cookie Dough Ice Cream

June 28, 2013 by Erica

If you give a mouse a cookie, he’s going to ask for a glass of milk.

And if you give a mouse Chunky Lola cookie dough, he just might ask for vanilla bean ice cream.

Or something like that.

If you’ve spent any time with me (in real life), I’ve probably fed you some cookies called Chunky Lolas. And now, even if you and I have never had the chance to hang out outside of blog-land, I’d like to do the same to you.

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Nutella Pizzelle Ice Cream Sandwiches

April 22, 2013 by Erica

Do you know what pizzelle are?

Even harder question: Do you know how to pronounce “pizzelle”?

I thought I did… until the woman at the bakery where I bought these made it rhyme with “gazelle.” Pazelle. Huh. Or maybe she was rhyming it with “Gisele”? I’m not sure, but it really threw me for a loop. In my puzzling over the pronunciation, I hadn’t even considered that option. Some googling put me back on track, though, and I think I can now confidently say that an acceptable Americanized pronunciation is “Pete’s ellie.” And yes, all we’re going for is an acceptable Americanized pronunciation, so that you don’t stumble over the word, but can also use it in a sentence without pretentiously faking an Italian accent.

Anyway, let’s get back to the first question. What are the darn things? Well, they’re Italian cookies that look like thin waffles. They’re sweet, usually crunchy, and sometimes dusted with powdered sugar. The ones I bought were almond-flavored, but they are also commonly flavored with anise or citrus.

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