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Ice Cream Cookie Bowls

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frozen yogurt and raspberries in a cookie bowl

Here’s a pretty clever idea that Sarah happened to spot on Pinterest. Not only do you get to make edible bowls, but you get to put ice cream in your edible bowls! You really can’t lose.

ice cream cookie bowl with raspberries

We decided to take a bit of shortcut on this recipe and just use some store bought chocolate chip cookie dough. Now the original recipe may work better, but we had some difficulty getting our cooked cookies off our muffin tin. I think this was partially due to over cooking them just a bit. Luckily we were able to salvage a few bowls (along with lots of cookie crumbs from broken bowls) and enjoyed them filled with frozen yogurt and raspberries. A lovely treat indeed.

frozen yogurt blend in a cookie bowl with fresh fruit

via: wilton.com

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Fine Fixin’s: Alfajores

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Well, it’s cookie time. The best time of the year. We tried out this Argentinian cookie recipe from Saveur the other day and were very impressed with the results. These things are addictive sugar cookie sandwiches with dulce de leche!

Alfajores

  • 1 2/3 cups cornstarch
  • 1 1/4 cups flour
  • 1 tsp. baking powder
  • 2/3 cup sugar
  • 10 tbsp. unsalted butter,
  •    softened
  • 1 tbsp. cognac or brandy
  • 1/2 tsp. lemon zest
  • 4 egg yolks
  • Canned dulce de leche, for filling
  •    cookies

Heat oven to 350°. In a bowl, sift together cornstarch, flour, and baking powder; set aside. In a mixer fitted with a paddle, beat together sugar and butter until fluffy. Add cognac and zest; beat. Add yolks one at a time; beat. Add dry ingredients; mix. Transfer dough to a floured surface, knead briefly; divide into 3 pieces. Working with 1 dough piece at a time, roll dough to 1/4″ thickness. Using a 2 1/2″ round cookie cutter, cut out cookies; transfer to parchment paper—lined baking sheets, spaced 1″ apart. Reroll scraps and repeat. Bake until golden, 12–15 minutes. Let cool. Flip half the cookies over; top each with 1 heaping tsp. dulce de leche. Top with remaining cookies.

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Today I Love: Cookies & Sunshine

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mexican pastries, cactus and aloe vera

Oh hello there little Mexican bakery near our new apartment.  How sweet of you {pun intended} to offer us some delicious pastries on our way home from work.  Have you met two of our new houseplants, Cecil {after the great American filmmaker} and Zanzibar Jr. {he’s a Zanzibar Aloe}?  You’re all making our lives so much more enjoyable.

Yayza!

Yayza! ▲nni.

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Things are just swinging along today!  Lots of happy happenings.  I keep offering cookies to all the kind people who are tweeting and posting about our current giveaway.  I better stop before I find myself in an overwhelming sea of cookie dough.  Although, that could be kinda fun… Like that scene in Patch Adams where the old lady swims in a pool of cooked noodles.  Only, instead of swimming, it would be more like laying on top of the gooey mess and slowly eating my way to the bottom.  Oh, you don’t think I could eat an entire kiddie pool of cookie dough?  Think again.

photography by Anni Abeja Indie

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