Coming this Christmas...

Back to school! My Art of Cookies class started off simple last night with a classic shortbread recipe. This is a less buttery version of typical shortbread: butter, icing sugar, bread flour and rice flour are combined and rolled out and baked for approximately 20 minutes. Very light and flaky. I can't wait to make these again during the holidays.

Messy but good

I finally tried a recipe from this book I bought a while ago {Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey}, the delay being that the recipes are INSANE: we're talking chocolate, caramel, butter, etc, etc...seriously sweet stuff.

So these "Heart of Darkness Brownies" not only contain butter, semi-sweet and unsweetened chocolate, pecans, but chopped up Snickers bars too. Wow. PLUS, they are topped with marshmallows and drizzled with a caramel sauce made of those little Kraft caramels, heavy cream and vanilla. I'm going to test them out on my family tomorrow but I'm sure that these will be a hit.