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13 easy and delicious cookie and bar recipes, great for any occasion. Pack them up and share with family and friends!
Do you need a little sweet treat in your life? We've got 12 easy and most importantly delicious cookie recipes for you today. We're also including our favorite bars. They're perfect for any occasion!
Take them to picnics and potlucks or package them to give to friends. Most of these recipes have free printable labels that we are happy to send to you. Just leave a comment on each post you are interested in. Give them a try, and enjoy!
Brown Butter Vanilla Bean Rice Krispie Treats
Rice Krispie Treats sound like "little kid food", right? Wrong, if you're talking about these Brown Butter Vanilla Bean Rice Krispie Treats. Kids of all ages go crazy over them but be warned - they're addictively delicious!
Ridiculously Easy Strawberry Lemonade Meltaway Cookies
These fabulous Strawberry Lemonade Meltaway Cookies will literally melt in your mouth. The easy, strawberry icing (made with fresh strawberries) is the crowning glory!
Brown Butter Blueberry Blondies
The chewiest, butteriest dessert bars studded with bits of jammy blueberries, creamy white chips and crunchy toffee, these Brown Butter Blueberry Blondies are a delicious twist that will have sweet lovers smitten!
Better Than Grandma's Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
A delicious take on old-fashioned grandma cookies. Shh... with chewy, toffee-studded interiors, crisp, buttery edges, and lots of melty chocolate chips in each bite, these Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies might just be a bit better than Grandma's!
Peanut Butter and Jelly Blondies
These Peanut Butter and Jelly Blondies will be a hit with kids of all ages! And you can mix them up in less than 10 minutes, with just one bowl and no mixer!
Watermelon Shortbread Cookies (with a super easy decorating technique!)
These one-bowl, no-mixer Watermelon Shortbread Cookies are fun, whimsical, super DELICIOUS and have an amazingly easy decorating technique! The free printable labels for gifting are the icing on the cake cookie!
Almond Toffee White Chip Cookies
Crisp, chewy, sweet and salty, these one-bowl, no-mixer Almond Toffee White Chip Cookies are a cookie lover's dream come true!
Chocolate Chip Cherry Oatmeal Bars
A perfect sweet treat for any occasion. They come together quickly and always bring lots of "wow" reviews!
Key Lime Cooler Cookies
These Key Lime Cooler Cookies are crisp, buttery shortbreads, cloaked in a cool cloud of powdered sugar. There is an EXPLOSION of fabulous lime flavor as they melt in your mouth!
Honey Caramel Almond Shortbread Bars
With a buttery shortbread base and a chewy caramel topping loaded with crisp almonds, these Honey Caramel Almond Shortbread Bars are always a HUGE hit!
Ridiculously Easy French Almond Cookies (Gluten Free)
These one-bowl, no-mixer, gluten-free French Almond Cookies (aka Almond Cloud Cookies) are light as a feather, with a crisp meringue exterior and chewy, moist almond-y interior!
Almond Shortbread Thumbprints
With a crisp,melt-in-your-mouth shortbread base, a jeweled jam filling and a fabulous almond glaze, these Almond Shortbread Thumbprints always bring rave reviews!
Easy Blondie S'mores Bars
These delicious dessert bars are a delightful merging of two all-time favorite sweet treats; blondies and good old-fashioned s'mores!
Thought for the day:
"For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways My ways," declares the LORD.
"As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are My ways higher than your ways
and My thoughts than your thoughts".
Isaiah 55:9-9
What we're listening to for inspiration:
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