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Potato Chip Oven Brittle

December 23, 2013 By Laura 5 Comments

Oven Brittle Topped with potato Chips and Rice Krispies

Potato Chip Oven Brittle are an easy, fun and unusual twist on brittle, and highly addictive to boot. Affiliate links were used in this post, but only to link to items I would be discussing and linking to within the context of this post anyway. I swear I meant to have a savory dish for… 

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Filed Under: bar cookies, brittle, candy Tagged With: brittle, candy, cereal, chips, Holidays, oven brittle, potato chips, puffed rice cereal, rice krispies

Rosemary Citrus Biscotti & Cashew Chipotle Beer Brittle: Review of The Daily Cookie

December 10, 2012 By Laura 6 Comments

Chipotle Cashew Beer Brittle

Was holiday cookie baking and candy making a tradition in your childhood? It was in mine. My grandma would come to visit and she and my mom would churn out gazillions of Date Nut Pinwheels and some other dried fruit/nut cookie that I don’t remember the name of (I confess I never ate either as… 

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Filed Under: biscotti, Boozy Desserts, brittle, candy, cookbooks, cookies, Holiday and Christmas Cookies, lemon baked goods, Pistachios, reviews, sweet confections Tagged With: beer, biscotti, brittle, candy, cashews, citrus, cookbook review, cookies, lemon, orange, pistachios, rosemary, white chocolate

Caramelized Peanut Shortbread Bars: A Review of A Baker’s Field Guide to Chocolate Chip Cookies

May 24, 2011 By Laura 14 Comments

Caramelized Peanut Shortbread Bars: Snickers plus Twix plus homemade!

I’m headed to I just got back from Eat Write Retreat this past weekend, and I meant to get this posted before I left.  Life happened.  For those who don’t know, it is kind of a networking workshop–I describe it this way, rather than a conference (despite having never been to one of any kind… 

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Filed Under: bar cookies, brittle, candy, caramel, chocolate, chocolate chip cookies, cookies, Holiday and Christmas Cookies, peanuts

Chipotle Maple Peanut Brittle

May 6, 2009 By Laura 11 Comments

All of a sudden this stuff is everywhere. Just call me a sheep, but I decided to try it since I thought John would really like it. Truthfully I had no expectations of liking it myself–I have never been a big brittle fan. Well call me misguided and crazy because this stuff is AWESOME. I… 

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Filed Under: brittle, candy, maple, peanuts

Hi! I’m Laura and I am a recovering history major who has re-channeled all of my passion for learning about the history of different countries to learning about their food culture. That doesn’t mean every dish on here is strictly authentic, but it does mean that even my adaptations are not undertaken lightly. My goal is to show you–by doing–that these dishes are possible in your kitchen. Including desserts because I have quite the sweet tooth! Read More…

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