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Butterscotch Pudding Cookies

Butterscotch Pudding Cookies – delicious and soft butterscotch cookies with butterscotch chips. A quick and easy cookie recipe!

Butterscotch Pudding Cookies - delicious and soft butterscotch cookies with butterscotch chips. A quick and easy cookie recipe!

Pudding cookies will forever be my favorite kind of cookie. And if you love a soft cookie like I do, pudding cookies are going to be your favorite cookie, too. 

They’re made with instant pudding mix which is how they stay soft for several days after baking. Plus, you can use any flavor pudding mix to get whatever kind of cookie you want.

My favorites are my Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies, Pumpkin Pudding Snickerdoodles, and these Butterscotch Pudding Cookies!

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Italian Sugar Cookies

Italian Sugar Cookies – soft lemon sugar cookies with a lemony glaze and sprinkles on top! These are a Christmas favorite and are so cute in cookie tins.

Italian Sugar Cookies - soft lemon sugar cookies with a lemony glaze and sprinkles on top! These are a Christmas favorite and are so cute in cookie tins.

I am so excited to post some Christmas cookie recipes finally!

I make these every year because everyone loves them. They are just the quintessential Christmas cookie to me. All my cookie tins includes Italian Sugar Cookies. Santa gets Italian Sugar Cookies. They just look like Christmas to me!

They are pillowy soft lemon sugar cookies with a sweet glaze and topped with sprinkles! And they’re so easy and quick to whip up. You’re going to love them!

I have a list of 30+ Christmas Cookies if you are looking for more ideas. And you definitely need to make my most popular Christmas recipe, Crockpot Candy! 

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Chewy Monster Cookies

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Chewy Monster Cookies – soft and chewy peanut butter cookies filled with oats, chocolate chips, peanuts, raisins, and M&Ms!

Chewy Monster Cookies - soft and chewy peanut butter cookies filled with oats, chocolate chips, peanuts, raisins, and M&Ms!
Hi guys! I feel like October is the start of cookie season. Right?

We’re all thinking about the cookies we plan on making in the next few months. Scouring Pinterest at all hours of the night for the perfect recipes to include in our cookie tins. I hear some people are also organized enough to start freezing dough this time of year, but that is not me. I will be making all my holiday cookies days before the holiday. 

Anyway. I’m sharing my favorite Chewy Monster Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe today. They are extra chewy and filled with all sorts of delicious things. You’re going to love them!

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Sweet and Salty Pudding Cookies

Sweet and Salty Pudding Cookies – soft cookies filled with coconut, pretzels, and M&Ms! The pudding mix keeps them soft for days. 

Sweet and Salty Pudding Cookies - soft cookies filled with coconut, pretzels, and M&Ms! The pudding mix keeps them soft for days.

 

I am so, so, so ready for summer.

We’ve reached the point of the school year where we have standardized tests and giant projects due and award ceremonies every other day.

Which means summer is right around the corner.

We’re even pretty much done with soccer and the other parents are all, “You wanna get together and practice this summer?”

NOPE.

Anyway. I made cookies!

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Peanut Butter Krispie Cookies

Peanut Butter Krispie Cookies –  peanut butter cookied with chocolate chips and Rice Krispies! The Rice Krispies give the cookies a nice cruncy texture that everyone will love!

Peanut Butter Krispie Cookies - peanut butter cookied with chocolate chips and Rice Krispies! The Rice Krispies give the cookies a nice cruncy texture that everyone will love!

Hi guys!

I made cookies!

Because we are celebrating my kids going back to school after Spring Break!

We didn’t really do anything for Spring Break. It’s just been cold and blah and I haven’t wanted to go anywhere. We always go to the Waco Zoo on Spring Break, mostly because they have a Torchy’s up there and I like any excuse to get tacos. So we did that. And that’s it.

Zoo and tacos.

Wild Spring Break.

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Frosted Eggnog Cookies

 

Frosted Eggnog Cookies – soft eggnog cookies with eggnog frosting! Perfect for holiday cookie tins! 

Frosted Eggnog Cookies - soft eggnog cookies with eggnog frosting! A must make for the holidays!

Hi guys!

I hope you’re having a fantastic week! We really don’t have much going on this week which is nice after a months of soccer and football every night.

Oh! I did make my first holiday cookie tin of the year yesterday!

Christmas Cookie Tins

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Pistachio Thumbprint Cookies

Pistachio Thumbprint Cookies  – pistachio cookies with vanilla filling and a chocolate drizzle! The perfect Christmas cookie!

Pistachio Thumbprint Cookies - pistachio cookies with vanilla filling and a chocolate drizzle! The perfect Christmas cookie!

It’s Christmas cookie season!

How excited are you?!

And how was Thanksgiving?!

My kids were out of town and since I very rarely get a night without kids and I’m also always whining about the lack of poke in our tiny city, BF drove us 45 minutes Wednesday night so we could have a Thanksgiving sushi burrito and poke bowl. He had to work real Thanksgiving and I was happy not to cook a single thing this year.

And then I never left the house the rest of the weekend except to pick my kids up yesterday.

It was perfect.

Poke House, Round Rock TX- Hot Cheetos Sushi Burrito

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Kitchen Sink Oatmeal Cookies

Kitchen Sink Oatmeal Cookies – oatmeal cookies filled with everything but the kitchen sink! Chocolate chunks, white chocolate chips, cinnamon chips, walnuts, raisins, and coconut!

When we moved I realized I had a lot of mostly empty bags of chocolate chips.

A lot.

Same goes for pecans, shredded coconut, almond meal, bottles of vanilla, all the stuff I always think I’m out of when I’m out the store and apparently am never actually out of it.

Plus, 15 packages of almond bark even though I only use almond bark once a year for crockpot candy…? I don’t know, guys.

I guess everyone I know is getting crockpot candy for Christmas next year.

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M&Ms Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies

M&Ms Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies – soft and delicious cookies with chocolate chips and M&Ms! 

M&Ms Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies - soft and delicious cookies with chocolate chips and M&Ms! I make these over and over!

I’m just not a cookie person.

I would choose cake, a slice of pie, a handful of gummy bears, pretty much any other sweet over a cookie.

The exception to that rule is the one or 2 times a year when the only thing I can think about is grocery store bakery M&Ms cookies.

You know the ones, right?

They’re super soft and somehow every grocery store in the country makes them exactly the same way?

Yeah, those.

When I get a random craving for one of them, nothing fixes it but getting those cookies.

I can remember leaving my house in a snowstorm in Colorado because I needed these cookies to survive the day.

Fritos and grocery store bakery M&Ms cookies are the only things that I was ever willing to leave my house for during a snowstorm.

Y’all remember those days? When I was too scared to drive in the snow so we would walk to school every day? Granted, it was a short walk but still. I was terrified to drive in the snow for the first several years we were there.

Anyway.
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Gluten Free Iced Orange Cookies

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Gluten Free Iced Orange Cookies – the perfect gluten free holiday cookie recipe! Tender cookies with orange zest and topped with a delicious sweet orange glaze.

Gluten Free Iced Orange Cookies - the perfect gluten free holiday cookie recipe! Tender cookies with orange zest and topped with a delicious sweet orange glaze.

We had parent teacher conferences last month and during one of them my blog came up and we started talking about how I do a lot of paleo stuff and the teacher mentioned that she and her husband are gluten free so when her students bring in homemade treats for her, she typically has to pass them on to other teachers.

And I don’t know if I’ve told you guys but I love all my kids’ teachers this year. I love them.

So obviously gluten free treats needed to be made for her.

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Candied Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies

Candied Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies – the perfect sweet and salty cookie! Bacon is quickly candied in the oven and then added to the best chocolate chip cookies recipe!

Candied Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies - the perfect sweet and salty cookie! Bacon is quickly candied in the oven and then added to the best chocolate chip cookies recipe!

This post originally published on September 30, 2011 and was updated October 23, 2017. It’s one of my oldest and favorite recipes. 

The first time I ever made these Candied Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies – over 6 years ago – was the first time I realized what a food blogger weirdo I was.

Food bloggers love bacon.

Okay, yeah, everyone loves bacon but food bloggers love to put bacon in places where bacon usually doesn’t belong.

Cookies, ice cream, rice krispies treats, pretty much everything.

I mean, I have a bacon egg and cheese sandwich on a glazed doughnut pretty much every Saturday morning of my life.

And you can think that’s weird but I have made everyone in my life try them and no one’s complained yet.

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Paleo Chocolate Chip Coconut Cookies

 

Paleo Chocolate Chip Coconut Cookies will be your new favorites, for all time. Paleo or not, these babies are gorgeous!

Paleo Chocolate Chip Coconut Cookies - the BEST paleo cookies! Even the non-paleo people in your life will love these!

Meet my new favorite cookie.

I’m having this thing with coconut this summer. It started with this peanut coconut sauce that I was making daily and putting on everything and now I’ve moved onto cookies.

I mean, can you blame me? Coconut and chocolate is such a perfect combination.

Naturally, I’m obsessed with these Paleo Chocolate Chip Coconut Cookies.

I have been making a batch almost every week and then I’ll make some paleo ice cream and I’ll count down the minutes until the kids go to bed so I can sandwich the ice cream between these cookies and enjoy them in total silence.

That’s totally normal, right?

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S’mores Monster Cookies

S’mores Monster Cookies – addictive peanut butter cookies loaded with oats, Rice Krispies, pecans, milk chocolate, and marshmallows! 

Happy National S’mores Day!

How are you celebrating?! Can I suggest my favorite Raspberry White Chocolate S’mores?

When it comes to cookies, I either like a plain, boring shortbread or something loaded with everything you have in the kitchen. No in between with me.

So for these S’mores Monster Cookies, I started with a peanut butter base and then added oats, Rice Krispies, pecans, chopped Hershey’s bars, and tiny marshmallows.

They’re delicious and everything I want in a cookie.

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Mississippi Mud Cookies

Mississippi Mud Cookies – the perfect cookie for chocolate lovers! A chocolate cookie with pecans, chocolate chips, and marshmallows!

Hey guys, happy Friday! I made cookies!

I mentioned earlier that I was back in my s’mores obsession which means my kitchen is full of every size marshmallow, 15 different kinds of chocolate, etc, etc, etc.

So when I needed cookies at 2 am after a particularly rough day recently, I made these Mississippi Mud Cookies. Because chocolate and marshmallows. And also pecans.

Everything I love.

They’re also super easy and you should totally make them sometime this weekend.

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White Chocolate Orange Cookies

White Chocolate Orange Cookies – chewy white chocolate chip cookies with fresh orange zest mixed in! 

White Chocolate Orange Cookies - chewy white chocolate chip cookies with fresh orange zest mixed in!

Hey guys, happy almost Friday! Hooray for a short week, right?

The boys and I are headed to San Antonio this weekend and this is probably our last San Antonio trip before we move, so send me all the must eats! All I care about is the food.

I mean, obviously we’ll see The Alamo again and we have other plans but really, I’m just going for the food. I already have a list of, like, 15 places and I plan on teaching the boys the fine art of eating like a food blogger.

Not much else going on around here right now. I finally stopped breaking all my resolutions on the 11th so that’s been good.

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