White Chocolate Peppermint Fudge – homemade white chocolate fudge with crushed peppermints! Easy, delicious, and perfect for Christmas!
Happy Monday!
How is your holiday prep going?
We finally got our tree this weekend. I think I had mine up weeks before Thanksgiving last year but we’ve just been so busy/we kept waiting for a tree lot to pop up around us and nothing ever did.
My closet has filled with Target boxes and I’ve watched The Holiday Calendar 17 times.
It doesn’t really feel like Christmas though. You know? It’s not super cold, I haven’t taken the dogs to see Santa, we haven’t even made gingerbread houses yet.
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.
Boozy Cinnamon White Hot Chocolate – the perfect way to warm up on chilly days! Easy homemade white hot chocolate with Fireball Whiskey and marshmallows on top!
Heeeey guys, one last post before Christmas!
I couldn’t leave you without something delicious and boozy.
Because, as I tell you every year, I’m not doing my Christmas Eve all night wrapping session without Elf on in the background and some kind of delicious beverage next to me.
Before we get to that though, I wanna say thank you for coming back, for all the emails, for checking on me if I don’t post for a few days, for stopping me in Target and saying hi, for everything this blog has given me. These last couple years have been a real rollercoaster for me and having this little space on the internet full of people who share the same interest as me has been one of the only constants in my life. I appreciate it all more than I can express.
This may be my last post of the year (other than my yearly favorite recipes – that’s still happening) so I hope you have a fabulous Christmas and a safe and happy New Year!
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.
Today I’ve got these yummy Pumpkin White Chocolate Cookies! Pumpkin and white chocolate is one of my favorite combos in the fall. Something about the earthy pumpkin with the super sweet white chocolate just makes my mouth happy.
For the cookies, I tried out the Monk Fruit In The Raw® for the first time. You guys know I love the In The Raw® family of sweeteners for my coffee every morning and I’ve really enjoyed trying all of them in baked goods this year.
Monk Fruit In The Raw® is made from delicious vine-ripened monk fruit. It has 0 calories and it’s perfect for coffee or tea. And since it measures cup for cup like sugar, it’s perfect for baking!
The cookies are fabulous. I made them on a Saturday and my kids immediately started claiming them for their school lunches. As if they were going to last that long!
It’s a really simple recipe and thanks to the Monk Fruit In The Raw®, the sugar content is really low compared to other cookies. I did use 1/2 cup brown sugar but only because it makes the cookies a bit chewier than they would have otherwise been.
Seriously, you have to make these before fall ends!
To find a store that sells Monk Fruit In The Raw®, use the store locator. There are also coupons available!
1 cup Monk Fruit In The Raw® Bakers Bag of 24 Packets of Monk Fruit In The Raw®
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup pumpkin puree
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups white chocolate chips
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat butter and sugars together until light and fluffy. Beat in pumpkin puree. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Beat in vanilla.
In a separate mixing bowl, sift together flour, pumpkin pie spice, and baking soda. Slowly add this mixture to the butter mixture and beat until just combined. Fold in white chocolate chips.
Drop the dough by heaping tablespoonfuls onto the prepared baking sheets, leaving about 2 inches between.
Bake for 15 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through.
Transfer to a wire rack to cool. Repeat with remaining dough.
