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Double Chocolate Espresso Cookies ✅
Pan-Banging Peanut Butter Cookies (with the option chocolate bits added ofc) ✅

I am 2 cookies behind pace to hit all 100 in a year. Will I pick up the pace or flounder ???

I’m sad to announce my first flop from this book: Olive Oil Sugar Cookies with Blood Orange Glaze. They sound interesting, but the dough came together very crumbly and the taste was odd and the icing was pretty but didn’t redeem the cookie. Luckily nobody’s favorite cookie is an olive oil sugar cookie, so I will survive without this recipe. On to the next!

Easter Weekend was the perfect opportunity to make Turtle Brownies and Peanut Butter Crunch Brownies. P declared that the Peanut Butter Crunch brownies were “his favorite brownies” just by looking at the picture. Same.

The recipe requires making chocolate ganache, which I learned sounds fussy and fancy but was actually spectacularly simple to make.

Learning lots!

#54: Lavender Cookies with White Chocolate Creme Fraiche, because Super Bowl 54 was when Mahomes won his first Super Bowl against my 49ers. Thanks to my friend Madelyn (a noted Chiefs fan).

Anyways, what better cookie for an Easter potluck than something Lavender! These turned out great and were a hit (especially among sugar cookie lovers).

White Chocolate Brownies with Raspberry Swirl ✅
Cinnamon Roll Brownies ✅
Thumbprint Cookies ✅
Lemon Oat Bars ✅

Just the names of the recipes for my mouth watering and I can confirm that they each taste as good as they sound 🤤

Still no misses. Raspberry ripple ice cream sandwiches on sugar cookies? Delightful. Cakey brownies? Somehow, amazing. Lemon sugar cookies?? A dream.

Also, my oven is broken. I baked cookies 4 at a time in my little air fryer / toaster oven. That is my level of commitment to this book, please applaud my dedication, thank you.

These sugar cookies 🤤🤤🤤

P helped me make Chocolate Sugar Cookies for Aunt KK’s wedding shower tomorrow 😋😋😋 He got to save a few for himself and rolled them in sprinkles. Sometimes I’m a cool mom !

Gotta say, My Favorite Brownies are now MY favorite brownies. 10/10 no notes

#5: Peanut Butter Cookies

Because I'm a man of The People! (Luke is The People.) I was overall happy with how these turned out, but I do think the texture left a little bit to be desired. What matters most is what Luke thinks tomorrow, though!

In case anyone was worried, I have in fact created a spreadsheet to track my progress, including notes for improvement.

Snickerdoodles ✅
White Chocolate pistachio bark ✅
Chocolate crinkle cookies (which I totally wanted to save for Christmas but my toddler had other plans) ✅

P and I made the pan-banging Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe today and they are MASSIVE. Very delicious and a fun new technique!

#47: Danish Pear-Apple Bars

Making good on a promise! These were great—not at all too sweet, and not nearly as difficult as I expected. I'm already excited to make them again sometime; hopefully bartlett pears won't be in such high demand when the time comes.

French Sablés ✅
This is kind of a boring cookie but I also ate uhhhh more than 2 before they were completely cooled 🫣 so delicious - they made a great housewarming present for some friends!

Might be ambitious but my goal is to knock out 3 (maybe 4 👀) recipes this week, for various events. Will report back, obviously 🫡

I made the switch to percentage instead of page number to reflect how many of the 100 recipes we’ve made. This week, P and I tackled Cream Cheese Brownies 🤤🤤🤤 and Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies. I can’t tell you how impressed I am that not one of these recipes has missed. Amazing. This was a great idea.

Another recipe down! Thin and Crispy Double Chocolate Cookies. Delicious as expected, but not as good as the regular Thin and Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies, white remind me so much of Tate’s 😋

We have baked 4 recipes total:
- Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Thin and Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Peanut Butter Cookies
- Brownie Cookies (x2)

So far, everything has been DELICIOUS! I’m loving this 🤤

Sooo many recipes I want to try!!! Love the design too