40 Ingredients Forever

40 Ingredients Forever

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40 Ingredients Forever
40 Ingredients Forever
These cookies replace flour with...

These cookies replace flour with...

🥨PRETZELS🥨

Ali Slagle
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Yossy Arefi
Dec 09, 2024
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This week we’re having cookies for dinner. (Though I did make a pot of kimchi-lentil stew for the week, too.)

Yossy helped me transform her Magical Peanut Butter Cookies from Snacking Bakes into a peanut butter pretzel cookie. They are positively loaded with stuff: Pretzels are whacked into a salty, toasty “flour,” with some bigger bits that add crunch. There’s salted peanuts (more salt, more crunch) and bitter puddles of chocolate, all bound together in a tender, peanut buttery dough.

More cookie news: Yossy recently posted an ebook of cookies at her new newsletter:

Have a Little Something
Cookies, Cookies, Cookies!
The time has come for me to share one of my very favorite December traditions with all of you: Cookies…
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7 months ago · 28 likes · 11 comments · Yossy Arefi

For my (first, perhaps annual) cookie tin, I’m making the jam wedges from the ebook with either guava paste or cranberry sauce, along with:

  • Buckwheat chocolate chip cookies from

    David Lebovitz

  • My holiday magic bars

  • A lemon cookie. A crinkle? Shortbread? If you have any recommendations, would love to hear them.

  • What is your favorite ginger-molasses cookie recipe? Looking for one that’s chewy and nose-tinglingly gingery.

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Did you know I wrote a cookbook a few years ago? It’s called I Dream of Dinner (so You Don’t Have To) and has 150 dinners that all take fewer than 10 ingredients and 45 minutes.

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