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Eggnog Iced Oatmeal Cookies

Set aside the boxed oatmeal cookie. These iced oatmeal cookies are the best copycat Mother’s Cookies made with a cheeky holiday twist. If you’re making your holiday cookie bake list, here all sorts of inspiration: My 12 Best Christmas Cookie Recipes!

Some cookies make me feel 3 feet tall – probably because that’s how old I was when I’d stand on my tippy toes to reach for them on the high shelf of the kitchen cupboard where my parents would tuck away special treats. 

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Guest: Julia Turshen’s Chicken Francese

Welcome our first December guest – Julia Turshen!

Julia Turshen is a best selling cookbook author, food writer, chef, and food equity advocate. She lectures on food and home cooking and has published four solo books on the subject and has contributed to many others in collaboration or as a writer. She hosts the podcast Keep Calm and Cook On and writes a monthly column in Food & Wine called The Interview.

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Let It Be Sunday, 397!

My love language is giving recommendations, which is probably why Joy asked me to start writing these Sunday posts back in the summer of 2021. When she told me that this month I would be giving a top ten list of recommendations, a thrill surged through my COVID-riddled body. Oh yeah, I just got over my first case of COVID. The good news is, I’m better. The bad news is, I haven’t spoken to anyone in almost 2 weeks and I have a lot to say.

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An Update from Joy

Hi friends! Thanks for letting me pop into your Saturday. What are you up to this weekend? If I were to guess the goodness of your life, I’d say you’re putting an elf on a shelf, drying oranges slices into ornaments, and going for an epic no-budget Trader Joe’s run.

Since I have a habit of sharing my life in addition to recipes for nearly 15 years running, and since life is undeniably Everything All At Once™,  I thought you could accept a bit of personal news into your heart.

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Mini Burnt Chocolate Basque Cheesecake

This refined recipe for chocolate Basque cheesecake is SO SIMPLE with the most impressive results.  Find a detailed step-by-step with tips and tricks below or skip right to the recipe and get baking! This cheesecake does not miss.

I’ve always felt like making a cheesecake, at home, from scratch was rather unreasonable.  You mean to tell me I’m supposed to break the bank on dairy products and eggs, pour them all into a leaky bottom pan, cover than pan in foil that rips if a sharp word is spoken, AND THEN place that whole precarious operation in WATER and somehow get that into A HOT OVEN? 

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My 12 Best Christmas Cookie Recipes

We want to make sure your holiday cookie tin is the best because you are the best. This is not a competition, but obviously, if we were to momentarily think of this as a competition –  you have to win. We’re giving you only the best 12 holiday cookie recipes ensuring instant victory at any holiday party. Share these Christmas cookie recipes with people you love the most, and make extra for yourself because we’re out here loving ourselves with mid-afternoon and midnight snacks, too.

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My 12 Best Chrismas Cookie Recipes

We want to make sure your holiday cookie tin is the best because you are the best. This is not a competition, but obviously, if we were to momentarily think of this as a competition –  you have to win. We’re giving you only the best 12 holiday cookie recipes ensuring instant victory at any holiday party. Share these Christmas cookie recipes with people you love the most, and make extra for yourself because we’re out here loving ourselves with mid-afternoon and midnight snacks, too.

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Let It Be Sunday, 396!

Hello friends! I am a person who enjoys pointing out that it’s raining when it’s raining. (Is that a midwestern thing? I do it all the time.) It’s the same for the months of the year, so please don’t be mad at me for exclaiming, can you believe it’s December?! As the days get shorter and cooler I find myself nesting and reflecting on my year, implementing the Danish concept of “hygge” (pronounced hyoo-guh) – the softest blankets, the nicest smelling candles, and lamps of every kind.

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Holiday Gift Guide 2022 from Team Joy the Baker

It’s that time of year, when the world falls in love! Every song you hear, seems to say, “Get me gift cards.”  But, while we may be last minute wrapper paper purchasers, we are not gift card givers.  At least… not yet.  We still have a few weeks to be our most thoughtful selves and not pay for expedited shipping.

Team JtB compiled a hefty list of our favorite gifts to give this year. 

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Let It Be Sunday, 395!

Welcome to another sweet Sunday, friends. We have a different offering this Sunday: a few breezy links and my best recipe for sweet potato pancakes.

I’m writing this on Wednesday night before Thanksgiving, sitting next to my spiral notebook with all of my Thanksgiving prep notes.  Currently scheming how much gravy is too much gravy. Is there such a thing?

I have soup dumplings in the microwave at Abby’s suggestion and did you know that you can lightly traumatize yourself with time by watching the early 2000s re-unfold right before your eyes in MTV’s True Life on Hulu.

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