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Spoon breaking through the chocolate shell into peanut butter dip
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Old-Fashioned Buckeye Dip

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Old-Fashioned Buckeye Dip A dense peanut-butter and cream-cheese dip with mini chocolate chips and a firm chocolate shell. Chill until set, then break the topping with a spoon and serve with sturdy dippers. This dip borrows the peanut-butter and chocolate […]

Pumpkin Spice Crumb Cake
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Pumpkin Spice Crumb Cake

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Pumpkin Spice Crumb Cake Pumpkin cake with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves, topped with buttery crumbs and a milk glaze. Let the cake cool before drizzling so the glaze stays on top. The cake, crumbs and glaze are mixed separately, […]

Copycat DoubleTree Cookies
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Copycat DoubleTree Cookies

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Copycat DoubleTree Cookies Chewy chocolate-chip cookies with optional walnuts and lightly crisp edges. This hotel-inspired adaptation is not Hilton’s official recipe; allow 30 minutes to chill the dough. These cookies use a butter-and-brown-sugar dough with plenty of chocolate chips. Walnuts […]

Golden shortbread crumble bars with an apricot jam layer
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Easy Apricot Shortbread

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Easy Apricot Shortbread Buttery shortbread bars with a thick apricot filling and a crumbled dough topping. Let the tray cool completely before lifting it out and cutting into squares. One dough makes both the base and the topping. Press half […]

Classic Buttermilk Scones
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Classic Buttermilk Scones

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Classic Buttermilk Scones Small, lightly sweet buttermilk scones made with cold butter and self-raising flour. Handle the dough gently and serve warm with butter, jam or cream. Cold butter and a light touch matter more here than a mixer. Rub […]

Three plain golden syrup gingerbread squares showing their soft crumb
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Golden Syrup Gingerbread

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Golden Syrup Gingerbread Golden syrup and brown sugar sweeten this soft ginger-and-cinnamon cake. Warm the syrup mixture gently, let it cool to lukewarm, then mix and bake in an 8-inch square tin. Golden syrup gives this gingerbread its caramel sweetness, […]

Mini Chocolate Cheesecakes
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Mini Chocolate Cheesecakes

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Mini Chocolate Cheesecakes These small baked cheesecakes have a digestive biscuit base and a smooth milk chocolate filling. Make them ahead so they have time to chill before serving. A standard muffin tin makes ten individual cheesecakes, with no slicing […]

Double Ginger Cookies
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Double Ginger Cookies

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Double Ginger Cookies Ground ginger and chopped crystallized ginger give these cookies their spice and chewy pieces. Dip the cooled cookies halfway into dark chocolate, then let the coating set before stacking. Chop the crystallized ginger fairly small so each […]

Yummy Golden Syrup Flapjacks
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Yummy Golden Syrup Flapjacks

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Yummy Golden Syrup Flapjacks Four-ingredient British oat bars made with butter, brown sugar and golden syrup. Bake in a 20cm square tin and let them cool before cutting into twelve pieces. These are British flapjacks: baked oat bars rather than […]

Peanut Butter Cookies
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Peanut Butter Cookies

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Peanut Butter Cookies Peanut butter cookies with fork-pressed tops and lightly golden edges. This batch makes eighteen; use standard no-stir peanut butter and let the cookies firm up on the tray before moving them. No butter needs creaming for this […]