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Fact: Peanut butter and chocolate make one of the best combinations EVER. Can you imagine my excitement when I took these bad boys out of the oven?! Not only are they delicious, but they’re also healthier than your average cookies.. no butter, no granulated sugar, and no all-purpose flour! Recipe below:

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Super-Fine Almond Flour
• 1/3 cup Coconut Flour
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• 1/4 tsp Salt
• 3/4 cup Coconut Sugar
• 1/2 cup Crunchy Natural Peanut Butter (look for a jar with only peanuts on the ingredients list)
• 3/8 cup Coconut Oil (melted)
• 1 Egg, room temperature
• 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
• 1 1/4 cup Dark Chocolate, chopped (I like buying a bar of chocolate and chopping it myself)

Instructions:

• In a medium-sized bowl, gently mix together the almond flour, coconut flour, baking soda, and salt until just combined.
• In a separate large-sized bowl, use an electric mixer to mix the coconut sugar, peanut butter, coconut oil, and vanilla extract at medium speed until well combined (approx. 1 minute).
• Beat in the egg on low for about another minute until the egg is well combined throughout the mixture, then stir in the flour mixture until well incorporated (try not to over mix). Gently stir in about a cup of the chopped dark chocolate chunks until evenly dispersed. Place your dough in the fridge for about 20 to 30 minutes (this will make the dough easier to form into balls).

• While the dough is chilling, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Once the dough is firm, roll out about 12-14 balls, depending on how big you’d like your cookies to be. Once you place them on the baking sheet, press the remaining 1/4 cup of dark chocolate chunks onto the tops of the dough to get that ooey-gooey chocolate explosion on top.
• Cook in the oven for about 10-12 minutes, or until the cookie tops start to turn golden brown. Keep these in the refrigerator to store.
• ENJOY!

Taking my favorite cookies to the next level! Recipe below:

Ingredients:
-1 cup butter, slightly softened
-3/4 cup granulated white sugar
-1/2 cup light brown sugar
-1 egg + 1 egg yolk
-1 tbsp vanilla extract
-2 3/4 cup flour
-1 tsp baking soda
-1/2 tsp salt
-2 tsp lemon juice
-1/2 tsp cinnamon
-1/2 tsp nutmeg
Frosting:
-1 cup powdered sugar
-3 tbsp eggnog
-1 teaspoon vanilla extract
-1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
-1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

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To Make:
1. Preheat oven to 325 and have two baking sheets ready.
2. Using a stand mixer, beat the butter and sugars with a paddle attachment until light and fluffy.
3. Add in the vanilla extract, salt, egg + yolk, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and lemon juice, and mix until well combined.
4. Add in the flour and mix on low till combined.
5. Scoop the batter with an ice cream scooper and form into round balls, then roll the balls in the cinnamon sugar mixture. Place on the baking sheets.
6. Bake in oven for 11 minutes (EXACTLY! Tip from @cookiesandcups herself, and she was so right)
7. While the cookies are cooling, make the combine all the ingredients for the frosting and whisk together in a bowl. Once the cookies are cooled, spread evenly on each of the cookies for a yummy eggnog finish.

Do you like white chocolate? What about blondies? Maybe throw in some bourbon? A little pumpkin spice too? SAME. These blondies will give you all of that! Recipe below:

Ingredients:
1 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup light brown sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1/2 cup melted browned butter
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 egg + 1 yolk
3/4 cup white chocolate chips
3 tbsp bourbon

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To Make:
1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Whisk the browned butter, light brown sugar, vanilla, and bourbon until well combined. Add in the egg and yolk and whisk again.
3. Gently fold in the flour, baking powder, salt, and pumpkin pie spice until just combined, then add in the white chocolate chips and mix again.
4. Spread into a nonstick 8×8 baking dish and bake for 23-25 min until the edges start to brown and the top feels somewhat firm.
*topped with vanilla frosting mixed with a splash of bourbon and sprinkled with pumpkin pie spice!!