TWD: Peanut Butter Crisscrosses

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After all the cakes in the past week, this weeks Tuesdays with Dorie choice, which was made by Jasmine of Jasmine Cuisine, was a welcome change around these parts.

No cake, no buckle, no upside down fruit tart.  Just a simple, straight forward cookie recipe.

Cookies!

My cookie jar has been empty for a while now.  So when I started to make these Tom and the little man were ecstatic to say the least.  Asking if they were ready about a trillion times during the 20 minutes it took me to put them together.

And in times like this you realized that you really never fully know your other half.  Because after two years together, it was news to me that peanut butter cookies is Tom’s Holy Grail.  His words, not mine folks.  He has some serious Peanut Butter cookie love going there.

But, back to the cookies.  

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TWD: Dulce de Leche Duos

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This week Tuesdays with Dorie was chosen by Jodie of Beansy Loves Cake.  I’m not a huge cookie fan; if they are there I will eat one... But for the most part they are not my first choice sweet.

Unlike cake.  Yes, I’m a cake person.  There I said it, you know how to get me do anything now, show me cake and I’m done for.

But, I love dulce de leche.  I actually love sweetened condensed milk more. And I have to come clean and confess that I usually keep an open jar in the refrigerator and when I want a hit of something sweet, I take it out and eat a spoon of it and close my eyes and go far away in a… oh, wait were was I?  Oh, yeah cookies.

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