Snow-Covered No-Bake Peanut Butter M&M Balls
Ah, Christmas: a time for sparkling green trees, platefuls of food, joyous carols, and snow-covered…peanut butter balls? Yes, my friends, these no-bake treats are as festive as festive gets during the...
View ArticleNutter Butter Penguins + How-to Video
In a world riddled with horrible, repulsive creatures and unthinkable atrocities, there stands one single symbol of all things cuddly and good: penguins. There is no living thing more universally...
View ArticleWhite Chocolate-Maple Almond Butter
Some people dream of accomplishing grand feats like curing malignant diseases or becoming president. Me? I dreamed of making homemade nut butter. Perhaps my dream seems petty to you, but there was a...
View ArticlePeanut Butter Cocoa Puff Treat Cake
I’ve found one thing to be very true for a large portion of Americans. It doesn’t apply to everyone, but it does hold true for the vast majority. As we get older, we’ll always have a special love for...
View ArticleChocolate Oatmeal Krispie Bites (No-Bake!)
Valentine’s Day is coming up. You really want to do something special to show your sweetie you care. You decide there’s nothing more romantic than cooking for them. Except you can’t cook. No need to...
View ArticleConfetti Corn Pop Treats
Why are cereal treats one of the best sweet snacks ever? Because they’re basically the easiest thing to make and you typically only need three ingredients. I mean, if Kim Kardashian can make Rice...
View ArticleTriple Peanut Butter Crunch Clusters
My best ideas wallop me in the head like a fastball. I was just looking in my pantry for a snack, gazing at box of Peanut Butter Cheerios, when suddenly my eyes fell to the bag of peanut butter...
View ArticleFrosted Circus Animal Cookie Butter
You might call me a food snob in that I very seldom settle for store-bought baked goods. I’ve gotten so accustomed to good-quality homemade treats that pre-packaged stuff from the store pales in...
View ArticleChocolate Coconut Cashew Butter
Nuts are kind of like crack to me. Everyone has their vices; for many it’s potato chips or cookies. In my case, if you give me a container of roasted mixed nuts, I’ll munch and crunch until it’s...
View ArticleBunny Butt Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites
Get ready to shake your cotton tail! No, you’re not looking at the wrong side of these treats. These are Bunny Butt Pretzel Bites, not Bunny Face Pretzel Bites. If you ask me, their little fluffy...
View ArticleFluffernutter Oatmeal Balls
I took the fluffernutter sandwich for granted as a kid. It seemed so ho-hum back then, just another sandwich for another lunch. Nowadays though, a fluffernutter would be such a treat; I never eat...
View ArticleSamoa Cookie Butter
When I was a kid and Girl Scout cookie season came along, I anticipated the arrival just as anxiously as I would Santa Claus (you could say I’ve always been overly infatuated with food). GS cookie...
View ArticleNutter Butter Truffle Eggs
Every Easter, Reese’s rolls out its Peanut Butter Eggs, and in my head, I envision a chubby chocolate bunny bouncing from store to store across the country and dropping off the eggs for selling....
View ArticleWhite Chocolate Tiramisu (Easy & No-Bake)
Every so often, there comes a recipe so wonderful, so divine that you cannot keep your fat head out of the fridge and away from it. You can fight, you can give yourself pep talks and words of...
View ArticleE.L. Fudge Cookie Ice Box Cake
When I was a kid, E.L. Fudge Cookies were my favorite treat ever. With a rather unrefined childhood taste, I knew little of homemade cookies, and could only base my cookie judgments on store-bought....
View ArticleAnimal Cookie & White Chocolate Rice Krispie Treats + How To Video
Lately, I’ve had this obsession with kids’ snacks like Teddy Grahams and Goldfish. What’s odd is that these aren’t foods I ate all that much as a kid. If that were the case, my cravings would actually...
View ArticleTurkey-Approved Week, Day 2: Apple Cider Tiramisu
Welcome to Turkey-Approved Week on The Smart Cookie Cook, seven straight days of mouth-watering Thanksgiving recipes that no turkeys were harmed in the making of. With my creative Smart Cookie twist on...
View ArticleMini Coconut Cream Ice Box Cakes
When I asked Mother Cookie what kind of dessert she was craving for Christmas, I wasn’t expecting her answer to be coconut cream pie. Don’t get me wrong, I love me some coconut cream anything, but it...
View ArticleSurprise Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Truffles
How many of us actually bake cookies for the sake of having baked cookies, and how many of us do it for the sake of enjoying gobs of cookie dough? I suppose I do it for both, but a lot of the time,...
View ArticleKey Lime Pie Dip
We’re on a roll with the springtime dips this week, aren’t we? Yesterday, we tackled a savory Lemon-Basil & Artichoke Bean Dip, but today, we’re making things sweet. Did you know you can take a...
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