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Almond, Pistachio, and Sour Cherry Wafers

almond, pistachio, and sour cherry wafers
almond, pistachio, and sour cherry wafers
Very nutty!

Updated on 25 June 2018. Make sure to read the last paragraph before making these.

Sorry, but you won’t see the last few photos of these cookies. At least not yet.  Probably sometime next week, though. The reason is that these are slice and bake cookies, and we prepared the dough with the idea of baking them on Monday.  Yep, for our fellow volunteers at the weekly walk/run we go to on Mondays. But, we will say that the picture in the cookbook was enough to have us try them out. That, plus we had everything we needed in house except the pistachios.

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Minty Chocolate Wafers

minty Chocolate wafers
minty Chocolate wafers
Cool mint and crispy chocolate!

Another simple post, since we were gone for part of last week. But, just because the post is simple, it doesn’t mean that the recipe isn’t delicious. After all, these Minty Chocolate Wafers are thin and crispy, like the national brand of chocolate wafers that are oh, so expensive, but with an added blast of mint flavor. And, to top it off, these are super simple to make. What could be better?

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Cranberry and Walnut Biscotti

biscotti in a tin
biscotti in a tin
Pack in an airtight container to keep the biscotti fresh.

Since we were away last week, you get a shorter-than- usual post, one very similar to last Monday’s post, when we made the Parmesan, Almond, and Rosemary Biscotti. We’ll try to do better in the future.

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Pistachio Ameretti

pistachio ameretti
pistachio ameretti
Sorry we didn’t get a final photo; we had to run.

As regular readers know, we make small treats to bring down to our Monday evening walk on the nights we volunteer. It gives us the chance to try new recipes and see how the other volunteers like them. But, we often feel badly because there are a few people who don’t eat anything with gluten, and almost everything we make involves flour. Now, we could get gluten-free all-purpose flour, but we prefer finding recipes that are naturally gluten-free, at least when we can. So, when we saw this recipe in Ciao Biscotti, by Domenica Marchetti, we figured we’d give it a whirl.

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Cherry-Almond Biscotti

cherry almond biscotti
cherry almond biscotti
Cherries and almonds are a perfect match.

Our Cocoa Nib Biscotti are so tasty that we were nearly afraid to change the recipe to make a new variety. As you can see, we got over our fears and decided on biscotti that combine cherries and almonds, which seems like a perfect pairing. How does that sound to you, fellow scratcher? Good? Good. Let’s get into the Scratchin’ It Test Kitchen and whip some up.

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Salty Black-and-White Sesame Cocktail Cookies

sesame seed cookies
sesame seed cookies
Salty! Savory! Sweet! All in one cookie!

Like the Gozinaki we made just the other day, this recipe comes from Dorie’s Cookies, by none other than Dorie Greenspan. In the beginning of the book, she covers fairly standard cookies, chocolate chip and similar ilk, but, later in the book, she has a number of different-sounding cookies, such as Gozinaki, and this one for a partly salty, partly savory, and partly sweet cookie. We were intrigued. So, we made up a batch.

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Caraway Seed Cookies

cooling cookies
caraway seed cookies
The round cookies are made with caraway seeds.

We mentioned yesterday that we generally don’t make cookies as treats for other people, unless they’re special and unusual in some way (the cookies, not the people). As with today’s cookie post. Have you ever heard of cookies with caraway seeds? Well, you might have, but they’re news to us. Naturally, with the desire to make treats for our fellow volunteers this past Monday, they were immediately on the short list.

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