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Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl Cookies

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These Flourless Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl Cookies are soft, dense and easy to make with half the sugar and no flour!

The kids are headed back to school, the nights are cooling off, and it’s time to get back to baking! One of my favorite childhood memories was coming home from school to find freshly baked cookies waiting for us. So, I decided to make these flourless chocolate peanut butter swirl cookies that are the perfect thing for an after-school snack.

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Peanut Butter and Jelly Cinnamon Rolls

These Peanut Butter and Jelly Cinnamon Rolls are so easy to make with crescent roll dough. Have the classic lunch time favorite for breakfast or snack!

Nothing says back-to-school quite like a good old peanut butter and jelly sandwich! My family is BIG into the grape jelly but I grew up eating strawberry and raspberry jelly.

So we usually have a selection of jellies and jams in our fridge but to make these peanut butter and jelly cinnamon rolls I used strawberry jelly.

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Bloomin’ Cinnamon Rolls

These Bloomin’ Cinnamon Rolls are full of ooey, gooey caramel goodness. Make this blooming cinnamon roll monkey bread like recipe for breakfast or dessert.

Cinnamon rolls of one of the desserts that bring me back to my childhood. My mom has always made the most amazing cinnamon rolls. She makes pans of big fluffy cinnamon rolls, sticky caramel rolls, cinnamon roll loaves and cinnamon sticks.

I remember one time when I was little, my mom had just pulled a pan of caramel cinnamon rolls out of the oven and had me run one over to our elderly neighbor’s house so she could enjoy them too!

Today’s Bloomin’ Cinnamon Rolls recipe reminds me of those delicious caramel rolls. Like the Bloomin’ Baked Apples and Bloomin’ Baked Potatoes, these Bloomin’ Cinnamon Rolls are sure to become a family favorite!

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Baked Apple Chips

Baked Apple Chips are simple to make with only four ingredients. These crispy, crunchy snacks are perfect for when you are craving something sweet.

Although apple chips really shine during the fall apple season, they are a snack that my family loves year-round. They are a portable, on-the-go snack for road trips and bag lunches, but we also like them after school and bedtime snacks.

The only thing you really need to make sure you have when making baked apple chips is TIME. They need to bake on low heat for a longer period of time.

So, plan to make them on a day or evening when you will be staying close to home.

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One Pan Lemon Chicken with Asparagus

This One Pan Lemon Chicken with Asparagus is full of flavor and done in only 10 minutes! A great way to use leftover chicken or make with rotisserie chicken.

A local grocery store sells prepacked, cleaned and trimmed veggies with seasonings in their produce department.

When I spotted the asparagus with lemon slices and lemon pepper seasoning last winter, I just had to try it for lunch and it turned into one of my very favorite meals.