Posts in bars and cookies recipes
Guava Panetelas

Guava panetelas or “panetelas de guayaba” are cake bars made with a very dense cake batter that is filled in the middle with guava paste. They are very traditional here in Puerto Rico, everyone loves them! You only need 10 ingredients and that’s including the salt, and probably less than 40 minutes to have them in your mouth. Even if this is a dense cake batter, the crumb is soft and buttery and you won’t be able to eat just one!

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Dark Chocolate Spiced Fudgy Brownies

These super soft and fudgy brownies come with a different story to tell. They are made with pure 70% dark chocolate and Dutch processed cocoa powder for a very intense dark chocolate flavor, cinnamon, ginger and cardamom to cozy you up during the autumn nights and sour cream (yes! sour cream) to highlight the acidic notes from the Dutch cocoa and to add moisture, creating a fudgy texture without…

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Nutella and White Tea Sugar Cookies with Hibiscus Glaze

These sugar cookies are soft and chewy and completely made from scratch. You will be amazed with how easy these are to make, especially with my trick to prevent cookies from spreading in the oven. Any shape will be safe with this recipe! And think of all the fillings and glazes you can make. But because Mother’s Day is literally around the corner, I’m sticking with Nutella as filling and a hibiscus glaze for a pink pretty color. You don’t see cookies so full of love everyday.

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Thin and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

These simple thin, chewy but still crispy chocolate chip cookies are simply the best. A little trick? Adding chocolate chip dust to mix in the chocolate chip cookie dough besides a good amount of chocolate chips. And then you have all those whole chocolate chips. The result? A thin chocolate chip cookie that has chocolate all over the place and it’s chewy but still crispy on the bite.

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