Although Valentine’s day was roughly a week ago, I have a story to tell you which I should have told you on that day. It is the story of a girl and a berry. And the true love they found in each other and the tragic consequences that followed. I believe Shakespeare has jinxed love forever with his Romeo and Juliet. A pox on you!
But let me go back to this tale. Girl was at a supermarket. She looked through a hole-y plastic bag which she accidentally (I call it fate really) picked up and through it, saw a little box. And that box had some cranberries in it. Big, fat, juicy dried cranberries. It called to her from beyond its plastic packaging and while the girl was a little apprehensive, she bought it.
She got home and prised open the little plastic box. And when she truly met the dried cranberry, a little part of her heart she never knew she had opened up and started singing. And the love affair began. She kept it secret though – didn’t want anyone taking advantage of her weakness to the cranberry. And the cranberries remained sealed for everyone but her.
Girl decided it was time to honour their relationship – she created a recipe just to showcase the cranberry and to show how deeply she felt this bond, she made it red and white, colours of love.
Cranberry was thrilled and readily accepted, popped into the recipe without a hitch. But then the omens of bad luck had already begun. Girl’s recipe was for a cookie. But what came out was a cake-cookie hybrid distinctly tasting like a muffin top. Their relationship was so deep they managed to evade an unsuccessful recipe, many-a-burnt cranberries and continue on.
She sat in the sunshine with her berries, gazing lovingly at her hybrid concoction muffintopcookiecake and ate one, letting the taste of cranberry hit her harder with every bite. But then one cannot stay with the other forever, and she had to pack the hybrids. The box was sealed. Their fate was set. Girl went to grab a bite from a chocolate whitie and didn’t think anything of it but cranberry did. Oh it did so much.
Through the see through plastic box of its cookies, it stared at the girl savouring another treat, another ingredient, something besides itself and in a fit of rage it flung itself out of her hands just as she picked up the box. The lid flipped, the cookies fell and the cranberries scattered across the tiles. She only had the three second rule and there were so many as she frantically attempted to gather crumbs and berries from everywhere… but it was no use.
In its final breaths, the cranberry cookies saw the love in her eyes and knew their mistake. Giving one last second, they went limp. And she started to gather up the remains, trying not to cry as the burial rubbish bin awaited them. All she got was a taste of them, those are the only memories of her love. And now it was gone. She was lost.
For never was a story of more woe, than this of… this girl and her… cranberry?
What the heck Shakespeare! What food rhymes with Romeo? Oreo? Oh come on…
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Yes, based on my life, this is a sad little tale of my lack of freshly baked cookies. I will never forget them or their soft, buttery taste and beautiful pink-white complexion.
I’m sorry, could I just have a minute, I get a little bit emotional – please enjoy this recipe and don’t lose your love like me…
In honour of the love I lost today, I give you:
Marbled Valentine’s Day Coconut Cranberry Cookies Cake-Muffintop-Cookie-Hybrid
Source: Original recipe, marbling idea and loosely adapted from Bakergirl
White Dough
- 1 cup butter, room temp
- 1 1/4 cup caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tbs full cream milk (if necessary to smooth out dough)
- 2 tsp vanilla essence
- 1/2 tsp rose water
- 1/2 cup desiccated coconut
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 3/4 cup plain flour
Red Dough
- 1 cup butter, room temp
- 1 1/2 cup caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp strawberry essence (or vanilla if not available)
- 1/2 tsp rose water
- 2 – 2 1/4 cups plain flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- Red food colouring
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
Method
- White Dough
- Cream butter and caster sugar until soft, fluffy and pale
- Add eggs one at a time, combining well after each add in
- Beat in vanilla essence
- In a separate large bowl, combine all dry ingredients (sifting the flour and baking soda together)
- Stir into creamed mixture until well combined. Stir through white chocolate chunks. Refrigerate covered for 30 minutes to overnight.
- Red Dough
- Cream butter and caster sugar until soft, fluffy and pale
- Add eggs, one at a time, combining well after each add in
- Beat in strawberry essence
- In a separate bowl, sift together all dry ingredients
- Mix into creamed mixture until well combined
- Drop in red food colouring until red colour achieved (*remember, it loses a bit of colour when baking!)
- Stir in dried cranberries
- Refrigerate covered for 30 minutes to overnight
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.
- Depending on how big you wish your cookies to be, take 1 tsp from each dough and roll into a small ball together
- Place on a tray lined with a baking paper, leaving around 3-4 cm between each cookie – maybe even a little more since these babies have serious spread
- Bake 10-12 minutes or until the edges are firm and set (the inside will continue cooking post-baking)
- Let cool 5 minutes before setting on a wire rack to cool completely
- Devour!
Notes:
- I found it became a hybrid between a cookie, cake and muffin top – it was crumby but crisp around the edges so I think if you made these in muffin top pans that would be the best – simply grease the muffin top tin and place the ball inside – it will spread on its own
- You should grease your hands when rolling (lightly) so the dough doesn’t mix together too much and lose effect
- Refrigerate the dough between batches since there it softens very quickly!
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Enjoy and devour my friends before it is too late – do not drop the box llike I did!
What a tale! What an imagination and sense of humour! Romeo….Oreo 🙂
Your *muffin top cookies* look like the perfect hybrid snack for me!
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Haha, I am glad this post entertained you 😀
And thank you, I am sure any sweet hybrid is a great snack 😉
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Choc Chip Uru
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Aww.. such a tragedy….. But, yes, at least you have the recipe!
We eat dried cranberries every night on our salads. Love them.
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Always looking at the positive 😀
Thank you – and cranberries on salad sounds yum!!!
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Choc Chip Uru
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Very cute! They look good!
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Thank you – Glad you enjoyed them 😀
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Choc Chip Uru
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Aww… lovely story! I hope you find your love again! I love cranberry anything and can’t wait to try out your recipe.
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Thank you very much – I know one day my love and I shall be together again 🙂
And it is nice to know I am not the only cranberry obsessor in the world 😀
Enjoy!
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Choc Chip Uru
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These look fabulous! Coconut, strawberry, and cranberry, all swirled together? Wow. What combination of yummy flavors! Cute, funny story too. Love it! 😀
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Thanks very much my friend! Glad you enjoyed this flavoursome recipe and the post as well 😀
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Choc Chip Uru
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These sound delicious! Quite an amazing combination you have created here! Hybrids are always the best ;)!
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Thank you very much – and I agree, nothing beats a little bit of everything 😉
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Choc Chip Uru
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I hope you can recover, and find love again!
These look delicious!
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I hope so as well my friend 😀
Help me push through with one of your wonderful recipes 😉
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Choc Chip Uru
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I love your fingernails in the one shot. It looks like a little cranberry on your nail! I love and adore rosewater and coconut and cranberry so I know I’ll love these cookies er, um muffintops ummmmmmm sweets!
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Haha, that nailpoilsh is actuallty leftover from my cranberry coloured dress 😉
All the elements work really well together in this recipe so I hope you enjoy this hybrid 😉
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Choc Chip Uru
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Those pictures look delicious! I love the way you highlighted cranberries!
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Thank you very much 😀
And cranberries are my love so how could I possibly not showcase them 😉
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Choc Chip Uru
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Lovely story of cranberry love and three second rule. Cookies look soft and do not worry your cranberry love will return to you. How can he leave a sweet girl like you?
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Thank you very much my friend – I certainly hope we come together soon 🙂
In the meantime, I might need to go get some more cranberris… 😛
Glad you enjoyed this post and recipe!
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Choc Chip Uru
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You’re young… you’ll find another love *wipes away a tear* But in the meantime eat more muffintopcookiecakes…. and have one for me too.
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You’re right, I must *sniff* be strong (and take another batch out of the oven ;))
I promise I am mentally sending you a cookie while I eat it for you my friend 😀
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Choc Chip Uru
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These look great!! I love cranberries, hhaha a HYBRID! cool!
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Thank you – cranberries are addictive and I promise you these are a hybrid 😉
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Choc Chip Uru
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Looks delicious n yummy!!
Erivum Puliyum
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Thank you very much 😀
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Choc Chip Uru
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What a fun recipe! The dough kind of reminds me of the candy cane cookies we use to make growing up around the holidays 🙂
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Thank you and glad it brought back such yummy memories 😀
I would love to see you post such delish sounding cookies!
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Choc Chip Uru
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This post made me super hungry, and all of a sudden I really love cranberries. It’s infectious! 🙂
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Haha, I have heard love is catching 😉
Thanks and enjoy!
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Ha Ha , that was a funny post. Thanks for the smiles 🙂
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My pleasure – it makes me smile to make others smile 😀
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Choc Chip Uru
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Not much else I can add to the preceding comment apart from you had me in stitches – in a good way! Thoroughly enjoyed the whole read!
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Haha, it is always my pleasure to amuse and entertain you guys 😀
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Choc Chip Uru
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Look delicious and a unique, brilliant tale of love!
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Thank you my friend – and I love a good love story 🙂
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Choc Chip Uru
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Aw, that is such a cute & sad story!They looks so delicious.
Dear! I’ve tagged you, please check it out 🙂
Tropical Cake Balls; Tagged & Award
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Thank you my friend 🙂
And you tag is fantastic – thanks so much 😀
In my next post, I will be tagging away!
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Choc Chip Uru
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Oh my! Poor spilt cookies, although they look so fabulous, I think you could extend the good ol’ 3 second rule to at least 7 seconds 🙂
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Thanks my friend and I agree – I really do think these cookies should not have been included in the rule at all 😉
Happy you enjoyed!
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Choc Chip Uru
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lol, sad story indeed. sigh.. but cheer up, there is always a second chance in love ahm, cooking 🙂 looks yummy… esp the marbled pink
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I agree – cooking = love so there is always another chance, I mean batch 😀
Glad you liked these my friend, thank you 🙂
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Choc Chip Uru
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So sorry for your loss, but surely there’s more for you in the future 😉
LOVE those cookies! Just put them away if I am around. It’s dangerous!
BTW, thanks for visiting my blog.
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Thank you my friend – I am sure there is too (my oven is already preheating ;))
I am very happy you enjoyed this truly addictive recipe so much and I loved visiting your blog!
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Choc Chip Uru
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I would love this muffin/cake/cookie 🙂 Looks great!
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Thanks my friend – I am sure these would touch any bakers heart 😉
Glad you visited 😀
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Choc Chip Uru
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You are as brilliant as ever. 🙂 I love your story. LOL
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Too sweet – thank you very much for both your compliments 😀
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Choc Chip Uru
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These look like a very creative creation! I bet they tasted amazing 🙂
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Thank you my friend = and for the short time I had to eat them, they certainly did 😀
Enjoy!
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Choc Chip Uru
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I love the mix of colors in your cookies. Very unique!
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Thank you very much 🙂
I should have posted this for Valentines day 😛
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Choc Chip Uru
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They look fabulous….and who doesn’t like a good muffin top? As long as it’s the food kind and not the flab-over-the-top-of-your-jeans kind!
Thanks for the recipe….I will think of lost love when I make them!
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Definitely not the flab-over-the-top-of-your-jeans kind I assure – the only muffintops around are the one on top of… muffins 😀
I am really glad you liked these and thanks for your kind words – I too will always think of lost love 😉
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Choc Chip Uru
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What a lovely (though sad) tale. All that work and love fallen by the wayside. My condolences to you, and will spread word of your romance throughout the land of Pinterest.
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Thank you for your kind and sympathetic words my friend – I am definitely going to whip up another batch asap 😉
And thanks for the pinterest – it is much appreciated for the spreading of such a fairytale 😀
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CCU
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You ain’t right, you know that? I’m sorry for your loss, but promise that there is another out there for you. You just have to look. Don’t settle though, ok?
I’m loving those muffintopcookiecakes.
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Ok I promise I won’t settle down 😀
Glad you enjoyed these cookies as well – thanks!
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Choc Chip Uru
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Whatever love that flies away will come in many other ways of love like this lovely cranberry cookies. Wish I can find these berries for the love I have over it but sad to say expensive and to the places I do my grocery shopping, I hardly see cranberries.
Wonderful cookies with the cranberries in the center.
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Those words are very wise and I shall remember them my friend 🙂
It is unforIunate of their expense and I was quite surprised to find these berries at such a reasonable rate – best of luckk (perhaps bulk buy?)
Glad you enjoyed the cookies all the same 😀
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Choc Chip Uru
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Aw, cute story! I think it’s the 20 second rule with cookies! They look fabulous (and you write so, so well!). Hope you’ve had a lovely weekend~
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Haha, these cookies should totally have a huge bubble around them to keep fresh as possible – thank you for such kind words and I am glad you enjoyed them 😀
Have a wonderful week!
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Choc Chip Uru
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So happy that you and cranberry were able to enjoy the short time you had together.
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Thank you my friend, it meant a lot to me (and we shall be together pretty soon, I assure you ;))
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Nothing like losing something to the floor-a sad state of affairs no doubt! Even though it was a short time, I am glad you got to taste one. Love the marble effect and that picture does make me want to gobble these up. Yummy cranberry creation here!
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Thank you for your condolences and kind words of encouragement 😉
These hybrids were really a different taste and I definitely encourage you try them (more than anything because of the delicious cranberries :D)
Enjoy my friend!
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Choc Chip Uru
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I adore cranberries and these cookies/muffins are absolutely delish!
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Thanks so much 😀
And always nice to meet a fellow cranberry fanatic!
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Choc Chip Uru
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I wasn’t into cranberries actually until I had really good cranberry scones. Until then I thought they were just okay… I don’t know what happened but the cranberries in scones were so good (I would always order blueberry scones so I didn’t know). I love the cookie shot!
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Well I am glad you adore cranberries at least in good dessert 😀
They are definitely a favourite now and in these cookies, made to be devoured 😉
Thanks my friend!
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Choc Chip Uru
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Hoe pink and cute 🙂 yeah..that happens to me too, I just pick something and get it..and cook it 😀
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Haha they most certainly are 😀
And good to know I am not alone!
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Choc Chip Uru
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Such a sad story..but at least you have the recipe and you can recreate these beauties.
I have only discovered cranberries recently and I agree with you, they are an amazing ingredient
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Thank you for your sympathising 🙂
And you are right another batch is definitely on my to do list 😀
And I can’t believe I never ate cranberries before!
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Choc Chip Uru
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These bad boys look soooo yummy!
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They certainly were addictive 😉
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Choc Chip Uru
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Awwwww I hope your love will one day return to you in the form of another batch and that this time it will stay for real 😀 You’re such a darling, Uru! Your story had me laughing and feeling for you at the same time! I’m glad you at least had the time you spent with each other, regardless of how short it was 😀
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Too sweet my friend! I assure you another batch is well underway 😉
And I am really glad you enjoyed the story 😀
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Choc Chip Uru
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mmm these muffin top/cookie/cake look soo good! i love cranberries 🙂
top recipe 🙂
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Thank you so much 😀
And cranberries are definitely my addiction!
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Choc Chip Uru
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