MangiaMore: THREE ingredient cookies

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They may not look pretty, but they sure are easy. These three ingredient cookies (yup, you read that right—3 ingredients!!) have that chewy satisfaction that any great chocolate chip cookie has, but has half the hassle. There’s none of that meticulous measuring, none of that creaming butter and sugar, none of that refrigerating for hours and hours; there’s just three ingredients: chocolate chips, graham crackers and sweetened condensed milk.

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The culmination of these three delicious things is pure perfection, not pretty, but pretty delicious. Crunch up 16 graham crackers (use a food processor for extreme ease), mix a can of sweetened condensed milk with your bag of chocolate chips till chips are covered, and finally stir in those graham crumbs. It can’t get much easier.

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I mixed semi-sweet, milk and white chocolate chips, since I am not always wild on straight up chocolate. And since I was doing a double batch (because little effort was involved), I added dried cranberries to half of my second batch. They are a different kind of sweet and a tartness that emphasized the chocolate and the sticky condensed milk. These cookies are super-soft and pliable, but the outside has a little crunch. They remind me of all the best parts of cookies—gooey cookie dough and that candied texture.

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MangiaMore: SNICKERDOODLES

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I am always on a quest for a delicious cookie (like really, who isn’t?), but this time I was craving snickerdoodles. You know like those soft Mrs. Fields cookies that you used to get on winter days during long shopping excursions at the mall. I was dying for that feeling.

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Of course when I googled “soft and chewy snickerdoodles” a recipe from Averie Cooks pops up (This happened to me before when I was trying to finish up some leftover pumpkin puree!). I stumbled on her post on The Best Snickerdoodles, and after comparing it with a few other recipes, I decided to ditch the other ones and trust Averie.

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These were easy to throw together, though, the worst part was waiting “at least one hour” for the little balls of goodness to firm up in the fridge. A tumble in the prepared cinnamon sugar, made these cookies what they are: snickerdoodles.

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Of course right, out of the oven, I dusted the cookies with even more of the cinnamon sugar, allowing it to seep into the warm cookie and connect with the almost under-baked center. That extra oomph took these cookies over the top. There’s no such thing as too much cinnamon sugar, amiright?

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Once the beauts baked and cooled, they lost most of the fluff advertised in the recipe. But they were still chewy, soft, and mind-blowing. The dynamic duo of brown and white sugars added layers of sweetness and helped to create that pliable texture. And that extra cinnamon sugar coating made these cookies the things of dreams.

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I got exactly what I was looking for. Too bad only one batch (about 16 cookies) is not enough!

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