This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser, MARS Incorporated. All opinions are mine alone. #BakeInTheFun #CollectiveBias These festive truffles are rich and decadent, and perfect for entertaining or gift-giving this holiday season! The holiday season, for all its good cheer, purposeful memory making, and good intentions, can feel a bit…
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Simple Sugar Cookies
These simple classic cookies are a perfect accompaniment to coffee or tea. “Mornings are unique, each the opening act in a day whose course can never be certain. It is the late nights, however, that fade one into the other.” Part of that, I suppose, is due to each night being one part reflection, and…
No Bake Candy Crust Cheesecake
Cookies and candy are layered to form a thick, sweet crust under a lightly whipped cheesecake topping for the ultimate sweet treat! Just a few days ago, I was talking to my brother about one of our favorite subjects – food. We drifted briefly down a predictable avenue of memories, talking about recipes from our…
Peanut M&M’s® Cookies
These crispy cookies are sprinkled throughout with crushed M&M’s® Peanut for a chocolaty, nutty treat that is both sweet and salty. There’s a saying that guilty pleasures are the most pleasurable of all, and that to revel in such guilt is the greatest of joys. That’s how I tend to approach dessert. Dessert, by its…
M&M’s® Shortbread Squares
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #CelebrateWithM #CollectiveBias These buttery square biscuits are speckled with M&M’s® Red, White, & Blue Peanuts for a sweet and nutty treat that is perfect for Memorial Day picnics and gatherings. In one of humanity’s ironies, days meant to…
Fudge Blondie Bars aka Fabulous Blondies
These Blondie Bars are so rich and fudgy they are nothing short of fabulous…proving that blondes do have more fun! Sentimentality is an odd emotion, a sort of warming lens through which we see memories, especially objects to which memories are attached. Sentimentality, like a mental opiate, has a way of blurring out the bad,…
M&M’s Chocolate Chip Cookies
Crisp, crunchy chocolate chip cookies get a fun makeover with M&M’s® milk chocolate and peanut! Laurence J. Peter once remarked that “If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?” Or so I try to rationalize my chaotic work space. Bottles of premium wine waiting…
Chocolate Dipped Biscotti
Biscotti get a fun modern makeover with a cake mix base and Coffee Nut M&M’s® exterior! I’ve been accused of being a ‘quiet classicalist.’ I’ve been chided for disregarding wines that favor plastic or screw-tops over proper cork. I’ve been told to keep an open mind as Cava leaves the shady comfort of relative obscurity…
Chocolate Brownie M&M’s Cookies
These soft, chewy fudge brownie cookies are speckled with M&M’s® for an extra chocolaty treat! Poets are fond of comparing this life to a candle. Youth strikes up like a flame from a match, and life opens up before us, experiences brimming up only to dissipate like smoke into the air. The flame crawls along…
Coffee Nut Chocolate Cake
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #MMSFlavorVote #Walmart #CollectiveBias This deeply rich chocolate cake boasts of a warm coffee undertone and is cloaked with smooth buttercream. Speckled between each layer are the three new M&M’s® peanut varieties- M&M’s® Chili Nut, M&M’s® Honey Nut, and…
Peanut Butter M&M’s Cookies
Crispy Peanut Butter cookies are speckled with milk chocolate covered M&M’s Peanut for a sweet and nutty melt-in-your-mouth treat! Happiness is defined by Rousseau, albeit somewhat tongue in cheek, as simply a good digestion, a good bank account, and a good cook. Given my profession, which is equal parts critic, sommelier, and self-taught cook, this…
Easter Rice Treats
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #SweeterEaster #CollectiveBias Easter just got a little sweeter with this childhood classic featuring M&M’s Easter candies! The lead up to any ‘big’ holiday is a bit like running a marathon, a test not just of endurance , but…
Wheel of Life Sugar Cookies
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #GameNightIn #CollectiveBias Inspired by The Game of Life, these Wheel of Life Sugar Cookies are a perfect treat for your next family game night! Looking back over the years, it’s difficult to discern precisely when “social” became synonymous…
Easter Fudge Bark
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #SweeterEaster #CollectiveBias This fun and irresistible bark is a perfect accompaniment to your Easter basket. Sweet, soft fudge is set with swirls of dark chocolate, assorted jellybeans and M&M’s® Easter Sundae candies! Oscar Wilde remarked that “The true…
Chocolate Fudge Heart Cake
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #SendSweetness #CollectiveBias The air is filled with snow flurries and laced with love; this Valentine’s Day treat the one(s) you love to this decadent Chocolate Fudge Cake, cloaked in a luxurious chocolate ganache and finished off with new…
Pecan Pie Spiced Latte with Harvest Stick Cookies
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #BakeInTheFun #CollectiveBias As fall quickly approaches, it’s time to break out those warm cozy sweaters and comforting down-home recipes. Today, we are sharing a warm spiced latte accompanied by stick cookies that are fun, easy to make, and…
Coconut Cream M&M’s® Pops
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #ShareFunshine #CollectiveBias Creamy coconut popsicles speckled with M&M’s® plain are a fun, refreshing and delightful way to cool off this summer! A lot of attention has been devoted lately to elaborate outdoor settings, or how to create a…
M&M’s Cookie Pizza
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #GameNightIn #CollectiveBias With M&M’s® baked atop a soft, buttery shortbread crust, let this cookie ‘pizza’ be the star of your next #GameNightIn! Over the course of running a site like Living the Gourmet, it is quite inevitable that…
M&M’s® Crispy Honey Chocolate Bark
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #CrispyIsBack #CollectiveBias While March snow can easily lull the soul, the agenda for the month is a busy one at Living the Gourmet, both behind the scenes and on the site. The start of a long list of…
M&M’s® Red Velvet Candy Cupcakes
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #RedVelvetLove #CollectiveBias Valentine’s Day is the Holiday of Love, with whom almost everyone has had a Love-Hate relationship. Featuring clumsy attempts at fully obligatory and often scripted romance, or worse, the fully expected ‘spontaneous amore,‘ which never quite…
