@Lambchop I meant to write here earlier asking if you are back to your mega holiday time baking et al!
So nice to see your baklava again, and wishing as usual that I was in your delivery zone, lol!
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the SK bars are great! your list looks very tempting to me…
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Yes, that looks so good! Please report back!
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Thanks Mig: I saw this and was tempted!!! Will have to try…
Will do. Making it tomorrow for a party Saturday. I wanted to do a test run, but… hopefully Dorie won’t do me dirty 
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First round of Christmas Cookies, keeping it easy this year with mid-century modern favorites:
Spiced Linzer Tart Cookies
Grandma’s Sugar Cookies
Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies featuring an Amarena Cherry
Amarena Cherries from Trader Joe’s
Peanut Butter Tassies
Seven Layer Bars aka Hello Dollies
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Ontario bakers, Lactantia butter is $4.44/lb at Metro right now. 
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Those all look beautiful!! Great line-up of various flavors.
Is there a recipe for the peanut butter tassie filling that you’re able to share? I’m not sure I’d be “allowed” to make other than Pecan-filled tassies for Christmas, but it would be fun to have a summer alternative.
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Where you at the actual store? Flyer says $4.88 but they have been making mistakes. For the last couple of weeks flyer says 2.99 per 100 grms.for their cold cut special but in store its 2.29
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Must depend on the location.
My friend in Toronto paid $4.44 today. His closest Metro is Yonge and Eglinton. We send each other alerts when the butter goes on sale.
I was at Metro in west London yesterday, but I didn’t need butter so I didn’t check the price.
Edit: my friend said he told me the wrong price. $4.88. Still cheaper than the $8.49 - $8.99 I’ve been paying the last 3 months!!
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I thought TJ stopped carrying the Amarena cherries. I used to make cookies that looked like these but had peanut butter filling.
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They had the cherries a few days ago in SF.
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I bought the cherries a couple weeks ago at a TJ’s in Connecticut.
These Peanut Butter Tassies are simply a peanut butter cookie and a miniature peanut butter cup.
Make your favorite peanut butter cookie recipe.
Take about two teaspoons and roll into a ball, put one ball into each cup of a miniature muffin/cookie pan. The ball should not come to the top of the pan, the cookies spread. (If any doubt they will stick, spray pan lightly with non-stick spray).
As soon as the cookies are done (they should still be soft, will harden as they cool), insert a peanut butter cup in the center. Let them fully cool before removing from the pan.
I refrigerate or freeze the unwrapped peanut butter cups beforehand so they are less melty when inserted into the hot cookie.
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The jar in Trish’s photo is different than the look and label of the original one TJ’s carried, so they may have stopped carrying them and now do from a different producer or something. (The current one is clearly imitating the style of the $$$ Amerena Fabbri cherries.)
Trader Joe’s mini PB cups, available in milk and dark chocolate, are a huge step up from Reese’s; better-quality chocolate and a superior filling in flavor and texture.
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Am toying with the idea of making two or three of these tassie recipes; has anyone made these?
If that link is paywalled, it seems the text and recipes are duplicated here:
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This afternoon Sunshine and I made Banana-Peanut Butter-Chocolate cookies. I saw this recipe on “webspoon world” on youtube. The cookies were just OK, they really didn’t WOW us.
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TJ’s peanut butter cups are terrific.
