Bakery Style Sugar Cookies (a no chill sugar cookie dough!)

It's such a delight to sink your teeth into one of these soft, fluffy, tender sugar cookies.  Kids and adults alike love these cute, bakery style sugar cookies.  One of my favorite things about these cookies is that you don't have to wait an hour for the dough to chill, because who can do that, I want cookies now! =)  I made these yesterday for my daughters birthday party so the kids could decorate them.  I doubled the batch so...

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Banana Bars with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting

Say goodbye to banana bread because after trying these banana bars, this may likely be the only recipe you're going to want to use those prime, overripe, generously speckled bananas for =).  I'm pretty sure I could have finished the whole pan on my own.  These are so amazingly moist, with the perfect combination of flavors.  You get tons of banana flavor (notice there's nearly equal portions of banana to flour) with a pinch...

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Oranges and Cream Cookies

Is it summer yet?  I'm craving the glistening suns rays warmly beating down upon me while I relax and slowly work my way through a generous scoop of thick ice cream... if only, for now all I can do is bake what brings the flavors of summer =).  These blissful cookies taste just like an orange creamsicle.  I made the chocolate chip version and thought, hmm I bet if I add in white chocolate in place of the chocolate chips it would...

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Orange Chocolate Chip Cookies (tastes just like an Orange Milano, but better!)

These are officially my new favorite cookie!  They are one of the best cookies I've ever eaten!  These taste just like a Pepperidge Farm Orange Milano Cookie, but I think they are even better because they have all the flavors of that cookie but these are soft and chewy rather than crisp and crunchy.  I've been changing up flavors to all my favorite classics lately like Rice Krispie Treats and Oatmeal, so I decided it was time for a...

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