S'more Cookies

I saw this cookies online and thought they looked like pure magic. I love s'mores. Everyone loves s'mores. But I was never a huge graham cracker fan. I did make s'mores once with the keebler shortbread cookies striped with chocolate. That was a genius idea!

But now I have found the perfect solution. S'mores in cookie form!

My first attempt at this recipe was a botched job. They turned out more like lace cookies. Still delicious but ugly and not what I was looking for. They were spreaders. I tried to chill the dough but it barely helped. So I tried again the next morning. I ended up adding about a half cup of extra flour and cutting the butter down.

I love recipes that remind me of summertime. These s'more cookies were incredible coming out of the oven. They really tasted like a fresh s'more, charred black marshmallow excluded.

I had to cut the butter down and up the flour to get my cookies to the right consistency. 

I also omitted the hershey bars on top (they would have melted and made a huge mess) because I was shipping these. Instead I used chocolate chunks to get that s'more feel.

You can find this recipe here.

Margarita Cupcakes

These cupcakes seemed almost too good to be true when I found them. Margaritas and cupcakes, two of the things I love together at last!

I used the Margarita Cupcake recipe from Brown Eyed Baker. I have tried several recipes from her blog and while her results look delicious I have never had a successful venture using a recipe from her blog. This was completely different.

I did however use a slightly modified icing recipe because I personally don't care for the taste of buttercream.

This recipe also contains tequila in the cupcakes, on top of the cupcakes and in the frosting. :) 

This cupcakes was a little denser than what I was used to but was still delicious. The tequila is however, optional but it does make the Margarita Cupcakes well more Margarita-y.

I wish I had a zester to get some really good lime zests to garnish with but all I had to work with was a hand grater. I also used sugar crystals to decorate with instead of salt as the recipe calls for.  I used a 1M star tip to frost the cupcakes with. 

The cupcake and frosting recipe can be found here.