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Espresso Chocolate Chip Brownie Cookies
Hey guys! So, a few weeks ago, I bought cake flour instead of all-purpose flour for the first time and decided I wanted to experiment with it a bit. I've been wanted to make some espresso chocolate chocolate chip cookies for awhile now, so that's what I set out to do, except I substituted in cake flour instead of all-purpose flour. I noticed adding cake flour to the recipe gave the cookies a soft, dense, brownie-like texture to them, so that's what I'm calling them: Espresso Chocolate Chip Brownie Cookies. These cookies have a deep cocoa flavor to them reminiscent of dark chocolate and a subtle coffee taste that really enhances the…
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[Book Review] Winter Wonderland By Heidi Cullinan & CoffeeAM Kozy Fire Flavored Coffee
Paul Jansen is a romantic. He loves cozy Christmas romances and wants more than anything in the world to be loved by someone who will hold him close and never let him go – and when you meet his homophobic, controlling, judgmental family it’s easy to see why he needs someone like that in his life. Having watched the past two years as both of his best friends got their "Mr. Right" for Christmas, he hardly dares to hope that this year might be his turn.
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Monday Morning Coffee News
Happy Monday! It's been a bit of a slow week for coffee in the news: Starbucks announced Starbucks For Life winners, it's soon going to be easier for people to enjoy butter coffee in their home, and a new kind of coffee flour may soon be hitting the market.
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[Novella Review] The Entity Who Came For Christmas By Cat Devon & Jackie’s Java Yule Nog
I love holiday books, and I especially love unusual holiday books. The Entity Who Came For Christmas has witches celebrating the Winter Solstice and gallivanting through snowy Chicago with vampire Demon Hunters over the Christmas holiday – can’t get much more unusual than that.
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[Book Review] The Three Sisters (The Krampus Chronicles #1) By Sonia Halbach & San Marco Coffee Sugar Plum Berry
The Three Sisters is a wonderfully whimsical and wholly imaginative Christmas tale that starts with the real-life controversy over the authorship of ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas (Clement Clarke Moore versus Henry Livingston) and then spirals into a Christmas Eve adventure that leads the grandchildren of the two authors in question on a not-so-merry, and sometimes scary, chase.
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Monday Morning Coffee News (Tuesday Evening Edition)
Happy Monday Tuesday! Some interesting coffee-related news from the past week: Coffee prices may soon be falling, the makers of The Ripple Maker unveiled a new app that makes it possible to turn your selfies into foam art, and the recently released U.S. Dietary Guidelines allow for quite a few daily cups of coffee in a healthy diet. Also, Starbucks added a new beverage, the Latte Macchiato, to their menu and digitally released the Starbucks Coffee Passport, previous only available to employees, as a web-based app for everyone to use.
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