sticky, chewy and malty!

i love chewy cookies.
i loathe sandwich joints that give me hard crispy cookies.

they don't compliment my meal at all. after eating hearty sandwich, you want to rest and sweeten up, taste sugar and let your teeth sink into soft, chewy goodness.

on to the next note, i love Pioneer Woman's malted milk cookies. I made them once before and they were absolutely lovely. chocolatey and smooth, but they had the potential to be so much more. i aimed to have them melt in your mouth, must-have-seconds good.

so here it is, the cookies that were snapped up in record time in the office (where all my lovely test subjects as well as hardcore reviewers are) - Sticky Chewy Malted Milk Cookies - adapted from the pioneer woman herself!

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Oreo Cheesecake Cupcakes

Ask anyone out there who knows me well, and they can tell you without a blistering doubt, I hate cheese. I just do - I don't eat fondue, I don't put extra Parmesan on my pasta, I don't even like grilled cheese sandwiches.

However, put cheese in a cake, and I would devour it in 5 seconds, regardless of size. This, ladies and gentlemen, is proof that cake is a cure all.

Now, add cheese with one of the world's favourite dunking cookies and you've got a winner! And fortunately for us all, the Oreo Cheesecake Cupcake is so simple that you could even rope in your kids or (shudder) boyfriends/husbands to help do all the work.

Best news ever: no bits of flour or butter were harmed in the making of this concoction.

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