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Carmelitas Redux
March 23, 2015 by Laura 10 Comments
Crispy, chewy, gooey, heavenly Hazelnut Carmelitas are some of the best bar cookies made in my kitchen.
I would have shamelessly taken any excuse to make these cookies again, so when I decided to start beautifying breathing new life into some old dishes, my Hole of Shame Hazelnut Carmelitas were at the top of the list. Posted in 2009, the pictures are not terrible–I was working in a good porch room with natural light in an old residence after I had learned what a macro button was, but it was before I owned a DSLR or made any attempt at plating or staging. So it was definitely worth taking some new pictures.
This is another case where I also experimented with one…
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