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Rosemary Bourbon Chocolate Chunk Cookies with Smoked Sea Salt; #CreativeCookieExchange Recipe
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Rosemary Bourbon Chocolate Chunk Cookies with Smoked Sea Salt; #CreativeCookieExchange
February 17, 2015 by Laura 26 Comments
These Rosemary Bourbon Chocolate Chunk Cookies with Pecans and Smoked Sea Salt are unusual enough to be exciting and familiar enough to be comforting. They are also just plain awesome. For more about this month’s boozy Creative Cookie Exchange keep reading down below! Affiliate links were used to link to items I am discussing.
Guys! I may not have re-invented the wheel, but I am really proud of these cookies! Which I guess sounds kinda crazy. But I really went back and forth about adding the rosemary to these. It sounded good to me, but maybe I would be alone in finding them good kind of…
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