When we want a little crunch in our oatmeal cookies we turn to walnuts or pecans.  Either chopped walnuts or pecans give a slight but not overpowering nutty flavor to our sugar free oatmeal cookies.

You Will Need:
1 Box Firenza Sugar Free Oatmeal Cookie Mix
1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
1 egg
1 stick (1/2 cup) melted butter
1 tsp. water

1. Heat oven to 375˚.

2. Combine butter, egg and water in a large bowl. Add chocolate chips and mix and fold together until dough forms.

3. Place rounded teaspoons of dough onto baking sheet about 2″ apart.

4. Bake 9-11 minuets for soft, chewy cookies, 12-13 minutes for crispy cookies.

5. Remove from oven. Wait 3-5 minutes before removing cookies from baking sheet. Cool completely before eating.

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Why not make our Beer Bread into a more fluffy but still delectable bread using your bread machine?  Add the ingredients to the bread machine, press a button and let the machine do the work for you.  Use our Traditional Beer Bread mix, but with 10 oz. of room-temperature beer and some yeast. Follow your bread machine directions for the regular or white bread cycle on the light crust setting.

You Will Need:
1 Box Firenza Traditional Beer Bread Mix
2 tsp dry active yeast
1 ¼ cup (10 oz.) beer or sparkling water
2 Tbsp. melted butter (optional)

1. Bring 1 ¼  cup (10 oz.) beer to room temperature.

2. Add ingredients to your bread machine.

3. Follow bread machine owner’s manual directions.  Use the regular or white bread cycle on the light crust setting.

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