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Lime Coconut Bars with Macadamia Nuts: #CreativeCookieExchange
February 16, 2016 by Laura 13 Comments
Lime Coconut Bars with Macadamia Nuts and White Chocolate Chunks are the perfect fudgy-chewy treat to take you away to the tropics! This month Creative Cookie Exchange has you covered with loads of tropically inspired cookies!
I want to wax poetic about these bars, but am lacking the energy. We are in Columbus, both for the holiday weekend and then also because Sammy and I have tickets to the Ohio State-Michigan basketball game tonight (Go Blue!), and when I packed my meds for the weekend I did not realize my anti-seizure med was almost empty. Any other medicine I would just skip a dose, but not that one. And of course…
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