Leftover cookies

During my eat-from-the-pantry challenge last year, I used up various qualities of stale cookies, crackers, pretzels, cereals, bars, and brownies no one apparently wanted to eat anymore. Miraculously, after mixing these stale crumbs with cream cheese and dipping them in chocolate, they were everyone's new favorite treat! I'm sharing the simple "recipe" in today's post!

Here's what to do with leftover Christmas cookies so that all of your tasty baked goods don't have to go to waste!

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Too good to go to waste.

Wondering if there is actually such a thing as leftover cake recipes? 🍰 Read on to see a list of ways to use leftover cake! 🍰

Need a way to use up leftover egg yolks? Try this irresistible thick cookie recipe! Packed with rich chocolate chunks and made with a buttery dough, these egg yolk cookies are the chewy treat you've been craving.

This cake couldn’t be easier to make – It calls for leftover cookies and breadcrumbs as opposed to flour! The cake is just sweet enough and not overwhelmingly heavy, as all of the sugar comes from the cookies you use – so if you use a sweet amaretti cookie, it’ll turn out a bit sweeter than it would with almond biscotti, for example! It has a pleasing, more dense-type texture that’s reminiscent of a tea cake.

Learn how to turn leftover frosting into leftover frosting cookies.

Make the most of your crumbs.

These cookies will make you rethink your position on leftovers, a perenially unpopular food category. They are buttery, tender, and chocolatey!