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Dan Greer offers up easy-to-make and quick-to-serve breakfast and dessert recipes. Read more about Pancakes and Pan Cake: Local Chef Serves Up Delicious Fall Recipes

Champagne glasses elevate any cocktail recipe to new heights. Enjoy this sipper, made with Waconia’s J. Carver Distillery rye whiskey. Read more about Local Whiskey and Cider Combine in This Perfect Fall Cocktail

World Coconut Day is September 2. In honor of the day, create your own coconut cocktail. How about a coco light martini?

• 1 1/2 oz.
• Coconut water (unsweetened)
• 1 1/2 oz. Coconut vodka
• 1 oz. pineapple juice
• 1/4 oz. lime juice
• Garnish: Lemon twist

Put ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake well. Serve in a coupe glass.

Recipe courtesy of thespruceeats.com Read more about Cocktail Recipe: Coco Light Martini for World Coconut Day

Cool off with this breezy, easy summer cocktail recipe. Read more about The Perfect Summer Cocktail, Courtesy of Princeton's Liquors

This is the cookie that started it all. The oatmeal chocolate chip was the first recipe that Maple Grove native Annette Gustafson ever entered at a fair and won a ribbon by coming in fourth place. (Her molasses cookie won a blue ribbon at the 2016 State Fair.) She has recently opened an online bakery so you can order her cookies already baked, but if you’re in the food barn, look for Gustafson’s 2017 entry.

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies Makes about 22-24 cookies

Ingredients Read more about State Fair Winner Shares Her Recipe for an Award-winning Cookie