Archive for January, 2013

  • Butterscotch Pudding

    Butterscotch Pudding

    January 30th, 2013

    Pudding can be a special thing when it’s not made from a box of questionable “pudding powder”. (Not that there’s anything wrong with Jello Instant Pudding.  My Mom served the butterscotch and chocolate flavors on a regular basis, two flavors I’d be hard-pressed to choose between.  Strangely, I enjoyed coming across a spoonful with a […]

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  • Mocha Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

    Mocha Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

    January 26th, 2013

    Here’s the beauty of this recipe: Chocolate. Espresso. Cream (cheese). I told you it was a beautiful thing.  And the fact that it’s stuffed into a cupcake just makes it that much more irresistible.  (I didn’t even add sugar to that list, and you were hooked, weren’t you?) (More on the cake:  it’s significant and […]

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  • Bourbon Mocha Cake

    Bourbon & Mocha Cake

    January 23rd, 2013

    I am smitten by this cake.  And if I am, then you will be too.  Trust me. Take a rich, chocolatey cake… add coffee (which in itself is a recipe for a spectacular success- one needs to go no further, technically)… add chocolate chips (the mini ones, for a bit of chocolate-crazed texture)… and then […]

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  • Mistake- Bourbon Mocha Cake Cracks

    Cake Crack.

    January 23rd, 2013

    Cakes typically don’t have cracks deep enough to store things in them, like utensils and napkins. This cake did. (Just to clarify- I didn’t end up really storing anything in the cracks.  But I could have if I was so inclined.) (Diagnosis?  Too hot of an oven, opening the oven door too often, lack of […]

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  • PB Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

    Healthy Jambalaya Cookies

    January 19th, 2013

    I might have gone a bit far in the cookie genre department here, but somewhere out there I know that some people will appreciate the combination of the three most popular cookies of all time: 1. Chocolate Chip 2. Oatmeal Raisin 3. Peanut Butter* I also know that somewhere out there the same mixed up […]

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  • Haute Chocolate

    Haute Chocolate

    January 16th, 2013

    Baby, it’s cold outside… (so the song goes). And what better way to warm up than with a cup of outrageous hot chocolate, in front of a fire?  (Well, I’d warm up pretty quickly with a nice glass of wine, but this little site ‘o mine is called More Sweets, Please, not More Booze, Please.) Why ‘haute’ instead […]

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  • The Whipped Cheese Disaster

    The Dairy Disaster.

    January 16th, 2013

    “Does this whipped cream smell like cheese to you?” The Husband was halfway through his highly anticipated cup of Haute Chocolate when he asked that question. (I’m incredibly neurotic about food and freshness and quality and germs and such.  So this dairy mishap is not a reflection of risks I take in the kitchen… I […]

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  • Toasted Almond Brown Sugar Cookies

    Toasted Almond Brown Sugar Cookies

    January 12th, 2013

    If you’re anything like me, the only thing you care about when looking at the picture of these cookies is the glaze.  The glaze that drips off the edge of the warm cookie, hardening into a little pool on the edge: the best part of the cookie.  (And I don’t say that because the cookie […]

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  • Ugly But Good Bars

    Ugly But Good Bars

    January 9th, 2013

    “Don’t hate me because I’m ugly.  Fugly, in fact.” These bars taste so good that you really won’t be able to hate them.  They won’t win any prizes in a beauty contest, but maybe that’s a good thing, since there will be more left for you to enjoy as people shun them in favor of the […]

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  • Black Pepper & Nutmeg Popovers

    Black Pepper & Nutmeg Popovers

    January 5th, 2013

    If I’m not going to bake something sweet, then it had better be a buttery winner. Usually my forays into the savory world involve cheese (too bad cheese and sweets just don’t work together, do they?), but this time I went off the cheesy path and went back to the good old-fashioned popover. I saw […]

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  • World's Greatest Fudge Brownie Cookies

    The W.G.F. Brownie Cookie

    January 1st, 2013

      This is going to blow-yo-mind. (Well, at least it blew my mind.  And I have strong reason to suggest that as a fellow lover of all things sweets, it will do the same to you.) So you take the World’s Greatest Fudge Brownie, and you cookie-ify it. Done. I don’t even need to say […]

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