Archive for July, 2013

  • Mini Brownie Sandwich Cookies with Toffee Crunch

    Mini Brownie Sandwiches with Toffee Crunch

    July 28th, 2013

      I keep stunning myself with brownie possibilities. Not just any brownie, though- The World’s Greatest Fudge Brownie.  But you knew I was going to say that. I have already made 753 different flavor variations to the brownie recipe (remember the Bailey’s Irish Cream ones?  Oh, and what about the Panko and Sea Salt Crunch […]

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  • World's Greatest Brownie Apron Front View

    Your Life Would Be Way Better…

    July 26th, 2013

    …if you had this apron. You’ll have the recipe to The World’s Greatest Fudge Brownies handy dandy, and you’ll be able to refer to it while simply glancing down while you’re in the midst of baking said brownies.  Because the recipe is printed upside down. I know, I know.  It’s unbelievable. All that for only $23.99. I aim […]

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  • The Glorious White Cake

    The Glorious White Cake

    July 25th, 2013

    Fair warning: I have extolled the virtues of simplicity time and time again, and I’m going to wax on about it again in this post.  So if you’re not up for a soliloquy on the beauty of a simple thing like vanilla cake with vanilla icing, skip to this post on the Fudgy Orange Brownie […]

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  • Mistake Gummy Candy

    The Gummy Dummy.

    July 25th, 2013

    This is a three-part disaster, so buckle up. Some of my disasters aren’t really that heartbreaking, like the time I melted plastic wrap all over my bowl of rising dough.  Oooooh.  Although annoying, I was somehow able to carry on. But this one- sorry, these three disasters- these hurt. Allow me to set the stage: […]

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  • Mini Chocolate Nut Cakes

    Mini Chocolate Nut Cakes

    July 21st, 2013

    Bigger isn’t always better. When it comes to dessert. (As long as you can have more of the “good things come in small packages” dessert in question, that is.) Take these little cakes, for example.  Although weensie (made in your mini muffin pan, and therefore ready before you know it- a huge plus in the […]

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  • Chocolatey Oatmeal PB Bars

    Chocolatey Oatmeal PB Bars

    July 18th, 2013

    These bars are really quite innocent, even though they look like a one way ticket to diet hell. Other than the chocolate, which isn’t exactly purely evil (antioxidants- hello?), the bars are made with healthy things like oats (keeping More Sweets, Please readers regular), peanut butter (protein-packed), peanuts (protein again, but with a crunch), honey […]

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  • Penuche Pecan Fudge

    Penuche Pecan Fudge

    July 14th, 2013

    Making fudge is highly annoying but immensely rewarding.  (Kind of like I imagine what it would be like to have kids.) Who doesn’t like fudge?  (Crickets should be chirping, highlighting the silence associated with no one speaking up about not liking fudge.) And since we all like fudge, why not make it with brown sugar?  That’s the […]

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  • Peanut Butter and Dark Chocolate Ganache Pots

    Peanut Butter & Dark Chocolate Ganache Pots

    July 11th, 2013

    Who needs crust? (Hold on.  I need to temper that question, because we all know that crust is more than a want, it’s a need when it comes to pies like the Classic Key Lime Pie [think graham cookie crust], or the Proper Peach Pie [think buttery, flaky, lattice-topped crust].  To say that one doesn’t need crust borders on […]

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  • Mistake Elmo Cupcakes

    Hell-no, El-mo.

    July 11th, 2013

    I am absolutely and entirely mortified by this disaster. My Old-Fashioned Chocolate Cake recipe- the recipe which I swear by, and have made more times than is even remotely healthy to admit- let me down in the midst of baking with a friend for her kid’s first birthday party.  “Come by- we can bake, have some […]

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  • Buttery Pine Nut Cookies

    Buttery Pine Nut Cookies

    July 7th, 2013

    Pine nuts?  In a cookie? But of course. Fennel seeds?  In a cookie? Don’t question it until you’ve tried it.  (A full dozen of them.  Stuffed into your mouth in rapid succession, because there’s something about that hint of fennel-seed-savoriness when baked with the butter into a crispy-outside, sort-of-soft-inside cookie.) I will confess that my […]

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  • Egg Shells

    Egg Shell… What the Hell?

    July 7th, 2013

    Look closely, my friends. See them?  The two little pieces of egg shell? By the time I noticed them it was too late.  I had already mixed, poured, and put what I was baking into the oven.  I had no way of knowing whether other shells- evil little renegade shells- made their way into the […]

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  • German Chocolate Cupcakes

    Mocha German Chocolate Cupcakes

    July 4th, 2013

    Yes, we’ve been down the Sweet German Chocolate road before- but never in the form of cupcakes, and never with a brilliantly caffeinated twist.  (You should be nodding right now, in a sort of mesmerized stupor, thinking “yes, it all makes sense- why didn’t I think of adding espresso to German chocolate cake before this moment […]

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