Archive for December, 2013

  • Chocolate Peanut Butter Tart with Oat Cookie Crust

    Chocolate Peanut Butter Tart with Oatmeal Cookie Crust

    December 29th, 2013

    Trying to find a way to satisfy your peanut butter, chocolate and oatmeal cookie cravings all at once?  Look no further, bakeasaurus. This tart is basically like the Incredible Peanut Butter Chocolate Ganache Pie (which we all fell hard and fast in love with), but baked onto an oatmeal cookie instead of the PB-graham cracker […]

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  • Butterfinger Fudge Brownies

    Butterfinger Fudge Brownies

    December 26th, 2013

    It’s true. If you chop up 3 Butterfinger chocolate bars and toss them (lovingly) on top of your brownie batter, your kitchen and living room will smell like a Butterfinger factory as it bakes for 28 minutes.  And the mysterious crumbly filling of said chocolate bars will kind of bake up and congeal into a […]

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  • Microwave Meltdown

    Microwave Meltdown.

    December 22nd, 2013

    Why do I keep burning things in our microwave?  It’s been four months now and you’d think I’d have gotten the hang of the fact that the big ‘ol box of radiation in our new place has some mad power going on inside of it. Remember the peanut butter casualty?  (It smelled like burned PB […]

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  • Gingerbread Cake with Coffee Glaze

    Gingerbread Muffins with Coffee Glaze

    December 21st, 2013

    It’s that time of year. Crowds, weird mall Santas, and gingerbread.  Gingerbread houses are interesting things, aren’t they?  On one hand, they can be beautiful, and yet on the other hand they can seem incredibly germy.  The person making the house obviously manhandles the hell out of each piece, and one has to breathe deeply […]

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  • Fruitcake Shortbread with Rum Glaze

    Fruitcake Shortbread with Rum Glaze

    December 18th, 2013

      Be not afraid of the whole “fruitcake” thing, folks.  This is really just a fantastic shortbread with a killer glaze, that happens to have pieces of dried fruit stirred into it to be considered somewhat festive. I was thumbing through a magazine in the checkout at the grocery store last week and saw this […]

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  • Oven Thermometer Mistake

    Busted Brownies.

    December 15th, 2013

    Some ingredients you just don’t want to mix into the World’s Greatest Fudge Brownie. I’ll throw anything chocolate into them because I’m always up for a good time (I did buy chocolate covered goji berries with the intention of baking an unconventional yet super-trendy Goji Brownie, but the berries expired and in the interest of […]

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  • Ganache Stuffed Fudge Brownies

    Ganache-Stuffed Fudge Brownies

    December 14th, 2013

      This dessert has the potential to change your life. I know you might think that’s a bit of a bold statement, and I know you might think I’m a bit of an exaggerator (I’ve bragged relentlessly about the Decadent Deep-Dish Pecan Pie and the Classic Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting, because they too […]

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  • Open-Faced Easy Blueberry Pie

    Open-Faced Easy Blueberry Pie

    December 7th, 2013

    “Easy as pie.” Now I know where that saying came from, especially when you thaw the pie crust scraps that you’re lucky enough to have in the freezer to make this pseudo pie.  It’s also easy as pie to roll said dough into shapes that generally resemble circles, then bake them for a few minutes […]

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  • Bacon Parmesan Cornbread

    Bacon Parmesan Cornbread

    December 4th, 2013

    Just say “yes” to bacon. And while you’re add it, invite cheese to the party, because cheese should be welcome at any party (even the strange party known as the Apple Oatmeal Swiss Cheese Muffin). (But really: bacon.  The Husband and I went to Baconfest a couple of years ago and indulged in like 50 […]

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