Chocolate

  • Chocolate Cookie Gooey Brownie Crumble

    Gooey Chocolate Cookie with Brownie Crumbs

    July 4th, 2015

    At some point does the layering of chocolate on chocolate on chocolate become ridiculous? BLASPHEMY! I regret that I even asked that question.  How silly of me.  I’m sorry, loyal reader/baker/chocoholic, for my momentary lapse in judgement.  I guess I was looking at the picture above and was wondering if I took it too far, […]

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  • Flourless Double Chocolate Cookies

    Flourless Double Chocolate Cookies

    May 30th, 2015

    Wow. Imagine a fluffy and light cookie, full of rich chocolate flavor, that’s somehow chewy and dense, too. It’s a contradiction.  It’s seemingly impossible.  And it’s happening folks, right here and now. Your gluten free friends will finally like you.  Your belly will probably like you better too.  There’s no downside to these, so stop arguing […]

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  • Chocolate Chip Meringue Cookies

    Chocolate Chip Meringue Cookies

    May 24th, 2015

    You need time to bake these, so don’t make them if you’re a diabetic and need a hit of sugar to sustain your life. If, however, you have a couple of hours, you really should make these. Here’s what you need to know about this dessert: Meringue cookies are light and airy.  So while they […]

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  • Cashew White Chocolate Cherry Cookies

    Cashew White Chocolate Cherry Cookies

    May 10th, 2015

    Have you seen ‘Still Alice’?  Yeah well, I might have early onset Alzheimers like that character with the red hair who won the Academy Award.  (I’m not even joking- I can’t remember her name right now.  Reinforcing my point.) I was at the store yesterday morning and bought cashews and a bar of white chocolate […]

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  • Chocolate Chip Pecan Bars

    Chocolate Chip Pecan Bars

    April 25th, 2015

    So fast.  So easy.  So good. I’ve had a thing lately for toasted pecans, so this dessert works JUST FINE.  (Really- I have even been adding them to my morning yogurt snack with raisins and strawberries and cinnamon.  Can’t.  Get.  Enough.  But don’t even think of skipping the 7 minute step of toasting them, or […]

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  • Giant Chocolate Chip and Cherry Cookies

    Giant Chocolate Chip and Cherry Cookies

    April 18th, 2015

    Chocolate and cherry.  Sigh. It really is a classic combo, but just lesser known on the whole rung of Famous Chocolate Combinations (you know- the ladder where almond, mint, peanut butter and caramel kind of rule).  Cherry is kind of down there with orange and raspberry, but no less worthy of being paired with the King […]

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  • Chocolate Cookie PB Ganache Pie

    Chocolate PB Ganache Pie

    April 13th, 2015

    “Uh oh.” That’s what I said when I took the frozen peanut butter cookie crust out of the freezer, let it thaw in its foil wrapping, and then realized when I opened it up and was about to spread the ganache over top of it that it wasn’t a peanut butter cookie crust at all. […]

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  • Chocolate Coconut Pudding

    Chocolate Coconut Pudding

    April 1st, 2015

    Easy!  Amazing!  And not that bad for you!  Are you sold? From the time I told The Husband “I feel like baking” (which garnered no response, because there’s really never a four-hour interval when I’m not saying that) to the time I poured this chocolate coconut pudding into four little serving dishes, I think I […]

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  • Peanut Butter Cookie Brownies

    March 21st, 2015

    Imagine you’re sitting there eating a peanut butter cookie, but all of a sudden the cookie is enveloped in The World’s Greatest Fudge Brownie. That cookie just got about 600 times better, didn’t it? I need to be clear: this recipe isn’t about taking a massively good brownie and simply swirling PB into it (been […]

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  • Hazelnut Chocolate Cookies

    Hazelnut Double Chocolate Cookies

    March 18th, 2015

    Dear Hazelnuts, Oh, how I’ve missed you.  Where have you been? I let us grow apart, and I take responsibility for that.  I have to admit that I let pecans and walnuts rule the nut roost ’round these parts, and I forgot about how freaking good you can be- all toasted and fragrant and nutty […]

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  • Chocolate Graham Muffins

    Chocolate Graham Muffins

    March 7th, 2015

    Who doesn’t like graham crackers?  And since we already know that no one doesn’t like chocolate (not true- I met a lovely woman recently who really doesn’t care for it- strange but true), why not combine the two? I know, I know: the s’mores people already thought of the graham cracker/chocolate combination, but they never […]

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  • Peanut Nougat Chocolates

    Peanut Butter Nougat Chocolates

    February 4th, 2015

    I need you to know that there’s no turning back after making these chocolates. You can’t expect to make them, eat them, and live your life like you did the day before.  No.  Something will happen, some sort of inexplicable shift, some sort of transformation.  You won’t be able to stop thinking about them, and […]

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  • Golden Graham Pie

    Golden Graham Pie

    January 31st, 2015

    What’s that, you say?  Could this really be a pie made with Golden Grahams, the cereal known and loved by sugar-crazed kids across the North American continent? I’ve got one word for you, and it’s the right one: Yes. I bought a box of the cereal last summer (for the express purpose of baking them into […]

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  • Chocolately Cake Tarts

    Chocolatey Cake Tarts

    January 28th, 2015

    Who ever said you can’t stuff crumbles of rich chocolate cake into little tart shells, then top them off with whipped cream, and then drizzle chocolate sauce over top of all of that sin? (If you’ve ever heard anyone say that then I think you need to distance yourself from him/her.  No good could ever […]

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  • 5-Layer Oreo Brownie Pie

    5-Layer Ice Cream Oreo Brownie Pie

    January 24th, 2015

    Why make a dessert with one layer when five layers are five hundred times better? I learned this lesson when I made the 4-Layer Insanity Bars (brownie on the bottom, then a layer of chocolate chip cookie, then a layer of cheesecake, then ganache to top it all off).  Is your heart rate quickening, too?  It’s […]

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  • Chocolate Pecan Fudge

    Classic Chocolate Fudge

    December 31st, 2014

    A few weeks back when The Husband and I were moving into our new place (yes, the place where our glorious new oven decided not to work from Day 1, even though our inspector didn’t pick up on it and then the Fisher & Paykel guy who came out and said “it works just fine!” […]

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  • White Chocolate Cranberry Banana Muffins

    White Chocolate Cranberry Banana Muffins

    December 6th, 2014

    I will always always always be modifying banana bread and muffins, until the day that my hands are gnarled from arthritis at the age of 96, or if I’m lucky, 97. I love banana bread/muffins, and alternate between my two favorite recipes: Banana Nut Muffins (a bit more rich and buttery, so therefore my true […]

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  • Easy Chocolate Candy Bars

    Easy Chocolate Candy Bars

    November 29th, 2014

    Take a deep breath, reader. Get ready for the easiest no-bake thing you’re ever going to make (well, other than the Ugly But Good Bars, but still). These are my new favorite sweet thing, which means it should really be your favorite new sweet thing too.  I dare you to make these and then tell […]

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