Chocolate

  • Rolo Surprise Cookies

    Rolo Surprise Cookies

    May 24th, 2014

    Everyone loves a surprise, especially a chocolate-covered-caramel one snuck into a cookie. (Correction: no one likes a surprise with a mint chocolate treat stuffed into a mini brownie when the mint chocolate treat ends up looking like a disgusting neon green blob of goo.  Other than that, surprises all day long, please.) Okay, Rolo.  Have […]

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  • Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups

    Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups

    May 14th, 2014

    This is the fancified version of the Reece’s Peanut Butter Cup. So buckle up. (No one needed to improve on the Reece’s masterpiece, but let it be said: making them with fancy dark chocolate and freshly ground organic peanut butter takes the accessible version of this treat to Foodie Land and back.  It’s really an […]

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  • Chocolatey Banana Bread

    Chocolatey Banana Bread

    May 7th, 2014

    This banana bread is basically a chocolate cake, and for that reason you will love this recipe (and me) forever. This recipe makes two lovely loaves, and takes care of those spotty old bananas on your counter.  And it hits that craving for a dense, rich cake right in the banana bullseye. Bonus moment:  if […]

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  • Healthy Yummy PB Balls

    Healthy Yummy PB Oat Balls

    May 3rd, 2014

    I have a thing for healthy & tasty ingredients rolled into balls.  (Eating things in shapes makes it so much more civilized to eat excessive amounts of them, instead of sitting on the couch with a bowl and eating the healthy & tasty goo right from the spoon you used to stir it altogether.)  Remember […]

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  • Monster Banana Chip Muffins

    Monster Banana Chip Muffins

    April 23rd, 2014

    Bigger is better when it comes to muffins, eh? (Except when you’re talking about the muffin tops that spill over a perfectly good pair of jeans.  Of course.) These muffins don’t look that big in the picture, and for that I am bummed.  I bought these rather gargantuous (word?) muffin cups from I don’t remember […]

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  • Chocolate Truffle Sandwich Cookies

    Chocolate Truffle Sandwich Cookies

    April 16th, 2014

    Remember the Double Chocolate Buttermilk Cookies?  Yeah, well, these are them on crack. Cookies are exciting on their own, I full well realize.  But making a dessert out of two cookies and glueing them together with something as decadent as ganache, well, that’s another story.  Pull out a plate of pretty much any kind of cookie […]

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  • Coconut Fudge Brownie Cookies

    Toasted Coconut Fudge Brownie Cookies

    April 9th, 2014

    Yes, coconut lover, I have bestowed another gift upon you. And brownie lover- I have looked after you here, too. You know by now that I can come up with enough permutations and combinations of The World’s Greatest Fudge Brownie recipe variations to last us for years, and each one seems to top the one […]

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  • Honey-Roasted PB & Chocolate Tart

    Honey-Roasted Peanut Butter & Chocolate Tart

    April 5th, 2014

    “This dessert is definitely a top 5”, said The Husband when this was served the other night. I have to tell you: that was a meaningful statement.  (The Husband is very supportive of the plethora of baking that goes on in our place, which is surprising since he’s my official guinea pig and has been […]

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  • 4 Layer Chocolate Cheesecake Insanity Bars

    4 Layer Insanity Bars

    March 29th, 2014

    I have never made anything more decadent (oh, except for the Astonishing Chocolate Bar Cake which required the sprinkling of 14 chopped up bars overtop of multiple layers of chocolate cake.  Yeah, that was pretty decadent.).  But this, this dessert.  There are four layers of dessert going on, four layers of love.  Four layers of […]

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  • Mint Chocolate Fudge Brownie Bites

    Mint Chocolate Fudge Brownie Bites

    March 15th, 2014

    Yes, another deviation off the World’s Greatest Fudge Brownie recipe, folks. Eat it up. Especially if you’re into the mint chocolate thing, which 95% of you are.  (For the remaining 5% of you freaks, what can I say?  Make this recipe without the mint chocolates, or go make a Zucchini Bread or something.) Adapted from my World’s Greatest […]

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  • Magic Fudge Brownie Bars

    Magic Brownie Bars

    February 22nd, 2014

    Oh my. Everyone loves the Magic Gooey Cookie Bars.  This is a fact.  (If you don’t know what I am talking about then click here immediately, make these bars, and then try to tell me you’re the only earthling who doesn’t love Magic Gooey Cookie Bars.)  But what if the amazingly excellent graham cracker crust […]

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  • Banana Dark Chocolate Cookies

    Banana Dark Chocolate Cookies

    February 15th, 2014

    These might blow your mind. Picture a banana bread studded with dark chocolate chunks- a really freaking amazing banana bread with dark chocolate chunks, mind you- but then warp the image of bread in your mind and turn it into a cookie.  Got it?  Yes, it’s true.  It happened.  Banana bread became a cookie, and […]

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  • Red Velvet Cake

    Red Velvet Cake

    February 8th, 2014

    Finally, I understand what all the fuss is about. I was living under a bit of a rock, I’m afraid. But now I’ve seen the light.  I’ve baked my way into it and there’s no turning back. I’m talking about this glorious Red Velvet Cake, which is rich, moist, and almost crushed under the weight […]

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  • Double Chocolate Buttermilk Cookies

    Double Chocolate Buttermilk Cookies

    February 2nd, 2014

    I have been working through a giant jug of buttermilk, so have been experimenting with how to use it in just about any kind of dessert.  (Wait and see, loyal reader- it’ll show up in like 90% of the recipes I post for the next month or so.  Go get your own jug to be […]

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  • Chocolate Banana Buttermilk Cupcakes w. Truffle Frosting

    Chocolate Banana Cupcakes with Chocolate Banana Truffle Frosting

    January 22nd, 2014

    Yes, this dessert happened.  And there’s no turning back.  My life will never be the same and now yours will never be either. On the ‘How Incredible Are These, Really?’ scale, I think I have to give them a ‘Really Freaking Incredible’ rating (nearing the territory of ‘Total and Utter Perfection’, only awarded to the […]

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  • Chocolate Nut Dipped Shortbread

    Nutty Chocolate-Dipped Shortbread

    January 8th, 2014

    Winner. Take a perfectly good shortbread cookie ball, and dip it in chocolate.  You could stop there and die a happy dessert-eater.  But no. Toast some nuts- pecans, walnuts, perhaps a medley of the two.  Chop them up and sprinkle them on the chocolate before it sets, so the nutty-chocolate situation sets in a “we […]

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  • Cranberry White Chocolate Shortbread

    White Chocolate Chip & Cranberry Shortbread Cookies

    January 4th, 2014

    I know I just made cranberry and white chocolate cookies, but I just couldn’t stay away from the combo.  I had extra shortbread dough leftover (from making the most excellent Fruitcake Shortbread with Rum Glaze) and knew I had to reunite the medley of flavors again (also because I really want to use the cranberries before […]

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  • 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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