Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
Do you know what you’ll love about this post? It features cake. And, chocolate. And, chocolate cake. That is actually three things. Oh wait, it also features chocolate buttercream frosting. So that would be four things you’ll love about this post. I wanted to share this recipe back when I was doing my week of chocolate recipes in June, but for whatever reason I never got around to baking the cake. I’m not sure why. The important thing is that I decided to make one last cake before I pack all my baking dishes and supplies. I chose this cake because I promised it, and also because this cake is so rich and…
Brown Sugar Blondies (Organic/GMO-Free)
I’ve loved almost every dense, chewy dessert bar that has ever crossed my luscious lips. There is something about a good dessert bar that brings out the inner Preschooler in me who believes everything is “mine” and refuses to share. A pan of Blondies (and brownies for that matter) is just what the doctor ordered to comfort and console a broken heart. Lord knows I ate plenty of these anytime some “Y” Chromosome ripped my heart out and stomped on it. They also came in handy on nights when I had to cram for an exam. Heck, these bars come in handy no matter what your mood or occasion may be. You might…
Roasted Cherry & Pistachio Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream
Wanna know a secret? I could live without ice cream. I know, right? That’s like blasphemy or something. It’s just wrong to not love ice cream. But here I am, and I don’t love it. I do however seriously enjoy homemade ice cream. I’ve had fun coming up with flavors that both The Stud Muffin and I like. TSM loves ice cream. The man has never met a bowl of ice cream that he didn’t like. When I told him he couldn’t have any of this ice cream until I had a chance to take photos I thought the poor man was going to pass out. It’s not nice to deny The Stud…
Decadent Chocolate Pudding with Peanut Butter Whipped Cream
Have you ever had a culinary epiphany? I had one tonight and it sort of started out with me replaying old Reece’s Peanut Butter Cup commercials in my head. I was all “You put your peanut butter in my chocolate” and “You put your chocolate in my peanut butter” except for some reason I was doing that in a British accent, and then I considered that this decadent chocolate pudding would taste amazeballs if instead of using a plain whipped cream garnish, I added peanut butter to the whipped cream! KABOOM!! …Mind. Blown! Yeah, that epiphany made me a little light headed, as brilliant revelations often do. So there I stood thinking, who…
The Quest for the Best Chocolate Chip Cookie
You know that episode of FRIENDS where Phoebe misplaces her grandmother’s chocolate chip cookie recipe (which happens to be the famous Nestle Tollhouse recipe) and Monica spends an entire day in the kitchen making like 23 different chocolate chip cookie recipes so she can try and duplicate the taste and texture of that one amazing chocolate chip cookie that Phoebe gave her? Well, that’s me. I’m in search for a chocolate chip cookie that doesn’t make me grumpy. I’m looking for the best chocolate chip cookie. A cookie that has some depth of flavor to it, subtle nuances, something more than just sugar, butter, flour and chocolate. I want a cookie that makes…
Chocolate Depression Cake in a Mug
We have 11 weeks until we pack up our entire home here in MN and move down to SC. I’m starting to panic. Just a little. I have to have a somewhat major surgery in a few weeks, I have a house to sell, I have a moving/garage sale to organize, there is packing and deep cleaning that still needs to be done and I’m starting to wonder if one 26 foot U-Haul is going to be enough to hold all our stuff. Because I have no idea if that U-Haul is going to hold everything, I decided to start using up as much of my pantry baking staples as I could so…
Soft & Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies
Several months ago I posted my “Not Half Bad Peanut Butter Cookies” recipe. Being that I’m not a peanut butter cookie fan, yet I am a huge fan or peanut butter, I felt those cookies really weren’t half bad. After experimenting with some new recipes, I have to tell you, that these cookies are spectacular, seriously good, kinda-almost-rolled-my-eyes-when-I-took-a-bite scrumptious. Amen, Holy Mary, The End, Good Night! <—– I have no idea where all that came from, but we’re gonna just move right on past it. Stop the rubber necking folks, it’s just an accident. Ya see ’em every day. It happens to the best of us. I have been using my original PB…
Macadamia & White Chocolate Cookies
There are only 3 reasons that I can think of why White Chocolate exists. The first reason is to be baked into a cookie. Any cookie. It doesn’t really matter; white chocolate tastes good in cookies. The second reason is as a coating for pretzels. I love white chocolate covered pretzels and prior to going all Food Hippie and striving to eliminate processed foods from my diet, I used to eat pretzels covered in white chocolate. Great. Now I want pretzels.
