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  • Sea Salted Caramel Corn with Dark Chocolate Drizzle?! Yes Please!! From Real Food Girl: Unmodified
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    Sea Salted Caramel Corn with Chocolate Drizzle

    After being teased with some warmer weather earlier last week, it’s back to being darn right cold again.  TSM and I wanted to go see the latest Die Hard movie, but it was too chilly to bundle up and drive to the movie theater, so I decided a movie night at home, snuggling with TSM, in my flannel jammies with some homemade caramel corn was a better idea.  Did you know that this popcorn makes 007 Skyfall an even BETTER movie than it already is?  Yup.  Truth.   I’ve had this caramel corn recipe since I was about 14 years old.  I got it from a friend I went to school with.  We were…

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    Kristine Cocchiarella

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    (Not Half Bad) Peanut Butter Cookies (Organic-GMO-Free)

    Do you like peanut butter?  I do.  TSM also has a fondness for peanut butter.  I don’t think he’s ever tried anything with PB that he hasn’t liked except a smoothie.  He doesn’t care for PB in a smoothie. For some reason when it comes to peanut butter cookies, there is no love lost on me.  I find this peculiar since I really do like peanut butter.  I’ll eat a peanut butter cookie if I make a batch, but for the most part I make these because it is TSM’s favorite cookie and I enjoy spoiling him.  I probably spoil him too much but he’s cute and stud muffinly, so I don’t see…

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  • Tastes just like the Hostess snack cake- it's Ho-Ho cake. My version is organic and GMO-Free! Chocolate cake with a creamy white filling and a yummy chcolate icing tops off the best midnight snack you'll ever have! #Real Food Girl: Unmodified
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    Chocolate Ho-Ho Cake- (Organic/GMO-Free)

    On Christmas Eve my family gets together and everyone brings a dish to share.  Each year I generally bring a dessert.  Last year I went all out and made a 6 layer chocolate mousse cake with hazelnut japonaise drenched in a layer of ganache and chocolate shavings.  It was decadence on a plate.  This year I desired to do something much simpler, yet still really yummy.  Enter the humble Ho-Ho.  (That would be the snack cake Ho-Ho, not the street walking ho-ho.)

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  • Seriously! A sugared chocolate cookie with oozie caramel in the center and a pinch of sea salt on the very top of the cookie- Ya'll *this* is gonna blow your mind! #Real Food Girl: Unmodified
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    Sea Salted Chocolate Caramel Cookies

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    My First (recipe) Mistake (aka 7-Layer Bars)

    Well Food Posse Peeps, I finally did it- I made my first mistake this evening while putting together a pan of 7-Layer Bars to share with y’all.  The good news, they taste perfectly fine.  The bad news- they’re not very stable, don’t hold their shape, are very gooey AND  (whispers) they’re ugly.

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