Tag Archives: chocolate

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 …

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 …

If the idea of a fudgy, creamy, almost-inch-thick layer of bittersweet chocolate makes you feel funny inside (in that good way), then try to imagine this lovely layer sandwiched between what is essentially a buttery, crumbly, oatmeal cookie.  The cookie knows enough in this recipe to yield to the beauty …

I know there’s no such word as ‘cocodamia’, but work with me here.  Coconut macadamia got together and had a love child, who then hooked up with white chocolate.  And these bars were born, in the tropics. You’re basically going to take the recipe for Coconut Macaroons and stir in the …

If you haven’t figured it out, these bars have three layers of chocolate.  Some might think it’s excessive to have three layers of cocoa goodness going on in one meager bar, but these are the people that we don’t want to associate with anyways.  Bring on the layers, I say, …

I knew I was going to fall hard for this recipe as soon as I stumbled upon it.  White chocolate?  Definitely interested. Cashews?  Keep talking. Coffee in the batter?  Um hmm. White chocolate frosting, generously slathered over top (my own twist on the recipe)?  Preheat the oven and let’s get …

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 …

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 …

Stop pretending you don’t want a piece of this.  (Well, it’s more appropriate to say “a scoop”, since it’s basically chocolate muck with hacked up pieces of candy bars in it.  No- wait- it’s even more appropriate to say you want “a shovel” of it, because, it’s obvious.  You can’t not use a …

You have two options here, my baking friend, and I won’t judge you either way you take this kitchen crossroads: From Scratch: bake your little heart out, champ.  Make the chocolate chip cookies like the industrious worker bee that you are (or is it the ants who are industrious?).  Get …