Chocolate Champagne Truffles
I’m a firm believer in the saying about keeping a bottle of champagne on hand…well, you know, just because. Which is why, apparently, I don’t have one on hand right now. I’ve celebrated with a...
View ArticleChocolate Espresso Oatmeal Cookies
I’m going to skip a long into this time and just tell you straight up that these cookies are pretty phenomenal. Like, eat the raw dough out of the bowl kind of good. The kind of good where the...
View ArticleChocolate Coconut Walnut Fudge
Sometimes I come home from work and do a face plant into a box of CheezIts. And eat giant bowls of cereal with honey drizzled on it. If I have a big bowl of chocolate ice cream, sometimes I...
View ArticleChocolate Crispie Treats
Sometimes I really miss store-bought marshmallows (it’s the whole gelatin issue). I have yet to try various vegan-friendly brands or make my own from scratch (because, if I have something like that...
View ArticleMini Pumpkin Cakes with Cinnamon Vanilla Bean Cream Cheese Frosting
Things this past week have been crazy. I got home finally from pretty much one and a half month’s solid stretch of traveling. Which was awesome, don’t get me wrong, but my routine was severely...
View ArticleChocolate Buttermilk Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting
Yep. Sometimes you just need a chocolate cupcake. Nothing too fancy, no ridiculous fillings, no insane amount of prepping/cooling/piping. Just a simple chocolate buttermilk cupcake with a rich,...
View ArticleTriple Chocolate Scones
This is an impromptu post. In honor of the season premier of the fourth season of Downton Abbey tonight. Hooray! After the (shall I say, abrupt and completely horrific?) finale of last season, I...
View ArticleDark Chocolate Cherry Fondue
Ah, Valentine’s Day. The yearly love-it or hate-it kind of holiday. Oddly enough, I’ve always had a hate-it kind of mentality towards this cupid-friendly day, only celebrating it once or twice in...
View ArticleRosebud’s Sugar Cookies
I had an unexpected surprise the other day. I was emptying out my email and found an old one that my mother had sent me a couple of years ago. Attached in the email were a few more recipes from my...
View ArticleRoasted Banana Bars with Browned Butter Frosting
Does anyone else out there freeze bananas? The reason I ask is because I sometimes have a hard time “timing” bananas right, and I’m finding that freezing bananas is a pretty awesome thing. I like...
View ArticleChocolate Baklava
So baklava has always been one of those mysterious yet super intimidating desserts that I have always wanted to try. I’ll start reading the instructions and think, “yes, I’ve got this”, but then...
View ArticleFrou Frou Cupcakes
My little sister is getting married in a few months. I’ll spare you the (eventual and inevitable) blubbering and tears of joy for now (still have a few months left, and if I start now, I won’t ever...
View ArticleChocolate Chunk Cookies with Sea Salt
I had a post pretty much ready to go to show what to do with leftover risotto, but then a little bird told me that today is actually National Chocolate Chip Day (who knew!?) so, as with most of my...
View ArticleButterscotch Cake Pops
My sister is getting married in less than one month. The countdown has officially begun. Recently I went back to Indiana to host her bachelorette party. She wanted something classy, elegant, and...
View ArticleRaspberry Champagne Cupcakes with Champagne Buttercream Frosting
My sister got married last weekend. I’m sure she will say the same, but it was one of the best days of my life, I have to say. She looked beautiful, radiant, and had a permanent smile from ear to ear...
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