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Desserts

Flourless Chocolate Cake with Strawberries

April 12, 2011

I stepped foot inside a gym this week for the first time in nearly four years. It was a little strange to be back. A lot has changed in the gym world. There are things like “zumba”, “barre method” and “Lululemon” that I’d only really known about casually via updates in my Facebook news feed. [...]

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Bunny Whoopie Pies

April 10, 2011

Oh, hello there. Look who just hopped in. Something happened as I was making these Bunny Whoopie Pies. I was supposed to end up with 12 little bunnies but somehow, true to their reputation… …they multiplied! And quickly took over the house. Pin It

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Brownie-Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookies + Baking Giveaway!

March 31, 2011

Last week’s visit to the Nestlé test kitchens definitely put me in the mood to bake cookies. I have been looking forward all week to share these with you, I was so pleased with how they came out. For these Brownie-Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookies, I combined two on-the-package Nestlé recipes – Mini Morsels Cookies and [...]

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Celebrating 2 Years With a PB&J Sandwich Cake & Giveaway!

March 23, 2011

Yes, it’s a CAKE! That seriously looks like a real peanut butter and jelly sandwich, doesn’t it? No kidding, within 1 minute of seeing Sneh’s Cakewich (that’s what this is called) on Cook Republic, I had one-click ordered a Cakewich pan from Amazon. This blog turns 2 years old today and I’m celebrating with a [...]

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Ice Cream Cookie Pie

March 15, 2011

I can’t explain what possessed me to bake an enormous chocolate chip cookie in the bottom of a pie plate and then pile it high with hot fudge, mint chip ice cream, whipped cream, toasted almonds and chocolate shavings. I could try to convince you that I was motivated by it being Pi(e) Day, but [...]

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Meyer Lemon Whipping Cream Pound Cake

March 2, 2011

I did not have the ingredients, I did not have the time. But I did have the hankering and, it seems, that goes quite a long way toward making food happen in my kitchen. It was through sheer determination, plus support from my husband, that I managed to pull off this Meyer Lemon Whipping Cream [...]

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Cherry Cordial Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies

February 10, 2011

After the Snoopy valentines and conversation hearts, what my sisters and I used to look forward to most about Valentine’s Day as kids was the big heart-shaped box of chocolates my dad would bring home for us my mom. It was a fun game to guess what was inside each piece (through extensive sampling, of [...]

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Gooey Brownies

January 6, 2011

Happy New Year! I’m excited to resume blogging over here on Cooking On the Side after my little holiday hiatus. Even while we were away for a week in Scottsdale, Arizona I still couldn’t keep myself out of the kitchen. I made a pretty pink birthday layer cake for my mom, chocolate cupcakes for my [...]

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Homemade Candy Week: Chocolate Snowswirl Fudge

December 18, 2010

It was a quiet afternoon last year on the Delaware Coast in Bethany Beach – just after Labor Day so most of the summer folks had returned home for the season. My husband and I and a few of our friends had just polished off some amazing soft-shell crab sandwiches (with plenty of Old Bay!) [...]

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Homemade Candy Week: Milk Chocolate Truffles

December 14, 2010

I received the loveliest holiday gift yesterday from a good friend of mine. She knows how much my husband and I enjoy her fabulous smoked paprika-rubbed roast chicken so she typed up and printed out the recipe on a nice card (complete with cute little seahorse cutouts) and attached it with ribbon to a jar [...]