Posts tagged as:

chocolate

Heart-Shaped Whoopie Pies…plus a Wilton Valentine’s Giveaway!

February 6, 2012

I can already hear the creak of the step stool hinge unfolding the second I tell my 4-year old daughter that I’m about to bake something that involves sprinkles. That’s her cue to drop what she’s doing and get herself propped up next to me at the kitchen island to get involved in the action. [...]

Pin It

0 comments Read the full article →

Double Chocolate Cookies

October 17, 2011

I officially have a sweet tooth…or so the new diet and exercise app I recently downloaded to my iPhone tells me. Day after day for the past week, as I’ve logged everything I’ve been eating and drinking, MyFitnessPal has been telling me that I’ve consumed more than double my daily recommended volume of sugar. It gets [...]

8 comments Read the full article →

Good Old-Fashioned Chocolate Cupcakes – Happy 4th!

July 3, 2011

Just a short and sweet note to say Happy 4th of July (and, to my friends to the north, a belated Happy Canada Day!)! To help you celebrate, here’s a fabulous recipe for Chocolate Cupcakes with Swiss Meringue Buttercream Frosting. These cupcakes, from the back of the Hershey’s cocoa powder box, come together almost magically. [...]

13 comments Read the full article →

Chocolate Cream Pie with Cinnamon & Ancho Chile

June 9, 2011

In my seventh grade home ec class, circa 1987, we churned out such memorable delicacies as turkey tetrazzini, purple cows (that would be a tall glass of Shasta grape soda with a scoop of vanilla ice cream dropped in) and hamburger macaroni. But my favorite of them all was chocolate pudding pie. It called for [...]

12 comments Read the full article →

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. [...]

10 comments Read the full article →

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 [...]

8 comments Read the full article →

Heart-Shaped Baked Chocolate Doughnuts (+Seattle’s Best Coffee Giveaway!)

January 27, 2011

This has to be the best bad idea I’ve had in a while: buying a doughnut pan. I resisted and resisted for as long as I could, knowing that once I had one of these things in my house I’d have no choice but to bake doughnuts as often as I wanted (could I handle [...]

Pin It

132 comments Read the full article →

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!) [...]

2 comments Read the full article →

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 [...]