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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 [...]

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Homemade Candy Week: Pecan & Caramel Chocolate Clusters

December 13, 2010

Welcome to Homemade Candy Week on Cooking On the Side! I had a blast last weekend trying out recipes for several sweet indulgences and I’m excited to share them with you. Alternatively, I could have deemed this “Chocolate Week” as we’ve got chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate. I figured most of you would be pretty [...]

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Jacques Pepin’s Chocolate Chunk Cookies

October 12, 2010

You’re not imagining it. The words “chocolate chunk” have been appearing quite often on this blog lately. Ever since I discovered how they melt into baked goods, more so than chocolate chips, I’ve been kind of hooked. I’ve actually kind of unofficially stepped away from regular chocolate chips for the moment. The Scharffen Berger folks [...]

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Pumpkin Chocolate Chunk Muffins

October 4, 2010

One night about three years ago my husband and I were out to dinner with some good friends of ours, Tony and Karin. It randomly came up in conversation, over pasta and chianti, that Tony really loved foods containing pumpkin. I had never heard of such a thing. Of course I loved pumpkin pie at [...]

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Chocolate Chunk Zucchini Bread

August 23, 2010

Given that I’m allotted about 45 seconds from the time we make it downstairs until my lovable little folks start clamoring to be served breakfast you’d think I’d formulate some kind of breakfast plan to make things easier. Instead, I look a bit like Taz from Looney Tunes, spinning around the kitchen, transferring items from [...]

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Chocolate-Layered No-Bake Cheesecake Bars

July 14, 2010

I brought dinner and a few of these Chocolate-Layered No-Bake Cheesecake Bars over to my friend Catherine, who just welcomed a new baby boy a few weeks ago. She e-mailed me a few hours later: “I sneaked a ‘before dinner taste’ of the cheesecake bars and it was the best thing I’ve ever eaten!” Granted, [...]

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Sea-Salted Smoky Almond Chocolate Bark

May 5, 2010

I’m secretly hoping that this will be the year the homemade Mother’s Day gifts start coming. Aren’t they sort of a rite of passage? Our school classrooms would turn into little workshops this time of year, turning out everything from tissue paper flowers to ceramic ashtrays (Did we seriously make those? I am really dating [...]

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Chocolate Chunk Banana Bread

April 30, 2010

I’ve never been to a real family reunion, with the matching t-shirts and everything, but I kind of feel like I’m part of an ongoing one through Facebook these days. Cousins, aunts and uncles I haven’t seen in 10, 20 years or more are popping up on my “friends” list almost every day. I actually [...]

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Vanilla Cupcakes + Calphalon Bakeware Giveaway!

March 25, 2010

Cooking On the Side is one year old today! What better way to celebrate than with the best vanilla cupcakes I’ve ever made and a bakeware giveaway? I started this blog after becoming intrigued by all of the recipes I noticed on the side of the food packages in my pantry, fridge and freezer. After [...]

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Mississippi Mud Bars

March 17, 2010

I had no idea what a Mississippi Mud Bar was. But I wanted one. As you can tell from the photos this was an over-the-top, incredible treat. It turns out that Mississippi Mud Bars, as defined by Ghirardelli in a recipe inside their semi-sweet chocolate baking bar wrapper, are comprised of a chocolate-white chocolate chunk [...]