The golf course took the brunt of it. Insane statistic of the day: last I heard Ike was being blamed for 34 deaths, 19 of which were very inland and 6 of which were in Indiana and 4 in Ohio. What a crazy few days! Who would have guessed Hurricane Ike would still be that…
Black Bottom, And, Er, Black Topped Cupcakes
The minute I saw this recipe over at The Kitchen Sink I knew I wanted to make it. I love the combination of chocolate and cream cheese and have always meant to try more black bottom baked goods. Originally a Dave Lebovitz recipe, the recipe calls for a sweetened cream cheese topping over chocolate cupcake…
Brown Butter Blondies With Milk Chocolate
I was looking through my dessert cookbooks the moment I tasted that blueberry custard pie. There is nothing more frustrating than craving dessert and realizing you have none–at least for us sweet tooths anyway. I am sure some of you may have noticed that I am a Scharffen Berger fanatic. I just find their chocolate…
The Aroma Of…? Mancatcher Cocoa Brownies
Is there anything so wrong as fresh baked goods you cannot smell? Brownies coming out of the oven that might as well be mud? Boy I hope this does not last. Supposedly it could last as long as 3 months, and anything longer would be in the realm of incredibly rare (and even 3 months…
Taste & Create: HoneyB’s Brooke’s Best Bombshell Brownies
That’s a bit of a mouthful! But I found the recipe on HoneyB’s blog–but she in turn found it on another site, posted by Brooke, apparently. 🙂 Anyhoo, in a fit of deviated septum induced madness I signed up for Taste and Create this month. I don’t know *what* I was thinking–since we do not…
Who Needs Structure When They Taste This Good?: Peanut Butter Chocolate Squares
This is one of those quasi-successful dishes, where I am posting a recipe because I liked something about it so much that I felt its defects were almost rendered irrelevant. You know, like holding together as opposed to crumbling and needing to be eaten with a spoon. This is my 3rd attempt at peanut butter…
Quick Breads: Lemon Blueberry & Cappuccino with Shaved Chocolate
A friend of mine from Sammy’s playgroup is running a Kindermusik class this fall and she had our playgroup over as a practice run. I offered to bring breakfast. I had a doctor’s appointment more than an hour away the day before, so I decided to keep it simple with quick breads. I made a…
Chocolate Cheesecake Bars
I got very moody about dessert on Friday. Way back when, I had wanted brownies, but then I made those monkey cupcakes and then the girls got sick and my brownie craving passed, and I just couldn’t decide. I was leaning toward something with cream cheese, but everything I was finding had either a brownie…
The Sugar Must Come Before The Eggs: Monkey Cupcakes!
I consider myself fairly self assured in the kitchen. Cooking for other people mostly gives me a thrill of anticipation, not panic or anything. But I tend to make weird dumb errors when my in laws are around. Kinda like when I once left flour out of the cookies I made for them (granted…