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Peppermint Chocolate Shortbread

December 23, 2017 By Laura Leave a Comment

Peppermint Chocolate Shortbread cookies are a happy revelation for people who enjoy crushed candy canes during the holidays. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas! This is just a quick post to let you know that I will be sharing a few scheduled posts over the next two weeks,

Filed Under: chocolate, cookies, ganache, Holiday and Christmas Cookies, mint chocolate, Peppermint Tagged With: candy canes, chocolate, cookies, Holiday cookies, peppermint, shortbread

Biarritz Sandwich Cookies: #CreativeCookieExchange

December 20, 2016 By Laura 5 Comments

Biarritz Sandwich Cookies: crisp French butter cookies sandwiched around dark chocolate ganache

Biarritz Sandwich Cookies are delicious, elegant and easy French sandwich cookies that are perfect for holiday cookie tins, gifting or just for the heck of it! Affiliate links have been used to link to items I am discussing. Keep reading to check out all the fabulous cookies with nuts that the Creative Cookie Exchange has… 

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Filed Under: almonds, blog events, chocolate, cookies, French cuisine, ganache, Holiday and Christmas Cookies, meringue Tagged With: #CreativeCookieExchange, bittersweet chocolate, chocolate, cookies, Creative Cookie Exchange, dark chocolate, French, ganache, sandwich cookies

Old Fashioned Chocolate Glazed Chocolate Bundtlettes; Driving Around Mount Etna

September 5, 2015 By Laura 9 Comments

Chocolate Glazed Chocolate Bundtlettes like Grandma used to make--only glazed with a spur of the moment water and butter ganache!

Old Fashioned Chocolate Glazed Chocolate Bundtlettes are like the little black dress of chocolate cakes–simple, super easy and absolutely stunning. Scroll down for the recipe–or read about my adventures driving around Mount Etna first! Affiliate links have been used in the post to link to items I am discussing. As I sit here composing this… 

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Filed Under: bundt cakes, cakes, chocolate, ganache, Italy 2015, travel Tagged With: bundt, bundtlette, cake, chocolate, Etna, ganache, Italy, Italy2015, mini cakes, Mount Etna, Randazzo, Sicily

Butterscotch Pecan Bundt Cake with a Salted Caramelized White Chocolate Glaze: #BundtBakers

October 16, 2014 By Laura 21 Comments

Butterscotch Pecan Bundt Cake with Salted Caramelized White Chocolate Glaze

A Butterscotch Pecan Bundt Cake is indulgently draped with a Salted Caramelized White Chocolate Glaze for Bundt Bakers this month. The theme is, you guessed it, Caramel! Affiliate links were used in this post to link to items I am discussing. This cake had a rocky path on its way to my site–and hopefully your bellies…. 

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Filed Under: blog events, bundt cakes, caramel, chocolate, ganache, pecans, sweet confections, white chocolate Tagged With: #BundtBakers, bundt, butterscotch, cakes, caramel, caramelized white chocolate, nuts, pecans, salty sweets, white chocolate

Cacao Nib-Cream Cheese Swirled Triple Chocolate Bundt Cake: #BundtBakers

February 20, 2014 By Laura 15 Comments

Cacao Nib-Cream Cheese Swirled Triple Chocolate Bundt Cake

Because sometimes, double chocolate just isn’t enough. Ha! Actually, this was entirely supposed to be double chocolate, white chocolate chunks in the swirl and cocoa in the cake. But then we had a mishap. And like all cake mishaps in my kitchen, we do not discuss them (watching Mommy fuss and fume and stomp is… 

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Peppermint Chocolate Ganache Glazed Dark Chocolate Bundtlettes

October 18, 2013 By Laura 5 Comments

I know, more dessert. I usually try to intersperse more savory meals inbetween the baked goods, but I had a really good reason for this. Actually 4 really good reasons. First, I made 2 of my kids’ favorite meals the past week. Favorite meals usually means dishes that have been on this site before.

Filed Under: bundt cakes, cakes, chocolate, ganache, mint chocolate Tagged With: birthday, bittersweet chocolate, bundt, bundtlette, cake, chocolate, dark chocolate, ganache, mint, peppermint

Milk Chocolate Ganache Glazed Peanut Butter Cup Surprise Bundtlettes

October 7, 2013 By Laura 14 Comments

Milk Chocolate Ganache Draped Peanut Butter Cup Surprise Mini Peanut Butter Cakes

Guys I am so excited to tell you about the weekend I just had in Chicago courtesy of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, but I just cannot think of  a way to work it around to this mini cakes. So it will have to wait, but suffice to say I am tired and a little… 

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Filed Under: bundt cakes, cakes, candy, chocolate, cupcakes, ganache, kids cooking, peanut butter Tagged With: cake, candy, cupcake, Halloween, milk chocolate, mini cake, peanut butter, peanut butter cup, Reese's

Chocolate Glazed Latte Cake

January 23, 2013 By Laura 15 Comments

This place has been dessert central lately. Don’t fret, I have not given up my beef braising, curry paste pounding, bean cooking ways. But this has been a hell of a winter for germs, and as long time readers know, I am the original germ magnet. Why is that relevant? Because baking is fun, relaxing,… 

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#BundtAMonth: Mint Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake with Creme de Menthe

December 1, 2012 By Laura 22 Comments

Creme de menthe mixed with sour cream for bundt cake

  Oh Bundt A Month, how I love you. Seriously. I was already addicted to bundt cakes, but being “forced” (inspired, assigned, whatever) to create this cake may be the happiest thing that has ever happened to me dessert-wise. And that is saying something.

Filed Under: blog events, Boozy Desserts, bundt cakes, cakes, chocolate, ganache, mint chocolate Tagged With: #BundtaMonth, booze, bundt, bundt cake, chocolate, chocolate chips, creme de menthe, ganache, mint

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Hi! I’m Laura and I am a recovering history major who has re-channeled all of my passion for learning about the history of different countries to learning about their food culture. That doesn’t mean every dish on here is strictly authentic, but it does mean that even my adaptations are not undertaken lightly. My goal is to show you–by doing–that these dishes are possible in your kitchen. Including desserts because I have quite the sweet tooth! Read More…

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