The next few posts are full of delicious food with lousy photos. For whatever reasons, lately it feels like it’s all I can do to grab a few very much not staged shots before we dig in. And not staged means you can see computers, pepper grinders, random cookbooks, phones, keyboards, hands, you name it…
Chocolate Glazed Chocolate Chip Cake
Chocolate Glazed Chocolate Chip Cake is a moist and delicious bundt cake that is easy to whip up and stays fresh longer for using oil in the batter. Affiliate links have been used to link to items I am discussing in this post. [Photos were updated in October 2017 and the updated photos are marked…
Chocolate Mint Sandwiches
These cookies, adapted from another winner in Alice Medrich’s Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy Melt-in-Your-Mouth Cookies by Alice Medrich, have been every bit as much of a revelation as Scottish shortbread, another holiday cookie I came to late in life but have since adopted as my own tradition. This is actually the first time I have ever…
Bake And Decorate: Family Chocolate Cake
In case you haven’t noticed, I love cookbooks. So when I looked around the web and saw bloggers receiving free cookbooks to review, I thought hey I can do that! So I contacted Rodale Books and asked them if they had any cookbooks coming out they’d like reviewed and they said yes. And sent me…
Mint Chocolate Thumbprints for the Holidays–or Anytime!
The minute I saw these cookies I knew I was making them. They are from yet another holiday baking magazine, and the minty chocolate definitely says festive holidays–but I could not wait, I wanted them now. So when the PTG asked for volunteers to make dinners and desserts for the teachers during the week of…
Salted Peanutty Brownie Bites
I made the mistake of making these bars the weekend of Halloween, inbetween trick or treat nights. In my town, the kids trick or treat twice (once in a city celebration where the local businesses open their doors to trick-or-treaters and once in the more conventional house to house setting), so the kids already had…
Double Chocolate Peppermint Mousse Parfait
You’ve probably noticed that this blog is dessert/baked goods central lately. I don’t like to whine TOO much (sometimes this blog feels like a long list of what infection I’ve had when), but after the appendectomy I did something to my back, caught a sinus infection, and now I have bronchitis. But October is also…
Salty Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
These are the cookies to reach for when you cannot decide between the Chocolate Sugar Cookies and the Salty Chocolate Chocolate Chip Oat Cookies. Their texture, thin and chewy, resembles the sugar cookies, with the salt and oats of the latter cookie. I love all 3 and do not regret making any of them, although…
One-Bite-to-Heaven Chocolate Yeasted Cake
I have developed a recipe pet peeve. That is for yeasted recipes that were apparently tested in the tropics in an 80+ F kitchen. You know the ones, the ones you start with more than enough time and even though your kitchen is by no means cold–even hot according to your arctic-minded family–it takes waaaaay…