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Chocolate Cake #1

Well, I kicked the tires and lit the fires on my new mixer, she cut her teeth on my first homemade chocolate cake.  She still doesn’t have a name, it will come with time, she will let me know her personality and gain her name.
Yes, you should commit me, I am talking about my stand [...]

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Easy Chocolate Truffles

Truffles mean that God is a woman. I’m just going to put that out there and leave it at that.
These are the easiest truffles that you can find to make, and that is saying something. Good truffles take some patience and time and a little artistry once in a while, and these require that as [...]

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Seven Layer Bars

Thanks to my cookbook give away the other week, I discovered in the comments another kind of bar/dainty that I would like to try. And as per usual, I put my own twist on it, which is very easy to do with 7 layer bars, you can invent the layers as you go and to [...]

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Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins

Necessity is the mother of invention, so they say, and this mother had to make a banana muffin that her kids would eat! I have tried oatmeal banana ones, but they never seem to like them, banana loaf is always a hit but I really wanted to try my new teeny muffin liners that I [...]

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If I Was a Bad Person…

I would taunt you with pictures of delectable chocolate….wonderful, melt-in-your-mouth Lindt Lindor chocolate.. and if I was truly a cruel soul, I would tell you I am eating it for breakfast. (well, almost, my breakfast is at 10 once the kids are at school and I can sit for a moment) but not only that…

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The Best Brownies AKA Chocolate Chewy Wonders

Ever since I made delicious, chewy brownies and promptly lost the recipe for them, I have been searching for a recipe that creates the same chewy-riffic, chocolate bliss that I once experienced. In the searching I learned a few things, how not to mix the hell outta them when you put in the flour, and [...]

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How To: Make Ganache

I made ganache to go on top of some brownies that I made, and ending up not liking the brownies, but loving the ganache on top! Of course, what’s not to love….its’ chocolate and cream cooked together. There’s just no way to go wrong with ingredients like that! Ganache can be used instead of an [...]

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Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookie Bars

The Tollhouse Chocolate cookie recipe is the best basic chocolate chip cookie recipe there is to be had, bar none. They perfected the perfect base for them and it has been around forever. My copy is from a newspaper, and either my grandma or my mom cut and taped the recipe into my huge master [...]

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