Dark Chocolate Cookies

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Pin It These are also known as Double Funk cookies, named by Cymantha at my work. The girls were having a day, as it sometimes happens around the time of the full moon-especially when you work at a hospital- and I asked her to name them. And so they were named due to the funk [...]

Chocolate Sugar Cookies

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Crispy chocolate sugar cookies are perfect for Halloween baking and decorating. Ghosts and goblins and witches, oh my!

Chocolate Cake #1

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Pin It 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 [...]

Minty Ritz Delights

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Salty Ritz crackers covered in mint chocolate with broken candy cane on top.Basically legal, less expensive crack.

Easy Chocolate Truffles

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The easiest truffles you’ll ever make. Psst. They’re even better frozen.Little frozen balls of happy.

Christmas Biscotti

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Pin It I have a fondness for biscotti of all flavors, and biscotti makes an excellent Christmas gift, because to be frank, anything dipped in chocolate makes a great gift. I also love candied fruit, and to make truly seasonal biscotti the addition of those is perfect! I know these were good because I took [...]

Seven Layer Bars

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Pin It 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 [...]

Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins

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Pin It 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 [...]

The Best Brownies AKA Chocolate Chewy Wonders

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Pin It 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 [...]

How To: Make Ganache

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Pin It 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 [...]

Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe: Pecan Bar Version

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  Pin It 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 [...]

Chocolate Zucchini Cupcakes

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Pin It I wanted these to be brownies, I really did. They are not. They are cakey, and tasty, but not thick, gooey brownies. I am still in search of the ultimate brownie recipe, and a girl at work just told me that she has one, and it uses shortening. Oh my gawd. Shortening. Not [...]

White Chocolate Cocoa Cookies

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Pin It A delectable, oh-so-chocolate tasting treat! These were some of the easiest cookies I have ever made, and they were so amazingly delicious. There’s nothing I enjoy more than a fantastic cookie. Ingredients Needed: 1/2 cup of butter 3/4 cup of brown sugar 1 egg 1 tsp vanilla 1 1/4 cup of flour 1/2 [...]

Confetti Bars

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Pin It These are from my repertoire of my Grandma Marion’s recipes, she was an avid fan of  “dainties”.  Or squares, as most people would call them, but I prefer the word dainties instead, not only because it brings forth very fond memories of my grandma who sadly passed away a couple years ago, but [...]

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