Chocoholic Anonymous

This week we have Steph of Obsessed with Baking to thank for choosing Cocoa-Nana Bread on page 46 of Dorie’s book.  I’m sure you’ve seen me write (over and over again) on this blog that chocolate and fruit should never be combined – but as the old adage goes, there is an exception to every rule.  I have to admit that I enjoy some variations of banana and chocolate and I cannot deny that bananas are, in fact, fruit.

As a general rule I prefer my banana bread with chocolate chips in it (and with a little peanut butter on it), so, as soon as I saw this recipe on the schedule I was convinced I would enjoy it…

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First – apologies for my unannounced (and unplanned) disappearance for the past month-ish.  I did make the pecan pie back in December (actually I made it for Thanksgiving and it was wonderful), but we left town the day the post was due and I never got around to posting it in all of our travel chaos.  I truly wanted to make the chocolate cheesecake but there was no way I could bring Dorie’s book in my luggage and I clean forgot to make a copy of the recipe before we left.  Next thing I know, here it is mid January and I haven’t posted since mid December.

Anyway, enough with the excuses, right?  This week Lillian of Confectiona’s Realm picked Chocolate Oatmeal Almost-Candy Bars on pages 114 and 115.  This is one of  many recipes in the book that doesn’t have a drool inspiring photo paired with it so I have often missed it as I flipped through but I am glad that Lillian selected it.

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