Chocoholic Anonymous

I decided to wrap up my (official) tribute to mom with this recipe for Chocolate Chunk Cheesecake – an indulgent treat that graced my mother’s holiday dessert table for many years and one that has always been a particular favorite of dad’s. I know I disrupted the flow a...

Goat cheese, honey and cajeta bring a new level of flavor sophistication and complexity to a classic cheesecake. The goat cheese has a more tangy and assertive flavor than traditional cream cheese lending an almost savory note to balance out the sweetness of the cheesecake. The honey introduces hint...

Despite the moniker of “French” Silk Pie, this incredibly indulgent, richly chocolate dessert is about as American as they come. The recipe was originally developed in the early 1950’s by a contestant, Betty Cooper, in the third annual Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest – it was, in fact, a $1,000 winning...

What comes to mind when you think of snowballs and sweet treats? Is it one of the many varieties of wedding cookies? Or perhaps it is the classic Hostess snack cake? Or maybe Traditional Newfoundland Snowballs? Until relatively recently (can I say that when referring to something in the...

Most cookies with “melt away” in the name are very similar to the Butter Balls recipe I posted mid last week – a tender, buttery, nutty, shortbread-esque cookie coated in powdered sugar. This recipe for sugarcoated melt-aways (a.k.a. sugar crusted melt-aways) is in the same vein – it does...

When I shared mom’s recipe for Italian Sprinkle Cookies, I mentioned that some sources claim Italian Sprinkle Cookies as an alternate name for Italian wedding cookies – and I contested that claim based on my recollection of the butterball recipe that my mother had made every Christmas for as...

If you are looking for an indulgent, over-the-top, rich and gooey dessert, this is definitely the recipe for you. The composition of this recipe is very similar to a classic caramel and chocolate tart, featuring a chewy, gooey caramel and nut filling and a chocolate ganache topping. But replacing...

I cannot remember a Thanksgiving (or Christmas) dessert table that was not graced with pumpkin pie in one form or another. When I was very young, I remember mom making her classic pumpkin pie and, of course, my maternal grandmother had her own version she served for holiday meals...

If there is one pie that is synonymous with modern Thanksgiving celebrations, it is pumpkin pie. Apple pie may edge out pumpkin pie as America’s favorite pie most of the year, but when Thanksgiving rolls around, it is pumpkin pie that most Americans crave. While pumpkin pie has had...

Apple pie bars, apple bars, apple slab pie, French apple squares, or simply apple squares, this large, rectangular format adaptation of the classic apple pie is literally a crowd pleaser serving anywhere from two to three times the number of people as a standard 9″ inch pie. Just like...