Tag: chocolate

If today was Easter for you, I hope it was a very happy one, otherwise, I hope you had a fabulous Sunday 🙂! When I was growing up, religion didn’t figure very strongly in my family’s daily life. We didn’t attend church outside of events such as weddings or...

Last week we talked about Dark Chocolate Easter Cookies, a recipe that originated with Stella Parks and makes excellent use of excess Easter candy. Despite the prodigious amount of candy that goes into making those cookies (450g, nearly a full pound), I find that I have still more candy...

I don’t know how things work at your house, but at our house, Easter means candy and lots of it. Not only is there candy in all the Easter baskets, but, every year, the kids fill a huge bowl to overflowing with the fruits of their Easter Egg Hunt...

Cowboy cookies are a hearty and delicious adaptation of classic oatmeal cookies where the raisins are swapped for loads of sweet, salty and texturally pleasing mix-ins. The exact origins of the Cowboy Cookie recipe is unknown, but there are similar recipes dating back to the 1930’s – 1950’s such...

It has been nearly three months since I have shared a new brownie recipe, obviously far too long. This recipe is another mashup, this time inspired by my oldest child. Sometimes, I’m not really sure what I feel like making so I’ll fish for ideas, asking my family what...

The word “truffle” can be traced back to the Latin word “tuber” or “tubera” meaning hump or swelling and is the name applied to a genus of lumpy mushrooms or fungi which grow underground and have long been prized as a culinary delicacy. By long, we are talking thousands...

I think, if you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you know that I like to tinker with recipes. Sometimes it is because I think there are improvements to be made, meaning that the tinkering replaces the original recipe. Other times it is because, as much...

Before we leave the holiday baking behind and enter the new year, there is one more holiday recipe I wanted to share – at least, for my family it is a holiday recipe – Magic in the Middle Cookies. There is nothing particularly festive about these cookies – no...

With barely a week to spare (and prompting an unusual, mid-week post), we have come to the final recipe for my holiday goodie trays. Deep chocolate cookies, toasty pecans, gooey caramel and a flourish of more chocolate drizzled over the top, these turtle thumbprint cookies are one of my...

Here we are, just 10 days until Christmas and we are very nearly at the end of our holiday goodie tray adventure. We have only two recipes to go, including today’s Cookies N’ Cream Cookie Dough Brownie Sandwiches. These look a bit like chunky, over stuffed Oreos – and...