Tag: chocolate

What is better than one small batch cookie recipe? Two of course! Once I felt I had perfected my Double Chocolate Chip Cookies for Two, I decided to see if I could create a classic chocolate chip cookie variation. As it turns out, I absolutely could. These chocolate chip...

Most of the time, I enjoy baking up big batches of goodies for my family of five or to share with friends and colleagues, but every now and then, I want a little something just for me, or something to share with only my husband, or something to satisfy...

Is it just me, or are coconut chips, particularly chocolate coconut chips, more difficult to come by these days? My younger son loves coconut and used to regularly ask me to buy the chocolate covered coconut chips as a special snack, while I was partial to the cocoa coconut...

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...