Chocolate

Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies

This amazing recipe for Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies comes from America’s Test Kitchen. This recipe sets the bar high for all chocolate chip cookie recipes. There is a nice chew to these cookies and the flavor is incredible; there are hints of nuttiness from the brown butter and the chewy texture comes from the higher […]

Almond

Chocolate-Covered Toffee Breakups

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Chocolate-Covered Toffee Breakups

This week’s assignment for Tuesdays with Dorie is Chocolate-Covered Toffee Breakups. If you’re a fan of Almond Roca buttercrunch, you’ll love these Chocolate-Covered Toffee Breakups. There’s a nice buttery flavor in the crunchy toffee that complements the taste of the toasted almonds and chocolate.

Chocolate

Avocado Chocolate Chip Cookies

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California Avocado Chocolate Chip Cookies

Friends and coworkers have been busy harvesting delicious avocados lately, so I decided to try baking avocado chocolate chip cookies using these home-grown treasures. I received an avocado from a coworker that was really soft and ripe and though I’d better use it right away. I remember reading that avocados can be a healthier substitute for butter, […]

Almond

Tiger Cakes

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This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie assignment was Tiger Cakes, or petits gâteaux tigre. These are moist, upside-down mini cupcakes that have a nice chocolate and almond flavor, and aren’t too sweet at all! Dorie’s recipe makes 24 little cakes. To be perfectly honest, I hesitate whenever I see a cake as a Tuesdays with Dorie assignment because […]

Cake

Malteser Cake (Whoppers Cake)

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This recipe is one that was originally for cupcakes by Cupcake Jemma.  Her Malteser Cupcakes looked so good I wanted to try it out as a full-size cake; I’m glad that I did because these it tasted great! So far, all of the recipes I tried from Cupcake Jemma’s YouTube channel and her cookbook have turned out […]

Brownies

Salted Chocolate Brownie Cookies

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I recently stumbled upon videos by Cupcake Jemma on YouTube, and thought her recipes looked great! In fact, I got the Oreo Pavlova recipe from her. This Salted Chocolate Brownie Cookie recipe looked really good when she made it, I just had to give it a try. Sure enough, her recipe turned out to be a […]

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Midnight Crackles

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This recipe for Midnight Crackles is one that I found in BAKING From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan. This is a chocolate cookie with a kick (thanks to some unexpected spices)! This smells and tastes like it should be a cookie that should be baked for the holidays.