Chocolate

Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

June 2, 2011
Chewy Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

Sometimes you just want something a little different. And sometimes you don’t, but you keep such terrible inventory of your pantry that you’re left with no choice. Everyone wants something chocolate to munch on at 11pm. But no one wants to run to the store at 11pm for chocolate. So we took our favorite chocolate [...]

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Sticky Fingers Bars

May 15, 2011
Sticky Fingers Bars

Tara chose this week’s Project Pastry Queen challenge: Sticky Fingers Bars, an over-the-top dessert bar that we’ve come to expect from The Pastry Queen. We’ve got a cookie base, a sweet Snickers filling, and just for good measure, a layer of peanut butter, peanuts, and chocolate on top. For real. I have no idea how [...]

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Salted Caramel Peanut Bars

May 10, 2011

Pay Day candy bars are one of my guilty pleasures. When we take a road trip, there are three things that we have to grab at a quick pit-stop before getting on the highway: A bag of Funyuns, a Diet Pepsi, and a PayDay. When it comes to sitting in the car for hours, I [...]

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Mexican Hot Chocolate Brownies

March 22, 2011
Mexican Hot Chocolate Brownies

What’s better than a warm, fudgey brownie? A warm fudgey brownie with a kick, covered in ganache. I’m not usually about messin’ around with brownies. Hold the nuts. Hold the fuss. But that doesn’t mean you can’t make perfect even better I took our favorite basic brownie recipe and added a hefty dose of ground [...]

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

February 14, 2011
Cocoa Powder Heart

How are you celebrating Valentine’s Day? Cooking a romantic dinner for your significant other? Or maybe you’re rolling your eyes so hard they hurt I’m cooking Filet Oscar, roasted asparagus, and a salad for dinner and we’ve got molten chocolate cake for dessert. If you still need a V-Day dessert, here are some chocolatey options:

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Molten Chocolate Cakes

February 11, 2011
Individual Molten Chocolate Cakes

This is the final recipe of two weeks of Valentine’s Day chocolatey desserts. And, personally, I think we saved the best for last (although the Dark Chocolate Mousse is a very, very close second). The people who have opinions on these sorts of things say that molten chocolate cakes (or chocolate lava cakes… whatever you [...]

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