Tag: chocolate
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Hostess-Style Chocolate Cupcakes
Chocolate Cream-Filled Cupcakes Whew! I just finished my first year teaching at a wonderful school. There is one thing I’ve heard talking to teachers: it doesn’t matter if are teaching second grade or twelfth grade, public or private school – the first year is a doozie. And it was, but I’m hoping that I’ll have…
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Fudgies… or No-Bake Cookies – A geographic and cultural debate!
The proper name for these cookies is a matter of some debate in my household. My husband – and most of the country, as far as I can tell – calls these cookies “no-bake cookies.” In my family, these cookies go by one name and one name only – “fudgies”. My grandmother was a bona…
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Brownies
Brownies I’ve owned two of Marcel Desaulniers’s cookbooks, Death by Chocolate and Deserts to Die For, for ages- they date back to my pre-diagnosis days. I gave them a fresh look a few years ago, and discovered that lots of his recipes are free of flour as written! Who needs flour with that much eggs,…
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Chocolate Icing
Chocolate Icing This chocolate icing recipe is based on the Pioneer Woman’s (http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/desserts/yellow-cupcakes-with-sticky-chocolate-icing/) sticky chocolate icing. I scaled it up a bit since the original recipe left odd amounts of sweetened condensed milk languishing in my fridge. This batch makes enough icing to frost two batches of yellow cupcakes (recipe here). This stuff freezes well,…
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Chocolate Walnut Cookies
Chocolate-Walnut Cookies This is François Payard’s recipe for a flour-less, butter-less cookie that has a delicious fudgy interior and a beautiful shiny exterior. The dough is not going to look like typical cookie dough. In fact, the first time my mother made this recipe, she thought the batter was such a sad prospect for cookies…
Cookie and Quilts 