National Chocolate Cake Day, the day all chocolate cake lovers wait for, is coming up on Thursday, January 27th! I can barely contain myself!!! A piece of moist, rich chocolate cake is one of my favorite guilty pleasures. If you’re looking to celebrate this delicious “holiday”, then try out one of these recipes: Chocolate Sour Cream Cake • Read More »
Tags: chocolate cake, chocolate mayonnaise cake, chocolate sour cream cake, dark chocolate cupcakes, January 27th, National Chocolate Cake Day
If you’ve got lots of candy canes and you’re wondering what to do with them, here’s a few ideas I found at MarthaStewart.com. The Candy Cane Can -tips from Martha Stewart Everyday Food and MarthaStewart.com More than 1.8 billion of these holiday hooks are made each year. Luckily, candy canes are tasty additions to lots • Read More »
Tags: candy cane hot cocoa, candy cane ice cream, candy canes, Christmas, holidays, minty bark, peppermint sauce
One of my kids recently requested (verbatim) chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and sprinkles for his birthday treat. After doing a quick recipe search, I decided to make him a Chocolate Sour Cream Cake. The very moist, very chocolatey and very delicious cake was a hit with the Birthday Boy! Is there anything better than that? I • Read More »
Tags: birthday cake, chocolate, chocolate cake, chocolate sour cream cake, sour cream
A friend recently requested chocolate cupcakes with coconut frosting for her birthday treat. She was very specific; she wanted a bite-sized dessert that would taste like a Mounds candy bar. After doing a recipe search and not finding exactly what I was looking for, I decided to wing it. Since I wanted a moist and • Read More »
Tags: birthday treats, bittersweek chocolate, cupcakes, dark chocolate, kid treats
Pudding is comfort food, and in this case it’s delicious, chocolatey and super easy to make. A small amount of this pudding goes a long way because it’s so rich. Normally, I’d serve the chocolate pudding with some lightly sweetened whipped cream but since I was making it for my munchkins, I didn’t bother. My • Read More »
Tags: bittersweet chocolate, cornstarch, double chocolate pudding, half & half, light cream, milk, sugar, unsweetened cocoa
These orange-scented muffins are moist, not too sweet and studded with chocolate chips. I’m eating one now between sips of freshly brewed French roast coffee…Yumm! I got the recipe out of the Fresh Every Day Cookbook by Sara Foster. She calls the muffins Orange Chocolate Muffins, but I renamed them Orange Chocolate Chip Muffins since they’re not • Read More »
Tags: bran cereal, butter, chocolate chips, Muffins, orange, orange juice, orange zest, sour cream
Mole, a Mexican specialty, is a rich, thick sauce with complex flavors. It is usually labor-intensive and includes a long list of ingredients. This quick version of a mole (pronounced MOH-lay) uses canned chipotle chilies and diced tomatoes to form the sauce for tender chunks of chicken. The smoky, spicy sauce includes chocolate, an ingredient commonly found in some moles. • Read More »
Tags: Chicken, chipotle chile, chocolate, cumin, Mexican, mole, peanut butter, tomatoes
Chewy and delicious, these gussied-up chocolate chip cookies have a few bonus ingredients thrown in for kicks (oats, coconut, raisins and/or pecans). You can have fun changing up the add-ins each time you make them. Add more chocolate chips if you don’t like raisins or pecans. Anyway, you get the picture…just make ’em how you like • Read More »
Tags: chocolate chip, coconut, John's Kitchen Sink Cookies, oats, pecans, raisins
If you’ve got a few ripe bananas to use up then you should give this recipe a try. It’s moist, easy to make and a nice change from plain ol’ banana bread. Each bite of this coffee cake is loaded with cinnamon and chocolatey goodness. The recipe calls for a metal pan but the glass • Read More »
Tags: banana, chocolate chip, coffee cake, struesel
Little Guy had a birthday this week and requested chocolate cake as his special treat. Recently I’d run across a recipe for chocolate mayonnaise cake so I decided to give it a go. For me, my favorite part of the whole condiment-in-cake experience was when I was making it. The kids were watching me mixing the • Read More »
Tags: cake, chocolate, mayonnaise