chocolate

PMS Pie

Period Cravings Solved with the PMS Pie

I created chocolate potato chip PMS pie to satisfy all of your period cravings. PMS pie has gobs of chocolate, two layers of potato chips (one layer is a potato chip crust), and a salted …

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Pirouette Cookies

Copycat Pirouette Cookies (Nutella-filled Cigar Cookies)

Pepperidge Farm describes their Pirouette cookies as "Slender. Graceful. Delicious. A pastry-like wafer, baked to a delicate crisp, surrounds a luscious, creamy filling."   Growing up, I always found Pirouettes at fancier events …

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Chocolate Mousse Pie

Chocolate Mousse Pie with Coconut Macaroon Crust

Every bite of this chocolate mousse pie delivers rich, silky chocolate with a chewy coconut macaroon finish. This chocolate mousse contains raw eggs, so I highly recommend using pasteurized eggs to prepare …

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Chocolate Olives

Chocolate-Covered Olives – Olive and Chocolate Aphrodisiac Love Bombs

Green olives are reputed to make men more virile and dark chocolate has been thought since the time of the ancient Mayans to increase erotic pleasure. Combine olives and chocolate and you have little aphrodisiac …

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Cocoa Butter Cupcakes with Chocolate Whipped Cream and Homemade White Chocolate Toppers

These yellow cupcakes look like vanilla cupcakes, and it's surprising that they aren't. Because they are made with cocoa butter instead of regular butter, they have a light, chocolaty flavor.  If you weren't told about …

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Nougat With Chocolate Malt – Like in Milky Way Bars

Until I made homemade nougat, it was a mystery to me. Nougat was the alien chewy substance found in my least favorite candy bars. A request to make Milky Way cupcakes prompted me to …

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Chocolate Wafers – Paper Thin and Totally Addictive

Chocolate wafers are the Pringles of the cookie world - once you eat one paper thin chocolate wafer, you just can't stop. These chocolate wafers taste like sugar cones with a touch of chocolate …

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Mudslide Cupcakes with Baileys Irish Cream Whipped Cream

The expression "Don't judge a book by its cover" should never apply to cupcakes. While these mudslide cupcakes are tasty, their cover (a sweet Baileys Irish Cream whipped cream) is the exceptional part. …

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Halloween Snack Idea – Chocolate Covered Garlic

Why? Last year, Jonathan and I went to Gilroy, California. Gilroy is all about garlic. Each year, they host the Gilroy Garlic Festival - which features, as you might imagine, everything garlic! While …

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Black Forest Cupcake

Black Forest Cupcakes

Black forest cupcakes are just like black forest cake, but in cupcake form. Black forest cupcakes are chocolate cupcakes soaked in cherry liqueur, with a cherry filling, a whipped cream topping, and cherries …

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Cacao Nib Cookie Recipe – Unique and Delicious

Cacao nib cookies are to chocolate chip cookies as vanilla bean ice cream is to French vanilla ice cream - each has its place. Some of you will question why I would bake a …

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Kentucky Derby Pie Cupcakes: Place Your Bets on Bourbon Chocolate Cupcakes

In 2004, I went to the Kentucky Derby for my birthday. There were no Kentucky Derby cupcakes there, just a lot of rain. It rained so hard that they had to shut down the …

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Better Than Sex Cupcakes

Better Than Sex Cupcakes: Chocolate Times Five

I don't want a 'plain chocolate cupcake'. I want a phenomenal, rich, delectable, 'better than sex' chocolate cupcake. Milk chocolate? White chocolate? Dark chocolate? All of the the above. Not EVERY …

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