Edible Holiday Gifts: Hot Cocoa Mix & Marshmallows

Hot Cocoa Mix with Marshmallows

As soon as I finished tasting today’s edible gift recipe I wished I could invent scratch & sniff-vision for computers.  It seemed unfair for me alone to enjoy the amazing aromas of this hot cocoa.  So let’s all take a minute to pretend I graduated with a computer engineering major and not a marketing one [...]

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Peanut Butter Blossom Cupcakes with Chocolate Ganache

Peanut Butter Blossom Cupcake with Chocolate Ganache

All year long I focus on cooking with all natural ingredients, local fruits and vegetables, and relatively healthy fare. Then dessert rolls around and my scruples seem to go flying out the window. The fact of the matter is that I am a sucker for baking. I was in the kitchen baking cookies and brownies [...]

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Oreo Chocolate Cupcakes

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I thought I would round out my not so very healthy posts as of late with a fairly indulgent dessert: Oreo Chocolate Cupcakes.  For those of you that may follow me on Facebook (here’s a link in case you haven’t given me a “like” yet), you know that I have been on a mission to [...]

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Molten Lava Cakes. No fire department required.

One of my favorite and most memorable Valentine’s Day dinners was the first year my husband and I were married.  I was working from home in our very first apartment together and had spent the day working on what I thought would be a really exciting and yummy dessert: s’more brownies.  I’m a die-hard s’more fan (I [...]

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Lower Calorie Brownies??

When I decided to focus on lower calorie desserts this week, I made it my mission to find a healthier brownie recipe.  My favorite recipe that I normally use packs 200 calories per brownie (and who really eats one?), plus 11 g of fat.  Definitely not good for a diet, although I must admit really [...]

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Warm Chocolate Pudding

If there was any doubt that yesterday’s cookie recipe would satisfy your chocolate diet craving, then boy do I have a recipe for you!  The flavor of today’s recipe is so dark and rich it is truly hard to believe it has only 160 calories and 2 g of fat per serving.  And after reading today’s [...]

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