Chocolate Banana Upside-Down Cake
While my banana didn’t stay at what became the top of this cake, so the visuals aren’t miraculous, this is a delicious cake worth the hassle of cooking the banana slices! Because it only needs 3/4 cup...
View ArticleChocolate Caramel Brownies
Hello poor neglected blog! I’ve been traveling, and then not cooking anything interesting, and then taking even worse photos than usual, but we’re back, with brownies! These ones are very dense and...
View ArticleKix Bark
It’s been a while since I’d made something with such a big gap between attractiveness and tastiness, but this is a quicky lumpy mess of delicious! In theory you can make this into individual (lumpy)...
View ArticleChocolate Mousse
Some very nice chocolate mousse that I put into white chocolate bowls. The bowls were enough hassle/not nice enough that I don’t think they’re worth recreating, but the mousse is a keeper! Ingredients:...
View ArticleS’more Rice Krispie Treats
A recent King Arthur recipe I couldn’t wait to make, the browned butter with some extra whole milk powder really made a rich fantastic flavor I want to make a million times. The only thing wrong with...
View ArticleNo Bake Caramel Bars
A good dessert to avoid turning on the oven! The original recipe for this called for a roughly chopped bag of Butterfinger Bites – I’m not sure those still exist, and certainly my store didn’t have...
View ArticleChocolate Cherry Ice Cream Sandwich Cake
We’re going to take last week’s maraschino cherry ice cream and turn it into something a bit over the top this week! This would be great for a party, but also keeps just fine while you work through...
View ArticleFlourless Brownies
These were some good chocolatey brownies! When they were still hot from the oven, they were weirdly unsatisfyingly insubstantial feeling, but once cooled they were more dense and good! Ingredients: 1/4...
View ArticleChocolate Peanut Butter Cheesecake
The actual hands-on parts for this are reasonably quick, but make sure to give yourself time for the cream cheese to come up to room temperature, and then for everything to chill. The way the recipe...
View ArticleChocolate Banana Cake with Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting
This recipe perfectly used up the amount of cocoa powder I had left, so…phew that it didn’t need any more! There’s a good amount of banana flavor in the cake, and this only-some-cream-cheese frosting...
View ArticleBuckeye Cheesecake Bars
Using up some cream and an excuse to buy some chocolate peanut butter, a convenient one all around! Ingredients: Crust: 20 Oreo cookies 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted...
View ArticleCaramel S’mores Bars
Wow, 3 posts in 3 weeks! Boggling to remember how many years I did 3 posts every week! These are pretty intense looking, but were very doable in a day during which I did a whole lotta other stuff,...
View ArticleBanana Bark
Apparently this is a “thing” on ticktock, maybe? I’m the sort of boring that would rather play sudoku than use ticktock so I can’t confirm first-hand! But it’s very a simple, quick, and tasty...
View ArticleStrawberry, Peanut Butter, and Chocolate Mini Tarts
I recently shared this recipe for peanut butter/oat cups with a friend. We both thought it was super lame/disappointing to make a tasty crust but then just gloop some yogurt inside, so I decided to do...
View ArticleChocolate Tart
Turns out my one friend around here doesn’t really do sweets?? So we’re going bittersweet today. Ingredients: Crust: 1 stick unsalted butter, room temp 1/3 cup sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon...
View ArticleCookies and Cream Crunch Bars
Dense brownies covered in Oreos, and then a layer of chocolate peanut butter, this is a real rich dessert! I cut mine into 9 pieces, but then ended up chopping those some, as this is an intense dessert...
View ArticleCrockpot Hot Fudge Peanut Butter Pudding Cake
A crockpot full of chocolate brownie that makes its own chocolate puddingy topping. Delicious, and even better with some ice cream! I didn’t feel like the peanut butter added strong flavor, but it’s in...
View ArticleChocolate Chip Bundt
A chocolate chip bundt cake with a chocolate topping? Sign me up! A little bit towards dense on the dense vs fluffy scale, and quite enjoyable. I thought it might be a good idea to ‘flour’ the bundt...
View ArticleCookie Dough-filled Pretzel Sandwiches
A perfect party snack, these are a delicious combo of cookie dough, salty pretzels, and the all-important choco-coat. How could you go wrong? And to make sure everything stays right, you start off by...
View ArticleChocolate Buckwheat Cake
Last year at work we grew buckwheat for the first time. We brought it to a historic mill at the neighboring Metropark system, and just last week got back the first batch of buckwheat flour! This is the...
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