Category Archives: chocolate

Buckwheat Banana Muffins
with Chocolate Chunks & Cacao Nibs

Up until a few weeks ago, I had never made anything with buckwheat flour. Nor could I even recall enjoying anything made of buckwheat (other than the occasional soba noodle dish). Kind of crazy, right? I realized this when Alanna … Continue reading

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Chocolate-Raspberry Icebox Cake

If there is any dessert worthy of the description “hot mess,” it’s the icebox cake. It is really difficult to go wrong with this cake. If you can pile whipped cream on top of cookie wafers until you’ve made a … Continue reading

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Blue Bottle Double-Chocolate Cookies

So back in December, I talked about how I made two different batches of cookies from The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee, because I could not choose one over the other. These, at last, are those other cookies. The holidays … Continue reading

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Cozy Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Cookies

Is it possible to have two favorite recipes for the same thing? If you’d asked me that a month ago, I’d have said, “uh……no.” (And then thought to myself, “man, what kind of question was that?!”) I mean, aren’t we … Continue reading

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Monster Cookies,
Halloween Candy-Style

One of my goals in life is to be known by the children in my neighborhood (if/when I actually settle down into a neighborhood) as the woman that gives out THE BEST Halloween candy. (Also on the Life Goals list: … Continue reading

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