Decadent Flourless Chocolate Espresso Cake with Fresh Flowers and Vanilla Whipped Cream Chocolate…. If there was any ingredient that gets my attention quickly, it has to be chocolate! Rich and decadent, chocolate has the power to transform any sweet into…
Double Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
What’s your response to stress? Do you crank the music to eleven and jump on the treadmill? Text your friends silly memes all day, to spark a brief giggle? Clean the closets? Reorganize an already-sparkling pantry? We all have our…
Rich Homemade White Hot Chocolate with Peppermint
White flakes gently fall from the sky. Sunlight glistens off frozen branches. Sounds are hushed by knee-high snowdrifts. A stunning picture – but the idyll is immediately torpedoed by the shrieks & giggles of my three sons, barreling full tilt…
Chocolate Cranberry Bundt Cake
I think most of us have a collection of family recipes; scribbly-written and faded index cards that hide in our cupboards. Those tried-and-true dishes that were a trademark of our family dinners growing up. Recipes that bear the splatters of…
Lemon & White Chocolate Truffles
If it is not clear by now, I will just go ahead and announce that I have an epic sweet tooth. Sugar, butter, and chocolate bring out the best in me! I grew up in a house where baking was…
Double Dark Chocolate Cookies
There is a lot of Valentine’s Day grumpiness this time of year. Don’t get me wrong; a lot of the arguments are totally valid, and I was definitely a complainer during my topsy-turvy twenties (at least, in the romance…
Chocolate Peppermint Bark Shortbread
Everyone has their personal favorite taste that they cherish over everything else. Some people like beer, others prefer specialty cheese… For my husband, it’s any dessert with peppermint or a fresh minty flavor (with maple a close second, being Canadian…
Nutella Hot Chocolate with Kahlua
If I had pick my favorite time of year to live in the northeast, it would be right about now. That golden twilight between seasons; still warm and bright during the day, but crisp and clear in the evenings. Not…
Chocolate Peanut Butter Smoothie
I try to hit the gym four to five times a week. Although I enjoy it most (OK…some) of the time, there are days where I have to convince myself that attending a killer Insanity class, or shaking what my…
Coconut Chocolate Chip Frozen Custard
I’m giving you fair warning now – this recipe is a bit on the caloric side… It’s ice cream taken to the next level… Creamy, rich, a true coconut and chocolate ‘frozen custard’. It is DIVINE. I will start…
Sinfully Rich Chocolate Truffles
This time of year always flashes me back to my days working as a ballet teacher. Final classes, rehearsals, and end of year performances dominate most of May and early June. Aglow with all of the excitement that little pointe…
Neapolitan “Naked” Layer Cake
I am starting to get into “birthday party mode” for my eldest son this week. Even though his actual birthday is later this month, we are having a modest get together of family and friends to celebrate the Little Man…