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Homemade Hot Chocolate

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This is my wish for cold weather. I feel bad asking for it as today was sunny and beautiful. But, I need a little of it to reset my clock, if you will. There is a perfectly serviceable recipe for hot chocolate on the box of Hershey’s Cocoa. But this is in a whole …click to continue Homemade Hot Chocolate

Chocolate Lingering Cake

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This is a small cake with brownie-like qualities. I wouldn’t stand for a brownie with cake-like qualities, mind you. That would be out of the question for me. But this is definitely a cake, best served within 30 minutes of coming out of the oven and with a heaping scoop of ice cream or …click to continue Chocolate Lingering Cake

Bake Sale Chocolate Cupcakes

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Allow me to explain how these were born.

October is school carnival time. This means cake walks and bake sales. Moms and dads are put into motion all over the city to procure baked goods, homemade and store bought. Every year, I have a fairly cynical moment when I have purchased 30 dollars worth …click to continue Bake Sale Chocolate Cupcakes

Mud Cake

I’d love to sit here and tell you that this cake is gorgeous, but it isn’t. The genre is called “mud cake.” I’ve run across a West Virginia Mud Cake and a Mississippi Mud Cake and several non-geographically correlated versions, and all of them are WONDERFUL. But, friends, they aren’t pretty. I tried a …click to continue Mud Cake

Mikey’s Peanut Butter Pie

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”He’s gone, and my heart is shattered in a million pieces.”—Jennifer Perillo

I was reading this sentence and fighting tears on Monday. I desperately hoped that it didn’t mean the only thing that it could mean. Only a little more scrolling about confirmed that Jennifer Perillo, a well known food blogger, writer, and …click to continue Mikey’s Peanut Butter Pie

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