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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

Thick and Chewy Chocolate Cookies

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I know I’m onto something when my daughter says a dessert is too chocolaty. That means it is just getting to that perfect, blissful, full on inappropriate place that I like. For the love of Pete, there are 16 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate in these cookies. And then there is cocoa on top of …click to continue Thick and Chewy Chocolate Cookies