Nuts
I couldn’t stop myself. The dessert is amazing on its own, I know. But I had a mini-loaf of my favorite chocolate cake (well, one of my most favoritest chocolate cakes ever) in the freezer, and it seemed to call out to me. Asking to be baked into this bread pudding. Who am I to resist? […]
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I have been cutting corners in the kitchen lately, what with the move and all. I’ve been on the lookout for quick and easy recipes… things I don’t have to proof, rise, roll, or stick a candy thermometer into. I’ve been returning to tried-and-true classics (like my brownies which I can make with my eyes […]
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Holy Moses. Imagine a pecan pie, but in tart form, and without the pecans but with currents and pine nuts instead. Clear as mud? All you have to know is this: This. Dessert. Rocks. The pastry is flaky, light, and easy to make (i.e.: no rolling required! Just press into your tart pan and you’re […]
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Bigger isn’t always better. When it comes to dessert. (As long as you can have more of the “good things come in small packages” dessert in question, that is.) Take these little cakes, for example. Although weensie (made in your mini muffin pan, and therefore ready before you know it- a huge plus in the […]
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These bars are really quite innocent, even though they look like a one way ticket to diet hell. Other than the chocolate, which isn’t exactly purely evil (antioxidants- hello?), the bars are made with healthy things like oats (keeping More Sweets, Please readers regular), peanut butter (protein-packed), peanuts (protein again, but with a crunch), honey […]
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Making fudge is highly annoying but immensely rewarding. (Kind of like I imagine what it would be like to have kids.) Who doesn’t like fudge? (Crickets should be chirping, highlighting the silence associated with no one speaking up about not liking fudge.) And since we all like fudge, why not make it with brown sugar? That’s the […]
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Pine nuts? In a cookie? But of course. Fennel seeds? In a cookie? Don’t question it until you’ve tried it. (A full dozen of them. Stuffed into your mouth in rapid succession, because there’s something about that hint of fennel-seed-savoriness when baked with the butter into a crispy-outside, sort-of-soft-inside cookie.) I will confess that my […]
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Do you ever stumble upon a recipe and think “I so must make this”, and then the recipe gets buried under the piles of other recipes you think “I so must make this recipe, too”? But every now and then you leaf through your “I so must make these recipes” file and you’re reminded of […]
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Any time you take a cake made with a particularly sweet kind of chocolate (which is really all that “German’s chocolate” is, a sweet chocolate made by some American guy with the last name of German… it’s not a “German” thing, like sausage or beer or Volkswagens), and layer an absolute mountain-full of coconutty-pecanny caramelly […]
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Oh, yes- you’re going to love me for this recipe. You’re welcome, you’re welcome, you’re welcome. Have you ever walked through O’Hare airport in Chicago and been swept off your feet by the smell of roasting nuts? And not just any kind of roasting nut, but nuts coated in a swath of sugar and cinnamon? […]
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I feel a little bit bad about something. I feel like I have been a little too focused on chocolate as of late (like the Tunnel of Fudge Cake, and the Brownie Scrap Pile. Oh, and the Irish Cream Chocolate Mousse, don’t forget that one). I’m so not apologizing- I know it’s fundamentally wrong to […]
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So I’ve been reading about this cake for a few years now, and always knew I’d get to it. Really- how enticing is a chocolate cake with a tunnel of fudge literally running through it? Enticing. Very enticing indeed. A few months ago when trying to pass the horribleness of cardio time at the […]
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Toffee + chocolate + almonds = amazing. Everyone knows that. But use dark chocolate, and you get to eliminate a bit of the guilt. (Isn’t that a rule? The antioxidant effects of the dark chocolate outweigh the artery-clogging effects of the butter? I think I read that somewhere, maybe.) This brittle is one of my favorite […]
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Sometimes you want something sweet and easy. And rich. And fast. Any chocolatey. Oh, and a little bit nutty, too. Well then, here you have it. This is SO not authentic or gourmet or legit or any other synonym for real and classy. It’s a fudge for cheaters. For you baking philanderers. (Yes, I […]
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If you’re anything like me, the only thing you care about when looking at the picture of these cookies is the glaze. The glaze that drips off the edge of the warm cookie, hardening into a little pool on the edge: the best part of the cookie. (And I don’t say that because the cookie […]
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It’s worth it to have to lightly toast until fragrant, then cool slightly, and then process the little pecan bits to smithereens… all in the quest for the perfect chocolatey-pecanny shortbread. If that description made these cookies seem arduous to make, that wasn’t my intention (because in the grand scheme of things, they are really […]
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Oh. My. God. It happened. I took the World’s Greatest Fudge Brownie and did what I have been fantasizing about for just about ever. (No, I didn’t slather it all over myself.) I stuffed it with a caramel and pecan layer, and then watched the layer ooze right out of the fudgy brownie after cutting it. […]
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There’s something about maple that I can’t stay away from, and I don’t think you should stay away from it either. Raised on Quaker Oats’ Maple and Brown Sugar- flavored instant oatmeal, I developed a taste for the sap at an early age. I admit that my pancakes and waffles were smothered in the […]
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