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Chocolate

Chocolate Beet Cake with Beet Cream Cheese Frosting

January 24, 2012

Hey Dude (that I’m currently dating), We need to talk. It’s about your mother. Mostly… it’s about how I need to meet your mother. We’ve been carrying on for a while now… and I need to meet the lady that birthed you, clothed you, slapped you upside the head, and made you the awesome man [...]

Smashed Raspberry Chocolate Chunk Pancakes

January 10, 2012

Some things I know to be true things for me: True: Gin martinis are best, most immediately and with olives. True: sometimes painful sacrifices are made for fashion… especially when it comes to wedges. True: In my life, Hemingway and Julia Child are devoured in equal amounts. True: I will always eat a doughnut. It [...]

Chocolate Peppermint Roll with chocolate ganache

December 12, 2011

Own your life. Own every last bit of it. Don’t send your Christmas cards out until you’re good and ready. Wear neon purple tights with a grey dress… why not ? Go heavy on the gold eyeshadow…tis the season. Green nail polish? Go on. Run through the rain… or sleep in and skip exercise [...]

Pumpkin, Millet, and Chocolate Muffins

October 30, 2011

Apparently we’re quickly approaching November. Wait… what!? In the blink of an eye we’ll be eating turkey for Thanksgiving, wrapping holiday gifts, and kissing at midnight… that’s how fast this year is going! What are we going to do about this? Is there some sort of pause button. The only thing I can think do [...]

Midnight Black Chocolate Pudding

October 17, 2011

So there’s this thing about me. I really really don’t like making Halloween treats. Tombstone cupcakes. Spider web cookies. Witch finger snacks. Please… just please. I can’t get into it. I don’t want things to look dead, or bugged, or dismembered. I want things to look sweet and chocolatey and dripping with caramel… and not [...]

Chocolate Coconut Almond Scones

October 10, 2011

14 of the 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 thoughts going through my brainscape: – I’m 30. I can’t shop at Forever 21. First of all, I’m a Large…. and the shorts are still waay too tiny. Secondly, I look much better in Anthropologie clothes. – I’m worth it. – Yea. So I just stress-ate a bag of potato chips. [...]

Old Fashioned Doughnuts with Chocolate Glaze

September 12, 2011

I need to make some decisions. I know… welcome to everyday living. Who do you turn to when it’s time to make big decisions? Mama and Dad? Bestest girlfriends? Awesome boyfriends? Husband? Wifey? God? Bottle of beer? Giant stack of doughnuts? When it comes to making decisions, I make lists… and stare at them. I [...]

Double Chocolate Indoor S’mores

July 18, 2011

Here’s a peek inside my crazy brain. Sometimes… I wonder how many years I’ll get to live. Not in a morbid way. Come on. I’m totally into living. I just wonder. It’s healthy. I wonder how many years I get to live… and what the sum total of that living will look like. How many [...]

Homemade Churros with warm dark chocolate sauce

June 10, 2011

Once upon a time, as a young youth with frizzy hair and giant teeth, I went to Disneyland with my family. We went on rides. I saw Michael Jackson as Captain EO, and tried to replicate his dance moves for the rest of the day. We got popcorn, I secretly made faces at other children [...]

Chocolate, Peanut Butter Cookie Dough, Toasted Marshmallow Cupcakes

May 26, 2011

I’m totally a good person to surprise. If you tell me that you’re stuck in Seattle working all weekend, and you can’t come down for my birthday, I’ll believe you. I’ll believe you, because I love you and you’re not a liar. If you tell me that you’re working away in Phoenix, and you simple [...]

Hot Chocolate Popovers

May 13, 2011

Pictured above are 12 toasted marshmallows. Warm, gooey, sweet, toasty good. The rest of the bag of marshmallows… I ate those standing in front of the oven waiting for these little puffs to bake. … Then I went to the store and bought another bag. … Because I have a problem. … And marshmallows are [...]

Vegan Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies

April 6, 2011

Two things are unacceptable: I keep forgetting to buy butter, and there’s a spider on my ceiling that my cat can’t reach. Two solutions have presented themselves: Make vegan cookies, and construct some sort of winged apparatus to send my cat into flight, thus into spider hunting range. So far, I’ve got the cookies. The [...]

Whole Wheat Chocolate Brown Sugar Sugar Cookies

February 9, 2011

Alright people. Suit up. Gather your armor. We’ve got another holiday to dive into. I’m talking about Valentine’s Day. Now listen…. I don’t care where you stand on the Valentine’s Day issue. I don’t care if you’re single or married or smitten or bitter. Valentine’s Day exists… there’s no ignoring it. Flag day we can [...]

Orange and Dark Chocolate Buttermilk Scones

January 16, 2011

This is one of my favorite ways to count to five. It has chocolate. So.. yea.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Brownies

December 16, 2010

Yesterday I got an email letter. It went a little something like this. Dear Ms. the Baker, Hi there… blah blah blaaah. I often feel the urge to eat like a trucker. Blah blah blaaaah. I always want french fries and hot dogs and meat loaf and steak. Blaah blaah blaaaaah. Today I almost ate [...]

Delicious Hot Chocolate

December 9, 2010

Clearly you need something milky and chocolatey and warm and delicious to go with those marshmallows that I insisted you make. Hot chocolate. Made with all those random/open/half empty/spilling all over the cupboards bags of chocolate chips I have in my kitchen. It only makes sense, don’t you think?

Homemade Almond Joy

October 25, 2010

I tried on about thirty different pairs of skinny jeans last week. It wasn’t cute. This trend is not ok with me. I have thighs. They rub together a little. These candies might be why.

Chocolate Glazed Baked Doughnut Muffins

October 11, 2010

Wanted: Type A personal assistant. Job duties will include: reminding me what day it is, reminding me how many days I have left to write a cookbook, eating pancakes, and listening to me talk to myself as I grocery shop. Wanted: Dude dishwasher. Wanted: Courage… to get back on my bike again. Wanted: A sunny [...]

Peanut Butter Chocolate Pillows

September 20, 2010

Maybe I should just start a blog about peanut butter and chocolate. That seems to be most of what goes on around here, right?

Peanut Butter Meets Chocolate

August 4, 2010

I went to a meeting yesterday… I went to one of those fancy LA-type meetings. Think: television executives, fancy open office, exposed brick walls, Apple computers, too cool for school/ultra hip staff… and me in last year’s twelve dollar Target sandals. Um….. It was intimidating. I sat up straight and hid my shoes. Know what [...]

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