I know, us foodie bloggers tend to over-do the holidays. I just may be the biggest culprit of all. But, since we are all in the same red hearted boat my friends, I have decided to do a round up BECAUSE I have found some gorgeous and tantalizing things out there, and perhaps you have not [...]
Archive for the ‘Chocolate’ Category
Start Valentine’s Day on a High Note With Red Velvet Pancakes
Posted in Bread, Breakfast, Chocolate, Valentine's Day, tagged chocoalte pancakes, Red Velvet Pancakes, Valentine's Day breakfast on February 10, 2012 | 22 Comments »
Can you think of a better way to start your Valentine’s Day morning than with rich, soft, chocolaty Red Velvet Pancakes?! I can’t either. They even get served with a luscious, cream cheese dipping sauce. Pretty sweet, right?— pun totally intended…that’s just how I roll. Seriously, these are absolutely decadent and for the handful of readers [...]
Not for Sissies Spiced Molten Chocolate Cakes
Posted in Cakes, Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, Valentine's Day, tagged molten chocolate cakes, spicy chocolate desserts, Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day dessert ideas, winter spiced molten chocolate cakes on February 7, 2012 | 33 Comments »
Inhale. I am giving you permission unlike Bill Clinton’s little foray. You’re not running for president are you? Let’s hope not. Use some imagination…c’mon…I know you can. Close your eyes, picture standing in my kitchen. Please step over the Golden Retriever. Chances are, she is lying at your feet, or more likely has her nose [...]
A Seventies Lunch Box Revival: Twinkies! {Chocolate Squared Style}
Posted in Cakes, Chocolate, Cupcakes, tagged chocolate snack cakes, Chocolate Twinkies, Hostess Twinkies, retro desserts on January 30, 2012 | 30 Comments »
I saw these totally retro, devilishly chocolate, homemade Twinkies on Simple Math Bakery’s site last week (check Jeanne’s site out…much better photos there my friends). They immediately brought back memories of sitting in the school lunch shelter at turquoise painted picnic tables (gum stuck to the underneath of course), chatting with my friends and trading [...]
Two Rocky Road Cupcakes and the Bad List
Posted in Chocolate, Cupcakes, tagged rocky road cupcakes on January 12, 2012 | 35 Comments »
These Rocky Road cupcakes are a perfect example of my tug-of-war with my family over good taste. My daughter and I had to make two versions of these lovely cupcakes to please both sides of the food spectrum at my house. You know that old song, “You say tomato (to-may-to) and I say tomato (to-maw-to), [...]
A Day Late And a Dollar Short Drunken Cointreau Cupcakes
Posted in Chocolate, Cupcakes, tagged chocolate cupcakes, Cointreau frosting, Grand Marnier Cupcakes, Grand Marnier Frosting, Mini Cointreau Cupcakes, orange and chocolate cupcakes on January 1, 2012 | 36 Comments »
Yes, this would have been a good post for FRIDAY or even SATURDAY as you were getting ready to party on, but as the title suggests, I am a day late and a dollar short. That’s just how it is folks. This week has been nuts. At best. We have visited TWO ER’s, THREE other [...]
Traditions Reinvented—A Cranberry Chocolate Devil’s Food Cake
Posted in Cakes, Chocolate, tagged baking, chocolate cranberry cake, cranberry compote, Thanksgiving traditions on November 16, 2011 | 30 Comments »
For those of you who have been here, done that…I am sorry for the reposts lately. I am without a kitchen at the moment so I have decided to share some old favorites of mine and now hopefully yours… Are you in the Thanksgiving spirit yet? Perhaps dreaming of cranberries and pumpkin pie? Cranberries are [...]
Aunt Bette’s Dangerous German Chocolate Cake
Posted in Cakes, Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, tagged German Chocolate Cake on November 14, 2011 | 26 Comments »
Aunt Bette is my husband’s aunt, and as far as my dad is concerned, her German Chocolate cake is the best dowry any dad could ask for. It is actually airy and spongy, with the best ooey, gooey coconut and pecan topping. If that’s not enough, it also has a luxurious chocolate butter cream frosting [...]
All For One and One for All – Three Musketeers Birthday Cupcakes
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, Cupcakes, tagged family, parenting, Three Musketeer's Cake, Three Musketeers Cupcakes on November 9, 2011 | 30 Comments »
My son requested a Three Musketeers’ flavored birthday cake for his family birthday dinner recently. He turned 17 this month…that is absolutely one of the craziest things I have heard in awhile. Where has the time gone? Most of us find ourselves saying that now and again, especially as we watch our children grow. That [...]


