Posts Tagged ‘chocolate’

February 6th, 2010

German Chocolate Cake

Last week I wanted something sweet.  After trying to recreate the Pot Belly dream bars, I had a ton of coconut lying around.  The one thing that I always think of when I have coconut is German Chocolate Cake.  It is that chocolate cake that is iced with a creamy coconut frosting.  When I was [...]

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January 10th, 2010

Recreating the Dream Bars #2

Yesterday I posted the recipe for my first attempt at dream bars. It was extremely tasty, but not the dream bars that I was looking for.  Today is my second shot.  I wanted to make the crust chewier and more moist.  I wanted the top to be chewy but not cookie like.  So I changed [...]

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January 9th, 2010

Recreating Dream Bars #1

I love Potbelly’s Sandwich Works.  They toast the subs, they are extremely cheap and they have Sheila’s Dream Bars.  I purchase one of these puppies each and every time I enter Potbelly’s.  So the other day I had a thought, why purchase a sub to get a Dream Bar when I could make them at [...]

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December 24th, 2009

Homemade Chocolate Fudge

I am continuing with Holiday Appetizer Week. This time we are changing things up a bit. When it comes to bite size food, people usually forget about dessert.  Granted most desserts are finger food, but not many are bite size.  So I decided to make little bite sized squares of fudge.  Fudge is the perfect [...]

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October 10th, 2009

No-Bake Cookies

My Mom would always make these awesome chocolate cookies for me when I was growing up.  I recently asked her for the recipe.  Go figure, no-bake cookies require no baking.  One pan, a little parchment paper and 40 minutes.    Talk about quick treat.  I couldn’t wait to try mine so I had one right after [...]

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October 8th, 2009

Pumpkin Chocolate Swirl Muffins

I hate to say it, but it is fall.  Time to start designing your Halloween Costume and start cooking with pumpkin.  A little bit about me, I enjoy a good pumpkin pie, pumpkin cookies and pumpkin carving.  Lately, I have seen a couple pumpkin swirl cookies out there and it got me thinking about pumpkin [...]

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June 28th, 2009

Ultimate Smores

I have been doing a series of posts about my buddy Jeff’s barbecue. We made a full day out of grilling and sipping on Coronas. To end the night we made the ultimate smores. The recipe was developed by Jeff’s sister “Spud”. While not too far off from the original, it was tweaked enough to [...]

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June 6th, 2009

Ultimate Stuffed Brownies

I love a good brownie.  A good brownie is moist and chewy.  I hate cake brownies with frosting.  If I wanted to eat cake, I would have gotten a piece of cake, not a brownie.  So I have been working on my ultimate brownie recipe.  There are two basic recipes for brownies.  One using melted [...]

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April 23rd, 2009

Awesome Chocolate Chip Cookies

I have been on a quest for the best chocolate chip cookies for a while.  After a while I have figured out the ingredients needed to make a really good cookie.  You need to use both butter and shortening.  If you use all butter your cookies come out flat and crunchy.  If you use all [...]

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