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Chocolate Brownie Cookies

Chocolate Brownie Cookies

Sometimes a pan of chocolate brownies can lead to deep decision making—Who wants the corners with crunchy edges or who’s asking for the middle pieces with soft pillowy insides?  These chocolate brownie cookies make those kinds of choices irrelevant.  Round in shape, they offer the–Read more

Cherry Chocolate Brownies

Cherry Chocolate Brownies

Brownies are a classic picnic dessert. They’re casual, chocolate-y, easy to transport and share, and maybe a tad decadent. When two types of cherries and some chocolate chips get added to the batter, they rise to another level of summer bliss. Cherry chocolate brownies are–Read more

Chocolate Cinnamon Snowflakes

Chocolate Cinnamon Snowflakes

We just returned from a few days in Mexico, a welcome time in warm climes with soft sand and blue skies. Each evening during our stay, we’d hear a knock on the door for a delivery of warm tea and pieces of chocolate. The candies–Read more

Celebration Chocolate Cake

Celebration Chocolate Cake

On Tuesday we celebrated one month of having our granddaughter Rose in our lives. We had a lot to be happy about, as she is a sweet, mellow, beautiful baby. So we baked a homemade chocolate cake with glossy, rich chocolate frosting.  Then we told–Read more

Mississippi Mud Bars

Mississippi Mud Bars

A slice of sweetness can make strong memories.  These Mississippi Mud bars bring together some flavors of Easters past: pecan-studded Goldbrick eggs, fluffy marshmallow insides of filled bunnies, the chocolate coating on– almost everything.   Somewhat like brownies topped with marshmallows and then a rich chocolate–Read more

Pistachio and Chocolate Tart

Pistachio and Chocolate Tart

The day that my bag of shelled pistachios met a pile of bittersweet chocolate was a very good one.  I was looking for a dessert to cap off a spring dinner out on the deck, and this pistachio and chocolate tart answered my call. As–Read more