Tuesdays with Dorie – (Milk) Chocolate (Mini) Bundt Cakes

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe was the milk chocolate mini bundt cakes.  As you can see, I don’t have a mini-bundt pan, and didn’t think I would use them enough to justify purchasing one, so I doubled the recipe and baked it in a normal 12-cup bundt.    It was perfect!  I baked [...]

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Tuesdays with Dorie – Cocoa-Nana Bread

I am so behind in posting.  I have so many recipes and pictures to share, but with my new job, I feel like I barely have a minute of spare time these days!  I did manage to bake the TWD recipe this weekend.  I honestly was not sure how this came out.  After the cake [...]

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Chocolate Oatmeal Almost Candy Bars

I’ve been absent, but I have a good reason, starting a new job and all!  It’s been a slight adjustment getting used to a new schedule, though really not a huge one.  While I was unemployed, I purposefully kept a strict schedule so that it wouldn’t be a shock.  I went to bed at a [...]

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Tuesdays with Dorie – Low and Lush Chocolate Cheesecake

I’ve missed a lot of Tuesdays with Dorie baking lately, so I knew I had to make up for it with some extra effort.  Since this is a chocolate cheesecake and all, and since I’m most likely bringing this to a New Year’s party, and I can think of few better ways to start off [...]

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Happy Holidays!

I have been completely off track with blogging and Tuesdays with Dorie since Thanksgiving hit.  There are just so many other things to do during the holidays!  I wanted to bake this week’s pecan pie, but life became consumed with cookies instead.  This year, for Christmas, it’s just the two of us.  I don’t have [...]

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Holiday Recipes from Domino Sugar

A representative from Domino Sugar contacted me last week to see if I was interested in featuring one of their holiday gift ideas in a post.  They sent me a $20 Visa gift card to help out with expenses in making one of their recipes.  I was excited to browse their homemade holiday gift page.  [...]

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Chocolate Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting

As a kid, I didn’t like cake.  Even though my birthday is in December and I grew up in Connecticut, where December usually meant frosty temperatures and snow, I always requested an ice cream cake for my birthday because I didn’t like cake.  I think this is because I grew up without ever having a [...]

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TWD (Molasses Spice Cookies) and More

Life has been a flurry of activity lately.  We had a dear friend visiting; someone whose presence I started to miss the minute we dropped him back off at the airport after a couple of days together.  I baked this apple pie for him, and felt for the first time that I got my all-butter [...]

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Tuesdays with Dorie – Cherry Fudge Brownie Torte

This is the first Tuesdays with Dorie recipe that I changed somewhat dramatically.  The recipe called for a thick cherry-accented brownie base topped with a mascarpone/cream cheese mousse after baking.  I followed the brownie recipe almost exactly, but instead of baking it and then topping it with the mousse, I altered the mousse recipe to [...]

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Tuesdays with Dorie – Sweet Potato Biscuits

I absolutely love sweet potatoes, so I was excited about this week’s TWD project!  I made these as part of our Sunday morning brunch spread (along with an apple crisp and bacon – a strange brunch, to say the least!).  I halved the recipe and found it to be a very easy dough to work [...]

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