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Posts tagged “chocolate”

Gooey and Fudgy: Hershey's Ultimate Chocolate Brownies
Recipe Review

Got a serious chocolate craving? These brownies will do the trick and leave you wishing you had room for more. They're intensely chocolately and so fudgy you almost need a spoon. You'll definitely nee...

The Best Chewy Chocolate Cookies Ever (& Low-Fat Too)
Recipe Reviews

Do you like chewy cookies? Do you love the chewy edge of a brownie? Then these cookies are your ultimate treat. ...

Five Ways to Eat: Dark Chocolate

You probably don't need much help from us in eating your dark chocolate. After all, it's not only addictively delicious; it also has a health stamp of approval these days — antioxidant is such a...

Best Way to Drizzle Chocolate: A Squeeze Bottle

Do you own a plastic squeeze bottle? If not, you should! It's good for so many things around the kitchen — but it's especially good for drizzling chocolate....

Recipe: Chocolate Mousse with Olive Oil and Sea Salt

Last week I was planning dinner for visiting friends, and I was seized by a craving for cool, creamy chocolate mousse. I had a bag of Scharffen-Berger chocolate burning a hole in my baking cupboard an...

Recipe: Dark Chocolate Ice Cream With Fig & Cardamom

Summer is in full swing and there's nothing we crave more than ice cream. So when we found ourselves with some uneaten figs and a little free time, we whipped up a batch of this extremely decadent ...

Recipe: The One Minute Brownie

You know that we usually pan box mixes; from scratch is healthier and sometimes even quicker. And yet... while some days we feel in the mood for complicated desserts with lots of steps and ingredients...

Recipe: Cake Love's Chocolate Butter Cake with Pastry Cream & Italian Buttercream

We received mixed reviews after sharing our thoughts on the Cake Love cookbook last week. We'd tested 5 or 6 cakes from the book with extreme success, but those who live near the bakeries were in dis...

Best Recipes for a Knock-Out Chocolate Dessert?
Good Questions

Q: I would like your suggestion for a chocolate recipe. I am entering a chocolate lovers' contest at our county fair this year and need some inspiration as I develop a chocolate recipe that will hold ...

Liquor To Have On Hand Even If You Don't Drink

We always seem to be the odd man (or woman rather) out at parties because we don't drink. But that doesn't mean we don't have a well stocked liquor cabinet! Why would we need it around if we aren't...

Too Much Cake: Nigella Lawson's Nutella Cake With Chocolate Hazelnut Ganache
Guest Post from Elissa of The Painted Peach

These days it seems I look for every and any excuse to make cake. I have been on a bit of a baking rampage, and my tiny studio kitchen is nearly groaning under the weight of so many cakes. It's gotten...

Recipe: A Whole Lotta Chocolate Cookies
Guest Post from Tasha of That's So Yummy

Ever just want a delicious cookie recipe filled with a whole lotta chocolate? Then this your lucky day because I have one here for you that is not only a chocolate cookie itself but it is stuffed wit...

Five Reasons to Keep a Chocolate Bar on Hand

Other than the fact that your favorite hunk of dark chocolate makes a perfectly delightful dessert all on its own, it can dress up other desserts or morph into something entirely new. We've got five g...

Picnic Recipe: Chocolate Bouchons from Thomas Keller

Are you looking for a good picnic dessert? How about little chocolate cakes just right for packing and eating al fresco? These are from Thomas Keller, who seems to like a good picnic. First we had a f...

The Chocolate Peanut Butter Gallery

Chocolate and peanut butter is one of those classic combinations that nearly everyone loves. It's nearly as classic as basil and tomato, Parmesan and pasta, soy and sesame. It's so delicious, in fact,...

In Praise of White Chocolate

We've been thinking a lot about white chocolate since hearing it discussed on Good Food last week. This chocolate definitely gets short shrift in the food world, and we admit to often passing it over ...

Recipe Review: One Bowl Mascarpone Brownies

We have an indecisive sweet tooth. We hold the same passion for desserts that are ridiculously fussy and complicated, as we do for ones that involve a single bowl and whisk that can be whipped up in...

Handy Tip: How to Melt Chocolate

We've all heard that we should be super careful when melting chocolate as it can easily scorch. In response. many people have taken to either using a double-boiler or the microwave. Both of these me...

Recipe: A Modestly-Sized Cake with Lemon, Walnuts, and Chocolate Chunks

A couple weeks ago I asked you what kind of cake I should make in a new cake pan from IKEA. Well, we had a couple guests over Saturday night, and I had a chance to use the pan for the first time. Here...

Behind the Scenes With Taza: How Chocolate is Made

We felt like we'd won the golden ticket when we were invited to go on a behind-the-scenes tour of Taza Chocolate in Somerville, Massachusetts. You didn't have to ask us twice! Taza has been producin...

Look! A Chocolate Apple Pie

We may upset some apple pie purists here, but, being chocolate lovers, we went a little cuckoo when we saw this pie from Kayotic Kitchen, a food blog from the Netherlands. Chocolate pie dough? Oh, hec...

National Food Roundup: Love and Chocolate
From Nationwide Newspaper Food Sections 02.11.09

It's all about the Valentine's Day chocolate and romantic meals in this week's jam-packed roundup. Ready? ...

Gallery: Chocolate Desserts for Valentine's Day

Well, everyone else is doing it, so we will too! Chocolate, that is. There's a requisite level of cacao trotted out at this time every year. So here are fifteen chocolate desserts and treats for Valen...

How To Make an Oreo Cake

OK, Eating Light month is safely over, so now we can get back to telling you about sugary desserts and chocolate decadence. All in moderation, of course. Take this Oreo Cake, for instance. You really ...

Chocolate-Dipped Pretzels with Mint Sugar
Un-Gift Guide 2008

Here is a very, very last-minute food gift that takes literally five minutes to make, and yet everyone you share it with will love it (and you). Too good to be true? No -- it's just chocolate-dipped p...