Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Pie…Of Joy!

So this past Christmas I received, amongst other things, a Nestle Toll House cookbook. This was yet another cookbook to add to the growing pile of cookbooks I’ve either received as gift, won, or bought on impulse, yet rarely made anything from. So, I’m trying to be better about actually using said cookbooks, rather than [...]

A Brief Overview of Chocolate Delicacies from Trader Joe’s

So yeah, Christmas. That holiday that happened almost a month ago? I’m still eating the chocolate fallout from it. (I still haven’t gotten around to taking down the decorations from it either, but that’s another matter entirely). So Drew and I had the fortune of acquiring a significant amount of chocolate that was from Trader [...]

Chocolate Pecan Pie, Courtesy of Emeril

Chocolate pecan pie is the glorious merging of ingredients into a delicious fatty amalgamation of awesome. Regular pecan pie is already an incredible thing, but chocolate just makes it even better. I don’t have a favorite chocolate pecan pie recipe (yet, at least…) so when I decided to make one recently, I just pulled the [...]

My Big Fat Bloated Holiday Eatings

This will be a recipe-sparse and photo-intense overview of some of the things I got to eat over the holidays. First, we can start with the Christmas birdie. I’d initially taken a giant pile of photos of the process of making this dead bird into a cooked bird, but at some point I apparently decided [...]

Celebrate The Holidays With Flaccid Peppermint Oreo Mint Bark!

So mint bark is awesome. It’s easy to make plus significantly cheaper then buying it at some fancy chocolate shop. And, if you have slow friends, you can convince them that you chopped down a mint tree, harvesting it’s delicious bark just so they could have an extra special gift. On a related note, it [...]

Super Easy Chocolate Pumpkin Cookies That Vaguely Resemble Brownies

So in the grand scheme of Putting Things Off Until After The Last Minute, I will write about pumpkin cookies now that Thanksgiving is officially over. Oops! But never fear, pumpkin items are meant to, nay demand to be enjoyed year-round, as often as possible. My initial intent was to make some pumpkin spice cookies [...]

Miner Decadence Chocolates (Idaho Springs Trip Part I)

Fall is an exciting time of year for those of us that happen to be lucky enough to live in an area where the leaves turn funny colors. We headed up to Idaho Springs, CO, not too long ago, where the half of the trees that are Aspens are all yellow and the half of [...]

Guest Post: Good Old-Fashioned Chocolate Chip Cookies

(Here’s another post by Julie, yay!) It must be done. These chocolate chip cookies are just too good to keep a secret any longer. These cookies have been passed down the generations from Drew’s and my grandmother. They’re made with sugar, brown sugar, Crisco, eggs, flour, vanilla, salt, baking soda, oatmeal, chocolate chips, and optional [...]

A Nice Healthy Fruit Salad, Chock Full of Marshmallow and Chocolate

First off, sorry for the two weeks of not posting, I’d intended to post while on vacation, but the Atlantic Ocean got the better of me. Anyhow, here’s to a higher posting frequency in the future! I have always held the opinion that a fruit salad just isn’t a proper fruit salad without chocolate. I [...]

My unending search for good marzipan

I have a bit of marzipan obsession. Not the weird marzipan that gets shaped into fruits, I’m talking about super awesome European marzipan that is coated in chocolate. Ok, I’m not actually sure I’ve ever tried the fruit-shaped marzipan, to be honest. I’m just intimidated by eating fruit that isn’t fruit! In any case, for [...]

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