6 posts categorized "Chocolate"

Chocolate Bark Three Ways: December 12, 2011
Categories: Chocolate, Dessert, Teacher Gift
Normally at this time of year we are baking furiously, making cookies to package up and give away. Along with a bottle of Black Ankle wine, these are our favorite gifts to take along to a party or to give...

Flourless Chocolate Cake with Blood Orange Sauce: April 7, 2011
Categories: Chocolate, Dessert, Party Food, Season: Anytime
I sometimes think that there is a collective consciousness. Or maybe all ideas are riding on the same current. Right after I posted this recipe for Orange Chiffon Cake, the New York Times ran a recipe for Yuzu Chiffon Cake,...

Mexican Chocolate Tea Cakes: December 8, 2010
Categories: Chocolate, Cookie, Season: Anytime, Teacher Gift
Mexican tea cakes -- sometimes known as Russian tea cakes -- are among my favorite cookies. Loaded with pecans and filled with light powdered sugar, they are a bite of delight. Really, there's not much that could be done to...

Chocolate-Hazelnut Macarons: September 24, 2010
Categories: Chocolate, Dessert, Season: Anytime, Teacher Gift
As promised, here is a macaron recipe for you chocolate lovers. Chocolate is a challenge for me because I adore it, but I have become very susceptible to the effects of caffeine. I'm not sure if the cause is all...

Chocolate Sheet Cake with Brown Sugar Buttercream Frosting: March 18, 2010
Categories: Basics, Chocolate, Dessert
I love making homemade cake, but it is so disappointing to make a cake and then realize that a cake mix would have been better. I have made cakes that are too dry, too wet, too crumbly, not sweet enough,...

Oscar's Brownies: May 11, 2009
Categories: Basics, Chocolate, Dessert, Easy to Freeze, Party Food, Season: Anytime, Teacher Gift
This post is kind of cheating because this isn't my recipe. I haven't modified it one iota. There was no reason to because these brownies are perfect as is. So I'm just going to provide you the link to the...