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Chocolate Pecan Brownie Cookies

January 20, 2013
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  Due to severe lack of dessert in the house, my daughter decided to bake these chocolate pecan brownie cookies. In short, they are amazing. Chocolatey, salty, crunchy,and buttery (as Mr. Rockies puts it), these cookies will thwart even the most determined dieter. It would be hard to resist this kind of chocolatey goodness. However, [...]

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Kahlua Chocolate Cake

August 3, 2012
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Kahlua chocolate cake must have been invented for serious chocoholics. It has three times the chocolate; chocolate chips, baking mix and chocolate pudding. This Kahlua chocolate cake has been a kitchen staple for many years at our house . It is super moist, keeps well and can be prepared a few days in advance. It [...]

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Dark Chocolate Chili Truffles and a Visit to Ouray Colorado

July 17, 2012
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On our recent two week RV trip we spent the last couple of days in southern Colorado. One of the stops was Ouray , where, in search for coffee and some treats, we happened to stumble over a little gem, Mouse’s Chocolate & Coffee shop. It was actually my daughter who spotted the sign first, [...]

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Celebrating two years of blogging with Spicy Chocolate Cupcakes filled with Nutella Chili Chocolate Ganache and Chili Cream Cheese Frosting

March 1, 2012
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Two years pass so quickly, especially when you are having fun. Therefore I am proud to have reached the goals for my blog that I set myself a year ago. One was to improve my pictures. Many thanks go to Jennifer Olson, my photography instructor, for being so patient with me. Through Jen I discovered [...]

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Happy Valentine’s Day & David Lebovitz’s Chocolate-Port Truffles

February 10, 2012
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I am a big fan and follower of David Lebovitz’s blog, David Lebovitz. David is an American living in Paris. He is a pastry chef, writer, culinary tour guide and food blogger. Well, I am sure you already know him.  I really enjoy reading his blog. He just makes me laugh. While thumbing through my [...]

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Donauwelle – My Guest Post at “Cooking with Michele”

February 8, 2012
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Today I am guest posting a German cake, Donauwelle, at “Cooking with Michele”. Michele is one of my local Denver food blogger friends that I highly admire because of her versatile talents. She takes clients to Italy on cooking trips, keeps a successful catering business and just finished her very first cookbook. She teaches cooking [...]

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Mausi’s Midnight Crackles

April 6, 2011
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Whenever my daughter is baking it has to be a recipe including some chocolate. This time she wanted to bring some chocolate cookies to school. Her and her classmates had a small celebration after finishing  lesson #100 in their math book. Mausi (is one of my daughter’s nick names since birth and means little mouse [...]

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Walnut Chocolate Chip Bars

March 16, 2011
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End of last year I read in one of my cooking magazines that cookie bars will have a revival in the year 2011. I was wondering if any of you might know why they ever went out of style? Personally, I think, that a cookie bar is a very time saving baked good. All of [...]

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Mint Chocolate Bundt with Creme De Menthe Chips

March 2, 2011
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Most of you probably  know that it is “Girl Scout cookie time”. Our family’s very favorite are their “Thin Mint Cookies”.  My daughter purchased two boxes (only) through one of her friends. Don’t ask me what we were thinking. We should have ordered a lot more. But here we were with only two boxes of [...]

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Caramel Filled Chocolate Cupcakes with Vanilla Scented Cream Cheese Frosting and Salted Caramel

February 23, 2011
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So, here it is, finally, the complete recipe of  the “Winner of Best Taste” at Tracy’s cupcake party. It is a chocolate cupcake filled with caramel sauce and topped with vanilla scented cream cheese frosting. The decoration on top is a small salted caramel. When I received Tracy’s invitation to her cupcake competition I was [...]

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