chocolate · cookies · Desserts

Softbatch Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies

Softbatch Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies Oh. My. Goodness. These are so good. Obviously, we don’t worry about raw cookie dough around here. 🙂 Throw out every other chocolate chip cookie recipe I have ever given you, because these were the best ever.  I don’t know why 2 teeny tiny little ounces of cream cheese… Continue reading Softbatch Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies

bars · chocolate · cookies

Caramelitas

Caramelitas My husband is the hunkiest man I know.  He is a great cook. He hunts for our children during hide and seek with the kind of enthusiasm and glee usually reserved for 5 year olds.  He watches The Bachelor with me and engages in conversation about why so and so should and shouldn’t be… Continue reading Caramelitas

chocolate · Desserts

"Melting Pot" Chocolate Peanut Butter Fondue

One of my favorite indulgences is dinner at The Melting Pot.  The Melting Pot is a fondue restaurant, and while I am not wild about the meat course of the meal, the cheese and chocolate courses are to die for. My favorite chocolate selection is “The Original” which is is a milk chocolate fondue, swirled… Continue reading "Melting Pot" Chocolate Peanut Butter Fondue

chocolate · Desserts · pies

Hot Fudge Pie

This dessert could not be easier, and has a rich, homey, and old fashioned sort of taste and texture.  It will make you want to curl up with a blanket and a scoop of ice cream and watch old movies on your couch all night. Alternatively, you could do what I did, and serve it… Continue reading Hot Fudge Pie

Cakes and Cupcakes · chocolate

Hot Chocolate Cupcakes with Marshmallow Buttercream

Hot Chocolate.  4th only to pie, chocolate peanut butter ice cream, and cereal as the things that contributed most to me gaining 60 pounds each time I was pregnant. So of course, when I saw it in cupcake form, with… wait for it… Marshmallow buttercream… I was in.  I was sooooooooo in. I will admit… Continue reading Hot Chocolate Cupcakes with Marshmallow Buttercream

chocolate · cookies

Chocolate Gooey Butter Cookies

My friend Leina hosted a cookie exchange/princess party for Christmastime (cookie exchange for the adults, princess tea party for our daughters) which I thought was a brilliant idea. One of the cookies that she made was a buttery, soft, ah-mazing chocolate cookie.  The second I put it in my mouth, I could tell by how… Continue reading Chocolate Gooey Butter Cookies

Breads · chocolate

Aunt Susan’s Chocolate Zucchini Cake

    Who isn’t always looking for ways to use up zucchini this time of year?   My mom’s sister, my Aunt Susan, is one of the best cooks I know.  Every year on my mom’s birthday, my aunt would make her this delicious chocolate zucchini cake-one of my mom’s favorite things.   My mom… Continue reading Aunt Susan’s Chocolate Zucchini Cake