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The official title for this recipe is “The Heart-Healthiest Chocolate Chip Cookies in the World”. They also happen to be vegan, but with the title as long as it is, the vegan label seems to have been dropped. I’m more inclined to name this recipe “Go Ahead, Just Try To Get These Cookies in the Oven Before You Eat All the Dough”. Continue reading “Monochrome Monday: Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies” »
Monochrome Monday has been on a bit of a hiatus, but I’m working on making it a more regular event and encouraging more participation from all of you! I’ve been posting mostly film images, which accounts for the delay in between posts. If I’m not shooting Polaroid, I’ve got to wait until I shoot the entire roll of film and set aside a few hours to develop and scan it. This process is one that I love dearly but it’s not one that can be rushed. After a lot of hemming and hawing, and wondering if I can step fully into the digital photography world without abandoning my analog SLR, I took the leap and purchased a DSLR this weekend. As soon as I can figure out how to shoot monochrome with it, you can expect to enjoy the complete spectrum of photography for Monochrome Monday: Polaroid, 35mm film, and digital. This cupcake is the baker’s equivalent of the analog/digital photography debate. The best vegan chocolate cake I have ever had, topped with buttery non-vegan vanilla buttercream. Shot with Kodak BW400CN film and developed by the photo lab. Have a Monochrome Monday post to share? Leave a link in the comments.
Happy belated Pi day! I meant to have this pie constructed, consumed, and posted in time for Pi Day yesterday. It might even have been decorated with mathematical equations. But life got in the way. A trip to the emergency vet in the wee hours of the morning and the subsequent sleepless nights kept me from the kitchen and delayed my Pi Day festivities. But since it contains two types of liqueur and the filling is a subtle green color, this grasshopper pie serves double duty as Pi Day celebration and St. Patrick’s Day dessert.
If ever there was a brownie that called (rather, screamed) for a glass of milk, this is it. This cake-like dark chocolate brownie, with streaks of peanut butter that make their best effort to glue your mouth shut, is definitely intense. And intensely addictive.
In 15 minutes flat, you can have two servings of chocolate cake on your table. Warm, gooey cake topped with melty chocolate chips. Sure, it may come from the microwave instead of the oven (oh, the horror for baking purists such as myself!), but when it comes to a warm slice of chocolatey goodness, there’s no need to discriminate. These cakes are best when shared with a friend, but it’ll be our secret if you happen to eat both of them yourself.
I know there are plenty of die-hard Valentine’s Day revelers out there. Me, I could take it or leave it. Flowers, jewelry, and all that – not my thing. But chocolate cookies are definitely my thing. Homemade chocolate valentines, with icing? Yup, those are also my thing. Homemade valentines, whether they’re edible or made from construction paper and paste, are the best way to show someone that they are loved.
No camping trip is a proper camping trip until you’ve set a few marshmallows on fire. Or, if you’re patient and the coals are red-hot but not too much so, roasted those marshmallows to the perfect degree of brown and blistered with a gloriously gooey center. A center that’s hot enough to just slightly melt a slab of chocolate when pressed between two graham crackers. Unless you’re camping in the desert, and keeping your chocolate bar in the cooler. That might result in a rock hard chocolate bar that resists the heat from a gooey marshmallow and threatens to break your teeth when you try to bite through it. Helpful hint: if the desert heat requires you to keep your chocolate in the cooler during the day, remove it from the cooler an hour or two before attempting to make s’mores.
Don’t panic. Hostess may have filed for bankruptcy, but Twinkies aren’t going to disappear anytime soon. And even if the day comes when they’re no longer on supermarket shelves, don’t fret. I’ve got you covered. You can bake your own classic vanilla Twinkies, try something a bit different with pumpkin Twinkies, or satisfy your chocolate cravings with these double chocolate Twinkies. Each of these varieties has far fewer ingredients than the store bought version, and is far superior in taste. Besides, they’re so much fun to make! You can bake them in a cupcake pan, but using a canoe pan guarantees that authentic Twinkie shape.
Attraversiamo. Italian for “let’s cross over”. While in Italy, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with this phrase. She also fell in love with gelato, a fact that was glossed over in the movie version of Eat, Pray, Love. But her love for gelato is more pronounced in the book, where she muses that gelato is so popular that it’s even acceptable to eat it before lunch. Now THAT is a country where I’d fit right in! When I visited Italy, I fell in love with the word stracciatella, and the gelato flavor of the same name. Elizabeth Gilbert’s story inspired me to create my favorite gelato flavor at home.
Happy New Year, my friends. I am ever so grateful that you visit my humble blog so often and share your kind words and friendship with me. I am truly inspired by the diverse talents and incredible treats that I experience on each and every one of your blogs. And so here we are on the first day of 2012, embarking on a new year of friendship, smiling faces, baked goodies, photography, and blogging. Thank you for being here. May I offer you a brownie? |
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