The combination of coffee and chocolate – also known as mocha – is one of my favorite flavor pairings. Bittersweet coffee helps to bring out the fruity notes in chocolate and can help a chocolate dessert feel especially rich without it being overly sweet. Coffee pairs well with white, milk and dark chocolate, …
Valentine’s Day is a holiday with a lot of sweets associated with it. I don’t need an excuse to enjoy some dessert, but it never hurts to have a reason and I love getting some holiday flair into a recipe. These Sprinkle-Filled Valentine’s Day Cupcakes are guaranteed to be more impressive than your …
I always have a lot of fun making goodies for Halloween and these Halloween Monster Whoopie Pies are a great example of a creepy-yet-cute treat! The monsters start out as colorful whoopie pies and are filled with vanilla buttercream. It’s a classic combination, but adding marshmallow teeth, candy eyes and a bunch …
If you’re a pumpkin fan, the odds are good that you’ve enjoyed pumpkin cakes, cookies and cupcakes, in addition to pumpkin pie. I’ve had some good ones and some less-than-good ones, so I can say with confidence that these just might be the Best Pumpkin Cupcakes you can make!
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I am a pumpkin pie fan and I’ll churn out quite a few of them during the fall baking season. I’m not a purist, however, and I enjoy the opportunity to put a fun twist on a classic from time to time. My zebra-inspired Chocolate Striped Pumpkin Pie and Pumpkin …
Banana splits were the kind of dessert that I dreamed about as a kid, though I rarely got the change to indulge myself in them. Over the years, I’ve had more than a few – and often count the banana portion towards my daily fruit/vegetable count – and I’ve put countless variations on …
I think that I might like mini cheesecakes even more than full size cheesecakes. Sure, a tall slice of creamy cheesecake is hard to resist, but mini cheesecakes are quick and easy to make – and that means that I can have cheesecake a lot more often. Mini cheesecakes are also easy to …
I will probably never get tired of making banana bread, but I do have friends and family that get tired of eating it after a while, so I change things up frequently with a wide variety of mix-ins. And if that fails, I turn my bananas into other baked goods, like these Eggless …
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