Dairy Free Chocolate Cupcakes I’m so happy to include a recipe for the most delicious cupcakes ever for anyone who might have a dairy allergy: Dairy Free Chocolate Cupcakes These cupcakes are for my baby boy Brooks’ FOURTEENTH birthday (today!) It’s hard to believe. If you have kids of your own then you totally can relate. You blink twice……
☕ Read more

Is there anything better in the world than a chocolate malt? Notice I didn’t say chocolate shake , though goodness knows I wouldn’t turn one down if someone offered it to me. I’m talking about chocolate malts—milkshakes with the addition of malted milk powder. When I was a little girl, I was obsessed with malts. Starting at a young age, I…
☕ Read more

I was really craving something light. But chocolatey. Not a double-venti mochafrappadingdong either. Something simple, but tasty and nice. But what? Then it hit me like a ton of whipped cream: chocolate mousse! Chocolate mousse was my favorite (scratch that; only) fancy restaurant dessert as a kid. It s traditionally a mixture of whipped egg…
☕ Read more

Satisfy your chocolate craving with 5 helpful tutorials for mousse, martinis, your best brownies ever and more!Get the FREE Guide » Water ganache To make a creamless ganache, one of the easiest routes to take is to make a water ganache. On the one hand, it might sound completely underwhelming — why water down chocolate, literally? But actually…
☕ Read more

I secretly love those little packets of hot cocoa mix — but I recently decided to quit buying them and start making my own. The nice thing about making your own hot cocoa mix is that you have free control over what goes into it (and what stays out of it). Like yours super chocolatey? No problem. Want to take down the sugar and add a bit of…
☕ Read more

I received the loveliest holiday gift yesterday from a good friend of mine. She knows how much my husband and I enjoy her fabulous smoked paprika-rubbed roast chicken so she typed up and printed out the recipe on a nice card (complete with cute little seahorse cutouts) and attached it with ribbon to a jar of the key ingredient, Spanish pimentón…
☕ Read more

Dessert, Holidays, Recipes, Valentine s Day By Tessa Arias Tessa Arias The following Kitchen Deconstructed experiment was put together by Tessa Arias, the multi-talented blogger behind Handle the Heat and cookbook author of Cookies and Cream: Hundreds of Ways to Make the Perfect Ice Cream Sandwich. Be sure to check out her blog and Ultimate…
☕ Read more

Stop buying pre-made hot cocoa mix and make your own with this easy, creamy, tasty homemade bulk cocoa mix! This is yet just another area that we are sharing to help you save money by making popular store-bought foods at home instead. This recipe was shared to us by a good friend – she makes this and shared her pictures and process with us…
☕ Read more

Total time Author: Lauren Recipe type: Slices 1 cup of Maltesers plus extra to decorate (grab a 280g pack) 4 Mars Bars (4 x 53g bars) ½ cup Condensed Milk (125ml) 1 pack of Chocolate Ripple Biscuits (250g) 2 blocks of Cadbury Milk Chocolate (2 x 200g blocks) 100g unsalted butter 1 teaspoon vegetable oil Line the base and sides of a slice tin…
☕ Read more

Not only is it only four ingredients, but you can customize the ingredients to fit your diet! I love full on sugar, but tend to try and make things healthier for my kids. So I used my new favorite cocoa, Lake Champlain Organic Cocoa. The flavor is great! Want all organic? Simply choose organic ingredients! Need dairy free ? Try almond milk…
☕ Read more

Love chocolate, but want to eat healthy? Would you be surprised to learn you can have both? While most chocolate milk is loaded with sugar and provides little nutritional benefit, you can use raw chocolate instead to satisfy a chocolate craving in a health conscious way with this healthy chocolate milk recipe. It’s time to ditch the imposter…
☕ Read more

Homemade chocolate, an easy to make chocolate recipe for kids made with cocoa powder, milk powder and butter Homemade chocolate Homemade chocolate recipe that is unbelievably easy to make with just 4 ingredients. Have you tried making chocolate at home? Yes, I’m talking about homemade chocolate made from scratch in the comfort of your own…
☕ Read more

WHAT YOU’LL NEED: I’m a nerd, but I often wake up early on Saturdays, and I like to get to the farmers’ market when it opens, around 8am, before the hordes of shoppers, children, strollers, and puppies arrive. I like to get there when it’s still cool out in the summer, and when I have first pick of the goodies and don’t have to wait on line…
☕ Read more

A rich, tender homemade chocolate cupcake topped with my favorite vanilla frosting. You’ll find every excuse to make this classic cupcake over and over again! I’m taking a break from all things overloaded today. Don’t get me wrong, an Oreo cake with Oreo crumb topping, Oreo cream filling, and milk chocolate buttercream is welcome in my apartment…
☕ Read more

Any time I mention the words avocado and chocolate in the same sentence, people turn their noses up. BUT, those people have never tried avocado chocolate mousse — quite possibly the quickest, simplest, tastiest chocolate mousse there is. The first time I made this recipe, it was a total accident which involved mistaking a tub of puréed avocado…
☕ Read more