Milk Chocolate Fudge-smooth, creamy and easy to make! I love this time of year! Everyone expects you to bake and make sweet treats. It’s like a free pass to go wild in the kitchen. The kids get into too. “Mom, whatcha making today?” “I love you mom, I’ll just grab a few of these (insert today’s treat) and be on my way.” They also help with…
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Whenever my husband, the strapping stallion I call Marlboro Man, imagines chocolate pie—and I imagine that he imagines it frequently, because it’s one of his favorite desserts—he doesn’t think of French Silk Pie or Chocolate Chiffon Pie or Chocolate Chess Pie or any other variation. He thinks of this one. This is just good ol’ basic, can’t-go-wrong…
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It s not the hardest sell in the world: A product called Adult Chocolate Milk naturally sounds like a good idea. Add that it tastes delicious and is peddled by rapper Ginuwine and girls in sexy milkman outfits and it s no surprise that Adult Beverage Company s flagship product quickly took off. The inspiration to Re-taste your youth … at…
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Early yesterday morning I started my baking expedition. First I started with the Eggless Coconut Macaroon recipe. One of my friends wanted a substitute for coconuts. I thought that carrots might work out and tried the exact same recipe with grated carrots instead. What was I thinking? Not all light bulb flashes are as good as eggless ice cream…
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Use whole soybeans to make your soy milk Leaerning how to make soy milk is an important skill for vegetarians, vegans, those who do not like cow s milk or those who are allergic to cow s milk. Before you get started, you should know that making soy milk is an involved process. It s much easier to just pick up a carton of it at your local natural…
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This is my son, Auren (a.k.a. Bubba). He is 1 year, 11 months and 5 days old. Bubba loves sweet treats, especially his raw chocolate milk! We traveled over the holidays to visit my family who live out of state, and our little Bubba was spoiled quite a bit while we vacationed with this drink. He loves his raw milk and usually drinks it just…
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Chocolate ganache, that amazing chocolate concoction we use for everything from truffles to glazes and layer cakes, is a simple enough thing. After all, it s just cream and chocolate, right? Well, yes and no! Knowing how to make chocolate ganache — thick or thin, whipped or smooth — requires understanding just two things: proportion and temperature…
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Oh boy do I love hot cocoa. And that’s never going to change. I’ve got WAY many childhood memories and nostalgia tied up into a piping hot cup of cocoa with marshmallows on top. It’s the perfect treat for a cold night, paired with snuggles on the couch and a good movie. I feel cozy inside just writing that. When I’m at a hotel and see a packet…
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Method First brown the butter. Melt the butter in a medium sized, thick-bottomed, stainless steel saucepan (use stainless steel so you can tell when the butter has browned) on medium heat. Continue to cook while the butter goes through various stages of bubbling up and releasing its moisture. Whisk frequently over several minutes. When you…
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Nothing like a cup of homemade hot cocoa. Chocolatey, warm and oh so good on a cold winter day! I always seem to crave hot cocoa more around the holidays. Maybe it’s the weather, maybe it’s the time for celebration. I just think hot coca (with tiny marshmallows, of course) and Christmastime, go hand it hand. They were meant to be together…
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This is the 35th cupcake recipe I’ve shared on this site, and can you believe it’s the first chocolate-chocolate version?! I’ve had some chocolate cupcake bases, but those were topped with things like peanut butter frosting, … then there were the faux Hostess cupcakes, the black-bottom cupcakes and the vegan chocolate cupcakes. They are all…
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Woah, woah woah, clearly I’ve gone off the deep end here. Drinking raw milk, and now formulating a chocolate milk recipe, clearly I’m a savage. My stance was stated in one of my last posts , eat whatever you want. And I do, I just make sure that I still feel good after said food is consumed. That is if it’s going to be a regular thing. I always…
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In addition to enjoying the fabulous cookie demonstration, Holiday Baking Weekend attendees also enjoyed a great truffle and toffee-making class. This is Chef Lia. She’s a patry chef and spent a couple of hours teaching all of us about chocolate and candy, which she understands as well as a doctor understands his specialty of medicine. It…
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Today I’m making no-churn ice cream cups of three flavors: vanilla, chocolate, and coffee. These are the best flavors for homemade ice cream. The ingredients are: whipping cream, sweetened condensed milk, vanilla, cocoa powder, and instant coffee. It’s the easiest way to make delicious ice cream at home. Let’s get started! Ingredients For…
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My mom has been making the same chocolate chip cookies for over 20 years. They’re a serious hit around the holidays and they fly off the plate faster than anything else we put out for our Christmas spread. That’s especially impressive if you know how enormous our Christmas spread typically is. Everyone begs for the recipe (in between shoving…
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