If soft and tender cookies are your thing, these Chewy Chocolate Molasses Cookies need a spot at your holiday dessert table. Dutch cocoa, molasses, brown sugar, and warm spices make these cookies an instant favorite. Going into developing this Chewy Chocolate Molasses Cookie recipe, I didn't think any cookie with molasses as the star ingredient...
Hot Cocoa Bombs
Learn how to make Hot Cocoa Bombs and DIY all of your Christmas gifts this holiday season. These hot cocoa mix and marshmallow stuffed confections will have your friends and family oohing and ahhing as they melt away in warm milk to create the perfect cup of hot chocolate. WHAT ARE HOT COCOA BOMBS? Hot...
The Best Fudgy Homemade Brownies
These fudgy homemade brownies feature crisp, crackly tops and chewy, dense, super chocolaty centers. If you want decadent brownies that taste leagues better than boxed mix but don’t require a ton of effort, this is the brownie recipe for you! THE ABSOLUTE BEST HOMEMADE BROWNIES Extensively testing baked goods is kind of my thing (you know,...
Slow Cooker Hot Chocolate
Make a big batch of hot cocoa right in your crock pot, where it will stay warm for hours! This Slow Cooker Hot Chocolate is perfect for parties, and only requires 5 ingredients (not including the toppings, of course). Serve as is, or set up a hot chocolate bar with your favorite flavored liqueurs for...
Chocolate Peanut Butter Dragon Eggs
Easter is coming! There's no better way to celebrate the holiday and the return of Game of Thrones than by making your own Chocolate Peanut Butter Dragon Eggs at home. This recipe includes a Reese's-style peanut butter filling, crunchy sliced almond "scales", and a smooth chocolate coating. If you're planning to throw a Game of...
No-Bake Mint Chocolate Zebra Cheesecake
This No-Bake Mint Chocolate Zebra Cheesecake is just as delicious as it is hypnotically stunning. Be warned: It's rich, chocolaty, spiked with plenty of mint, silky smooth, and a total ruiner of self-control. This one goes out to all my fellow mint chocolate chip ice cream lovers, thin mint fanatics, and shamrock shake drinkers. It's the ultimate...
The Easiest Boozy Chocolate Hazelnut Fondue
The Easiest Boozy Chocolate Hazelnut Fondue. All you need for this recipe is 5 ingredients and a microwave. It doesn't get easier than that for date night! Alright friends, I'll be honest with you: I'm low on time today so I'm going to be quick. Not because it's Valentine's Day and I've got something fancy...
Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Dessert
I know that most people have jumped into September with both feet-- they've got 25 pumpkin spice recipes already in the queue, they're throwing freshly-picked apples into absolutely everything, and they're using words like "warming" and "toasty" and "roasted." But a huge part of my heart is still hung up on summer recipes-- the...
Salted Caramel S'more Dip with Cinnamon Sugar Chips
Hold on to your sweet tooth, because this dip is all dressed up and ready to party. James-- being the resident dessert-fiend-in-chief that he is-- has been asking me to make something sugary for, gosh, probably two months now. But since I'm selfish and prefer salty foods usually inspired by more savory ideas, I just finally got around...
Honey Lemon Chiffon Pie
Well I'll bee damned. I've gotta tell you,  I said "this probably isn't going to turn out" to myself at least 17 times as I made this pie. But much to my surprise, the bees wound up looking like bees, the honeycomb pattern looked like honeycomb, the filling set to an awesome consistency, and the Honey...
Skillet Red Wine Brownie
Chocolate and wine. Name a more iconic duo, I'll wait. When it comes to heartthrob food pairings, dark chocolate and fruity red wine is the most sensual and simple combination that immediately comes to mind. Take a bite and then a sip, and it's all bliss, baby. This is one Valentine’s Day cliché that I'll happily...
5 Ingredient Nutella Banana Bread
What do you get when your boyfriend insists that he'll eat an impossible amount of fruit every time you go grocery shopping, but then it sits out on the counter, untouched? Fruit flies! Wait, no, that's not what I was trying to get at. You get brown bananas. Lots of brown bananas. And being that Hypothetical You (AKA...
Chewy Cherry Chocolate Chunk Oatmeal Cookies
It's the final countdown. We're two days away from Christmas. One day away from Christmas Eve (and Hanukkah!). Zero days away from me making a disaster in my kitchen while trying desperately to prepare all of the food. It's go time. You might feel like you already have a handle on everything for your holiday...
Peppermint Mocha Pie
Today's post is brought to you by my bittersweet nostalgia. Oh, and McCormick®, whose sponsorship made this luxurious Peppermint Mocha Pie possible. So, I've been doing a lot of soul searching lately. And what I've realized tonight, thanks to a few glasses of mulled wine, is that I'm not feeling at one with people on either side of the...
Nutella Pumpkin Samoa Cookies
Happy Halloweekend! I know we're excited about the here-and-now holiday, but I want to throw it back for just a second. Long, long ago, in the fabulous, fabled era of the nineteen-nineties, I was a young girl who had a vast and varied collection of beanie babies, a stockpile of gel pens, a dozen audio cassettes, three Lisa Frank folders, two tamagotchis,...
Spider Web S'more Cheesecake Brownies
For about 315 straight days every year, you could call me a Halloween costume visionary. From pop culture to punny to straight up scary costumes, I'm a veritable goldmine of ideas. "How ever will I choose?" I ask myself, but of course I never write down my favorites, because that would be the smart thing to do, and I'd...
