Entries tagged "chocolate"

Chocolate Sour Cream Cupcakes with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting

I feel badly that I'm publishing my Valentine's Day post a day late, but I had to take a sick day yesterday. On Valentine's Day of all days! Oh well. Better late...

Chocolate Crackles

Aren't these cookies pretty? I love making Chocolate Crackles for my cookie gift tins. It's another very easy cookie dough to make and they have that "wow" factor after they come out...

Almond Torta with Chocolate Chips

This past weekend, I traded suburban life for country life. It was just what I needed. No chores. No errands. No busyness.  My in-law's have a country house in a small town just...

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies & A Tribute

This week, the food blogging community all over the country and the world has been rallying around Jennifer Perillo, a wonderful and very accomplished food blogger who lost her husband suddenly and...

Carrie Vitt's Chocolate Chip Cookies

When I first started blogging, I finally felt like I had found the place in the universe where I could start being creative again. It had been so long since I had...

Flavia's Fundamentals: Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

I've always been slightly intimidated by the idea of making buttercream frosting. For some reason, I thought it was too complicated in its method and unpredictable in its results. But that's not...

Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies

Last week, I was unwinding upstairs in our TV room, flipping channels and reading my Twitter feed on my iPhone.  I came across a tweet posted by the lovely Hannah of Honey &...

Nutella Espresso Ice Cream

Back in May, my new food blogging friend, Jen, of My Kitchen Addiction, posted a tweet about needing a few guest posts on her blog during the summer.  I quickly replied and was...

Orange Chocolate Chunk Cake

Ever since I started Flavia's Flavors, I quickly came to realize that Daylight Savings Time is one of the biggest saboteurs of food blogger's photo efforts once the clocks fall back an hour...

Sour Cream Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

I feel like I've "hit the ground running" as the first week of 2010 draws to a close.  I know the momentum of the year will ebb and flow, but so far, my...

Triple Threat Chocolate Chip Cookies

Over the 4th of July weekend, Peter and I took an overnight trip to Fredericksburg, in the Texas Hill Country.  It was a last-minute decision, but it couldn't have turned out more...

Chocolate Chip Cookies

A few months ago, I had a fun conversation with my sister-in-law and her best friend about how they both grew up with mothers who baked just about every sweet treat for their...

Coconut Macaroons with Chocolate Ganache

Today is my birthday.  Yes, it is also the day our taxes are due.  While these two events may appear to be a depressing combination, I actually get a kick out of it. ...