Oatmeal, chocolate chip pecan cookies

14 June 2008
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My 21 (soon to be 22) year old sister in law is spending her summer working on a ranch in Colorado. Since she’s far from home and off by herself, I thought I’d send her a little bit of home… some cookies! Especially since her birthday is just around the corner I knew I wanted [...]

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Grandmother's Chocolate Pie

25 February 2008
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My Grandmother has always been in charge of the chocolate pie in our family because she makes really great chocolate pie. Other family members are more than welcome to have their hand at the other pies for the holidays… but grandmother always makes the chocolate pie (well the pecan too). They’re delicious. For a couple [...]

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M&M Cookies

1 January 2008
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Happy new year! Post Christmas sales = inexpensive candy = M&M cookies I hit up Target the day after Christmas and got myself a $0.64 bag (or two) of M&Ms in preparation of my sister in law’s visit, so she’d have something to take back to school with her. I’ve actually never made M&M cookies [...]

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Buche de Noel (Yule Log)

22 December 2007
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I’m proud to announce I am now a Daring Baker. December was the perfect time to join Daring Bakers as the Christmas baking season is upon us. What are the Daring Bakers? The Daring Bakers are a group dedicated to pushing the limits of their collective love — baking! Each month a challenge is set [...]

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Chocolate Crinkles

19 December 2007
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Finally a blog update! Work has been really busy as we’ve been preparing for the holidays. But I needed a break from all the house cleaning, wrapping, shopping & work so I made a batch of chocolate cookies. Chocolate crinkles to be exact. I think these are probably my favorite cookies. I made them for [...]

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Chocolate Banana Nut Bread

17 November 2007
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I had three ripe bananas which usually means its time to make some Banana Bread. But I was craving chocolate… so chocolate banana nut bread it was! I tweaked my banana bread recipe and the result was amazing! This is definitely my new favorite quick bread. It is so decadently wonderful. Its moist and sweet [...]

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Hello Dolly!

23 October 2007
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Hello Dolly Bars, aka magic bars or seven-layer bars…. the perfect treat to make when you’re cleaning out the pantry. They’re so simple to make, and its made from ingredients I normally have on hand. They’re so simple and easy to whip up. These are also very easy to modify to your liking. Use different [...]

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Creamcheese Layered Brownies

2 September 2007
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I’ve been craving brownies for a couple of weeks, particularly cream cheese brownies. Since I leave for my business trip on Monday, which means I’ll be out of the kitchen for 3 weeks, I figured I ought to get busy this weekend and make my brownies! I’m so glad I did because these were absolutely [...]

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Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies

18 August 2007
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I’ve been on the hunt for a good chocolate chip cookie recipe for years, and I think I’ve found it. Today I used my Pastry Queen cookbook for the first time, and if this recipe is any indication of the other goodies in store in this cookbook… well I better get back in the kitchen [...]

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Icebox cake

12 August 2007
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My husband will tell you that cheesecake is his favorite dessert, and cheesecake is what he always requests for his birthday. But I think this recipe might just be his real favorite. I had never heard of nor seen such a concoction until after marrying my husband and the only place I’ve ever seen it [...]

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Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

6 August 2007
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My absolutely beautiful Kitchen Aid mixer arrived today. I had to use it tonight to make something, unfortunately I’m down to one stick of butter which sadly limits the possibilities. I also knew it had to involve chocolate. A chocoholic really needs her chocolate to make it through the day! A started scouring my cookbooks [...]

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Cake this good… well it must be from Texas!

30 July 2007

Saturday evening, 6 family members joined us for dinner. Its been awhile since I’ve made any sort of cake so I knew what I wanted to make for dessert. I grabbed my cookbook to find my Grandmother’s recipe for Texas Sheet Cake… I knew I had the perfect dessert for our BBQ. Our cousins ohh [...]

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Dark Chocolate Ice Cream

9 June 2007

Dark Chocolate Ice Cream is BY far my favorite ice cream. I love dark chocolate anything. This is the first recipe we’ve tried for dark chocolate and it was really good! We served this at a friend’s house when asked to bring dessert. Our friend had THREE bowls of it and at least once with [...]

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Chocolate Muffins

30 May 2007

These looked and smelled so good when i took them out of the oven that I couldn’t resist trying one…. I burned my fingers trying to get one out. haha. I decided to let them cool a little before attempting to get them out again =) They were worth the wait. Absolutely delicious, they were [...]

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Smores Bars

27 May 2007

A decided to do some baking today and wanted something chocolatey. So here they are, Rocky Road Bars. I used chocolate graham crackers for the crust (actually teddy grahams since they didn’t have regular grahams). You could easily sub the chocolate chips for peanut butter chocolates, etc. This recipe is so versatile, use regular graham [...]

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