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Baking with Jam Round Up

By Eliot, on May 24th, 2013%

It’s time to clean out the preserve pantry before I start stocking it up again. Here are some super simple recipes for jam cakes, jam bars, jam cookies, jam muffins, and a jam ice cream. (And for an added bonus: preserve recipes for the upcoming season! . . . → Read More: Baking with Jam Round Up

The best chocolate chip cookies ever (seriously)

By Eliot, on April 30th, 2013%

Whole Wheat and Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies with Coconut Oil and Cacao Nibs. That is a mouthful! Finito….the end…..I am done searching. These are the best chocolate chip cookies in the WORLD! . . . → Read More: The best chocolate chip cookies ever (seriously)

Orange Blossom Panna Cotta with Campari Foam

By Eliot, on April 18th, 2013%

I adore panna cotta and I definitely do not make it enough. Panna cotta was the perfect dessert choice for the end of our Modern Italian Cooking class with Chef Marcus of Tavolo.

Orange Blossom Panna Cotta From Chef Marcus Vause of Tavolo

1 qt. cream 1 T. orange juice 1 t. orange blossom . . . → Read More: Orange Blossom Panna Cotta with Campari Foam

Chocolate Spaetzle with Butterscotch Sauce and Candied Citrus

By Eliot, on April 4th, 2013%

Recipes for chocolate spaetzle, butterscotch sauce and candied citrus. . . . → Read More: Chocolate Spaetzle with Butterscotch Sauce and Candied Citrus

Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes with Milk Chocolate Earl Grey Buttercream

By Eliot, on March 29th, 2013%

You may have surmised from my recent OCD posts that I am a bit competitive. No, really, I am. 🙂

Well, one of The Hubs’ colleagues at work has a girlfriend who runs a cupcake catering business. Her cupcakes are sublime. We have tasted many at different company functions and even purchased others from her . . . → Read More: Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes with Milk Chocolate Earl Grey Buttercream

Chocolate Almond Cups and Marble Dipped Strawberries.

By Eliot, on March 19th, 2013%

This is the third post in a series of many to document our supremely chocolatey cooking class with Chef Sarah Leavell of The Canebrake.

The chocolate almond cups were the second treat we tasted from Chef Sarah’s kitchen. I really enjoyed these tiny bites more than the truffle (which I didn’t think was possible).

Chef . . . → Read More: Chocolate Almond Cups and Marble Dipped Strawberries.

Classic Chocolate Truffles

By Eliot, on March 14th, 2013%

How to make perfectly artisinal and decadent chocolate truffles from Chef Sarah of The Canebrake. . . . → Read More: Classic Chocolate Truffles

Dark Chocolate Blackberry Jam Cookies

By Eliot, on November 12th, 2012%

…and White Chocolate Blackberry Jam Cookies (with a twist of lime) . . . → Read More: Dark Chocolate Blackberry Jam Cookies

White Chocolate Almond Cookies with Maraschino Cherries

By Eliot, on October 19th, 2012%

The nearer the approaching holidays become, the more I get into my cookie-makin’-mama mode.

I have been recently experimenting with finding the best chocolate chip cookie recipe EVER (and I hope to have multiple posts soon on this odyssey), but for this baking session I wanted to switch it up a bit.

These cookies are . . . → Read More: White Chocolate Almond Cookies with Maraschino Cherries

Nutella Pie Instead of Birthday Cake

By Eliot, on September 5th, 2012%

Mom requested a Pineapple Upside Down Cake, but The Hubs talked her into another Nutella Pie. . . . → Read More: Nutella Pie Instead of Birthday Cake

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