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Best Easy Chocolate Mousse

Best Easy Chocolate Mousse

This mousse is a showstopper! Delightfully light, perfectly smooth, and chocolatey, you’ll find any excuse to make this often. I love a good chocolate mousse. I’ve tried so many at restaurants and made quite a few myself. I’ve found that there is a fine line between too bitter, too sweet, too rich, too bland. I wanted to be able to make a chocolate mousse full of flavor that hits the spot, without the heart-racing rush…

#1 Chocolate Chip Cookie

#1 Chocolate Chip Cookie

The bread and butter of my cookie repertoire. The one I have baked hundreds of times, maybe a thousand. Not too sweet, full of flavor, just the kind you imagine when you crave a good chocolate chip cookie! So, how did this recipe come to be? How is it possible that one could spend 15 years of baking and cookie creating and still be disappointed with a basic chocolate chip cookie? Getting this recipe right was a big deal for me…

Pumpkin Cookie with Cream Cheese Frosting

Pumpkin Cookie with Cream Cheese Frosting

A perfectly spiced pumpkin cookie topped with creamy cream cheese frosting is made even better in both looks and taste by the addition of a single pecan on top. This pumpkin cookie is a true gem. I have to admit that I’m not usually very fond of the fall “pumpkin spice” blend. It always feels unbalanced, with too many cloves or nutmeg that overpower the pumpkin flavor. Rest assured, I’ve done my homework here and this cookie…

Black Forest Cake

Black Forest Cake

This Black Forest Cake has lush chocolate cake layered with sweet cherries and cream cheese whipped cream and covered in smooth chocolate buttercream frosting. I promise you’ll cherry-ish this recipe forever! This cake creation was a request from a dear friend of mine. I had never made a black forest cake before. I pondered on how I could make something delicious while keeping it simple. As per my usual, I broke almost all…

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cookies are packed with pumpkin, spices, and chocolate. If my husband had to choose one cookie to eat for the rest of his life this would be his choice! I have a confession. I don’t usually like nutmeg in pumpkin recipes. My favorite pumpkin pie recipe is Libby’s Famous Pumpkin Pie recipe, found on the canned pumpkin label. One of the reasons I love it is because it has no nutmeg. When I first tried this Pumpkin Chocolate…

Pumpkin Roll

Pumpkin Roll

Plenty of pumpkin, perfectly balanced spices, and a light and fluffy cream cheese center make a perfect pumpkin roll that will keep you coming back for more. I love pumpkin rolls. There’s something so enticing about the beautiful swirl of pumpkin cake with the contrast of the cream cheese filling. I’ve tried many from the grocery store, but find I’m disappointed more often than not. I was going through an old family cookbook../v

Rocky Road Fudge

Rocky Road Fudge

The perfect fudge recipe. A smooth, creamy, chocolate fudge with pecans and marshmallows that will have you reaching for another piece, and another, and okay, maybe one more. I’ve eaten so much fudge in my life. I’ve had my grandmother’s milk chocolate fudge that was smooth and melted in my mouth. I’ve been to the boardwalk where they make fudge in giant batches and cool it on giant marble slabs using giant wooden paddles…

Gingerbread Men

Gingerbread Men

The most delicious, easy gingerbread that not only looks good but tastes good, too! No chilling required for this scrumptious soft dough! I didn’t use to like gingerbread men. That was all there was to it. I loathe waiting for cookie dough to chill and then to be left with an overly floury, crunchy cookie with a poor balance of spices just didn’t feel worth the effort. One day, I got the hair-brained idea to convert one of my existing recipes into a…

Gingersnap Cookie

Gingersnap Cookie

As a newlywed, I was making a batch of cookies from a famous cookbook that my family had always kept around. Disappointed with yet another lackluster cookie, I snapped the book shut and declared there were no good cookie recipes in the world. (This was, of course, before the internet. I’m aging myself now.) For Christmas, my husband and I went to Pennsylvania to spend the holidays with his family. Mom pulled some gingersnaps…

Peanut Butter Cookie

Peanut Butter Cookie

With a higher proportion of peanut butter to flour than many recipes, this cookie is just about perfect. Chewy with a moist interior, it’s kind of like a drink of water when you are thirsty but better! I have eaten peanut butter cookies that are heavy, peanut butter cookies that are dry, peanut butter cookies that masquerade as peanut butter cookies with only a whiff of actual peanut butter. I have eaten peanut butter cookies…

Frosted Sugar Cookie

Frosted Sugar Cookie

This cookie is my personal weakness. A simple, flavorful sugar cookie pairs with a rich, buttery vanilla frosting for the perfect marriage. The first time I made sugar cookies from the ol’ family cookbook, they weren’t as flavorful as I remembered. I knew I needed to fix this problem. With big sugar cookie flavor in mind, I began recipe testing. I really feel that a good sugar cookie needs to be just sliiiightly salty to…

Classic Rice Crispy Bars

Classic Rice Crispy Bars

The normal back-of-the-box recipe doesn’t work well where we live on the East Coast. So we created our own recipe that does well in every climate and has the buttery, marshmallowy flavor you crave. I live on the East Coast side of the United States. The normal recipe on the back of the box of famous Rice Krispies wouldn’t hold up to the humidity. They became soggy, mushy, and downright unpleasant to eat. So I quit making them…