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Chocolate

Chocolate Chip Mousse

March 3, 2010

Late on Sunday afternoon I did the unthinkable. I made chocolate mousse without high-end chocolate.
Company was coming. The oven was occupied with Apple Roasted Chicken. And I had very little time to devote to dessert. So, I opened the baking cupboard and grabbed the first thing I saw — a bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips.
What [...]

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Healthy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

February 19, 2010

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Black Forest Chocolate Cookies

February 2, 2010

Sneaking in under the wire. It’s still Groundhog Day. And all I can think of is Bill Murray sitting in a Punxsatawney diner, stuffing his face full of donuts with impunity.
According to the groundhog, we have six more weeks of winter coming, which makes me want to stuff my face with donuts, too. Only I [...]

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Dutch Chocolate Cake Gets Tarted Up

September 17, 2009

It’s official. I’m a Bad Sister. Capital letters earned.
This post is a public apology to my sister Robin with the hopes that sincere groveling and pretty pictures illustrating the possible Make-Up Cake will help.
My blunder? I forgot my sister’s birthday. Totally and completely.
Now, forgetting a birthday is forgivable. But when the birthday girl calls you [...]

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Mocha Ice Cream

September 1, 2009

This is the dessert that helped salvage last week’s birthday fiasco. It’s rich, it’s mocha-y, it’s almost like a truffle. It can stand on its own as a decadent treat, or elevate a mediocre cake to the realm of greatness — providing you like the taste of coffee.
Delicious as this may be, whatever you do, [...]

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Decadent Chocolate Chip Cookie Parfait

July 23, 2009

I didn’t make this dessert. My younger sister did. The entire dish was earmarked for her boyfriend. But she loves me enough to let me take a few photographs of the last serving reserved for him. She even provided the martini glass.
I love her enough not to scarf the dish after the shoot and blame [...]

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Happy Easter

April 11, 2009

Look what arrived at our house yesterday. Sunshine AND chocolate. Does it get any better than that?
These eggs came home with Andrew in a fancy container with a hinged lid. Their pastel shells encase gourmet milk chocolate, and a single container cost more than three dozen hen’s eggs. I could be wrong, but I think [...]

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Ginger Ice Cream Pie

November 11, 2008

I live in the birthplace of Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. I learned his poem In Flanders Fields in Grade 5. I still know it by heart, and it still makes me cry. Tonight, Andrew will give a lecture on the horrific battle of Passchendael. We don’t take the sacrifices of the past lightly. In many [...]

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Italian Dessert Week – Baci Brownies

September 30, 2008

Baci chocolates are one of my all-time favourite treats. Not only do I get a mouthful of a beloved flavour combination — chocolate and hazelnut — each candy comes with a little love note. How wonderfully Italian.
So when I saw the recipe for Baci Brownies in Lisa Zwirn’s Christmas Cookies: 50 Recipes to Treasure for [...]

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Simple Decadence

July 17, 2008

My mother dropped by the other day with a plate of these. I mined the depths of my culinary discipline to take a photo before gobbling. Of all the simple pleasures, whole, fresh strawberries dipped in dark chocolate ranks right up there with the first crocus of spring, a summer breeze and line-dried sheets. There’s [...]