Looking for an impressive but simple dessert to make for a loved one? Or just something delicious to hit all of your sweet cravings? This Red Wine Chocolate and Raspberry Tart is the perfect slice to treat yourself or anyone else. A buttery, crisp chocolate shortbread crust is layered with a red wine and raspberry …
Perfectly fudgy with a shiny, crackled top, this Flourless Kinder Skillet Brownie is just the thing to satisfy every chocolate craving. Super simple to throw together, this can be enjoyed still warm from the oven with a scoop of ice cream and spoon, or cooled and sliced for an absolutely blissful bite. This brownie is …
There’s something about throwing a bunch of your favorite snacks together into one cookie dough base that makes the resulting treat all the better. Inspired by Momofuku Milk Bar’s Compost Cookies, these bars take that idea and put it all into one pan to create squares for everyone–chewy and soft center pieces and edges with …
I worked at Starbucks for nearly five years as a barista. The holiday season was always the best. Let me tell you, from November to December, there is never a time where it doesn’t feel like Christmas is just around the corner. The holidays are all around you from the decor to the merchandise to …
For some people, the holidays are all about tradition. This may mean doing a grab-bag every year, going ice-skating in the winter, or taking a family trip sometime during the holiday season. For a lot of people, holiday traditions also include food. As an Italian, our Christmas is all about food: there’s the Feast of …
The flavor pairing of chocolate and orange always reminds me of the holidays. I can’t explain exactly why: perhaps it’s because citrus really comes to life and reaches peak brightness in the winter, or because I remember seeing the orange foil balls and blue box in the stores we only went into at Christmas time. …
This week’s cookie is the perfect recipe to roll out just days before Halloween. For one thing, they are all about the chocolate. And let’s be real–who doesn’t dig through their candy haul at the end of the night in search of something chocolatey? (I was all about those Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and Snickers …
Did you ever have a snack that you just couldn’t resist? You open the bag and no matter how hard you try, you know you’ll never be able to put it down? For me, that used to be the chocolate-covered potato chips from Trader Joe’s. There maybe used to be eight in the bag total–ruffled …
Easter is one of those holidays that seems to drive a lot of candy sales. What is an Easter basket without a giant, foil-wrapped chocolate bunny, a Cadbury Creme egg, or a box of Peeps? Besides the egg-shaped Reese’s, I always looked forward to that small carton of Robin’s Eggs. From the bright colors to …
My mom makes the best chocolate chip cookies. I know, I know. That’s something that most people could probably argue, but I have a whole family of Italians that agree with that fact. There are some incredible cooks in my family, and even with her recipe, none of them can manage to get her chocolate …