Tag: chocolate

Yellow cake with chocolate frosting.  Classic.   If you ask most people what their favorite cake is, they will answer, “Yellow cake with chocolate frosting.”  It’s the cake of our fondest nostalgic imaginings, bringing to …

  I love the holiday season – I really do.   I keep a nested to do list on my phone to keep track of Christmas presents.  I drive out of my way to find …

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/amusebouches/8181372812/" title="Spiced Cocoa Pie by The Domestic Front, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8349/8181372812_690292cef9.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Spiced Cocoa Pie"/></a> Let me tell you a tale - a tale of <del datetime="2012-11-15T17:45:25+00:00">four</del> <del datetime="2012-11-16T05:57:02+00:00">five</del> <em>six</em> pies.

...These S'Mores Krispie Treats were my contribution to the bake sale. They are easy to make. They are big. They have visible chocolate AND marshmallows. They recall not one but two favorite childhood treats -- …

... OK, I am a sucker forchewy homemade chocolate chip cookies. And nothing quite hits the spot in the fall better than my friend Kas's molasses cookies. And these yeasted butter and sugar …

<a title="Hazelnut Blondies by The Domestic Front, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/amusebouches/6495515827/"><img alt="Hazelnut Blondies" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7017/6495515827_135ffd4a79.jpg" width="500" height="333" /></a> <br /> Fortunately, some kind soul long ago invented the bar cookie, which have the advantage of being delicious, baking up …

This is the easiest, most foolproof chocolate cake recipe I've ever made ... And because every cake deserves to be tarted up with frosting, I made this intensely flavored roasted pistachio buttercream frosting. The color is …