To my dearest Oreo, I think we have to talk. We’ve been together for a very long time. It’s been great, it really has. As a child, my family pretty much always kept a package of you and your friends in the cupboard. You’d come out at dessert time, or maybe even just snack time,…
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Chocolate Mousse With Rose-Scented Whipped Cream
This post is an entry into the Nuffnang ‘Fresh Recipe’ Network Competition, thanks to BRITA. Check out betterwithbrita.com for inspiration and exclusive recipes by Gary Mehigan. Update – my entry won 1st place in the competition! Hooray! We all have a memory of a food disaster from some point in our lives. When a recipe…
Loving Earth Chocolate & Easy Vegan Chocolate Mousse
It certainly is no secret that I love chocolate. I’m the one with the ginormous hoard of different brands and flavors of chocolate stashed away at the very bottom of a rarely used cabinet. I even have stacks of slightly cheaper chocolate for those times I don’t want to risk wasting my more expensive blocks…
Quadruple Chocolate Pistachio Cupcakes
This is a cupcake that I’ve had in the works for a few weeks – my “chocolate cake with a twist” cupcake challenge inspired me! Of course, I won’t enter my own competition, but I did want to try out my idea. I wanted a lot of chocolate and a lot of pistachios, and what…
Iron Cupcake Earth: Basil
I wasn’t fully prepared for this month’s Iron Cupcake Earth challenge. I also couldn’t give it my total concentration because a variety of personal/family things have needed top priority this month. I did try to make a white chocolate cupcake, filled with basil cream and frosted with strawberry meringue buttercream earlier this month, but that…
