Tag: dark chocolate
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chocolate tahini cake with brown sugar, chocolate ganache, and halva filling
dark, damp chocolate cake is given a middle eastern kick with tahini, an oily paste made from toasted sesame seeds. savory-wise, tahini is the star of hummus and baba ghanoush, but it’s also the main component of crumbly, cloyingly sweet halva. sesame halva is popular across the Balkans, the Middle East, and throughout the Jewish…
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bittersweet chocolate peanut butter pie
chocolate and peanut butter are one of those classic combos, right up there with maple and bacon, sea salt and caramel, and peaches and cream. the two flavors compliment each other perfectly. this pie’s only flaw is that it’ll have you gasping for a glass of milk after a few bites; it yields a wide range…
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half baked half birthday half cake
i love half birthdays because they come out of nowhere! it’s like your own private holiday that slaps you in the face when you notice the date. my favorite things to do on my half birthday include putting half-and-half in my coffee, watching harry potter and the half blood prince, and asking everyone obnoxiously if they…
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tuesday tuesday
i made a spineless cactus cake! i say ‘spineless’ as in it literally doesn’t have any spines, but i guess you could give it to someone who’s acting like a coward to send a message?? it’s a metaphor. the cake is dark chocolate and the frosting is flecked with orange zest. i cut the cactus shape out…
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cocoa cinnamon cake
there’s this little coffee shop here in durham called cocoa cinnamon. they have the whole industrial chic / exposed brick / gluten-free pastries thing going on. word on the street is sarah mclachlan said it had the ‘best coffee on tour’ during her DPAC show. though they have spice cake and chocolate cake, they don’t have a…
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chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter bacon frosting
i have a friend, cy, who eats like no one i’ve ever seen. he’s happiest in a state of food coma, stomach contentedly protruding and eyes drooping shut. he readily devours the leftover baked goods i bring to school on a daily basis. unless they contain a trace of banana. the curved, yellow, potassium-rich fruit is…
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a birthday black(berry) forest cake for molly yeh!
molly’s love for wine is among the things i learned after meeting her at the cold mountain retreat in asheville. i contemplated attempting an immaculately frosted cake – adorned with marzipan, in molly’s signature style – to celebrate her twenty-sixth birthday. instead, i decided to make a cake that i can picture the two of…
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blackberry jam-packed dark chocolate cupcakes with whipped white and milk chocolate ganache frosting
makes nine cupcakes i rarely make cupcakes. they’re easy to overbake, underfill, overfrost, you get the idea. i also try to avoid the title of ‘cupcake girl.’ all of that being said, you should DEFINITELY make these. the rich darkness of the cake finds a divine pair in the tangy blackberry preserves. the white…
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deep dark chocolate truffle cake
makes one six-inch cake, eight servings My mom bought a huge bag of assorted Lindor truffles. Some are filled with white chocolate, some contain a rich peanut butter mousse, and some (my personal favorite) are wrapped in shiny black foil, with an extra dark chocolate shell enrobing a smooth dark chocolate center. This cake encapsulates the truffle’s bittersweet richness, and…
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a week of citrus
Have you ever had a chocolate covered orange? Back when my family hung up stockings (thank you so much to my parents for not depriving my brother and me of the joy of waking up to a stocking even though we’re J E W I S H), I’d always find a big, round, shiny foil-wrapped…
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