Category: Desserts

  • Chocolate Cappuccino Cheesecake

    Chocolate Cappuccino Cheesecake

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    You know those people that go to the grocery store and grab a bunch of stuff that they don’t need because it’s on sale?  Well, guilty as charged.  In particular, I grab ingredients that might come in handy for baking.  I can’t help myself.  It goes into my shopping cart as I imagine all of the delicious things that I might be able to do with it. (more…)

  • Pastel Imposible (AKA Chocoflan)

    Pastel Imposible (AKA Chocoflan)

    I love chocolate cake.  I love flan.  So, what happens when you combine the two?  Pure excellence!  Pastel imposible translates into “impossible cake” for you non-Spanish speakers, and it gets its name from the seemingly impossible feat of layering creamy flan on a bed of dense chocolate cake.  It is believed that this dessert originated in Mexico, where it is still very popular to this day. (more…)

  • Granola Bars

    Granola Bars

    There are those whose metabolisms are off the charts.  For the rest of us, there are diets.  And, now that I am in my thirties, dieting seems to be a way of life.  Except on the weekends, of course.  Everyone knows that calories don’t count on Saturdays and Sundays.

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