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Mega Vanilla Small Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies


Mega Vanilla Small Batch Chocolate Chip Cookie — scream it from the rooftops because you’re about to fall in love with this cookie. This beauty has it all: I don’t know what more we could possible want in a chocolate chip cookie. In The Cookie Book, I devoted an entire chapter to chocolate chip cookies (crispy, chewy, brown butter, etc…

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Dark Chocolate Peppermint Cups | Recipe via DisplacedHousewife Rebecca Firth

Easy Dark Chocolate Peppermint Cups


Look at these Easy Dark Chocolate Peppermint Cups! Yep, just like a peanut butter cup but filled with the most dreamy peppermint cream. Think like an Oreo or, even better, like Trader Joe’s Candy Cane Joe-Joe’s. I have eaten more Candy Cane Joe-Joe’s than I’ll ever admit. Ever. Believe it or not, you can have these Dark Chocolate Peppermint Cups…

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Burnt Sugar Muscovado Truffles | recipe via DisplacedHousewife Rebecca Firth

Burnt Sugar Muscovado Truffles


Burnt Sugar Muscovado Truffles are such the perfect, ultimate sweet treat to my always modest palate. We whip up some burnt sugar which is so easy (1 ingredient) and takes little effort. It’s so easy we’re sipping champagne as we do this, because it’s the holidays and we’re feeling it. As the burnt sugar hardens, we combine the truffle filling…

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White Trash S’mores Buns


White Trash S’mores Buns are fluffy sweet yeasted rolls stuffed with marshmallows, chocolate and crushed graham crackers. More S’mores Fun! I love love love the combo of chocolate, graham crackers and marshmallow! If you want more, check out these Chewy S’mores Cookie Bars and my favorite Salted Caramel S’mores Tarts. Enjoy your super fluffy White Trash S’mores Buns!

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Salted Caramel S’mores Tart


Sometimes something is just too dang delicious not to share and that’s the case with this spectacle of a dessert, behold the Salted Caramel S’mores Tart. If I had to pick my favorite flavor combination of summer, it would probably (most certainly) be the graham cracker-chocolate-marshmallow holy trinity of flavor combinations that is the s’more. A backyard wonder. A beachcomber’s…

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Chocolate Hazelnut Brownies with Coffee Ganache


We need chocolate and hazelnuts and coffee in our life. Right now. Full stop. These chocolate hazelnut brownies come together so quick…in a flash. All your wet ingredients mingle together in a make-shift double boiler so that the chocolate and sugars get all melt-y and delicious. A quick whisk of the dry ingredients (and a sift if you’re feeling frisky,…

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Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Truffle Cookies Recipe | DisplacedHousewife

Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Truffle Cookies


First, let’s chat about these truffle cookies. Think of a cookie with deep chocolate flavors, a brownie-esque texture which to me equates truffles (the most sacred of food groups) and that beautiful toasty crunch that distinctively comes from hazelnuts. These are probably one of the easier cookies that you’ll throw together mingling everything on a double-boiler until it gets melted…

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Raspberry Peach Orange Blossom Muffins


This is kind of a pretentious little name for a simple little muffin. We reach for common baking ingredients (flour, sugar and the like) and then frantically grab all the peaches and raspberries before fall has stolen summer’s fruit. It already feels so fleeting. The one thing that elevates this beauty to next-level status is the addition of orange blossom…

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