Posts categorized: Sweets (97)
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chocolate cranberry bars
These vibrant chocolate cranberry bars are an easy, sweet and tart treat that are just as suitable for Thanksgiving or a Christmas party as a night in with friends or family.
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the maple leaf
Elements of sweet, sour, bitter, and herbs, come together for a perfect fall cocktail with notes of caramel and spice.
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Welsh Currant Scones
These Welsh currant scones have been my family's tradition for St. Patrick's Day for years. They're so soft and tender they nearly melt in your mouth.
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Orange Gingerbread With Cream Cheese Frosting and Pomegranate Seeds
Gingerbread with a hint of orange turns decadent with cream cheese frosting studded with pomegranate seeds.
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Peanut Butter Brownie Bites
I’ve got a growing number of chocolate peanut butter treats appearing on this site and there is one primary reason for that: my husband. Now, I’m in no way saying that I don’t love the combination of chocolate and peanut butter, but whenever I want to do something nice for Joseph, I tend to think […]
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Chocolate Almond Meringues
One of my very favorite Christmas cookies is a meringue – the Forgotten Meringue, a vanilla meringue with chocolate chips – and I was excited to try another recipe out this Christmas. I figured I really couldn’t go wrong with chocolate, almonds, and a Dorie Greenspan recipe.
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Dark Chocolate Almond Thumbprint Cookies With Fleur de Sel
By far the most popular recipe on the site is the one for chocolate turtle cookies (with very good reason – it’s one of my favorites too!) and I thought it was about time for another thumbprint cookie recipe. This one comes by way of Food52 and is such a great, easy cookie to add to […]
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Chocolaty Dulce de Leche Duos
I had never had dulce de leche before I spent a summer in Santa Cruz, Bolivia over 10 years ago. In fact, I’m not sure I had even heard of it before then. But one taste of the sweet, sticky, caramelly spread and I was instantly hooked. I was in Santa Cruz volunteering as a […]
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Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls
You may have noticed that things have been quieter than usual here on Pixelated Crumb this year. It’s not that I’m not cooking, baking, and eating, and it’s not that I haven’t been itching to share fabulous, seasonal recipes. It’s just been…well, it’s been an interesting year. I found out that I was pregnant in […]
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S’more Nut Bars
It’s hard to believe that summer has come and gone already. Just a week ago temperatures here in Boston were in the high 90s, and now it’s certifiably chilly. As much as I love fall baked goods, I couldn’t help but make one last dessert to bid farewell to summer. This is the ultimate ode […]
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Lemon Blueberry Cake With Lemon Cream
Spring has finally come to Boston. With a snow storm just a week and a half ago, I can’t even begin to express my relief to have a weekend full of sun and warmth. Everyone is whispering cautionary reminders of the April 1st blizzard a few years ago, but I am holding on to hope […]
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Best of Pixelated Crumb 2012
Happy New Year, everyone! I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday. I for one have started out 2013 with a bang, becoming an auntie (again – I already have two amazing nieces on my husband’s side)! My sister gave birth to a beautiful 9 lb 4 oz baby named Lexi yesterday. It’s been a pretty great […]
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Chocolate Chip and Peppermint M&M Cookies
It’s no secret that I love mint and I’m also a huge fan of a perfectly buttery chocolate chip cookie, so it’s no surprise that I love these chocolate chip peppermint M&M cookies. I didn’t even know that M&M made peppermint candies until I saw this recipe posted on Two Peas and Their Pod. I […]
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Chocolate Nutella Cookies
Who doesn’t love nutella? I mean really, is there anyone out there that doesn’t love this rich hazelnut and chocolate spread? Hazelnuts and chocolate make for a perfect combo and that’s no exception in this drool-worthy cookie from America’s Test Kitchen. I love baking with hazelnuts, but I have to be honest – I am less fond […]
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Chocolate Fluff Cookies
I’ve got a few different cookie recipes to share with you for the holiday season, and I figured I may as well start with my favorite so that you don’t have any excuse not to make them. These chocolate fluff cookies come from the same recipe booklet from America’s Test Kitchen as the much-loved chocolate turtle […]
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Apple Cider Caramels
You know how you never forget your first? Well, Smitten Kitchen was my first food blog and I instantly fell in love with Deb Perelman’s photos, her recipes, her style of writing, and especially her stories. She only features the best of recipes (including this unbelievable chocolate peanut butter cake that you’ve seen here) and her blog […]
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The Ultimate Pumpkin Pie
Dare I say it? I don’t like pumpkin pie. So un-American, right? People who know me are always shocked. I love all things pumpkin! I love chocolate chip pumpkin cookies, pumpkin bundt cake, and especially pumpkin cinnamon roll pancakes. But pumpkin pie? Not so much. That is, not so much until I had my first […]
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Apple Cinnamon Bread
It’s that time of year: apple season. One of my all-time favorite times of the year. I’ve talked before about my love of apple season and even Apple Day, a day devoted entirely to devouring tasty meals made from apples. This apple bread was my first foray into apple cooking this fall and it is worthy of […]
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Bourbon and Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
My aunt and uncle moved into their cute house on the northern border of Massachusetts last winter and going up to visit them is the perfect antidote to the crazy work schedule I’ve had lately. Technically it’s on a lake, but we all call it the Pond House and it is every bit as cozy and quaint […]
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Pluot and Blueberry Galette
I had never heard of pluots before, but when I saw the bright red color (not to mention their low price) I grabbed a few along with a pint of blueberries to make a galette for some Fourth of July festivities. Yes, I know, we’re halfway through July and the Fourth has long since come […]
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Goat Cheese Ice Cream With Roasted Cherries and Dark Chocolate Freckles
If you thought I was excited about the roasted strawberry ice cream from Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams At Home, just wait till you hear about this one. I am seriously in love with this goat cheese ice cream with roasted cherries. I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from the goat cheese, but I was pleasantly surprised by […]
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Chewy Chocolate Chip Pretzel Cookies
Where have I been, you ask? Just a few weeks ago my excuse was that one of my big projects at work was ending and I was super busy. Well, now I’m on a new project and find myself just as busy, trying to meet a very important deadline next week. Earlier this week I […]
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Roasted Strawberry Stracciatella Ice Cream {and a Giveaway!}
I’m so excited, I don’t even know where to begin. After a couple of months – and in particular the last couple of weeks – of craziness at work, I’m finally done with the project I’ve been working on for the last few months. Furthermore, it’s Memorial Day weekend and I’m taking a couple of […]
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Lime Pecan Bars
Spring is in the air! And with Memorial Day just a week away, summer is just around the corner. We had a truly perfect weekend here in Boston, with crystal blue skies and temperatures in the mid-seventies. If I had to pick the weather for all the weekends for the rest of my life, this […]
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Coconut Lime Tea Cake
I have a confession to make. I only got Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook Baking: From My Home to Yours a couple of months ago. I love to bake more than just about anything and yet I’ve only just now picked up this book? Greenspan has not only coauthored books with culinary legends Julia Child, Daniel Boulud, and Pierre […]
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Cadbury Egg Brownies
Me: Oh, these are even better than I thought they would be! And they do taste like Cadbury Eggs! Joseph: Mmmmm. They’re brownies with a fancy top. I’m kind of embarrassed to admit it, but I really love Cadbury eggs. I know, it’s not much more than a chocolate shell holding in a lot of […]
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Rainbow Cake (and a Giveaway!)
When my friend Michelle from Creative Food asked if I would make a rainbow cake for her daughter Eliana’s fourth birthday party, I have to admit, I wasn’t so sure about it. All those layers! But I just couldn’t resist the pull of all those beautiful, bright colors. Mostly though, I just couldn’t disappoint Eliana. Eliana had asked for […]
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Chocolate Stout Cupcakes With Whiskey Ganache Filling and Irish Cream Frosting
I first made these cupcakes a couple of years ago when my sister and brother-in-law visited around St. Paddy’s day (Tip: don’t be a daft eejit and say St. Patty’s Day). I figured there was no better way to celebrate than with stout, whiskey, and Bailey’s Irish cream, all baked into one little cupcake. The baking of […]
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The Ultimate Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake
Can I let you in on a little secret? Baking brings out the perfectionist in me. I have very high standards for how things look, especially if it’s going to end up on my blog. And it was especially important to me that this cake look perfect. Why? Because this is one of my favorite […]
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Dark Chocolate-Cherry Ganache Bars
Pixelated Crumb is starting to look like an ode to my sister lately, and it’s got to stop before she starts letting it get to her head. But first we must address the matter of these dark chocolate-cherry ganache bars.Because Oh. My. Goodness. These treats are a chocolate lovers dream come true.
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Bourbon Brownies
A few years ago my sister posted something on Facebook about the bourbon brownies she was making and I’ve been kind of obsessed with the concept ever since. Chocolate and bourbon united together in brownie form? What more could you ask for? How about this: they’re only 150 calories a pop! Joseph and I have […]
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Chocolate Turtle Cookies
I hope you’ve saved room for one last cookie recipe, because these were my favorites of the season! When Steph, the social media manager from America’s Test Kitchen, sent me a copy of America’s Test Kitchen Holiday Cookies 2010 Special Issue I had a hard time deciding which cookies to make. I asked Joseph if he […]
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Marvelous Chocolate Mint Cookies
I know, I know. It’s the first week of January. The holidays are over and you’re cookied out. But we haven’t had the full 12 days of Christmas so the holidays aren’t really over yet, are they? Plus, it’s not too late to celebrate the new year! Because I still have two more cookie recipes […]
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Black and White Holiday Bark With Cranberries
The second cookie (well, not really cookie, but work with me here) that I chose from the America’s Test Kitchen Holiday Cookies 2010 Special Issue was this black and white holiday bark. The second I saw it I knew I had to make it. America’s Test Kitchen calls it a bark and I suppose therefore […]
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Jubilee Jumbles (aka Fruitcake Cookies)
Steph, the awesome social media manager at America’s Test Kitchen, sent me the ATK Holiday Cookies 2010 Special Issue and just a week after I got it in the mail, it looks like I’ve had it for over a year. Steph said it’s her favorite and I can see why. As I flipped through the […]
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Cranberry Turtle Bars
I was all set to make the cranberry crunch bars from Moosewood Desserts for a potluck at work, but then I saw these cranberry turtle bars on Beantown Baker and I just couldn’t get them out of my head. I had to make them. I was a little nervous about making caramel since I’m always […]
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Cherry Pecan Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies (and a Giveaway from America’s Test Kitchen!!)
Ok, so maybe I did just make oatmeal cookies, but I got some dried sour cherries and pecans from Oh Nuts and then I happened to notice that my Cook’s Illustrated Cookbook has a recipe for cherry pecan oatmeal chocolate cookies. It was fate. I had to make them! It’s no secret that I’m a […]
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Baked Apple Cider Doughnuts
I had never heard of cider doughnuts until my first visit to my in-laws in central Massachusetts, but it became clear from the very first utterance that they were something very special. Joseph and his brother, Mark, were talking about cider doughnuts like they were just about the best thing on Earth. I nodded and […]
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Blueberry Walnut Oatmeal Cookies (and a Giveaway!!)
If you’ve been reading Pixelated Crumb back since the beginning, you’ll know that I don’t really like raisins in most baked goods. I don’t like the texture or flavor that they add. I guess when it comes right down to it, I’m just not a raisin fan. When I get trail mix I find myself […]
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Bourbon Baked Apple Sorbet
Since my sister and brother-in-law were driving all the way from Philadelphia to Boston just for Apple Day, I figured I may as well get the celebration started early and I decided the best way to do that was with a recipe from Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home. Jessica and Adam were the ones […]
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Apple and Quince Tarte Tatin
A little over a year ago, Joseph and I began a new tradition that my sister and brother-in-law started years ago: Apple Day. You can get the full description of Apple Day straight from my sister in this post from last year (please pardon the photos, we were still working things out), but basically it’s […]
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Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies
These chocolate chip pumpkin cookies have long been a favorite of mine. They’re a soft, cakey, pumpkin spiced cookie made even better with bittersweet chocolate chips. I made them once for a potluck when I was in college and a boy that I may or may not have had a huge crush on informed me […]
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Pumpkin Gingersnap Cookies
One of my sister’s and my favorite Christmas cookies is a molasses crinkle cookie and when I saw this recipe for pumpkin gingersnap cookies, I knew I had to make these for her. I have no idea when or how it started, but my sister and I started calling each other pumpkin. I know there’s […]
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Pumpkin Buttermilk Bundt Cake
I absolutely love fall foods and can’t get enough of all the pumpkin foods so prevalent this time of year. There’s of course the pumpkin cinnamon roll pancakes, which may well be my most favorite of all, there’s pumpkin bread, pumpkin pie, and even pumpkin pie soda from Maine Root (which I was initially wary […]
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Pumpkin Cinnamon Roll Pancakes
When I said I was raring to go to start making fall foods, I had this at the very forefront of my mind. Allow me introduce you to the most decadent, extravagant, and tastiest pancakes you have ever met: pumpkin cinnamon roll pancakes. These fabulous go-getters go above and beyond the mere pancake (which, let’s […]
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The Easiest Chocolate Cake Recipe in the World
I’ve been sharing all these fantastic birthday celebration treats and this one takes the cake (ha!) as far as ease goes. I am convinced this is the easiest chocolate cake recipe in the world. I even googled “easiest chocolate cake recipe in the world” to see what would come up and I was honestly really disappointed with the […]
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Three Layer Chocolate Cake With Marshmallow Frosting
My dad’s birthday is only six days after mine and when I was growing up that meant that we always had two cakes at our big family birthday parties. There was one for me that was usually yellow Duncan Hines with chocolate frosting and then his, which was always, always a chocolate cake with marshmallow […]
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Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream
Another peanut butter and chocolate recipe? Yup, that’s because the next birthday was Joseph’s. Now, one of the very first things I learned about Joseph was his love of chocolate and raspberries together, so the obvious choice would have been the most amazing chocolate raspberry cake ever, but that is one mondo cake and I […]
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Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Pound Cake With Peanut Butter Glaze
Ok, so Pixelated Crumb is way overdue for a recipe and I promised you some yummy birthday celebration desserts and I’m here to deliver! August and September are busy months for Joseph and me because they’re full of birthdays of friends and family (including my own!). First up is Mark, my brother-in-law. When I think […]
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Cherry Compote
Over the last few weeks I’ve become increasingly annoyed by the number of people talking about summer drawing to a close, the fall catalogs piling up at my door, and Halloween candy appearing in the grocery store. I wanted to scream, “No, summer is not over! There’s tons of summer left!” But now that August […]
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S’mores Pie
Nothing brings back the excitement of summer as a kid like a toasty golden brown marshmallow. Ok, let’s be realistic, mine were usually crispy and blackened…. But I just love s’mores. There’s nothing like getting marshmallows all over your hands and mouth as you take your first bite. The warm, gooey marshmallow, the crunchy graham […]
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Cherry Almond Muffins
My last post was all about loss, heartbreak, and an outrageously rich pie, so I’m going to try to lighten things up this week. Last weekend, after making the peanut butter pie for Mikey, Joseph and I went to meet Zoe, the 3 1/2 week old baby of our friends, Christina and Adam. Her amazing, full, dark […]
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Creamy Peanut Butter Pie
Like the rest of the food blogging community, I was shocked and horrified by the news that Jennifer Perillo’s husband, Mikey, passed away quite unexpectedly of a heart attack last Sunday. My jaw dropped and tears streamed down my face when I read Jennifer’s twitter feed that day, which went from counting down the days to […]
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Raspberry Swirl and Brownie Ice Cream
I hope that everyone had a wonderful National Ice Cream Day last Sunday! If you missed it and didn’t have any ice cream (shame on you!), don’t panic, July is National Ice Cream Month. You’ve got the rest of the month fulfill your duty to dig your spoon into that bowl or get your fingers […]
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Lemon Bundt Cake
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I love lemon. I know that some people think that you’re either a chocolate kind of person or a lemon kind of person and I think that’s ridiculous because I don’t think I could survive with one and not the other. OK, that might be mildly […]
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Strawberry Basil Sorbet
I had knee surgery just a few days ago and have been laid up, once again, depending entirely on Joseph for everything from a glass of water, to going to the pharmacy for my pain killers, to making each and every one of my meals. It’s been painfully hot here in Boston the last […]
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Piña Colada Cake
Remember the strawberry starburst cake that I made for the wedding shower for two work friends? Well, it was a potluck dinner and I was one of three people bringing dessert, yet I still found it necessary to make two cakes because I always worry about there being enough food (and yet there is always, […]
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Strawberry Starburst Cake
There are so many wonderful things about spring and one of my favorites is the resurgence of luscious, ruby red strawberries. I can’t bring myself to buy strawberries in the winter because they are just so sad with their pinkish/reddish facade and bland white innards. But in the spring we start seeing bright red strawberries followed by bright […]
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strawberry rhubarb crumble
I grew up hating rhubarb. I don’t even know when I tried it, but I did and I hated it and I never wanted to try it again. My mom, on the other hand, loved rhubarb. As the sole fan in the house, she never got to have it. For mother’s day I would sometimes […]
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lemon crinkle cookies and lemon coconut cookies
I’ve been posting a lot of lime treats lately (like the key lime coconut cake and the cornmeal lime cookies), but the truth is, my love of tart desserts began with lemon and not lime, so I figured it was about time I posted something lemony. These cookies have been making their way around pinterest […]
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chocolate cake with white chocolate cream cheese frosting
Birthdays sometimes go unnoticed in my office, and while I can’t bake a cake for everyone, I try to do something. We hired a new project assistant a couple months back and we kind of forgot her birthday. My excuse was that I was working from home because of my never-ending knee problems. But I decided […]
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Cornmeal Lime Cookies
I promised you some yummy lime treats a while back and it’s taken me forever to deliver! I first had these cookies from Joanne Chang’s new cookbook, Flour, when a friend made them and brought them to work last fall. It was before I had gotten Chang’s book, named after her bakery in Boston, and one […]
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Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies from Cook’s Illustrated
A few weeks ago my sister, Jessica, and I were talking on the phone when she asked me if I had any good chocolate chip cookie recipes. She was asking because she said she had tried several recipes and while they were good, they just didn’t really compare to the classic Nestle Toll House recipe. […]
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key lime coconut cake
When we were planning our little Easter dinner (just for the two us), I was most excited about picking out a dessert (surprised, anyone?). I scoured recent posts on tastespotting and foodgawker, I checked out Epicurious and the Food Network, and while there many lovely, tasty looking desserts, nothing was jumping out as quite what I was looking for. I wasn’t […]
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Chocolate Angel Food Cake
I love baking for other people. There’s just so much satisfaction in giving someone one of your favorite treats, like chocolate glazed gingerbread cakes, chocolate raspberry cake, apple cider cake, or a cranberry upside-down cake (can you tell I like cake?). But what about when that person is on a diet? You’d hardly be a good […]
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Springtime Sampler
We finally had some decent weather this past weekend and I was absolutely desperate to get out of the house. We’d never been to New Bedford, a town hailed for being one of the most important whaling ports in the 19th Century, so we made the one hour drive down from Boston and checked out […]
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Macarons
Well, as I mentioned a couple days ago, I took an awesome class at the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts taught by Master Pastry Chef Delphine Gomes. Macarons are clearly the hot new (well, not as new now…) thing, and I love them, but I just can’t afford to keep up the habit with the […]
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Une Leçon de Macarons (A Lesson on Macarons)
Did you know that this past Sunday was Macaron Day in NYC? I got an e-mail about it yesterday and then this afternoon a friend told me about her weekend in New York and all the macaron shops she hit up while she was there. Oh man was I jealous. If only I had known! […]
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Cranberry, Cherry, and Clementine Cream Scones
Growing up, I was always very proud of my Irish heritage. Every St. Patty’s day my mom would make her version of colcannon (basically mashed potatoes with shredded cabbage, bacon pieces, and grated cheddar) and currant scones. The scones were always my favorite part. As an adult, my celebration of St. Patty’s Day has changed considerably (hello, […]
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Chocolate Raspberry Cake
Let me get straight to the point and tell you that this is one of my very favorite cake recipes. It’s chocolate (which scores it several points right off the bat) accented by a delightfully tart raspberry filling. The layers are moist and rich and the three of them piled up together give it some […]
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individual spiced chocolate cakes
The seared duck dinner we made for Valentine’s Day was a bit more involved than usual for a weeknight for us (especially after a full day at work and then going to the gym), so I wanted to make a pretty simple dessert. The good news is that there are a ton of recipes out […]
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Chocolate Stout Cake
Want something a little more grown up for the Super Bowl than brownies? How about chocolate stout cake anyone? Now, this is for the more sophisticated crowd since it does kind of require a fork and plate. I know, we’re just getting highfalutin over here! But it does seem pretty fitting for a football game, […]
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Chewy Brownies
My sister specifically requested a recipe for a Super Bowl dessert and at first my mind drew a blank. Thinking of main courses and appetizers are so easy (turkey burger, spicy sweet potato fries, turkey chili and corn bread, smokey chipotle salsa, guacamole, and chips are just a few), but desserts? Well, chocolate came to mind really […]
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Cranberry Upside-Down Cake
Last Friday night the Aggies were playing their bowl game and my intention had been to make this cake because the Aggies colors are maroon and white. But between going to the gym, going to the grocery store, making dinner and then a wine and beer tasting at Spirited Gourmet, well, it just didn’t happen. […]
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Chocolate Shortbread Fingers
Ok, here’s my last cookie-type-thing for you for at least a little while. I promise to share some healthier stuff with you soon. But I thought you’d enjoy these. It’s a great recipe to have on hand because you’re likely to already have everything you need to make them and they’re easy to make to […]
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Chocolate Hazelnut Crinkle Cookies
Wait! Hold off on that New Year’s diet resolution! I still have two cookie recipes to share with you! I know, I should have gotten them in earlier, it’s just been such a busy holiday season. For years and years, we always made the same cookies for the holidays (such as the forgotten meringues and […]
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Forgotten Meringues
My family has many Christmas traditions and one of my favorites is the forgotten meringue. It’s called the forgotten meringue because you whip up the meringue, form cookies on a sheet, and put them in a preheated oven and turn the oven off, and then forget about them until the next morning. You then begin […]
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Triple-Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies
This is a new Christmas cookie for me and believe me, it’s going to find a place in the Christmas cookie rotation from now on. It has not one, not two, but three kinds of chocolate: semi-sweet, milk chocolate, and white chocolate. Now, I was initially wondering what the point of buying milk chocolate was […]
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fruitcake cookies
I just spent the weekend baking holiday cookies and have so much to share with you! I’m beginning with my dad’s favorite: fruitcake cookies. My mom has made these cookies for as long as I can remember but I’m not sure I ever actually tried one until 3 or 4 years ago. They’re packed with […]
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Chocolate Glazed Gingerbread Cakes
Ok, I know, I know, it’s been way too long since my last post. But believe me, this recipe should (somewhat) make up for it and it’s just in time for your holiday parties, dinners, etc.! I came across this recipe from Martha Stewart a few years ago and love to make it for guests. […]
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Pumpkin Pie
As much as I love pumpkiny foods, I’ve never really been a big fan of pumpkin pie. I guess it’s the texture (so mushy). But it such a classic Thanksgiving dessert that I figured I should make one. I was also inspired when I found this recipe when flipping through Joanne Chang’s new cookbook at […]
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Apple Crumb Pie
I don’t know exactly how old I was (10ish?), but I still remember standing at the kitchen counter trying to roll out my pie dough and my grandmother guiding me through this process that was proving to be so much more complicated than I had thought it would be. I’ve made an apple pie every […]
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day(s) of feasting
Thanksgiving morning began with individual monkey breads – monkey bread that my mother-in-law made in muffin tins so we each had our own piece of gooey, warm, sticky monkey bread to pull apart and devour. It was the beginning of a magnificent day of feasting. Thanksgiving dinner included a ridiculously succulent turkey; stuffing; a butternut […]
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Apple Cider Cake
The way food disappears at my office, you’d think that we don’t ever get fed. We had a Thanksgiving feast for lunch on Monday, with the office providing all the turkey and sides and employees supplying the desserts. There was so much food that I was sure this time people would be full and that […]
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Tres Leches Cake
When a coworker’s going away dinner became Mexican-themed (all because another coworker said she was bringing tequila and no one could argue with margaritas), I figured I should make a tres leches cake. I had never made one before and a few people mentioned that they had heard they were difficult to make, though they […]
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Cinnamon Apple Macawhoopsie Pie
So the time had finally come for me to make my own macarons, which Joseph was reminding me on a regular basis. He had seen a recipe for cinnamon apple macarons on Dessert for Breakfast that look absolutely amazing. I kept pleading with him, saying that we should probably start with something a little much […]
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Pumpkin Pancakes
Ok, it’s Friday morning so you have till the end of the day to make sure you’re stocked with ingredients for these pancakes because, trust me, you’re going to wake up Saturday morning and want pumpkin pancakes. If you’re anything like me, you’re set already because you’re so excited about pumpkins this fall that you […]
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Apple Butter
I love fall foods so much. I have so many great memories of getting apple cider and making apple pie growing up. Apple stuff just reminds me of my childhood. I’ve always loved apple butter, but I had never considered making it until last year when I was suddenly curious how hard it would be […]
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Maple Cookies
Ok, so I may have totally failed my sister’s Apple Day, but we definitely did a nice feature of maple between the maple-mustard pork and the maple cookies. Yup, we used a lot of maple syrup for that meal and it was oh, so good. I already told you how good the pork was, but […]
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Ginger-Miso Halibut in Shiitake and Edamame Broth With Soba Noodles
While we were in DC celebrating my Dad’s, Joseph’s and my birthdays, my mom wanted to cook a meal together (well, my dad’s very helpful participation was on the cleaning up side of things). Joseph found a striped bass recipe on epicurious.com that looked pretty good. My mom had some beautiful halibut already, so we […]
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macaron colorwheel
Ok, I’ve been terrible about posting. It’s been such a busy summer with nearly every weekend out of town and I admit, I’ve totally slacked off on the blogging. The good thing about all the traveling (besides seeing friends and family!) was getting to try more macarons! If you’ve been following pixelated crumb at all, […]
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macaron expédition
Remember my search for a macaron that rivaled the one I got in France? Well, I hadn’t given up the search, but until this past weekend, the only other macarons I had tried were the ones from the River St. Whole Foods in Cambridge. They were good, fine, whatever, but not worthy of their own post. Luckily […]
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Mmmm S’mores
The West Branch Pond staff didn’t cook all our meals on our Maine vacation. Oh no. We made our own s’mores thank you very much. And since I haven’t shared a recipe in a while (because they really did cook everything for us), I’m sharing the s’mores recipe with you :). I was so busy […]
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Healthy Carrot Zucchini Muffins
Remember that carrot cake I made last week? And how much I enjoyed shoving carrots down the shoot of the food processor? Well, I went overboard on both the purchase of carrots and the shredding of carrots. The carrots I didn’t shred were perfect for the Chicken in Escabeche of Caramelized Onions, Carrots, and Jalapeños. […]
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Quick and Easy Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins
My husband knows me pretty well. The other day I was going to bake a carrot cake for a coworker’s birthday and I also wanted to bake something for a picnic and Shakespeare in the park the next night. At first Joseph thought this was a great idea and then he got this look in […]
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The Carrots Make It Healthy, Thank You Very Much
Everyone always seem to think of carrot cake as being healthy. It’s the nice little illusion those carrots give. Veggies in your dessert! Can you even call it a dessert? No, better off calling it a side! If only. This is one of the more unhealthy cakes that I make (why hello, 2 cups of […]
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Macaron Macaroon
Walking through the streets of Paris is so like a kid in a candy store. I was drooling outside of every shop we walked past. I was especially excited by this beautiful window display with all these beautiful, colorful little confections. I only vaguely knew that they were called macarons and I was confused because […]
