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Sweet and salty…if you like that combination, you’ll enjoy these mini cupcakes. I certainly did! Deep, rich, moist chocolate cupcake topped with a generous slather of buttery, salty caramel frosting…mmmm. Now, this isn’t for everyone, mind you. The frosting can be pretty salty for some, although it is possible to adjust how much salt you [...]

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I’m back! And what a week to join in on the fun! I loved this bread. I think chocolate and bananas are such a winning combination. Usually, I have ripe bananas waiting for me in the freezer, but I must have used all of them because I couldn’t find any. So I purposefully bought a [...]

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Care for a giant chocolate chip cookie that’s flat and crispy on the edges, but soft, chewy and extremely chocolatey on the inside? I’d say go to Jacques Torres’ Chocolate shop in Brooklyn, but I won’t because, yay—you can make them yourself! Until now, there were only two chocolate chip cookie recipes I’d ever made [...]

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Hmm… what did I do wrong? I’m so sad that Dorie’s Espresso Cheesecake Brownies didn’t come out that great for me. While they were beautiful—quite possibly the most beautiful Dorie creation I’ve created to date—they just didn’t come out tasting good. The brownie layer was fantastic, but the cheesecake layer tasted, well, eggy. And the [...]

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Why is the miniaturization of desserts and pastries so popular? I was visiting my sister in NYC this weekend, and mini cupcakes, mini cookies, mini anything, really, seem to be all the rage right now. We were walking in SoHo and passed by Baked by Melissa, a tiny storefront cupcake window selling baby cupcakes. We [...]

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