Whenever I get a box of chocolates I bite my way through each one until I find the one with caramel in the middle. The sweet milk chocolate and the creamy, chewy caramel are like little bites of heaven. Recently, while eating a chocolate caramel, visions of cupcakes stuffed with these little treasures began dancing [...]

The August 2009 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Angela of A Spoonful of Sugar and Lorraine of Not Quite Nigella. They chose the spectacular Dobos Torte based on a recipe from Rick Rodgers’ cookbook Kaffeehaus: Exquisite Desserts from the Classic Caffés of Vienna, Budapest, and Prague.

The July Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Nicole at Sweet Tooth. She chose Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Cookies and Milan Cookies from pastry chef Gale Gand of the Food Network

I realize that it is the middle of bikini season and many of us are trying to avoid temptations from evil sweets but I just could not resist sharing this recipe. To be nice, I won’t try to tempt you by going into detail about the semi-sweet chocolate chips and dark chocolate that I add [...]

After posting a couple of hot and spicy dishes last week, I thought it was time share a sweet treat with you. I could not think of a better sweet treat then cupcakes.  Who doesn’t love a cupcake? Especially one as cute as this. And believe me, these soft buttermilk cupcakes with sweet cherry cream [...]

The June Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Jasmine of Confessions of a Cardamom Addict and Annemarie of Ambrosia and Nectar. They chose a Traditional (UK) Bakewell Tart… er… pudding that was inspired by a rich baking history dating back to the 1800’s in England.
I was a little nervous when I saw this months challenge. [...]

It is amazing what smells can do. The smell of pine trees evokes memories of Christmas tree hunting. The smell of tomatoes on the vine will always remind me of summers in my moms backyard. The smell of the roasting pork from the sandwich shop down the street makes my stomach rumble.  And apparently the [...]

With Memorial Day behind us now,  it is officially time to start enjoying our favorite summer treats. For many, those treats involve ice cream and my favorite summer treat is no different.  It was the summer break of my junior year when my good friend Natalija and I decided that our treat of the summer [...]

So I was craving chocolate the other day, well ok I am always craving chocolate, but I finally decided to do something about it yesterday. I am a sucker for brownies and cookies so I figured why not put them together? And how about I throw in some dark chocolate chunks for good measure. They [...]

The April 2009 challenge is hosted by Jenny from Jenny Bakes. She has chosen Abbey’s Infamous Cheesecake as the challenge.
This being my first time participating in the Daring Bakers, I was very excited to see that the challenge for the month was cheesecake.  We were given a lot of freedom to do what we wanted [...]