Tag: chocolate

  • Seriously…my last chocolate post.

    Seriously…my last chocolate post.

    Chocolate wisdom and cookbook recommendations from our Chocolate Cooking Class with Chef Sarah.

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  • Chocolate Spaetzle with Butterscotch Sauce and Candied Citrus

    Chocolate Spaetzle with Butterscotch Sauce and Candied Citrus

    Recipes for chocolate spaetzle, butterscotch sauce and candied citrus.

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  • Double Chocolate Ice Cream with Cocoa Nib and Pistachio Praline Crumble

    Double Chocolate Ice Cream with Cocoa Nib and Pistachio Praline Crumble

    Well, that is  delicious mouthful. There is even more—the “double chocolate” requires a chocolate ganache swirled in the already chocolatey ice cream. This is the sixth part of a series documenting our Chocolate Cooking Class with Chef Sarah Leavell of The Canebrake. Double Chocolate Ice Cream with Cocoa Nib and Pistachio Praline Crumble was the…

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  • Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes with Milk Chocolate Earl Grey Buttercream

    Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes with Milk Chocolate Earl Grey Buttercream

    You may have surmised from my recent OCD posts that I am a bit competitive.    No, really, I am.  🙂 Well, one of The Hubs’ colleagues at work has a girlfriend who runs a cupcake catering business.   Her cupcakes are sublime.   We have tasted many at different company functions and even purchased others from her…

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  • Chocolate Pear Jam

    Chocolate Pear Jam

    Wow—doesn’t this sound delicious (and interesting)? This was one of the delicious chocolate-themed dishes that Chef Sarah made for us during our recent cooking class at The Canebrake. I have to say that we were not prepared for a jam. Truffles?   Yes. Chocolate cups?   Yes. Chocolate dipped strawberries?   Yes. Chocolate jam?   No. This was a…

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  • Chocolate Almond Cups and Marble Dipped Strawberries.

    Chocolate Almond Cups and Marble Dipped Strawberries.

    This is the third post in a series of many to document our supremely chocolatey cooking class with Chef Sarah Leavell of The Canebrake. The chocolate almond cups were the second treat we tasted from Chef Sarah’s kitchen.   I really enjoyed these tiny bites more than the truffle (which I didn’t think was possible). Chef…

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  • Classic Chocolate Truffles

    Classic Chocolate Truffles

    How to make perfectly artisinal and decadent chocolate truffles from Chef Sarah of The Canebrake.

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  • Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate everywhere…

    Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate everywhere…

    A pre-Valentine’s Day adventure found us at Canebrake in a marathon chocolate cooking class.

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  • Chocolate Chip Cookies and “Heartburn”

    Chocolate Chip Cookies and “Heartburn”

      What kind of post title is this?   I hope it is a somewhat humorous one although I cannot hold a candle to the dark, sarcastic, snarky humor in Heartburn by the late Nora Ephron.   I loved it! Heartburn by Ephron is the current selection for Cook the Books, a club of food bloggers and…

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  • Dark Chocolate Blackberry Jam Cookies

    Dark Chocolate Blackberry Jam Cookies

    …and White Chocolate Blackberry Jam Cookies (with a twist of lime)

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