Bake or Break

For a while now, I’ve been wanting to use muffin pans to make brownies. I found several recipes, but none I could really get excited about. Then, I found this one that features one of my favorite combinations: chocolate and peanut butter.

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It’s not often that I make brownies with no additions. No nuts, peanut butter, coconut… you get the picture. However, plain brownies are Quinn’s favorite. I hesitate to call these “plain.” They are far too good for such a description.

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Now, that’s a recipe title. These brownies have it all. While I like brownies that are over the top chocolate, I think my favorites are the ones loaded with other flavors, too. This recipe certainly offers a little bit of everything.

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I found this recipe ages ago and promptly printed it out so I could make it as soon as possible. Of course, when I found it earlier this week and remembered how excited I was to make them, I was forced to laugh at the fact that my [...]

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First of all, I am excited to say that this little blog and I are featured in C&H Sugar’s Sweet Talk newsletter. The summer edition is all about baking blogs, and I am flattered to be mentioned in the same article as some of my favorite blogs, including [...]

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To say I have been absent from baking and blogging would be a gross understatement. I took a bit of a break after Christmas when I reached that point when I couldn’t bear to look at another cake, cookie, or other baked good. After that, it’s just proven difficult to get back into [...]

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The hardest part about holiday baking is deciding what to make. It’s not that I can’t find recipes. It’s that I find too many recipes. I spend far too much time deliberating the virtues of each one when I could be in the kitchen [...]

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I picked up a box of Ina’s brownie mix during our recent travels. I had been wanting to try out a brownie mix for a while. I also had been wanting to give Ina a try in an attempt to get over my anti-Ina-ness. Seeing this box on the shelf seemed a [...]

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Our most recent discovery is Praline Liqueur, a pecan flavored liqueur. Quinn went in search of it to use in making my birthday cheesecake next weekend. In the meantime, we’ve discovered the wonders it does poured over vanilla ice cream or mixed with milk. Yum. [...]

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At first look, this recipe doesn’t seem quite right. There are only 5 ingredients, and not one of them involves flour, sugar, or any standard baking ingredient. However, the combination of ingredients come together magically to become a very, very, very good brownie.

This recipe is from one of my most often [...]

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