Bake or Break

Corn Flake Bars

View more photos Much like chess squares, this recipe is one of those that sneaks its way into everyone’s recipe box, yet no one really knows its origin. Of course, these kinds of recipes wouldn’t stick around like if they weren’t good.

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Gianduja Mousse

View a printable recipe and more photos In the last year or so, I have definitely found my love for hazelnuts. Seriously, where have those been all my life? Of course, to optimize hazelnuts, there must be chocolate. When I found the recipe for this gianduja (apparently means Nutella) mousse in Food & Wine magazine, [...]

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Fudgy Layer Squares

View a printable recipe or more photos It seems that lately I’ve been inundating you lovely readers with an abundance of no-bake recipes. My only reasoning is that it has been yet another long, hot summer, and baking has not been high on my list of desired activities. I will get the oven turned on [...]

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Peanut Butter Tart

View more photos With the overwhelming love of peanut butter in my family, I consider it a wonderful challenge to find new peanut butter recipes for family to-dos. For my Daddy’s birthday, I started searching for a recipe and re-stumbled upon this recipe from Martha Stewart. It’s a lovely combination of graham cracker crust, chocolate [...]

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Mud Slides

View a printable recipe or more photos We recently visited our very good friends in Durham, North Carolina, which is quite a lovely place by the way. Tonya and I have been cooking together for years, and we did make dinner one night instead of eating at one of the Triangle’s wonderful restaurants. For our [...]

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Chocolate Wafer Icebox Cake

View more photos For months, I’ve been wanting to make this dessert. First, for Christmas, I got The Magnolia Bakery Cookbook, which includes the recipe. Then, I was even more sold on it when Deb made it. So, what took me so long? Finding those chocolate wafer cookies. Seriously, those are not easy to find. [...]

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