Bake or Break

Chocolate Hazelnut Cake

View a printable recipe or more photos Every year, I let Quinn pick his birthday dessert. Now, when I say that, what I actually mean is that I spend a good bit of time asking lots of questions. A cake or something else? Chocolate? Caramel? Cheesecake? Any idea at all what you'd like? Then, using the bits of information I'm given here and there, I pick out several recipes and let him choose one. This year's choice is from one of my favorite baking books, How to Be a Domestic Goddess by Nigella Lawson. It's actually called Torta Alla Gianduia. That seemed a bit much to me, so I went with the much simpler name.

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Gianduia Brownies

View printable recipe or more photos I've been wanting to make Nutella brownies for a while now. It seemed like such a good idea. What would be better than adding that delicious, chocolate-hazelnut confection to fudgy brownies?

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