Bake or Break

Salted Nut Squares

View a printable recipe or more photosThis is one of those recipes that I'm almost embarrassed to share. Don't get me wrong. These little squares are quite tasty. It's just that they're so easy to make that it seems almost wrong.

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Peanut Butter Pie with Cookie Crust

View a printable recipe or more photos Peanut butter and chocolate go together about as well as anything else I can think of in the food world. I've had a long-time love affair with that combination. There's nothing fancy about it, but it's just plain delicious. This pie is no exception.

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Chocolate Charlotte

View the original recipe or more photos Taking a little break from holiday baking, I made this dessert for my sister’s birthday. For some reason, I had it in my head that I wanted to make a charlotte. I’d never made one before, and it just seemed like the thing to make for her day.

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Corn Flake Bars

View a printable recipe or 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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