No real recipe to speak of here -- just sharing some photos that I'm proud of and some things I love to eat with Ghirardelli chocolate. Ghirardelli sent me some Ghirardelli Intense Dark Chocolate bars to review, and although I usually pass on reviews, I LOVE their chocolate and had no problem being exuberant about them. My fave has always been the ( Read more... )

There are no words for how delicious this dessert is. Buttery toffee sauce cascades over smooshy, date-filled sticky toffee pudding on top of a creamy cheesecake. The crust is a mixture of graham cracker and gingersnap crumbs. The cake may not be the prettiest thing in the world (it's awfully brown), but it is certainly one of the best things I've ( Read more... )

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I finally got around to making my traditional Yule marzipans today.


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As soon as I read kitiara's post about making bacon-wrapped dates, I had to know what it tasted like. They're every bit as wonderful as I had imagined. Salty, crispy bacon hugging the sweet date with a creamy, cheesy center. Blissful mingling of flavors and textures. Even better? Only one other person wanted to try them so I had the rest of the dozen to ( Read more... )