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Chocolate North Pole Cake

While in my heart, I’m totes kinda grinchy, in my baked goods I’m totally Elf. I mean, the other day when I was eating waffles for dinner I totally thought that I might like maple syrup as much as that dude. (What am I saying?!) Anyhow, this cake is easy-breezy! A perfect Tuesday afternoon cake. So I totally recommend whipping this up to take to your boyfriend’s mom’s house or to your BFF’s aunt’s house…

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The Darkest Chocolate Ice Cream In The World

It takes me 1 1/2 blocks (driving) to finish a toasted sesame seed bagel with cream cheese. It takes me the opening song of The Wire to finish my cornbread pizza. It takes me the 30 minutes before leaving for dinner to make this ice cream, leaving me just enough time to switch my shoes and put on lipstick. Do you ever buy the ingredients to make something discovering that you can’t make it until…

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Workin’ It: Cake + Blinis + Mousse

Sometimes I skip lunch and eat cake and blinis. Sometimes I put fresh figs in the middle of a bundt cake. Sometimes I load up my car with dishes and food and hang out with my homegirl Cybelle. Sometimes I get my food styling on freelance-style. I made this stuff awhile back for Michigan Blue Magazine. They wanted warm wintery chocolatey things and appetizer things. So I made a chocolate gingerbread bundt cake! I sautéed…

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day Eve!

Since tomorrow’s St. Patrick’s Day you should probably put beer in your waffles and beer in your cake. Oh, and wear green so you don’t get pinched by any weirdos! 01: S’mores {Ronin Style} with Stout Marshmallows + Oh My Ganache 02: Guinness Chocolate Cake + downloadable flags! 03: Chocolate Stout Waffle S’mores AKA beer for breakfast 04: Mini Hacker-Pschorr Cupcakes for toasting purposes 05: Beer Spice Cake with Brown Butter Glaze cake in a cozy outfit 06:…

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S’mores {Ronin Style}

Ronin is pretty much my favorite restaurant. I’m crazy for their seaweed salad, dragon roll, and their kobe beef mini burgers served with a mountain of shoe-string fries. So when they put beer in marshmallows, I knew it had to be good. I believe it was their November dessert special: guinness marshmallow s’mores with homemade graham crackers and dark chocolate ganache. Since it was a “limited time only” kind of thing, Jake and I totally…

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Peanut Butter Tart {No Bake}

My dad’s birthday was last Thursday. I called him that Friday morning. I’m hoping he considered my “Happy Birthday” fashionably late. (If I could have fit the word “fashionably” on this tart I would have.) I still feel pretty bad, but the truth is my dad’s not even mad. Would a mad dad change the lightbulbs in the kitchen to be bright enough for nighttime photos? Would a mad dad fix the burner on the…

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