70 Totally Awesome Chocolate Treats

February 12, 2020February 9, 2020 Renee Leave a comment

February is National Chocolate Lover’s Month, so I’m bringing you 70 totally awesome chocolate treats. You know you can’t get enough. Drive away dementors, create some love, and indulge in this food of the gods every day. Let’s get to it.

Chocolate Olive Oil Cake (Gluten-Free Dairy-Free)

Winter-Spiced Flourless Chocolate Cake (Gluten-Free)

Practically Perfect Chocolate Cake

Molten Chocolate Cake

Chocolate Peanut Butter Gooey Butter Cake

Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Orange Frosting

Cookies and Cream Fridge Cake

Chocolate Cinnamon Bread

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Cookies

White Chocolate Cranberry Macadamia Nut Cookies

Triple Chocolate Cookies

White Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies

Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Blossoms

Nutella No-Bake Cookies

Giant Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies

Chocolate-Dipped Peanut Butter Cookies

Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate Wafer Cookies

Chocofied Peanut Butter Cookies

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Pie, Cheesecake, & Pudding

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheesecake

Giant Peanut Butter Cups

White Chocolate Peppermint Cheesecake

Chocolate Lime Pie

Grasshopper Pie

Nutella Cheesecake Parfaits

Chocolate Amaretto Tart

Chocolate Orange Mousse

Homemade Chocolate Pudding for Two

Mini Oreo Cheesecakes

No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie

Cupcakes

Chocolate Mint Cupcakes

Semi-Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Better Than Sex Cupcakes

Cookies and Cream Cupcakes

Bread Pudding

Chocolate Kahlua Bread Pudding

Chocolate Croissant Bread Pudding

Chocolate Chip Bread Pudding

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Drinks

White Hot Chocolate

Chocolate Candy Cane Cocktail

Vanilla Hot Chocolate for One

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White Chocolate Cranberry Macadamia Nut Cookies

December 6, 2019December 5, 2019 Renee Leave a comment

White Chocolate Cranberry Macadamia Nut Cookies are filled with all the good stuff. They’re buttery and crisp and full of texture. Crunchy nuts, tart cranberries and sweet white chocolate make a practically perfect cookie.

I’ve been writing this blog off an on for over six years. I’ve shared hundreds of easy, approachable, affordable recipes completely for free. Delicious recipes that are totally achievable even by inexperienced cooks and bakers. And yet people still want me to bake things for them. I don’t get it.

Freshly baked homemade cookies are better than anything you can get from those ubiquitous shopping mall cookie places. They require minimal effort and skill. Okay, they do take a bit of time to make at home because, especially if your oven sucks as much as mine, you can only bake 8 cookies at a time. But you can just chill out rewatching Friends on Netflix for the hundredth time. I’m starting to think I need to set up an online cookie shop.

These White Chocolate Cranberry Macadamia Nut Cookies would definitely be a big seller in my imaginary cookie shop. They got tons of compliments from my co-workers, even from people who said they don’t normally like cranberry or had never eaten macadamia nuts. These cookies are all about texture and contrast. Buttery crispy edges and a chewy center. Crunchy nuts and sticky fruit. Sweet white chocolate chips and tart cranberries. These cookies have it all.

The only slight twist to the cookie-making process here is that the cranberries need to be soaked in hot water while you’re mixing up the rest of your dough just to soften them a bit. Everything else is pretty standard. Cream together butter and sugar, add egg, mix in dry ingredients, then toss in your add-ins. Bake. Done. Simple. Awesome.

Hopefully, you’re up for making your own cookies this holiday season. White Chocolate Cranberry Macadamia Nut Cookies are an awesome place to start.

This recipe originally appeared on How to Be Awesome on $20 a Day in September, 2013.

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Stem Ginger Biscuits

November 22, 2019November 20, 2019 Renee 2 Comments

Stem Ginger Biscuits are packed with ginger heat. Plus, they’re the perfect combination of crispy and chewy. You’ll love them.

Things got a little personal on the blog this week. I’m not gonna lie. It felt a little weird to be talking about serious life stuff with all of you. It’s been a long time since we’ve dug deep and found our inner awesomeness. Maybe we should make it a thing.

I feel much more comfortable back in the realm of butter and flour. Cookies are something I know about. A subject upon which I can speak with a modicum of authority. Because you know I’ve eaten a lot of cookies in my lifetime. Like a lot a lot.

Okay, technically I’m calling these biscuits because it’s a British recipe, but they feel more like a cookie when you eat them. I don’t know if the difference is anything other than regional semantics, but in my mind, a biscuit is more dry and crisp, and a cookie is more chewy or cakey. Maybe I’m not an expert on this after all.

Perhaps we should have waited until December to talk about cookies, but I feel like these Stem Ginger Biscuits transcend season. They’ve got that glorious ginger warmth, and the addition of chopped stem ginger adds a chewy texture and depth of flavor.

One of the things I like about this recipe is that you use melted butter and golden syrup (or you could substitute light corn syrup). That means you don’t have to wait for butter to soften before getting started. No creaming butter and sugar, either, so we can make the whole thing in one mixing bowl with a rubber spatula or wooden spoon. So simple.

There are very few situations in life that can’t be improved with tea and biscuits. If you’ve got these Stem Ginger Biscuits in your biscuit tin or cookie jar, happiness is sure to follow.

This recipe is from The Great British Book of Baking by Linda Collister.

I Can’t Bake-Off: Signature Biscuit

July 16, 2019July 15, 2019 Renee Leave a comment

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Here’s my next bit of evidence for why I can’t go on The Great British Bake-Off. Of course, if you weren’t convinced by my chocolate celebration cake, I don’t know what else I could tell you.

If you made it through cake week on the first season of Bake-Off, your next challenge was to make your signature biscuit. Of course, being American, I’m much more of a cookie person, and my Giant Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Cookies are definitely my favorite, but there are tons of others that I really love. Somehow, I didn’t think any of those would meet the criteria.

Then I remembered my Classic Crunchy Peanut Butter Cookies from an Alton Brown recipe. Their crunchy so seemed more biscuit like, and my love of peanut butter is definitely a defining factor in my life, so if I was going to present something to Paul and Mary, it would probably be these.

This is one of the more popular recipes on my site, so hit that link to get the recipe, as I haven’t changed a thing. The only variation is in how long you bake them for. The longer you bake them, the crunchier they’ll be, but don’t let them get too brown because then they verge on burnt.

I stand behind these cookies. Or biscuits. Whatever. But doubtless, Paul and Mary would find flaws. They have a nice crunch and are not overly sweet. They deliver on the peanut butter flavor, and I can’t seem to stop eating them. However, my cookies always come out with some variation in size, shape, and color. I’m not a professional baker, and I never will be.

If you’re looking for a simple, classic peanut butter cookie, give these a go. They’ll get you through to the technical without any disasters.

White Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies

November 26, 2018November 25, 2018 Renee Leave a comment

Thanksgiving has come and gone, even on an expat timetable. I think we hit it out of the park yet again. I’ll never not make turkey meatloaf. It’s just too good. Well, perhaps the pie didn’t go to well. In case you’re wondering, you can’t substitute custard powder for pudding mix. But we were all so delightfully full from dinner, I almost forgot about dessert. I never thought I’d write those words.

With turkey day officially put to bed, we’re free to talk about all things Christmas without any awkwardness. We’re going to buy our tree next weekend because my husband is still very much the excited child when it comes to Christmas decorations. I’m a bit nervous about keeping a live tree healthy for that long, but we’ll just have to take extra care. It’s the shopping I’m most worried about though. I’m a terrible gift buyer. I just want to get everyone a book.

You know my favorite thing about any holiday is the food, and the best thing about Christmas is cookies. They don’t really have a Christmas cookie tradition here in the UK, and I think they’re definitely missing out. I think you should add these White Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies to your holiday baking list year. They’re not only seasonally appropriate with their burst of red and white, but they also happen to be irresistibly delicious.

There’s no secrets or tricks to this cookie. They’re pretty standard in terms of method. They raise the bar on a more traditional oatmeal cookie, though. Dried cranberries are vastly superior to raisins, and though I’m normally not a white chocolate lover, the sweetness balances the tartness from the cranberries perfectly in this recipe. Make sure you’re using rolled oats and not instant porridge or oatmeal, otherwise you won’t bet the proper chewiness from your oats.

Let’s bake all the things this year, friends, starting with White Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies. Keep it festive. Keep it awesome.

Yum

White Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 13 minutes

Yield: 32 cookies

White Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies definitely deserve a place on your holiday baking list.

Ingredients

1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup rolled oats
4 1/2 ounces unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup dried cranberries
100 grams white chocolate chips

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 350F (175C) and line your baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a mixing bowl add flour, baking powder, salt, and oats. Gently whisk to combine.
In a large mixing bowl, use an electrical mixer to beat together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar until creamy. Then beat in the egg and vanilla until combined.
With your mixer on it's lowest speed, slowly add in the dry ingredients until combined. Finally, mix in the dried cranberries and white chocolate chips.
I use a cookie scoop to scoop out walnut-size balls of cookie dough onto my baking sheets, leaving a couple of inches in between for the cookies to spread. I had enough dough for four batches of eight cookies.
Bake your cookies for about 13 minutes or until they start to lightly brown around the edges. Allow them to cool on the baking sheet for about 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool. Store in an air tight container if you can stop your family from eating them all.

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