Spiced Cranberry Chocolate Cake

Spiced Cranberry Chocolate Cake

Here I go layering again.

I guess I just can’t help myself.

Just like I can’t help but add cranberries and cream cheese to a chocolate cake. I mean, who does these things?

At first it didn’t seem like a match made in […]

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Chocolate Pumpkin Mousse Pie

Chocolate Pumpkin Mousse Pie

I just love layers. I don’t know, maybe I am influenced by the Legos and Lincoln Logs of my youth; but there’s something about stacking that intrigues me.

So when it comes to stacking flavors, I’m particularly interested. And if those flavors happen to be pumpkin and […]

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Tailgating Ideas

Chocolate Nacho Pizza

Zippy Tip Tuesday!

It’s football season, and you know what that means–

snacks!

Admittedly, I was never much into football before I met my S.O. But when I realized there could be food and libation involved, I was all over it!

So I thought it’d be a […]

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Microplane

Microplane

The thought of buying pre-grated cheese or ground nutmeg just doesn’t occur to me anymore, since purchasing my handy dandy Microplanes.

Buying whole wedges of cheese and grating them myself is a snap, and the end result is so much tastier than its counterpart.

Want […]

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Chocolate Nacho Pizza

It’s Zippy Tip Tuesday!

Last weekend, my S.O. (Significant Other) and I went to the Saugatuck Brewery, in Saugatuck, Michigan. We enjoyed the most amazing hummus with homemade flour tortilla chips, but our ratio of chips to hummus leaned heavily on the chips, so we ended up bringing several of them home. Since […]

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