Category: Desserts

Chocolate cherry cola cake with red vine filling update (and recipe-ish)

Remember how I wrote yesterday that I was behind in getting cupcakes churned out? Well, I finished 2 dozen cupcakes and baked the rest into a 3 layer cake. I didn’t love the recipe as I made it, but here’s where I got my inspiration: Kitchen Tested Red Vine Licorice Cupcakes. Of course, I didn’t …

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Toasted coconut cake batter blondies

Yum. My house smells amazing because I’m making these. Again. To give away, of course…after we “taste test” them. This recipe starts with a cake mix and is so easy to make! You can easily make them dairy or parve, so it would be great for a Shabbat dessert, a bake sale, or a dinner …

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English toffee

This is a butter crunch recipe, like a Heath bar. You can spread it with chocolate or not, but this candy is great! 1.5 C unsalted butter (3 sticks–and good butter makes good candy!) plus a little butter for the pan 2 C sugar 1/4C water 3T corn syrup optional: 12 oz chocolate Melt butter …

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Snickerdoodles

This recipe is for a delicious eggy tasting cookie, rolled in cinnamon and sugar. I make them parve and freeze them, and then take them out as I want to serve them. For holiday parties, I call them eggnogg cookies. This recipe makes 3-4 dozen cookies 1C margarine (or butter, for dairy cookies) 1.5C sugar …

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Cake balls!

Cake balls are delicious little cake bon-bons: it’s basically cake and frosting in a chocolate candy shell. And lots of sprinkles and chocolate chips–in this photo at least (this is my kids’ work from our wedding cake balls parsha project). They are pretty easy to make, although not super quick. They don’t require baking once …

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Chocolate cherry chunk cookies

I have made these two years in a row at the request of my family. When the Cherry Cordial M and M’s come out (like now!), grab a bunch! They are great alone – and in cookies. You can top these with a simple milk, vanilla, and sugar drizzle to mimic chocolate covered cherries, too! …

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White chocolate chunk cookies

These are good. I made them white chocolate candy cane cookies with chopped peppermint hershey’s kisses for our upcoming work holiday party, but they would be good with so many other things. Think almonds, dried cherries or cranberries, maybe oreo cookie chunks. This can be parve or dairy, and makes about 2.5-3 dozen, depending on …

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Haystacks

This is a recipe that I always think of when it gets cold. My family kept them in the freezer, so I like them cold–but others like them at room temperature (you can store them either way). You can also add peanuts or other nuts as you like. 1 bag semisweet chocolate chips 1 bag …

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7 layer cookies

Here is a colorful, rich cookie for dessert, especially good for Parshat Noach (rainbow) and Parshat Vayeshev (Joseph’s coat of many colors). It’s based on a Epicurious recipe with just a few tweaks and adjustments. It’s a lot of steps, but it’s not so much actual work, and it’s worth it. We served about half …

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Snappy peppermint brownies

This recipe was a huge hit for Sukkot–you’re looking at the last piece, which only survived so I could snap this shot. Then I had to get out of the way before it got eaten. It’s that good! (And dare I mention really easy, AND from a box?!) So to our guests who requested the …

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