Chocolate Chip Pecan Pie Ice Cream

Wait....what?? A couple of weeks ago I made a chocolate chip pecan pie and took it to a dinner with friends. We brought it home with a couple of slices leftover and I had an idea. What if I made classic vanilla ice cream and dropped the rest of the pie into it? Would it...

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Dark Chocolate Almond Ganache Ice Cream

I stumbled upon a Chocolate Ganache ice cream recipe at ashleemarie.com but made a few changes, the biggest being that I added a handful of chopped raw almonds towards the end of the churning time. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do, it's obviously very rich and a special treat. Dark Chocolate...

Grilled Peaches

We were just in North Carolina, dropping our youngest off at college and had to shop at the local Farmers Market for some fresh fruit and veggies for our girl before we left. We ended up driving peaches and blackberries as big as your head halfway across the country because they were too incredible to...

Nutella Crunch Ice Cream

I'm not a big Nutella fan, but there are a couple of them in my house, so I decided to give this a try after seeing it at yourhomebasedmom.com. Keep in mind that this should be eaten in small amounts because it is rich, and it tastes better than Nutella ever did. Nutella Crunch Ice Cream 1...

Éclair Torte

  This dessert has been around for many years, I have no memory of where I first learned of it, or even when I began serving it. The base has no sugar in it, giving it more of a European taste. Éclair Torte 1 c water 1/2 c unsalted butter 1/4 t. salt (or use...

Butter Cake with Lemon Buttercream Frosting

I needed to bake a cake for a house full of people and had a taste for lemons, so I put this together and it worked well! I buy jarred lemon curd (Dickinson's) but you can make it yourself. This cake is good the first day, but even better when the lemon curd has had...

Fallen Chocolate Cake (gluten free)

I wanted to take something deeply chocolate to a friend's house the other night, and he needs his food to be gluten-free, so it was a good excuse to finally make this cake. I saw it in Bon Appetit magazine a couple of years ago and tucked it away, I really like the idea of...

Too Much Chocolate Cake

This is a favorite in our house, it is quick and easy to make and it satisfies the most intense chocolate craving. I'm pretty sure we originally found it on Allrecipes.com and that is where this picture came from. We are most likely to make it for someone else or when a group of people...

Chocolate Avocado Pudding

Bon Appetit magazine shared this recipe in the most recent issue, and I have made it a couple of times already. It is smooth like pudding, and satisfying like a dessert should be. I have used Hershey's cocoa and Special Dark, and prefer the dark chocolate version, but that wasn't surprising to me. If you...