• banana chocolate chip doughnuts;

    February 15, 2016bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    In addition to banana bread, here’s another way-past-ripe bananas recipe to add to your repertoire!  Though you do need a doughnut pan for these.  I prefer baked doughnuts since they’re “healthier”, but more so because they don’t involve heating up oil and frying things.  I always feel like I’m being wasteful with the leftover oil, and besides, it also makes my house smell of oil for like a month.  (I might be exaggerating a leeeeetle.) You can see that my bananas were a little past a little prime.  But the flavor is still packed in there!  And like most banana breads…

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  • Cake Mix Coffee Cake @ bestwithchocolate.com

    cake mix coffee cake;

    January 20, 2016bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    So I was supposed to have volleyball tonight.  But lucky for you all, instead you get another recipe because it’s snowing and surprisingly dangerous for the less than 2″ of snow on the ground.  But it’s that wet, slippery kind.  I turned around before even going a mile to one of the major roads, and I passed at least 6 cars pulled over on the side of the road, and two in an accident right outside the complex.  Jeez.  And I don’t have an all-wheel drive vehicle, I have a sedan, but I also grew up in the Northeast and feel…

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  • Chocolate Tart @ bestwithchocolate.com

    countdown to new year’s: chocolate tart;

    January 3, 2016bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    So for this tart, because it was New Year’s Eve, I cracked out the cute confetti sprinkles!  I think it ended up pretty cute.  One of the best things about this recipe is that you can top it with anything.  The original recipe, adapted from Ella’s Home Cooking Adventure No-bake Strawberry Chocolate Tart recipe, uses strawberries and chopped nuts. I’ve used caramel pieces as topping before, but you could use sprinkles, or any kind of fruit, candied orange peels, chocolate, maraschino cherries, cookie crumbles, crushed nuts…all sorts of goodness.  I used raspberries on this one because I wanted something a little different…

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