• caramel apple cider cake bars;

    November 1, 2024bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    These chewy caramel apple cider cake bars smell like fall, with apple cider and cinnamon flavors and topped with caramel chips!

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  • Apple cake drizzled with honey and apples in the background

    cream cheese apple cake;

    September 21, 2020bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    Cream cheese apple cake recipe, inspired by a visit to a local cidery where we went apple picking! Try this recipe with a tried and true favorite apple, or spice it up and try a new varietal!

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  • Lobster Shepard's Pie at Clyde's Brunch Review @ tipsychocochip.com

    brunch review: clyde’s;

    November 11, 2016bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    This weekend had all the plans and then they all fell through!  Repeatedly.  But we made it better by hiking with the pup, and going out to brunch!  If you’ve never been to a Clyde’s, it’s a restaurant chain throughout the greater DC area, and they all have different themes.  Their rooms are are themed as well–for example, the one we were in this past weekend was bird-themed so every painting on the wall had some sort of bird as the focus.  It’s kinda fun to explore and see where you get seated. We decided to splurge and do brunch right…

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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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