• Spoon drizzling maple icing on a muffin

    pecan pie muffins;

    July 12, 2024bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    Pecan pie muffins are small, half-sized muffins with toasty pecan pieces studded throughout. Topped with a sweet maple or orange glaze, these make for the perfect sweet treat in the morning…or whenever!

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  • Stacks of firecracker cookie bars next to a platter of bars, a cup of M&Ms and pop rocks exploding from a bag

    firecracker cookie bars;

    May 24, 2024bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    Red, white, and blue with a snap, crackle, and pop! Firecracker cookie bars live up to their name, featuring a soft sugar cookie based topped with thematic M&Ms and pop rocks to light up fireworks in your mouth!

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  • cosmic brownies;

    February 23, 2024bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    Cosmic brownies start with a fudgy, dense brownie base slathered with creamy chocolate icing and sprinkles with multi-colored cosmic candies for the chocolatey bite you need in your life!

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  • A cosmic blondie on a plate beside a platter of blondies and mini m&ms scattered around

    cosmic blondies;

    September 8, 2023bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    Cosmic blondies are a white chocolate vanilla take on the classic cosmic brownies! With a fudgy, chewy blondie base and a white chocolate icing, topped with colorful chocolate bits, these blondies are out of this world!

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  • Pumpkin patch truffles decorated with candy leaves and green chocolate vines

    pumpkin patch pumpkin spice truffles;

    October 28, 2022bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    These pumpkin spice truffles are the perfect spooky treat for Halloween, or any fall day! Dressed like pumpkins with a spice cake cream filling, in a little (edible) dirt patch is sure to make anyone smile.

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  • Assortment of glazed and chocolate coated maple cookies

    chocolate-dipped maple shortbread cookies;

    October 14, 2022bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    Take these crumbly, buttery maple flavored shortbread cookies and dip them in chocolate or drizzle them with maple glaze–or both! A fun assortment of fall flavors and cute cookies in this delicious dessert.

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  • Cookie Dough Icing on cupcakes @ bestwithchocolate.com

    chocolate chip cookie dough icing;

    July 10, 2020bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    Who doesn’t love cookie dough? Now here’s a delicious excuse to eat cookie dough on a cake—cookie dough icing!

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  • Praline Blondies @ bestwithchocolate.com

    praline blondies;

    November 3, 2017bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    Looking for a sugary sweet dessert?  Look no farther!  These delicious blondies have a delicious sugary icing glaze and are sprinkled with pecans! – – The description for these says “sugary sweet”, and let me warn you these are definitely tooth-achingly sweet!  If you’re in that mood they can really hit the spot, but even I can only eat a few bites at a time.  The principle of praline blondies is pretty simple.  Blondie, topped with sugary pecan icing. Tyler, my fiance, loves nuts and non-chocolate desserts, so this one goes out to him!  Not that he discriminates against chocolate,…

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  • strawberry crunch ice cream cake; 

    September 29, 2017bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    You remember those strawberry shortcake dessert bars?  Well serve up your own giant-sized crunch cake!  An adult-sized vanilla cake with a strawberry ice cream center topped with that strawberry crumble! – – I’m back!  Well, trying at least to get back in the swing of things, although life’s been a little crazy lately and I doubt I’ll be able to do a full three recipes a week (Mon-Wed-Fri) like I have been.  I think for a while I’ll switch to one post on Friday, and even then I may not be posting new recipes each time, but might revisit some…

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  • Cookie Dough Icing Brownies @ bestwithchocolate.com

    cookie dough icing brownies;

    October 15, 2016bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    Take an easy boxed brownie and spruce it up to make these amazing cookie dough icing brownies. Of course, you can make your own brownie recipe too, but the real star here is the cookie dough icing!

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  • Triple Peanut Butter Bars @ bestwithchocolate.com

    reese’s peanut butter bars;

    September 7, 2016bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    Happy post-labor day weekend!  This past weekend was filled with so much stuff, I’ll be writing about it for weeks!  Here’s a taste: brewery, wine tasting, jazz festival, escape room, hot pot restaurant, renaissance fair, and a ton of board games!  Plus my birthday is coming up this week, so you’d better keep checking back for posts if you wanna hear all the details.  This recipe I made for my sister’s boyfriend R since he just about loooooooves peanut butter.  Also chocolate + peanut butter, but I don’t think he’s discriminatory.  So I always pin all these peanut butter recipes…

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  • Maple Sugar Cookies @ bestwithchocolate.com

    maple sugar cookies;

    August 25, 2016bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    Your one-stop-shop for yummy cookies with that splash of gourmet!  Check out pudding sprinkle cookies and cake batter chocolate chip cookies for some other gourmet takes! These maple sugar cookies came out fabulous, with no more than a hint of maple, though you could definitely taste it, which is perfect for me. Sometimes if not done properly, I find maple syrup cloyingly sweet. Do make sure you’re using that real stuff instead of the stuff that is basically corn syrup with some brown tint. Because it is used as the flavoring in this recipe, you won’t really get that maple flavor unless you use good…

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