The other day I whipped up a batch of these Chocolate Chunk cookies. Our nephew was flying in from California, and I thought they would make a nice snack when he arrived. These are for serious cookie connoisseurs! A friend of mine, Mojdeh, gave me this cookie recipe a
few weeks ago, she got it from a friend who made it from Saveur magazine. They're absolutely over the top delicious!! And they were one of Saveur's top 150 recipes.
They're basically 9 ounces of rough chopped chocolate in between three layers of cookie dough...........trust me, you will die and go to heaven with the first bite! Ed, our nephew said, "they are moist and fudgy like brownies, layered with chunks of
chocolate, with a slight crisp outside!" And they are! Moist and tender inside, and so marbled that
every bite contains the consummate balance of sweet dough, melting
bittersweet chocolate, and crystalline salt.....mmmm You can't miss with these!
JJ and I found this woman in Scottsdale that makes and sells homemade doggy treats that the pups just LOVE! The one they go crazy for is her Peanut Barkin' flavor...mmmmm! They jump with excitement every morning after their potties, for a cookie. Since this woman lives in Scottsdale and I am in Seattle (although she does ship) I have been wanting to try my hand at making something homemade for them. I receive weekly emails from a website called Doggy Loot and this is where I learned of this recipe I am featuring today.
Pumpkin & Fruit Treats
-adapted from DoggyDessertChef
This tomato and cheese tart was incredibly simple to make, and it
tasted so fresh! When I first told Wee Bear I was making a tomato tart, he
gave me a funny look and said: “That doesn’t sound very good.” But when
this came out of the oven, he was singing a different tune. It was more
along the lines of “That smells amazing.” And the morning after the dinner? I believe the words that came out of his mouth were: “Where is the left over tart from last night?” Suffice to say, this recipe is a winner – cheesy pastry, melty cheese, and warm summer tomatoes – you can’t
beat it!
This is one of those recipes that once tried, is immediately
incorporated into your own repertoire. It's what you want when you want a
crisp, roast potato, only better!
I am fairly certain that these are the best cake balls I have ever tasted! TT thinks so too and enjoys them straight from the freezer as the chocolate shell is hard and inside is moist and firm. They are rich like a truffle and so different from the usual cake and frosting mixture. It's a no bake treat, so it takes no time at all to put together!
I wanted to do a test run of these as I'm thinking about making some in the colors of my sister-in-laws nursery colors for her upcoming baby shower in May. For this batch, I just used some dark eating chocolate I had in my pantry for the coating.
Take a bite into this Lemon Drizzle cake, and you'll be taken to another place. A
place so wonderful that your body goes into autopilot, and 10 seconds
later you come back to reality and realize that you've just taken so
many bites that half of the cake is gone. And you didn't take any pictures. In fact, you only took five. Oops!
Just when we thought Winter had passed.....Mother Nature is having the last word. Though for some of us, Winter seems not to have been
that severe. March arrived with winds and warmth, well sort of.... and now
we're turning towards April.......
