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Dessert Recipes

Chocolate Mousse Recipe – For all your Valentines

February 12, 2010
Chocolate Mousse Recipe

Valentines week is here to spoil every sweetheart in your life who is deserving of some chocolate love. A little whipped cream, strawberries and huge dollop of silky chocolate mousse says it all to show you care. We’ve already started celebrating and this sweet treat never gets dull. In fact, it’s a little too easy to eat and don’t be surprised if you inhaled a huge bowl of this chocolate mousse in less than a minute!

Chocolate mousse is luscious.  The soft, billowy, creamy texture given to chocolate by folding in whipped cream and…

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Meyer Lemon Bars

February 5, 2010
meyer lemon bar recipe

We’ve been on a bit of a Meyer Lemon kick lately. First we had the Meyer Lemon Margaritas and now we’re inundating everyone with a Meyer lemon bar recipe.

“What the hell?”  you may ask.  ”Are these bastards just out to torture the population still stuck in the snow?”

We can be a bit bratty, but the main reason behind all of the Meyer lemon recipes is that our tree is laden and we’ve let the fruit sit to the point where they are all starting to drop.  As if that weren’t…

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Very-Ginger Gingerbread Cupcakes

December 11, 2009
Gingerbread Cupcakes

There are great gingerbread cake recipes out there and then there’s our take on the gingerbread cake classic. Our very-ginger gingerbread recipe is spiked with extra healthy does of fresh ginger that the only way to call these true to their gingerbread name is to name them the Very-Ginger Gingerbread Cupcakes! Plus we like to spike the gingerbread cupcakes, too.

Whoa, did all that make sense? There’s alot of ginger going on .

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Sour Cream Pancakes from The Pioneer Woman

November 16, 2009
Sour Cream Pancakes Recipe - Pioneer Woman

The Pioneer Woman Cooks is finally out and it’s flying off the shelves like hotcakes! Lucky for us, we were able to secure a free copy of the cookbook from our amazing swag bag at the Blog Her Conference we spoke at. Her new cookbook is a fabulous stroll through her amazing life of working, living and raising kids on the ranch. It’s full of fabulous pictures of cows, horses, her kids, her recipes, her life and more cows. And more gorgeous horses.

The success of Ree Drummond’s cookbook isn’t a surprise…

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Chocolate Cookies with Peanut Butter Chips

October 17, 2009
Chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips

If you twisted my arm and pinched my nipples to force me to name my absolute favorite cookie as a kid, I would have to say “Chocolate Cookie with Peanut Butter Chips.”

Oh such fudgy, chocolatey sweetness rifled with little peanut butter bombs. I love these cookies, and yet for some reason never make them. I don’t know why. They may be a touch more work than the chocolate chunk cookies or my new favorite, the snickerdoodle, but not excessively so. They are certainly every bit as delightful and eye-rollingly good.

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Portrait Of A Gourmand – Dan & Jael – French Broad Chocolates Lounge and Strawberry Cheesecake Recipe

August 24, 2009
Chocolate Lounge

Today’s highlight is actually of two gourmand’s, the lovely couple, Dan and Jael Rattigan of French Broad Luscious Chocolates, aka The Chocolate Lounge. The only thing sexier than this charming couple is their collection of hand made, artisan chocolates, which are pure chocolate bliss. These are some of the finest that we’ve had in a long time.

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The Exquisite Joy of Puff Pastry

July 22, 2009
How to make Puff Pastry

Ahhh puff pastry! Few things are tastier than a well made puff pastry. That sweet butter taste combined with an exquisite flakiness. Being able the make even a moderately good puff pastry will then open the door to culinary possibilities that will have your friends and family saying, “Holy shit, when did you go to culinary school.” Give ‘em the wink & sly grin while you declare that you are “Home schooled.”

NUMBER ONE key to a good puff pastry is the butter. Go all out here and find the best unsalted…

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Deep Dish Snickerdoodle a la Mode – Episode 2 of the Pizookie Files

May 21, 2009
Snickerdoodles a la mode

In Episode 1, we introduced the dangerous pleasures of the pizookie, a deep-dish-baked cookie topped with ice cream.  The comments were filled with sweet tooth adoration,  a handful of guilty trembling, and a few expletives in excitement.  We had mentioned the unlimited possibilities of pizookies, and since the response was so ecstatic over the first pizookies post, we thought it would be fun to have a series, The Pizookie Files,  dedicated solely to the brilliance of pizookies.  It shall appear from time to time, here at WORC, and we hope you all enjoy this as…

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Snickerdoodle – Cinnamon Sugar Cookie goodness!

May 18, 2009
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I had a brilliant idea. It was for another addition to our deep-dish-a-la-mode-cookie repertoire, aka pizookies. Aka Sweet Crack. However, there was one minor problem. I had no snickerdoodle cookie recipe for the dough that I wanted to use.   There were no snickerdoodle recipes in any of my go-to dessert cookbooks, no family recipes, no nada.

So I embarked on a little snickerdoodle cookie cyber research quest to discover the beauty behind these tasty cinnamon sugar cookies. I knew very well of how snickerdoodle cookies should taste, but there was a…

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David Lebovitz’s Madeleines- “The Sweet Life in Paris” Preview

May 1, 2009
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So, I come home from work and found a package waiting on the dining room table, untouched, glossy and still perfectly sealed. Todd has always been such a gentleman when it comes to waiting for me to open packages first, giving me first dibs at ripping open presents that come in the mail. He knows how excited I get when we get packages from the mail and honestly, I think he gets really roused up seeing me squeal like a kid when I tear in to mail like a kid on Christmas morning. Just for…

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Madeleines w/ Chocolate Dipping Sauce

April 26, 2009
Madeleines with Chocolate Sauce

Madeleines.  Elegant simplicity, deliciously captured in small, shell-shaped cookies.   The madeleine has a quiet grace, not preening for your love with mind-blowing flavors or chocolate oozing goodness.  However that quiet simplicity inspires adoration and longing. A  well-made madeleine has the ability to pause time, and allow one the chance to reflect and savor the simple beauty in life.

My love affair with madeleines began nearly 10 years ago when I was managing a cafe/market. Everyday around 3 o’clock there would be a lull between the lunch rush and the late afternoon…

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