Delicious Recipes to Keep my Family of Four Happy and Full
Chocolate and mint are two quentessential flavors that are just made for each. After I made chocolate peppermint cake mix cookies, I was totally craving some more chocolate desserts with mint flavor. These chocolate mint brownies are the perfect fudgy brownie with just the right touch of mint.
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So, you guys see me posting all the Paleo recipes and I’m sure you are sitting there thinking “well, she has gone full on health nut on us.” While I do try to stick to Paleo as much as possible, I admit that I still enjoy {love, crave, desire…} sweets on a regular basis. I just went from having them almost every day to saving them for more of a special treat. Now, these dark chocolate sea salt caramelitas…I could eat these every day. I’d need an entirely new wardrobe filled with elastic waist pants but they are so good that I would never tire of them.
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Do you know what happens when you go to Vegas and eat so much amazing food and then come home to attempt to get back onto a healthy eating plan? You dream of brownies. Like vivid dreams of rich, chocolatey goodness. So, in an effort to keep myself from eating all.the.brownies, I’ve got 17 brownie recipes you have to try {oh, and report back since you know…I am trying to only dream about them}.
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Pop Quiz: Did you know that there isn’t really much German about what we know as German chocolate? When Maya moved with us from Germany, I talked to her at length about all the things we think are “German” but really aren’t and German chocolate stuff was top of the list.
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Red velvet cheesecake brownies are hands down my favorite type of dessert. I love it when Valentine’s Day rolls around because it means that red velvet is so much easier to find. Of course, for me, red velvet treats have to come with cream cheese or they just aren’t “right.” 
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With the holidays upon us {um, can you believe Thanksgiving is this week?!}, most kitchens are gearing up for major cooking and baking!
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I am such a salted caramel fan. If there is salted caramel on the menu, you can bet I am going to try it. Put it with chocolate and game over. Awhile back, I discovered the most amazing recipe for chocolate salted caramel puddle cookies. They were a ton of work but I made them on a weekly basis. As I made them, I made some tweaks here and there until I had what I considered the perfect chocolate salted caramel cookies.
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On my first ever trip with the Mathlete, we went to San Francisco for a wedding. He had a few friends living there and almost every day we ended up in an Irish bar drinking Irish coffee. Now, I love my lattes so the idea of Irish coffee wasn’t that appealing to me but it turned out to be so delicious.
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It is December which means sweets are everywhere! Every party you go to has an amazing dessert table. Heck, I even find candy canes randomly around my house and am left to wonder where they came from. I can only handle so much peppermint, gingerbread or cinnamon though. Sometimes, I just want chocolate and non-holiday flavors. So, for the recent potluck I was attending, I decided to buck the trend of peppermint treats and not make anything really holiday related. Instead, I made salted caramel M&M bars.
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