How Sweet It Is

Archive for January, 2010

Coconut Cream Cupcakes.

Mother Lovett was famous for her coconut cream pie. I was famous for eating it. Since I have barely mastered her pie crust recipe, I have yet to make a coconut cream pie. In that case, I made the next best thing – coconut cream cupcakes! I love coconut. I will happily eat it in anything. [...]

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Coffee Ice Cream Crepes with Homemade Chocolate Fudge Sauce.

  A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a tastebud-tantilizing dessert – the ice cream crepe. I fill it with vanilla ice cream and topped it with pureed fresh strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. Then I proceeded to make 14 of them and polish them off by the end of the weekend.     Can you [...]

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Chocolate Chewies.

  If you have never had chocolate chewies from Whole Foods, you are totally missing out. These are one of the most amazing cookies I have ever tasted- incredibly chocolately, chewy, a bit crunchy, and just all around fantastic. I have wanted to make them at home for months now, but for fear of devouring [...]

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Mr. How Sweet It Is.

  (Remember a few weeks ago when my brother wrote a guest post? Well, someone was feeling left out. Please take a moment to read a bit about my stuffed-turkey loving husband. He took his own pictures, going great lengths to take them in natural light. He didn’t want to feel my wrath.)     [...]

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Meal Planning 101.

As you can probably guess, we do a lot of cooking in this house. Well, I do a lot of cooking. Unless you count heating up Trader Joe’s frozen chicken or making a peanut butter-covered english muffin cooking. And I do most of the shopping, too. Mostly because I love to spend money, and when [...]

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