Chocolate Cheesecake

There is nothing in the world better than cheesecake. Every time I have a slice of cheesecake I'm left thinking I could totally eat two more slices. Granted I'd probably get two bites into the second slice before I realized what a huge mistake it was.

Salted Caramel Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies

I always learn something when I try a new cookie recipe. For instance, with this recipe I learned that caramel squares do not melt and spread when wrapped in a ball of cookie dough. The cookie dough spreads as it cooks and the square of caramel remains in the center of a large cookie, chewy and delicious but not exactly evenly distributed.

Mississippi Mud Pie

Mississippi mud pie... Also known as the second richest dessert I know how to make.

While this pie is complicated as a whole, the parts themselves are surprisingly simple. It starts with an easy chocolate cookie crust made of crushed oreos, followed by layers of delicate flourless chocolate cake, decadent dark chocolate pudding, and finally a mountain of fluffy whipped cream.

Almond Joy Oatmeal

Bailey and I generally have oatmeal at least once a week. Sometimes we add raisins or dried cranberries and brown sugar, other times it's apples and cinnamon. Occasionally we go with Nutella and strawberries. All are great options, but lately I've been wanting something a bit different.

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Oatmeal is one of my favorite healthy foods. A warm bowl of sweet oats with fruit and nuts on a cold morning really hits the spot. My family uses oatmeal as filler in meatloaf instead of bread crumbs or crackers, and oatmeal adds a lovely chewy texture to chocolate chip cookies (or Dad's favorite, butterscotch cookies).

Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies

Last Christmas one of my friends had a bit of cabin fever. She had lost her job recently, she doesn't drive, and her mother had suddenly become very busy at work. The result was that my friend was pretty much stuck at home all day, every day.

Death by Chocolate Bundt Cake

Lately I feel like I've pinned every recipe on Pinterest that I'm interested in.  I spend more of my time looking through my own pins than looking for new ones, but the other day I came across one that I hadn't seen before and I couldn't wait to try it.

DIY Chocolate Syrup

Tonight we had pizza baked spaghetti made with my homemade spaghetti sauce.  I made a whole box of linguini, poured the whole recipe of spaghetti sauce over it, covered it with 2 cups of cheese and about 25 pepperonis.  I baked it for about 20 minutes at 375 degrees and it turned out just perfect!  Bailey even ate real spaghetti noodles.  She's only eaten them one other time.

Chocolate frosting

Cupcakes!

I made cupcakes last night and they were FABULOUS!  I got the recipe from Annie's Eats.  It's her standard chocolate cupcake recipe.  Any recipe she makes that calls for chocolate cupcakes always starts with these (most recently the turtle cupcakes from a couple of weeks ago which I can't wait to try) but this is my first try at making them.