Chocolate Caramel Tart

              This was amazing… Just amazing. I absolutely loved this tart - perfect.             I don’t know what the best part of this tart is. Was it the crust - soft, hard, and crumbly all at the same time. Chocolaty enough yet not too sweet for the caramel. Was it the caramel - just the perfect consistency, sweetness, and color. Was it the chocolate ganache - smooth, velvety and rich. Or yet was it the grey sea... [Read More...]

Chocolate Cake with Butterscotch Sauce

Ladies Lunch (cont…) So I have a recipe for a molten chocolate cake that I love. I have posted it on this site in the past. But my friend Christina has a different recipe for a molten chocolate cake and she makes a butterscotch sauce to top it off with… are you drooling yet? (I am) Christina took some cooking classes at Tante Marie’s Cooking School in San Francisco, CA. She speaks very highly of it as a place that is fun and offers... [Read More...]

Individual Molten Chocolate Cakes

This is my third time making this cake. The first time was when my oven was broken. Suffice to say, I couldn’t get the timing right. The second time I made this was when I was away on vacation in Costa Rica. It was my night for dinner and I was cooking for seven. Clearly being in paradise, I didn’t want to spend all day in the kitchen. So I made Argentine Steak with Chimichurri and Papas Fritas for dinner and I made these individual cakes... [Read More...]

Cheesecake Lollipops

As you might know there were a lot of Cheesecake Lollipops recipes floating around the food blogosphere lately, and sometimes too much of a good thing isn’t too much at all. So I decided to give it a shot as well. Outside of the fact that I adore cheesecake, the thought of having it bite-sized on a stick just made it that much more desirable (it’s really the little things in life that make me happy - literally).   I got this recipe from the... [Read More...]