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How Much Do You Know About Chocolate Chip Cookies?

[Photograph: Robyn Lee] Chocolate chip cookies are an American classic. They are appropriate in every season and for every celebration (or for no reason at all). Whether you prefer yours chewy or crispy, with chocolate chunks or bits, with milk chocolate, dark chocolate, or semi-sweet chocolate, they all have certain things in common. Find out how much you know about this favorite indulgence. Take the quiz!

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Chocolate ganache, dark chocolate truffle, red heart and pink velvet Valentine’s Day cupcakes

These are “dark chocolate cupcakes with a velvety rich chocolate ganache frosting made with belgian chocolate and fresh double cream” and are from the UK’s (Hampshire) Pretty Sweet (via Flickr ). And these are dark chocolate truffle Valentine’s Day cupcakes . Here’s the official scoop on their Valentine’s Day cupcake boxes: Our wickedly indulgent Valentine cupcakes are here! ….. Choose from rich Dark Chocolate Truffle cupcakes topped with a velvety chocolate ganache made from Belgian chocolate and fresh cream, or our own unique take on Red Velvet – ‘Pink Velvet’ cupcakes are a moist pink sponge coloured completely naturally with fresh fruit puree and topped with a delicious vanilla cream cheese frosting. They are all topped off with gorgeous red and pink glitter hearts and icing letters. Choose your own way to say ‘I Love You’ – be original and send one of our pretty Gift Boxes as an alternative to roses or chocolates this year! My favorites are these glitter red hearts: And look inside the pink velvet cupcake: More photos in their Flickr account . From their site: We freshly bake our cupcakes to order and deliver our beautiful and distinctive cupcake gift boxes throughout Hampshire. We also…

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Peppermint, red velvet, chocolate and vanilla mail order cupcakes at Williams-Sonoma

Williams-Sonoma does mail order cupcakes (see right-hand side for our mail order cupcake links), and this is what they have this season: Peppermint Snow Mini Cupcakes Miniature cupcakes with great big flavors evoke the holiday spirit in each heavenly bite. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible: the dark chocolate cupcakes are topped with a generous dollop of peppermint buttercream and then hand dipped in white chocolate ganache; the vanilla cupcakes are finished with the same luscious peppermint buttercream and dark chocolate ganache. The cakes are shipped with a package of fresh peppermint snow for sprinkling on the tops before serving. Cupcakes Gourmet uses ingredients of the finest quality to prepare the handmade cupcakes, from premium Callebaut Belgian chocolate and Madagascar Bourbon vanilla to fresh butter and eggs. Set of 24, 12 of each flavor. $49.95 Perfect Endings Holiday Cupcakes Perfect Endings, the renowned Napa Valley bakery, makes these cupcakes for us from scratch, using fresh eggs, real butter and other premium ingredients. And they’re superb. Sam Godfrey, the founder, learned baking as a child under the strict tutelage of his Southern grandmother. This set includes three favorites re-created from her original recipes: rich chocolate, frosted with classic chocolate icing and scattered with dark chocolate sprinkles; red velvet, generously swirled with old-fashioned white…

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Free cupcakes tomorrow in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Seacost Online brings news of free cupcakes tomororw, November 7th, from 1 pm to 4 pm at The Old Stove Bake Shoppe in Portsmouth, New Hampshire! Plus what fun flavors they are debuting… The shop will introduce four new gourmet cupcake flavors: candy corn, death by chocolate, salted caramel and monkey bread. Two hundred customers will receive free their choice of one of the four new flavors on a first-come, first-served basis. There is a limit of one per person. “It fits with our style,” Mugherini said of the new cupcakes. “We’re always making up new flavors. It makes people smile when they see candy corn or monkey bread.” Mugherini’s personal favorite, monkey bread, is similar to the traditional cinnamon pastry, but with a cream cheese frosting. The candy corn cupcakes are made of a light butterscotch cake with vanilla buttercream colored orange, yellow and white. Death by chocolate is made with dark chocolate cake with mini chocolate chips, decorated with a dark chocolate buttercream with a chocolate drizzle. Made of vanilla brown sugar cake, the salted caramel cupcakes will have a caramel buttercream frosting topped with Himalayan

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Alien cupcakes and Halloween wedding cupcake tower

These adorable alien mini cupcakes are by Albuquerque bakery Cupcakeology via Flickr. This year they’ve really outdone themselves in the Halloween cupcake department, as you can see with the Halloween wedding cupcake tower below! And yes, I know Halloween is over but I’m gonna keep posting cute Halloween cupcakes until I stop seeing them. Assorted Halloween cupcakes and a 6″ orange cutting cake with dark chocolate ganache

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Raspberry Mousse Tartlets with a Chocolate Surprise

 I had a really stressful week. When I was talking about it to my friend K, she suggested two things. Go over to her place for dinner. Or make something decadent and post it on my blog. (Notice how both involve food?!). I went with option two. What can be more stress busting than cooking (and then making S clean up)? What can make a girl happier than a luscious raspberry mouse tart with dark chocolate ganache hidden inside?! And what can make me forget my worries that reading your comments Stress be gone!  You can whip up this dessert rather quickly because there is no baking involved. The only time consuming step is chilling the tartlets for atleast 3 hours so that the filling sets.   I used store bought graham cracker mini tarts. You can use whatever pie crust you like. An oreo crust will be great too.  The filling is raspberry jello powder or agar agar, mixed with a quick raspberry jam (recipe below), cream cheese and cream. Whip everything together. Pour a little chocolate ganache at the bottom of the pie/tart. Then pour the raspberry mousse in and let it set. You cant see the chocolate layer, but once you cut into the tartlet, there is a nice little chocolate surprise waiting for you. Regular mousse involves eggs…

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Chewy Chocolate chip cookies – dark chocolate and cranberry and white chocolate and macadamia

1 and a half cups of plain flour 1/2 to 3/4 cup cocoa powder 1 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt cup brown sugar firmly packed 1/2 cup castor sugar 175 grams of butter (room temperature – but still firm) 1 egg and 1 egg yolk beaten 100 grams chocolate chunks 100 grams chocolate chips 50 grams dried cranberries Heat oven to 160degrees and place rack in bottom 3rd of the oven – mine is just below the middle. Cream butter and sugar on slow for about 3 mins do not overbeat – I read it makes a difference! Add the beaten egg and yolk and beat till combined again but once combined stop. I have read that overbeating may affect the mixture so I stopped when I considered that the additions were combined well in. Sift plain flour, cocoa, salt, baking soda together and add to this mixture to the creamed butter, sugar and eggs and on slow combine. With a wooden spoon stir in chocolate and cranberries. Drop large dessert spoonfuls on baking trays lined with baking paper – I only do four at a time to allow for spreading. They seem to take about 14 mins to cook in my oven. For the first 7 mins I…

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Ultimate Cupcake cupcake van

This cupcake delivery van is from Ultimate Cupcake in Hudson Oaks, Texas (near Forth Worth). They’re sending us some cupcakes to try out next week, and have seven flavors: vanilla, dark chocolate, strawberry, red velvet, pumpkin and lemon poppy seed. Find out more on their site, linked above, and Twitter and Facebook (where they’ve done code words a la Sprinkles for free cupcakes to alert customers). Will post about their cupcakes once we’ve tried them, but I’m already a fan of their van!1

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win a free container of silken creations!

Time for another contest, kids. I remember when it was hard to find brown rice in a grocery store, so I’m extra tickled to see the number of innovative new vegan products lining the shelves these days. One of them is Silken Creations, pre-flavored in dark chocolate, strawberry and vanilla.  This silky smooth soy product is a no-brainer for desserts, mousses and smoothies. You can access recipe ideas on Nasoya’s  handy database.  (Lately, I’ve been making a lot of vegan ice cream, so can’t wait to try Silken Creations as a base. ) Win a coupon for a FREE container of Silken Creations. Leave a comment and tell me how you would like to use this product. Be sure I can contact you via e-mail. I’ll randomly choose a winner in the next few days.

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Cupcake Jones celebrates anniversary on Tuesday in Portland

Downtown Cupcake Brown cupcake: Devil’s Food Cake filled with sour cream, chocolate, gnache, topped with fudge frosting & fresh graded dark chocolate. All photos via Cupcake Jones on Flickr – see more photos on their site Willamette Week alerted us to the fact that Portland, Oregon bakery Cupcake Jones is celebrating its anniversary tomorrow (Tuesday, July 7th) from 6-9 pm. Here’s the scoop direct from the Cupcake Jones blog: Can you believe it’s been two years since we opened our doors on that 105 degree day in July? We’re throwing a party to say thank you for your support. Come and help us celebrate! NEXT TUESDAY July 7th, 2009 6pm – 9pm This is an all ages event featuring: Light snacks Beverages Slide Show Music Friends DRAWINGS for PRIZES Swag and…Cupcakes Please come to this very casual celebration and allow us to show you …

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