Chocolate – EMOTIONAL EATS

Desserts

March 28, 2019

Chocolate “Satan” Cupcakes

We’ve been everywhere lately. Or so it seems. Charlottesville, Richmond, Great Falls, Philly, Bethany, families, friends – we’d been making the rounds and not allotting..

Snacks

April 20, 2018

Almost Made It Marshmallows

I didn’t choose an obvious or easy path or, really, a path at all. More, a wild meandering intent on avoiding water cooler talk and..

March 18, 2018

Our First Babka

Separated by many miles. We’ve been that way since college. Though, sometimes, our brains still seem to be on the same wavelength. “Babka.” We were..

HistorEATS

September 29, 2017

Rainbow Cookies

The rainbow cookie’s background is as difficult to trace as the cookie itself is to resist (I just ate six). While some believe the cookie..

Desserts

July 27, 2017

Bachelorette Brownies

Plastic cups, marshmallow vodka, pink beads, and phallic-shaped party favors – The Bachelorette Party. Technically, it was a Bachelor/Bachelorette party, as both guys and girls..

Desserts

June 15, 2017

Almond Butter Chipwich

The summers of my childhood were an orchestra of sensations. The smell of chlorine, the hot summer sun, and a delicate trickle of vanilla ice..

Desserts

June 8, 2017

Childhood Chocolate Honey Glazed Doughnuts

There’s a little doughnut shop, in a little town I have visited every summer since I was…well…little. They make every variety of doughnut you can..

Desserts

May 11, 2017

Big Dreams Brigadeiro

Shhh… Don’t tell. I feel weird saying it. Okay, here it is: I always wanted to be a writer. A food writer. I know. Me?..

Desserts

March 9, 2017

Graduation Peanut Butter Chocolate Cheesecake

I’m a Spider for life. Though I only spent three years at the University of Richmond (after transferring from Chicago), that school, that town, for..

Secret Ingredients

February 16, 2017

Something More Muffins

I am becoming deeply domestic. I’ve just pulled warm muffins from the oven with a cat-patterned mit. I am humming over the stove again. Oh..

Desserts

February 9, 2017

Welcome Café Warm Chocolate Cake

Ah, Paris – is it the city of light or the city of love? I can never remember. What I do remember about Paris is..

Desserts

January 19, 2017

No Sleep ‘Til Cupcakes

Truthfully, I didn’t want to leave. Obligations, prior commitments, endless mental nagging, the perpetual tally of to do and left undone unraveling in my mind…

Desserts

October 6, 2016

Backyard S’more Brownies

My happiest place is home, at my family’s house, sitting around our backyard fire pit on a fall evening. You know that smell? You smell..

August 26, 2016

Chocolate Crush Cookies

There it is again. That feeling. The “oh no.” The “can it possibly be?” That dreaded, “dammit – I like someone.” I don’t want to..

February 8, 2016

Dad Doughnuts

Maybe you’ve realized by now – yeah you – you reader you – I’m shouting out to you – hey! Maybe you’ve read enough of..

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