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Banana Cake with Coffee (Mocha) Icing

January 10, 2012 by Tiffany

One of my Grandma’s signature desserts was Banana Cake with Coffee Icing. She made it from scratch as a layer cake. I’ve made her recipe before and it uses every bowl in the house. No kidding. It requires whipping egg whites and stirring dry ingredients and mashing bananas and boiling water and beating egg yolks… A delicious, time-consuming mess!

I’ve simplified things a lot with this recipe. It’s still made from scratch. I use a sheet cake pan instead of doing a layer cake. But I kept the Coffee Icing recipe the same. It’s really mocha, but we didn’t use the word “mocha” back then. Mocha is a new-fangled word.

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Coconut Chocolate Chip Muffins with Cocoa Coconut Streusel

May 31, 2011 by Tiffany

The other day, I posted a list of 28 Muffins You’ll Want to Try and Terri left this comment:

Hi,
I was looking at your muffin recipes. They look yummy! I’m also looking for a coconut muffin maybe with mini choc chips added. Have you ever heard of something like that? I thought maybe replacing the liquid with coconut milk then add either maybe a streusel with toasted coconut and a drizzle of chocolate. What do you think? Do you have any suggestions? I have tried a couple of your recipes and passed on your site to some friends.
Thanks,
Terri

Oh, what a good idea! I went into the kitchen and got creative right away. These are the result. The muffin is infused with coconut flavor and studded with mini chocolate chips. The streusel topping has cocoa and coconut. Oh yeah!

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Chocolate Drop Cookies

March 10, 2011 by Tiffany

I’m going to guess that you have everything to make these cookies in your pantry right now. Recipes that satisfy your chocolate cravings quickly and cheaply cannot be underrated.

This recipe was shared by Loy in the comment section of last week’s Ingredient Spotlight: Cocoa. My kids were scavenging in the kitchen for a snack when I saw the recipe. It didn’t take long until we were pulling warm, chocolatey cookies from the oven. Loy’s recipe calls for nuts, but I tossed in some Heath chips instead.

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Ingredient Spotlight: Cocoa

March 2, 2011 by Tiffany

I am looking forward to this Ingredient Spotlight! Cocoa means one thing – chocolate goodies!

Unless, of course, you’re making Cincinnati chili, which has cocoa in it, but doesn’t taste chocolatey at all.

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Raspberry Filled Brownies ala Mode

February 3, 2011 by Tiffany

If you’re looking for a special dessert for Valentines Day, this is it. Your sweetie will love you for making this!

The raspberry filling dresses up the brownies. Chocolate and raspberry mingle so well together. A scoop of vanilla ice cream with extra raspberry sauce adds decadence.

As a side note, I think I could use some food styling help. I sprinkled cocoa powder on the white plate and set the brownie in the middle. So far, so good. A round scoop of vanilla bean ice cream on top of the brownie. And then I warmed the raspberry sauce and spooned it over the top. Instead of drizzling down the ice cream in rivulets, it melted the ice cream and slid off in an un-pretty way.

Oh well. Once we dug our spoons in, it didn’t matter how pretty it looked. It tasted divine!

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Peanut Butter Cookie Pudding

June 18, 2010 by Tiffany

You are going to want to go out to your kitchen and make this as soon as you can. Peanut butter cookies layered in creamy pudding and topped with chocolate frosting is dessert perfection. The only down side is that it needs to be made 24 hours before you plan to eat it. But don’t worry, while it sits in the fridge not only do the cookies soften, but all the calories disappear too. Really. I wouldn’t lead you astray.

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Filed under: Dessert Tagged with butter, cocoa, cool whip, frozen whipped topping, milk, nutter butters, powdered sugar, vanilla pudding mix13 Comments

Chocolatey Texas Sheet Cake

May 11, 2010 by Tiffany

This cake is a perfect example of my foodie motto put into action. More chocolate = more better. My mom gave me the recipe for Texas Sheet Cake several years ago. I’ve made it a few times, but it wasn’t very chocolatey. After looking at other recipes for Texas Sheet Cake that I found in old church cookbooks, I decided to double the cocoa in mom’s recipe. Now we’re talking! The photo doesn’t show the color as well I wish, but the extra cocoa gave the cake a deeper color and flavor – more like brownies.

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Coconut No Bake Cookies

April 21, 2010 by Tiffany

A minor tweak to the original No Bake Cookie, makes for a delicious change of pace. The same chocolatey goodness with a twist of coconut. I thought about adding shredded coconut to them, but decided that my kids might find that a bit to much. If you’re a true coconut lover you could substitute the oats for coconut. [Read more...]

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Moosehunter Cookies – Canadian Chocolate Molasses Cookies

February 17, 2010 by Tiffany

I went on a hunt for Canadian treats to eat while we watch the Olympics and found these yummy cookies. The recipe comes from Mennonite Girls Can Cook. I’d never visited that blog before, but they have lots of yummy recipes over there.

The cookies are soft and cake-like. The combination of molasses and chocolate is very good, especially with the white icing on top. [Read more...]