chocolate

  • Recreating Dream Bars #1

    I love Potbelly’s Sandwich Works.  They toast the subs, they are extremely cheap and they have Sheila’s Dream Bars.  I purchase one of these puppies each and every time I enter Potbelly’s.  So the other day I had a thought, why purchase a sub to get a Dream Bar when I could make them at…

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    Homemade Chocolate Fudge

    I am continuing with Holiday Appetizer Week. This time we are changing things up a bit. When it comes to bite size food, people usually forget about dessert.  Granted most desserts are finger food, but not many are bite size.  So I decided to make little bite sized squares of fudge.  Fudge is the perfect…

  • No-Bake Cookies

    My Mom would always make these awesome chocolate cookies for me when I was growing up.  I recently asked her for the recipe.  Go figure, no-bake cookies require no baking.  One pan, a little parchment paper and 40 minutes.    Talk about quick treat.  I couldn’t wait to try mine so I had one right after…

  • Ultimate Smores

    I have been doing a series of posts about my buddy Jeff’s barbecue. We made a full day out of grilling and sipping on Coronas. To end the night we made the ultimate smores. The recipe was developed by Jeff’s sister “Spud”. While not too far off from the original, it was tweaked enough to…

  • Ultimate Stuffed Brownies

    I love a good brownie.  A good brownie is moist and chewy.  I hate cake brownies with frosting.  If I wanted to eat cake, I would have gotten a piece of cake, not a brownie.  So I have been working on my ultimate brownie recipe.  There are two basic recipes for brownies.  One using melted…