Today is my birthday! I am officially 42 years old. I will spare you of all my inner thoughts, fears and resolutions I usually make this day, or every other day as a matter of fact and I will just offer you these little treats, which are absolutely ‘chocolaty’ and decadent. I found this recipe...
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Quick Fudge Cupcakes
By now you’ve already known that I have a picky son. The only thing he doesn’t question is sweets and more particularly chocolate. This is not a surprise to me, as I am a well known chocoholic. In our home there is always a variety of chocolate bars, plus chocolate truffles, etc. I try...
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Saint Basil’s Pie (Vasilopita )
First of all I would like to wish to all of you my friends a Very Happy and Loving New Year. I hope that 2011 really good things will happen to your lives this coming year. Ok, let’s talk a little tradition here. In Greece we, Christian Orthodox, have the custom of Vasilopita. Just after...
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Chocolate Cake
I am sick. I have a bad cold. My throat aches and my nose is as red as a tomato. My husband is also sick. He is also having a fever. This is awful. The outside temperature is 27° C and we are sitting here wiping each other’s nose. Anyway, I hope by tomorrow, we...
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Citrus Pulp Cake
As I was surfing through my favorite food blogs, I came across this cake. What intrigued me the most was the fact that, it contained whole boiled fruits. This was the first time I made a cake like this. The taste of lemon and orange is very intense in this cake. If you like these...
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Chocolate Pie
Everyday my mother picks my son up from school, because I am at work. She takes him at her home which, coincidentally, is next to ours; she feeds him and put him to sleep for an hour. I come back at home at 5.00 p.m. and I take it from there. So, everyday as they...
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German Chocolate Cake
Cake is a sweet that was very easily incorporated into the Greek range of sweets. We make all sorts of cakes and we have learned to love and appreciate them. As I told you, during this weekend I had plenty of time, because of the snow that held us inside. So, I decided to make...
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Molten Spiced Chocolate Brandy Cakes
I just wanted a recipe that would be easy, since now that schools are open, during afternoons my son is studying and I have to supervise him. Most of the afternoon passes by exactly by doing this, thus I do not have the time to cook anything. Anyway, yesterday I decided to make this cake...
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Cinnamon-Apple Cake
I am always in the search of a really good apple cake. I have tried many. Some of them were total failure, some of them were ok and some of them were good. This cake falls into the last case. It is a good, tasty apple cake. But, it is not the cake that...
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Molten Chocolate Cake
Now, isn’t this oven glove cute or what? I couldn’t resist the idea of photographing it and I found this opportunity with these cakes. My mother bought them for me and I think they are lovely. Anyway, yesterday my son finished studying early enough to allow me to go to the kitchen and make these...
