I’m dipping my toes back in to my very neglected blog with a recipe for Coca Cola Cake. I first tried this cake at Cracker Barrel last summer. I loved the idea of a strange ingredient like Coke in a cake but didn’t love Cracker Barrel’s version. I made a mental note to try my…
Category Archives: Chocolate
Fresh & Easy Chocolate Fudge Cake – Review
I discovered Fresh & Easy (a subsidiary of a the British chain Tescos) when we moved to Las Vegas. I’d seen them before in Los Angeles, but we didn’t have one near us so I ‘d never shopped at one. Now, I pass one several times a day. It’s fresh. No fake anything. It’s pretty…
What Makes You Happy?
I haven’t been around much the last few weeks. I’m trying to organize everything for our upcoming move. It’s not very interesting. It’s a huge time-suck and doing it makes me feel grumpy. Not happy. It does make me happy, however, to declutter, freecycle and sell. This has made me vow to never again accumulate…
Chocolate soufflé
A story unto itself. A satisfying end to a Sunday family dinner. I made this chocolate soufflé from a recipe in my old, tattered copy of Fannie Farmers. I added more chocolate. Of course. It’s not as difficult as it sounds. Search for the Julia Child within you. You can make soufflé, too! Ingredients3 ounces…
Chocolate chip and M&M cookies in a heart
I’m a little Valentined out today. I spent five hours making Valentine cards with the girls. They each had to make twenty-seven homemade cards. I cut out a zillion hearts. Okay, maybe more like two hundred. Every year around the end of January I start saying to the girls: “Let’s get started on the Valentine…
I heart brownies
Baking is a ritual for me. I do it every week. It’s relaxing. It’s satisfying. It yields results. So I was intrigued with a brownie recipe in Alice Medrich’s Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy Cookie book called The Steve Ritual Brownies. The ritual part of the recipe involves immersing the pan in an ice bath as soon as…
Chocolate bread pudding
I was knocked down with a bad cold for most of last week. So when I was finally feeling a little better and could stand on my feet for more than ten minutes I wanted to bake something simple, something comforting, something chocolate. I turned to Real Simple for a chocolate bread pudding recipe. I…
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These are my stories about surviving Hollywood, parenting two girls, and relocating to Las Vegas from Los Angeles, all while consuming a lot of chocolate. -
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