This is a moist, dense, chewy dark chocolate brownie with a smoky-spicy-sweet raspberry swirl.  I would say it is a great combination but it is more than that. It is just so good.
The chipotle makes these have a little “bite ya back” in the after taste and the smoke flavor adds an interesting layer of flavor.  It sort of deepens the chocolate and gives it an extra layer and depth of flavor.

 
Chocolate. Yum.  I love it.  It is one of the basic four food groups for me.  Chocolate, Coffee, Tea, and Triple Bacon Cheeseburgers from Whataburger with mayo not mustard..
I know.   And the triple bacon cheese burgers? I don’t get them a lot.  My middle aged metabolism will not allow it.  However, chocolate is readily available most of the time here.  I had not made a cake in awhile and I have been looking through my old cookbooks in search of a recipe for devils food cake.  I have made many but I am, like many of you, always looking …read more

So, today is the last day of the road to Chocolate Nirvana. I know, I know, it’s sad but on the bright side we have several really cool things coming up at the H& D channel here at B5…including a way cool Autumn Scavenger Hunt..and a special, channel wide thing the 18th…and don’t forget the next installment of the Christmas countdown on Wednesday, Sept. 12.

What kind of thing? You will have to check back. You should be out of your chocolate coma by then.
O.k. These are from Epicurious. They are…incredible. This is definitly a case for saving the best …read more

I have a son who loves rocky road ice cream. When I make ice cream he is in the pantry pulling out marshmallows, walnuts, chocolate chips, and anything else he thinks he can get away with trying to get me to throw in there. When I heard that we were going ot have a picnic after church last Sunday I was trying to decide what type of chocolate to supply our pastor with ( he loves chocolate almost as much as I do) and I thought about these rocky road brownies. Perfect!
They must have hit the spot they disappeared …read more

Chocolate. I like chocolate. I like dark chocolate. I like milk chocolate. I like white chocolate. Chocolate covered cherries…chocolate covered strawberries..chocolate covered raisins…no chocolate covered grasshoppers though.
We host a home group meeting every Wednesday night for our church…Some of you may know them as small groups, or cell groups.  The thing is that if you have people from church coming over, with the possibility of the pastor dropping by, you want to have your house sparkling like..well, sparkling. You want the kids to be perfect, preferably with one of their GOOD school papers laying out in an obvious place so …read more

Well, that is what we call them here. I have been working on the recipe for dark chocolate chipotle brownies  for a couple of months, ever since I fell in love with the smokey, complex flavor of chipotle and realized that it just is incredibly versatile. And I mean incredibly. We used to do a Monte Cristo sandwich and use a raspberry chipotle sauce as a dip…and the list goes on…
  These brownies are getting closer to what I am looking for, altho I would like them to be a bit more moist and chewy. The flavor is right though…What …read more

 
Marc has a sweet tooth. Actually, I suspect it is more like a prehistoric fang although I see no evidence of it…well other than the constant intake of large hershey bars, twizzlers, whoppers, ice cream and anything with sugar in it that I create.  Luckily for him he is 6′6″ and works really hard to keep his weight hovering around a very muscular 200 lbs.  There are times that I do consider divorcing him to marry someone who has to diet, at least long enough to lose my own extra weight…
 Not really.
   I wanted to make him a …read more

I love heath bars. I love heath bar ice cream. I love health bar ice cream bars….I love heath bars crunched up in chocolate shakes….
   These cookies are some that I came up with when our local grocery had toffee pieces on clearance for almost nothing.  They are sooo good….

1/2 c unsalted butter
1/2 c butter flavored crisco OR spectrum organic shortening 
3/4 c white sugar
3/4 c brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tbs mexican vanilla
2 c flour
1/2 c hershey’s dark cocoa
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 c white chocolate chips
1/2 c pecans or walnuts
1 c heath bar chopped up or toffee pieces

Cream butter, …read more

This are fantastic. My 11 year old wanted to bake yesterday and she asked if she could experiment a bit. Of course,the answer was yes, so she used the dark chocolate chips I had just picked up..There were some oranges left in the fruit bowl (a total miracle in our house) and I suggested she try some orange in with it. The results were an absolutely intensely flavored cookie..the dark chocolate was complimented by the orange in an absolutely sophitcated synergy of sweet/intense/tangy.
One on a stormy afternoon with a cup of earl grey would be a perfect *me* moment.
1/2 c …read more