~ Holiday Fudge Ring at Dinosaur Dishes

~ Double Chocolate Cherry Cookies from The Girl Who Ate Everything

~ French Chocolate Cake at Happee Monkee

~ Chocolate and Green Tea Truffles from Diet, Dessert and Dogs

~ Caramelized Almonds Dipped in Chocolate at Eddy Van Damme

~ Chocolate Covered Coffee Toffee from Moje Wypieki

~ Nutella Swirl Poundcake at The Cutting Edge of Ordinary

~ S’mores Cookie Bars from Beantown Baker

~ Candy Cane Mint Chocolate Fudge at Cookin’ Canuck

~ Chili Con Carne with Chocolate from The Winter Guest

~ Chocolate Dipped Florentine Shortbreads at Food People Want

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Why not break tradition and try one of the delicious goodies below with fudge or cookies or fun crafty things to do with kids. If you don’t feel like shaking things up that much, put a chocolaty treat beside the pumpkin pie so your guests can choose.

~ Oreo Turkeys from Cookies and Cups

~ How to Frost a (Beautiful) Cake Tutorial at Savory Sweet Life

~ S’more Cupcakes from Annie’s Eats

~ Butter Toffee Crunch at Blue Ridge Baker

~ Peanut Butter Hot Cocoa from Wasabimon

~ Nutella and Dark Chocolate Truffles at Sunita’s World

~ Chocolate Whoopie Pies from Comfy Belly

~ Chocolate Pretzels at Zoom Yummy

~ Homemade Belgian Truffles from Eddy Van Damme

~ Chocolate Chip Cookie Brittle at Piece of Cake

~ Irish Creme Hershey Kisses from Candy Blog

~ Chocolate Caramel Bars at Delicously Organic

~ Individual Mocha Brownie Tarts from The Naptime Chef

~ Chocolate Waffles Cookies at The Merline Menu

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During the summer I try to stick with treats that don’t require baking because the oven is just one more thing to heat up the house, but when fall hits the combination of baking chocolate and a warm kitchen can’t be beat.

~ Upside-down Pear Chocolate Cake at Project Foodie

~ Self-Saucing Chocolate Coffee Puddings with Vanilla Custard Cream from Mowielicious

~ Pumpkin and Chocolate Layer Cake at Baking Bites

~ Chocolate Bread & Butter Pudding from Trissalicious

~ Chili Cinnamon Brownies at Zomtbakes

~ Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars from The SoHo

~ Chocolate Chip Scones at Big, Bold, Beautiful Food

~ Chocolate Cinnamon Bundt Cake from Honey & Jam

~ Chocolate Dipped Shortbread Cookies at Delementals

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Anyone can enter the contest, which encourages creative recipe creations for both sweet or savory dishes. The recipes must include Scharffen Berger Chocolate and at least one suggested ingredient from the “Adventure Ingredients” list, which includes fresh mint, crystallized ginger, pandan leaf, banana leaf, sumac, raw honey, cacao nibs, fresh or whole dried chili pepper, malbec, peanut butter, black-eyed peas, rice flour, papaya, cumin, paprika, and smoked sea salt.

Two grand prizes of $10,000 each will be awarded, one for a sweet dish and one for savory, and two second place prizes that include signed cookbooks and chocolate will also be awarded.

Full rules can be found at the Chocolate Adventure website, as well as a look at the judges. You can submit your entry online, and the contest submission deadline is January 3rd, so get cooking!

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Chocolate milk has recently been in the spotlight due to the healthy benefits it can provide to athletes and sports enthusiasts. Of course, there are those of us who will continue to drink it for what it is — a delicious chocolaty treat you don’t need to feel guilty indulging in!

Spiced Hot Chocolate Milk Mix
from Big Oven

4 c Chocolate milk
1/4 tsp Crushed cardamom
1/4 tsp Ground mace
1/2 tsp Ground nutmeg
2 sticks cinnamon

~ Combine all ingredients; heat to serving temperature over low heat, stirring occasionally. Remove cinnamon sticks. Pour into mugs and garnish as desired. Yield: 4 to 6 servings.

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Chocolate Milk Shake
from epicurious

2 cups nonfat milk
1 cup fat-free chocolate ice cream
1/2 cup nonfat or skim evaporated milk
1 cup ice cubes
2 tbsp light chocolate syrup
1 tbsp malted-milk powder
1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
2 crumbled chocolate chip or Oreo cookies

~ Place all ingredients in a blender and whip thoroughly.

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Lots of brownies, cookies and cupcakes means a lot of oven time and a sweet-smelling house! And make sure you check out the chocolate recipes involving avocado, blueberries and the vegan cookies and cake.

~ Chocolate Orange Cheesecake Brownies at Culinary Travels of a Culinary Goddess

~ Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies from Novel Eats

~ Blueberry Nutella Tiramisu at Let’s Get Stupid Together

~ Olive Oil Pancakes with Chocolate Chips from Croce and Delizia

~ Homemade Granola Bars with Chocolate Chips at For the Love of Cooking

~ No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal Bars from Buns in my Oven

~ Pear and Chocolate Fudge Tartlets at Technicolor Kitchen

~ Breakup Bars from Sticky Gooey Creamy Chewy

~ Caramel Peanut-Topped Brownie Cake at Annie’s Eats

~ Chocolate-Filled Banana Cupcakes from 6 Bittersweets

~ Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake at The Cutting Edge of Ordinary

~ Vegan Chocolate Avocado Cake from The Sweet Spot

~ Mayan Chocolate Brownie Cupcakes at The Adventures of Kitchen Girl

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So why do we persist in calling it a cake? I have no idea. But I do seem to have everything on hand to make one, so I may just have to give it a shot this weekend, in the name of research, of course!

Flourless Chocolate Cake
from AllRecipes

1/2 cup water
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup white sugar
18 (1 ounce) squares bittersweet chocolate
1 cup unsalted butter
6 eggs

~ Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease one 10 inch round cake pan and set aside.

~ In a small saucepan over medium heat combine the water, salt and sugar. Stir until completely dissolved and set aside.

~ Either in the top half of a double boiler or in a microwave oven melt the bittersweet chocolate. Pour the chocolate into the bowl of an electric mixer.

~ Cut the butter into pieces and beat the butter into the chocolate, 1 piece at a time. Beat in the hot sugar-water. Slowly beat in the eggs, one at a time.

~ Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Have a pan larger than the cake pan ready, put the cake pan in the larger pan and fill the pan with boiling water halfway up the sides of the cake pan.

~ Bake cake in the water bath at 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) for 45 minutes. The center will still look wet. Chill cake overnight in the pan. To unmold, dip the bottom of the cake pan in hot water for 10 seconds and invert onto a serving plate.

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~ Chocolate Peanut Butter Reeses Cake at Good Things Catered

~ Baileys Cheesecake Brownies from Domestic Goddess in Trianing

~ End of the Search Chocolate Chip Cookies at Rachel Hearts Food

~ Superood Fudgesicles from Bitter Sweet

~ Chocolate and Hazelnut Truffles at Katiecakes

~ Dulce de Leche Cheesecake Squares from Annie’s Eats

~ Chocolate Zucchini Bread at 6 Bittersweets

~ Copycat Magic Shell from Jenny Mac’s Lipsmack

~ Mocha Cake at Stick to Your Hips

~ Chocolate Carrot Cake from Mochachocolotta

~ Grandma’s Peanut Butter Bars at Megster Meter

~ Dark Chocolate Brownies from The Craving Chronicles

~ Peppermint Patty Brownie Cupcakes at The Crepes of Wrath

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What are your favorite kind of brownies? Do you like them light and cakey, or dense and fudgy? Do you prefer the crispier edge pieces or the gooier middle pieces? Do you like anything added to them, like nuts or chocolate chips, or do you prefer them plain, just a big pan of chocolate yumminess?

Over the last two years I’ve done several posts about brownies, which include Decadent Coconut Swirl Brownies, Marbled Chocolate and Cream Cheese Brownies, Alton Brown’s Cocoa Brownies, Super Bowl Candy Bar Brownies, and Peanut Butter and Chocolate Marble Bars.

There is also more to brownies than just pouring batter into a pan! Martha Stewart’s got a recipe for brownie cookies, and Allrecipes has well-rated one for chewy brownie cookies too.

So tell me, are you going to have brownies at brunch sometime this month?

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With Cheesecake Day tomorrow, it’s the perfect excuse to whip up a rich cheesy dessert today, or at least go shopping for it.

I especially like cheesecake with chocolate cookies used for the crust, which I’ll be making tonight for dessert night!

~ Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl Cheesecake
~ Mini Chocolate Pudding Oreo Cheesecakes
~ Nigella Lawson’s Chocolate Cheesecake
~ All Chocolate Cheesecake
~ German Chocolate Cheesecake
~ Gluten-Free Chocolate Cheesecake
~ Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake

What’s in your favorite chocolate cheesecake recipe?

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