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    Ina’s Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting

    Do you ever experience recipe overwhelm?  Like, how many different ways are there to make chocolate cupcakes?  Obviously, as a certified Type A lunatic, I envision myself finding 20 recipes and testing them all side by side because I want to be sure I found the best one.  How can you just randomly point your finger into the ether and choose a cupcake recipe if you haven’t taste-tested it alongside all its competitors?  (Maybe you’ve seen the Crate and Barrel commercial with Reese Witherspoon testing cranberry sauce recipes?  So relatable.) Most recently, I wanted to find, as I mentioned above, a great chocolate cupcake recipe.  I searched the internet as…

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    Chocolate Peppermint Ganache Cookies

    The holiday season has officially begun, and even though we likely all overate this week5, today is nevertheless a day when I feel like celebrating by breaking a few rules.  I try pretty  hard all year, but no matter what I tell myself, I know that at Christmas, I will feel slightly cheated if I don’t get to enjoy making and eating a few cookies with a bunch of butter and sugar.  Not “breakfast cookies,” not “date-sugar” cookies, not “sneak-in-a-vegetable” cookies, just regular old nostalgic Christmas cookies. BUT!  Since this is to be treated as a celebration and a rare occurrence, when I do make some naughty cookies, they have to…

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