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    Ina’s Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting

    January 26, 2018 /

    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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    Derby Day Bourbon Chocolate Walnut Bars

    May 2, 2017 /

    Derby Day’s a-coming!  Ok, let’s review why I would care about that.  I don’t have a horse.  I don’t ride horses.  I don’t attend horse races.  I don’t live in Kentucky.  There are associated foods that I like.  Oh yes, that’s the one.  It’s because there are foods I like.  Even though I’ve never been to the Kentucky Derby, and I know virtually nothing about it, I’d like to ride the coattails of this pseudo holiday and take advantage of the opportunity to make some food that I may otherwise have never tried.     So, let’s call these Derby Day Bars.  Whatever you call them, you DON’T call them…

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