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Chocolate Celebration Cupcakes with Salted Caramel Cream Cheese Frosting

One more year! Today is the 12th birthday (I have a Tween!) of the Cup of Sugar :: Pinch of Salt website. No, not my (the human) birthday but the anniversary of when I started the virtual recipe collection (the website). It was a cold day in January 2011 that someone suggested that I start putting all my recipe ideas and pictures in one place and a few weeks later, the site was born. Twelve years and 2680 recipes, I am still at it. I didn’t think that was possible, or even likely but here we are. What’s to come, I don’t know, but you know where to find me — in my kitchen!

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Desserts, Sweet Snacks

Winter Citrus Upside Down Cake

acidity and sometimes the bitterness of even the sweetest fruit — not something that you really notice until it is on your plate for first tasting. Nevertheless, happy with the concept of the upside down cake and will likely do something else on the topic soon. If nothing else, it looks very vibrant!

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Cookies, Desserts, Sweet Snacks

Salted Caramel Pretzel Pecan Brownie Bites

It’s been one of those weeks (and one of those months! I hate January!) that chocolate wasn’t an option this weekend, and the best option was for these Salted Caramel Pretzel Pecan Brownie Bites. They are cute, delicious and definitely filled the chocolate “void’ for the weekend. I make my brownies from scratch (not out of the box), but in a pinch, you could also do this recipe with a box mix. A very straight forward and simple recipe.

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Cookies, Desserts, Sweet Snacks

Cherry Chocolate Oatmeal Florentines

Thought I’d start off my “cookie year” here in January with something at least semi-healthy with oatmeal cookies. Of course, there is lots of butter, toffee bits, jammie bits and chocolate chips, so that takes away most anything healthy about these, but they are delicious, so there is that. Thin, very crisp, with a bit of a crunch. If you like “thin and crispy” these are definitely for you.

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