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chocolate

Desserts, Sweet Snacks

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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9. February 2023
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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29. January 2023
Sweet Snacks

Zebra Cake (Zebrakuchen)

So this is Zebra Cake (Zebrakuchen). I know that you can barely see the zebra stripes in the marbling, but if you look on the bottom piece on the right, you can see the stripes.

Zebrakuchen is definitely one of those “things of my childhood” – I think every kid in Germany since the late 1960s on has had Zebrakuchen — for birthday parties, the ubiquitous cake that people brought “for the kids” to family gatherings and Sunday afternoon cake and coffee. It’s fun and happy and …. and well sometimes it doesn’t really look like zebra stripes and them you can just call in Marble Cake and the funny thing is that you won’t actually know if the stripes are there until you cut into it, so sometimes you have to change you tune halfway through. “I meant to make it a Marble Cake!” The last one that I made was really stripey, this one not so much. It’s an easy cake in that you can make it in a cake pan or a loaf pan, it can be frosted or left plan. I doubled up on the espresso powder in the chocolate batter and it made it ultra-rich. Perfect for a snowy Friday afternoon.

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20. January 2023
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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14. January 2023
Candy, Sweet Snacks

Christmas Chocolates 2022:
Rumkugeln and Eierlikörkugeln

In the run-up to Christmas, I have been making a few more homemade gifts. While I usually stick with making fudge, this year, I also made these chocolates. Rumkulgeln are a pretty staple German Christmas item, and the Eierlikörkugeln (Eggnog Balls) is a modification of that recipe. Note that these do have alcohol in them that has not burned of… certainly far from getting you drunk, but a noticeable taste, if you are alcohol-averse.

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19. December 2022