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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Ahh, recycling. What it's done for our lives, how much we think about reduce, reuse, recycle nowadays. And that's exactly where these little cupcakes started. Remember several months ago when I had an EPIC FAIL making salted peanut butter chocolate ganache? I piled all my extra peanutty chocolatey ganache into a big brick and shoved it into the fridge, and then I avoided my better half's constant requests to do something, anything with it - just get it out of the fridge.


Banana Twinkies with Apricot Buttercream

Banana Twinkies with Apricot Buttercream

Sometimes the universe sends you hidden messages - other times it just hits you over the head. Serendipity brought me to Twinkies.


Guava Cream Cheese Cake

Guava Cream Cheese Cake

This little gem comes from my baking days in a nearby Seattle restaurant. This cake is closer to a pound cake than a cheesecake (as the name implies), and is better after being refrigerated (or frozen) then slices and toasted in a pan.

This is a moist, dense cake with a fragrance you won't know unless you grew up somewhere tropical. It's a subtle flavor - almost peachy - but then something else wafts by and you're clearly inhaling something new.


Dobos Torta

Dobos Torta

The August 2009 Daring Bakers' challenge was hosted by Angela of A Spoonful of Sugar and Lorraine of Not Quite Nigella. They chose the spectacular Dobos Torte based on a recipe from Rick Rodgers' cookbook Kaffeehaus:  Exquisite Desserts from the Classic Caffés of Vienna, Budapest, and Prague.


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