Tuesdays with Dorie #8:  Beth of Supplicious decided on Chipster-Topped Brownies on pages 94 and 95.

So far every recipe I’ve made for TWD has been good – some expectedly so and some surprisingly so. So given that success, I was really jazzed to make this recipe because chocolate chip cookies and brownies are two [...]

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Tuesdays with Dorie #4: Kim of Scrumptious Photography decided on the Chocolate Cream Tart on pages 352 and 353.

As with last week’s recipe, I made only 1/2 of this. Actually, I wound up making a full recipe of the tart crust before I remembered, but I think it’ll keep in the freezer and [...]

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Tuesdays with Dorie #3:  Lauren of Upper East Side Chronicle selected Four Star Chocolate Bread Pudding,  pages 410 and 411.

This is the first TWD recipe that I’ve altered significantly.  I figured I wanted to make the first two exactly as they are in the book to see how the recipes “work” for me before I [...]

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Tuesdays with Dorie post #2: Holly of Phe/MOM/enon picked the 15 Minute Magic: Chocolate Amaretti Torte on pages 276 and 277.

At first I wasn’t going to make this recipe although I really wanted to. I just couldn’t justify dropping $12 on a box of cookies at Whole Foods, plus the almonds, cream, chocolate, etc., [...]

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