A tart with a gooey, buttery, salty honey caramel, bejeweled with a layer of mild, toasty pine nuts -- whose crunch contrasts beautifully with the soft caramel -- all contained in a crisp, perfectly sweet pie crust.
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Red Wine Chocolate Truffles, a Valentine’s Day treat that are far better than a bouquet of thorny roses or a bottle of potentially-cloying perfume, and they hands down put any box of store-bought chocolates to shame. But I think I had you at "Red Wine Chocolate Truffles" anyways, didn't I?
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Sticky Toffee Pudding consists of a cake that is soft and fluffy and just barely sweet, tinged with a caramel-y date flavor, and, while good on its own, reaches its full potential when it meets is soulmate, or rather, an intensely buttery and brown sugary, served-warm-off-the-stove toffee sauce, that is so good, I could've eaten the whole pot of it with a spoon.
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A salad that is a whole party of textures, flavors, and colors that would put the usual pile of iceberg lettuce to shame: here we've got paper-thin, super crisp anise-flavored fennel, sweet juicy oranges, buttery, crunchy pine nuts, sharp, biting red onion, and salty rich olives, served over a bed of leafy greens, tossed with a splash of fruity olive oil and sunny orange juice.
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Positively addictive, crunchy, crispy, redolent of olive oil and wine — these homemade taralli are my very favorite snack.
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A delicious, festive Christmas or New Year’s Eve dessert to make use of leftover panettone.
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Bread dumplings hailing from the North of Italy, light and fluffy and, jam-packed with gooey melt-y cheese, salty rich speck, and sunny bright parsley, divine when served with a spoonful or two or three of toasty sage brown butter.
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A deeply spicey, ginger-y cake divine when paired with a dollop of cold freshly whipped cream and warm, caramelized pears.
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Brownie Cookies, for when you can’t decide whether or not you want a chocolate chip cookie or a brownie..
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A long weekend in the way north of Italy!
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A perfect edible Christmas gift — a slice of this packs a deeply chocolate-y punch thanks to the combined forces of cocoa powder and melted chocolate, with a smooth fudginess interrupted only by crunchy pieces of cookie, sweetened slightly by a snowy dusting of powdered sugar over the top.
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Special occasion mashed potatoes , and the best you’ll ever have.
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Step aside, pumpkin pie! This chocolate pear tart — juicy pears, truffle-like chocolate ganache, and a salty sweet shortbread crust — would make a great addition to your Thanksgiving table.
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American meatloaf studies abroad in Italy.
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Today's Chocolate Fudge Souffle Cake cake is made with little flour, allowing the chocolate flavor to really shine, and in a big way -- this cake is purely, and intensely, chocolate-y. with a soft, fudgey texture.
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Yup, you read the title of this post correctly. This here is a recipe that combines red wine, chocolate, and cake, not to mention a creamy, dreamy, mascarpone frosting.
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Classic British Banoffee Pie, toffee, bananas, whipped cream, and all.
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Waffle perfection — soft and fluffy on the inside and slightly crispy on the outside, golden brown and just sweet enough. Perfect with a pat of butter and a generous drizzle of maple syrup.
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A rich little chocolate cake, warm out of the oven, with a luscious, melt-y, pure chocolate center — add a dollop of whipped cream and you have pure dessert magic.
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