(It’s near enough to Saint Patrick’s Day to post these right?) I made these little nuggets of pure chocolate-y, sugar-y, liqueur-y bliss (the about me page doesn’t lie) for a friend. (I swear guys, they were for a friend….) Specifically a friend with whom I entered into the following agreement: he…
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These Chocolate Cupcakes with Strawberry Frosting. Fresh strawberry frosting, I might add. Ahhh!! Be still my beating heart… (And let me purchase this Pavlovian Conditioning Wristband for over-eating before I dig in to these beauties… ) ((<– Just included for Lol’s)) Just consider: pillowy soft and moist chocolate cupcakes, topped…
Crème Brûlée with Blood Orange. Yes this happened. Right here in the humble The Gourmet Gourmand kitchen. I brûlée-d the heck out of that crème. And blood oranges abounded. Dave danced and sang as we cracked through that perfect crunchy sugar coating and dipped our spoons into the silkiest of…
Okay, I don’t even know what to say other than: This cake is awesome. I was craving something sweet this January and decided to make the cake I’ve had my eye on for a little while now- Dorie Greenspan’s French Apple Cake. The ingredients couldn’t be more simple, but in…
Being born and raised in Michigan there were numerous trips to Mackinac Island over my lifetime. And anyone who knows anything about Mackinac knows about the horses, the Grand Hotel, and Mackinac Island Fudge. Thus, in the Christmas spirit I’ve accomplished something I’ve fantasized about for years: making fudge, the…
Tis the season of holiday cheer, aka the season of consumerism and gluttony. Which is convenient for someone with a food blog because my “market” (in quotations, because making money from The Gourmet Gourmand is currently purely speculative..) seems to be going wild for Christmas-y treats this time of year. As…
Persimmons aka the Fruit of the Gods. (Here is a situation where someone else did the hyperbol-izing for me. Hooray!) Seriously, the persimmon was apparently referred to as the “fruit of the gods” by the ancient Greeks and, if you’ve ever had one, you’ll know that they were absolutely right.…
This recipe is for my Grandma’s lacey oatmeal cookies. And I’m not even going to “sugar coat” it (ha ha).. they are the absolute best oatmeal cookie in existence, ever. Time to get food blogger cheesey- When I was a kid we would receive these cookies for pretty much every…
Not going to lie, as soon as I sat down to write this post I decided that before. anything. else. happens. I needed to go toast another english muffin and slather it with chai spiced apple butter. And eat at least 1/2 of the apple butter + english muffin (aka…
So this cake was recently introduced into my life as a spontaneous- I need to make something for my coworker’s birthday cake! And o.m.g. I am so glad this level of spontaneity occurred in my life one fateful Monday morning. Bundt cakes can be tricky because they are prone to…