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Chocolate Chip Cookies **gluten free**

Chocolate Chip Cookies **gluten free**

I’m baaaaaaack! Wow, it’s been a hot minute since I last posted a recipe. Thank you Steph for holding down the fort and keeping LDB alive. Seriously, you are the best! As some of you know, I stepped back from LDB to open up a 

Chocolate Pretzel Cookies with Peanut Butter Chips

Chocolate Pretzel Cookies with Peanut Butter Chips

Chocolate Pretzel Cookies with Peanut Butter Chips. Phew! What a mouthful. But I promise these cookies are worth the extra long title, especially if you’re like me and love that salty sweet flavor combo. I got the idea for these cookies thinking about my go-to 

#Choctoberfest 2020

#Choctoberfest 2020

Welcome the best time of year: #Choctoberfest! With everything going on in the world I think we can all agree on one thing… 2020 needs more chocolate.

#Choctoberfest is our annual celebration of chocolate recipes, now in its 6th year. We teamed up with some talented food blogger friends to share dozens of milk, dark, and white chocolate dishes for this year’s virtual event. Plus, we’ve pooled our resources to bring you an exciting giveaway you don’t want to miss!

The Giveaway

One lucky winner will receive a KitchenAid mixer – or if you already have a mixer you can instead opt to receive a KitchenAid gift card to purchase your choice of attachments or other kitchen tools. To enter, simply follow the directions here:

a Rafflecopter giveaway

The fine print: Open worldwide to entrants who are 18+ (except where prohibited). Winner will receive a KitchenAid Classic Series 4.5 Quart Tilt-Head Stand Mixer or the equivalent in a gift card. Giveaway ends on October 16 at 11:59 PM Eastern. This giveaway is not sponsored by KitchenAid, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, YouTube, or any other third party sites. Void where prohibited. No purchase necessary. See terms & conditions for more information.

Participating Bloggers

Check any of these blogs throughout the week for delicious chocolate recipes! And if you missed any of the previous years, here are some of our favorite submissions.

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Swirl Brownies

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Swirl Brownies | longdistancebaking.com

Nutella Pie

Nutella Pie with Barleans | longdistancebaking.com

Cookies and Cream Oreo Pop Tarts

Cookies & Cream Oreo Pop Tarts | longdisgtancebaking.com

Double Chocolate Walnut Cookies

Double Chocolate Walnut Cookies | longdistancebaking.com

Fudgy Chocolate Cream Cheese Swirl Brownies

Fudgy Chocolate Cream Cheese Brownies | longdistancebaking.com

Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins

Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins for #Choctoberfest 2017 | longdistancebaking.com

Peanut Butter Chocolate Sauce Brownies

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Swirl Brownies

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Swirl Brownies

Every now and then you need a relatively simple dessert. You need something that comes together quickly, without any fancy ingredients and that everyone will love. And if you need this recipe in the fall…you obviously need it to be pumpkin. While my pumpkin spice 

Cookies & Cream Oreo Pop Tarts

Cookies & Cream Oreo Pop Tarts

Growing up, our parents didn’t buy us many prepackaged treats. Fruit by the foot, gogurt, dunkaroos…we never had those. I still remember going to a friend’s house that had MULTIPLE flavors of goldfish crackers and pringles. Another friend had an entire closet in the basement 

#Choctoberfest 2019

#Choctoberfest 2019

Welcome to #Choctoberfest 2019! If you don’t remember from years past, this is a week full of everything chocolate. Plus a great big prize pack for one of you to win! This year, over 70 bloggers are joining together for a week full of chocolate cakes, pies, cookies, candies and more. You can follow along by searching for the hashtag #Choctoberfest on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter. Or, simply follow any of the participating bloggers listed at the end of the post.

Let’s revisit our previous #Choctoberfest recipes, shall we? I love this event because it is a great opportunity to get creative with chocolate recipes we haven’t made before. And also I get to eat a lot of chocolate.

Double Chocolate Walnut Cookies

Double Chocolate Walnut Cookies | longdistancebaking.com

Fudgy Chocolate Cream Cheese Swirl Brownies

Fudgy Chocolate Cream Cheese Brownies | longdistancebaking.com

Nutella Pie

Nutella Pie with Barleans | longdistancebaking.com

Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins

Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins for #Choctoberfest 2017 | longdistancebaking.com

Peanut Butter Chocolate Sauce Brownies

We also have some awesome sponsors, who make #Choctoberfest possible every year. Our sponsors have banded together to put together a delicious prize pack worth over $400! Here’s what you get if you win! (Scroll down to enter.)

  • Candy Gift Pack from blog host Triple Chocolate Kitchen, which includes 180-pack of Lindt LINDOR Chocolate Truffles (dark, milk, and white). Triple Chocolate Kitchen organizes #Choctoberfest, as well as posting chocolate recipes throughout the year.
  • Chocolate and Cocoa Gift Pack from Divine Chocolate, which includes a variety of high-quality fair trade chocolate bars, cocoa powder, and Divine Chocolate swag. Divine Chocolate’s baking line consists of three premium quality flavors ranging from 55% to 100% cocoa for a wide variety of delicious desserts. Their chocolate products are made with 100% cocoa butter and are non-GMO and Vegan Society Certified.
  • $100 Nordic Ware Gift Card and 40 Pounds of Granulated Sugar from Imperial Sugar. They are currently hosting their annual Scary Scramble, featuring delicious fall-inspired recipes using Imperial Sugar’s high-quality sweeteners. Imperial Sugar has been a kitchen staple for over 175 years!
  • Collagen Fuel™ Drink Mix Gift Pack from Primal Kitchen. The ingredients in these drink mixes help support hair, skin, and nails. Their chocolate version has organic, fair-trade cocoa and coconut milk powders, with no wheat, soy, or dairy ingredients.
  • Cracker Gift Pack from Mary’s Gone Crackers. The lucky winner will get to try a variety of crackers, many of which pair well with chocolate (check their recipe page for ideas!). Mary’s products are vegan, cruelty-free, and organic.
  • Fig Spread Gift Pack from Dalmatia Spreads. With flavors like sour cherry, plum, blackberry, and orange, you’ll find that several of Dalmatia’s fig-based spreads work well in chocolate recipes. Use as a filling for crépes, serve warm over ice cream, or spread onto toast. They even have a fig cocoa spread that uses fair trade cocoa.
  • Alkaline Water Pack from Perfect Hydration. Wash down all those delicious chocolate desserts with Perfect Hydration water. This 9.5+ pH alkaline water helps to effectively restore and rebalance the body to optimum pH levels. This water goes through a 9-stage filtration process, has no added sodium, chlorine, or fluoride, and is packaged in recyclable BPA-free bottles.
  • Kitchen Conversions Chart and Etsy Gift Card from Moonflower Mountain. Winner chooses the colors for this flower-adorned conversion chart, which makes it easy to double any recipe or convert from cups to tablespoons.

This is a prize pack worth over $400 and couldn’t be easier to enter! Simply follow our sponsors below and follow more of the participating bloggers for even more entries! If you’re already following us on Instagram (you are, aren’t you??) you already have an extra entry. Open worldwide, except where prohibited. Must be 18+ to enter (21+ in some locations). One lucky winner will be drawn randomly on October 20, 2019 and contacted via email. See terms and conditions for more details. Enter the giveaway now:

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Entries from spam or inactive accounts are invalid. #Choctoberfest bloggers, sponsors, and their immediate families/households are not eligible to win. This giveaway is not affiliated with or sponsored by Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest.

I can’t wait to share our newest chocolate creations with you! Make sure you check out these other participating bloggers to see #Choctoberfest recipes all throughout the week and good luck in the giveaway.

~Stephanie & Kelly

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Double Chocolate Walnut Cookies

Double Chocolate Walnut Cookies

Disclaimer: this post is sponsored by Imperial Sugar. I received sample products for recipe development, however all opinions are honest and my own. The final installment of this year’s #Choctoberfest: double chocolate walnut cookies. They taste just as good as they sound! I’m not sure when 

Fudgy Chocolate Cream Cheese Swirl Brownies

Fudgy Chocolate Cream Cheese Swirl Brownies

Disclaimer: this post is sponsored by Imperial Sugar. I received sample products to use in recipe development  however all opinions are honest and my own. Chocolate. Cream Cheese.  Brownies. You’ve all had these before, I don’t even need to explain them to you. They are 

Nutella Pie

Nutella Pie

Disclaimer: This post is sponsored by Barlean’s. I received free products for recipe development, however all opinions are honest and my own.

This may come as a shock to everyone, but Kelly did not make this Nutella Pie. Although maybe it’s not that surprising, because she probably would have already eaten the Nutella straight from the jar and it never would have made its way into the pie. But I digress.

Nutella Pie with Barleans | longdistancebaking.comLast year my parents hosted a foreign exchange student from Italy for the entire school year. Lorenzo loved most sweets, but oddly hated peanut butter. Who doesn’t like peanut butter?! He explained they eat Nutella in Italy. And if you have Nutella…you don’t need peanut butter. While I disagree, I guess I can understand that (side note: did you see that article hiring Nutella taste testers to come live in Italy??). 

When Lorenzo’s birthday rolled around, we knew we needed to have a big birthday dessert as is the American custom (much to his protesting) and remembered him mentioning Nutella Pie once upon a time. A quick google search showed this was in fact a real thing, and amazingly only required a few ingredients and minimal baking.

Nutella Pie with Barleans | longdistancebaking.comIt’s kind of dangerous how easily and quickly this recipe comes together. The graham cracker-pretzel crust is a game changer (talk about that salty-sweet combo) and the filling is simply Nutella and mascarpone cheese. You’re 5 ingredients away from this insanely decadent pie!

While I meant to share this recipe with you ages ago, I knew it would be perfect for #Choctoberfest, our weeklong celebration of all things chocolate. I also knew when I saw this Barlean’s butter flavored coconut oil that it would perfect in the crust. I was right on both counts! I haven’t seen any other brands with butter flavored coconut oil, and you can really tell the difference here. No coconut flavor at all and smells just like butter, yet has all the health benefits of coconut oil!

Nutella Pie with Barleans | longdistancebaking.comMy birthday is on Thanksgiving this year, and while I know we’ll already have pumpkin, apple and pecan pies…I kind of think this might be my birthday dessert of choice. It is rich without being heavy and who can turn down Nutella?!

If you haven’t entered our #Choctoberfest giveaway yet, don’t forget to do that by the end of the weekend! Included in the prize pack are more Barlean’s goodies so you don’t want to miss yout. Until then, enjoy all of the chocolate recipes by following the hashtag on social media and stick around to see what else we have to share with you.

~Stephanie

Nutella Pie (recipe adapted from Epicurious)

  • 1 1/2 cups small pretzels
  • 1 sleeve graham crackers
  • 1/2 c melted Barlean’s Butter Flavored Coconut Oil
  • 2 cups Nutella
  • 8 oz mascarpone cheese
  • chopped hazelnut pieces for garnish (optional: I found these at Trader Joe’s)
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Place pretzels and graham crackers in a food processor and pulse until fine crumbs. Slowly pour in the Barlean’s coconut oil and pulse until combined
  3. Pour the crumb mixture into a 9×9 pie tin. Press the mixture evenly throughout the bottom and sides of the tin, pressing very firmly as to keep crust together.
  4. Bake the crust for 10 minutes then remove from oven and set aside.
  5. In medium mixing bowl, add the Nutella and mascarpone cheese. Beat with mixer until fluffy and fully combined.
  6. Pour Nutella into pie tin and gently spread the filling evenly into crust.
  7. Top with chopped hazelnut pieces if desired.
  8. Refrigerate at least one hour then serve.
  9. Keep covered and refrigerated.

 


#Choctoberfest 2018

#Choctoberfest 2018

Welcome to #Choctoberfest 2018 with Imperial Sugar! Get ready for all things chocolate, because #Choctoberfest is here! If you’ve missed past years, over 100 bloggers from around the world celebrate chocolate  for an entire WEEK by putting chocolate in basically everything. Our previous entries have included Peanut Butter Chocolate Sauce Brownies