Two friends, miles apart, who love to bake!
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. 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 …
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!
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:
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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
Fudgy Chocolate Cream Cheese Swirl Brownies
Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
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.)
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:
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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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 …
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 …
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.
Last 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.
It’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!
My 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)
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 …