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Chocolate Terrine with Sea Salt and Thai Basil Ice Cream

July 12, 2013 by Erica

Chocolate Terrine with Sea Salt and Thai Basil Ice Cream

It’s chocolate lovers only from here on out. This is some serious chocolate.

Chocolate Terrine with Sea Salt and Thai Basil Ice Cream

A few years ago, I had this dessert at the restaurant Ten Tables in Cambridge, MA. I was out to dinner with my mom after work, and naturally ordered the most chocolaty thing I could find on the dessert menu – chocolate terrine with sea salt and Thai basil ice cream. I thought Thai basil ice cream sounded weird and that I probably wouldn’t eat that part; I was mostly interested in the chocolate. So misguided.

The first bite blew my mind. An ultra-chocolaty flourless chocolate cake topped with crunchy sea salt and fresh, creamy basil ice cream. The combination was SO unexpectedly delicious. I was in heaven.

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Red Beet and White Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

July 5, 2013 by Erica

Beet lovers, this one’s for you.

I would not necessarily consider myself a lover of beets. I adore beets in the right time and place (and have a slew of beet recipes on this site), but I also occasionally think they taste like dirt. Needless to say, I was a little wary of trying a beet ice cream. But once the idea suggested itself, I was too intrigued not to go through with it.

As I researched beet ice cream recipes, I found that the road was paved with mixed reactions: all the way from “rude essence of beet” to “damn tasty!” I decided to follow the recipe that was declared “damn tasty,” and was quite pleased with the results. It tasted nothing like dirt, and miraculously, seemed to be exactly the right time and place for beets.

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Outrageously Fudgy Pretzel Brownies

June 3, 2013 by Erica

Outrageously Fudgy Pretzel Brownies

Call me crazy, but even with all the fresh summer produce jumping off the shelves, this is the combination I’m obsessed with right now.

Outrageously Fudgy Pretzel Brownies

Chocolate and pretzels.

I’ve been craving pretzels with everything recently. Hummus, cheese, chocolate. (All the major food groups right there.) And just to prove that I am taking very seriously the tragic lack of brownies (my favorite food) on this site, I decided to bake some pretzels into a batch of them for you.

For you, for me… let’s not split hairs about who is benefiting from this recipe.

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Fudgy Lemon Curd Brownies

May 17, 2013 by Erica

Fudgy Brownies with Lemon Curd

There’s a saying: When life gives you lemons, make brownies.

I think it’s something like that?

Fudgy Brownies with Lemon Curd

I hope I’m right, because it’s a saying I live my life by.

When you find yourself home alone on your birthday: brownies.

When your friend’s crazy ex-boyfriend is making her life miserable: brownies.

And when you’ve overdosed on coconut and still have half a batch of lemon curd left: brownies.

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Coconut Butter Cups with Meyer Lemon Curd

May 8, 2013 by Erica

Coconut Butter Cups with Meyer Lemon Curd

If I’m being perfectly honest, these are deadly.

Not like the “I filled yours with poison” kind of deadly, but rather the “you probably shouldn’t make three test batches of these if you have to be in your bathing suit on a Mexican beach in a week” kind of deadly.

Oh, the things I use this blog as an excuse for.

My mom is definitely shaking her head at me right now.

Coconut Butter Cups with Meyer Lemon Curd