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White Chocolate Rum Balls

October 19, 2019

White chocolate rum balls are an easy no bake treat that is perfect for your holiday cookie exchanges and dessert table. Cover with colorful sprinkles for a sweet, homemade gift.  A variation on my easy rum ball recipe, this version is dipped in creamy white chocolate for an extra sweet treat.

white chocolate dipped rum balls

Rum balls are an easy, no bake cookie that is perfect for your holiday dessert table or cookie exchange. I like to have a batch of these around for everyone to nibble on after holiday dinners. 

If you make a purchase through one of the affiliate links, I make a few pennies at no extra cost to you. Questions? Please see disclosure for info.

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Filed Under: Desserts Tagged With: Chocolate, Christmas, Dessert, easy recipe, Food, holidays, how to, recipes, rum, rum ball, rum ball recipes, vegetarian, white chocolate

Chocolate Covered Rum Balls

October 12, 2019

Chocolate covered rum balls are a sweet, boozy grownup treat. Made with dark rum and dark chocolate, these chocolate covered rum balls are a variation on my easy rum ball recipe. They make a great addition to the holiday dessert table and they are perfect for holiday cookie exchanges.

chocolate covered rum balls topped with walnut pieces and white chocolate

Most often, we make rum balls around the holidays. Which is the time of the year when many of us are indulging in two things: booze and sugar. Check and check.

And, because we usually make these around the holiday season, I need a recipe that doesn’t require much time or energy when I have a to do list that’s a mile long. Enter: rum balls.

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Filed Under: Desserts Tagged With: Chocolate, chocolate covered rum balls, Christmas, christmas cookie, Dessert, desserts, easy recipe, no bake cookie, no-bake dessert, rum, rum ball, rum ball recipes, rum balls, rum desserts

Chocolate Coconut Rum Balls

September 28, 2019

Chocolate coconut rum balls are an easy no bake treat that is perfect for any occasion. They taste like the chocolate and coconut candy bar that we are all familiar with, but spiked with a bit of rum. They are a variation of my coconut rum balls recipe and feature two different types of rum.

The flavor develops even more overnight, making them a great option for a make ahead dessert.
stacked chocolate coconut rum balls on white plate

Most often, we make rum balls around the holidays. Which is the time of the year when many of us are indulging in two things: booze and sugar. Check and check.

And, because we usually make these around Thanksgiving and Christmas, I need a recipe that doesn’t require much time or energy when I have a hundred other things going on.

If you make a purchase through one of the affiliate links, I make a few pennies at no extra cost to you. Questions? Please see disclosure for info.

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Filed Under: Desserts Tagged With: Chocolate, chocolate coconut rum balls, Christmas, coconut, cookie exchange, Dessert, easy recipe, make ahead, No Bake, no bake cookie, rum, rum ball, rum ball recipes

Day of The Dead Cupcakes

September 14, 2019

Celebrate Halloween with these chocolate Day of the Dead cupcakes. The cupcake is supremely chocolaty, as you can see from the color. Perfect for a Día de los Muertos party, these mexican cupcakes are colorful and delicious. For a Mexican-themed Halloween party, add these easy pumpkin empanadas to your menu!
Day of the Dead Cupcakes on black background

With colorful sugar skull decorations and fun sprinkles, these cupcakes will be the hit of your día de los muertos fiesta! But, that’s not all. These delicious cupcakes have a unique ingredient, scroll down to find out what it is!

This post and recipe was created for #HalloweenTreatsWeek! I was sent samples by some of the sponsor companies but as always opinions, photos & recipes are 100% mine.

If you make a purchase through one of the affiliate links, I make a few pennies at no extra cost to you. Questions? Please see disclosure for info.

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Filed Under: Desserts Tagged With: buttercream, Chocolate, cupcake, Cupcakes, cupcakes de dia de los muertos, cupcakes de halloween, Day of the Dead, desserts, Día de los Muertos, dia de los muertos cupcakes, Halloween, Mexican, Mexican chocolate

Devil’s Food Cupcakes with Mint Buttercream

March 2, 2019

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Deep, dark Devil’s Food Cupcakes with Mint Buttercream make an excellent treat for St. Patrick’s Day or any day!  Shaved chocolate mint candies are the perfect garnish for these tasty cupcakes. If you love the combination of chocolate and mint, these are the cupcakes for you!

American buttercream made with crème de menthe makes this an adults-only cupcake, but there is a non-alcoholic version to make it kid-friendly!

devil's food cupcakes with creme de menthe buttercream on marble counter

Devil’s Food Cupcakes with Chocolate Mint Garnish

This recipe contains affiliate links. For more information, please refer to my disclosure page.

The recipe and photos have been updated from the original publish date of 03/13/13

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Filed Under: Desserts Tagged With: alcohol, baking, buttercream, cake, Chocolate, cupcake, Dessert, devil's food, easy recipe, Food, how to, mint, recipes

Dark Chocolate Cake with Red Wine Ganache

February 5, 2019

Dark chocolate cake is a favorite for many people. Top it with a red wine chocolate ganache and now that dessert just got an upgrade to the nth degree. Rich, decadent chocolate cake topped with melted chocolate spiked with your favorite red wine makes the perfect dessert for Valentine’s Day.

heart-shaped dark chocolate on white plate cake

Dark Chocolate Cake

This Dark Chocolate Cake with Red Wine Ganache recipe is sponsored by Sprouts Farmers Market. Thank you for supporting the brands that support Pook’s Pantry. As always, all opinions, recipes and photos are my own. Post contains affiliate links, please see disclosure for info.

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Filed Under: Desserts Tagged With: baking, cake, Chocolate, cooking, Dessert, easy recipe, Food, ganache, holidays, how to, recipes, Valentine's Day, vegetarian

Chocolate Hazelnut Bread Pudding

November 6, 2017

This post for Chocolate Hazelnut Bread Pudding is sponsored by Sprout’s Farmers Market.  As always, all opinions, recipes and photos are my own.

Chocolate Hazelnut Bread Pudding | Pook's Pantry

Chocolate Hazelnut Bread Pudding. Luscious bread pudding swirled with chocolate hazelnut spread.  It requires little more than a bit of mixing and whisking.  Whether you dust it with powdered sugar or give it a drizzle, you seriously can not go wrong.  Bread pudding is one of those recipes that’s great for a crowd (think holidays!) because you can make a large batch without much extra effort.  And seriously, what’s better than a warm bowl of gooey, sweet, comforting goodness?

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Holiday Candy Bark

November 22, 2016

Holiday Candy Bark - Perfect hostess gift or quick treat for busy holiday schedules!

This week, Betsy from Desserts Required is doing a guest post!  I love Betsy and I know you will too!  We’ve been friends for a few years now and I must tell you, when you are around her – a good time will be had, whether you like it or not!  🙂  She is a ball of energy, a ray of sunshine and has a serious sweet-tooth just like your truly.   Betsy is a “girl’s girl”, a cheerleader & champion of her friends, the kind of friend everyone should have.

Hello Pook’s Pantry readers!

I am so excited to guest blog while Cheryl takes some much needed time to recover from her surgery. I met Cheryl at Food Wine Conference a couple of years ago and last year she was my roommate. To say that I love and adore her would be an understatement. I mean, seriously, you already know how fabulous her sense of humor is in addition to her talent in the kitchen but I got to see it firsthand. Cheryl was on team Betsy’s Balls in the Chopped competition and, holy moly, can that woman cook!

My blog is Desserts Required and I live by the mantra, “Without desserts, life would not be as sweet.” If there is a delicious dessert within reach, driving distance or flying distance, I am always up for giving it a try. That goes for candy, too.

Since Thanksgiving is two days away, I thought it would be best to offer a quick and delish option to make; Holiday Candy Bark. I love the idea of making something that is as easy to serve at home as it is to take to someone for a hostess gift.

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The key is to use high quality chocolate. I love bittersweet chocolate but Holiday Candy Bark will work just as well with semisweet, milk or even white chocolate. When I was at Whole Foods buying dried cranberries and unsweetened shredded coconut, I had trouble locating dried apricots. I was directed to a bin of very dark, almost black, apricots. I thought something was wrong with them but learned that they were Turkish apricots and, as such, did not contain sulphur, which gives that very bright unnatural orange color. Although, initially, I wanted that bright orange color, I opted for the natural dried fruit. Feel free to use whichever dried apricot you prefer.

Assembly is a breeze. It’s just a matter of adding layers of dried fruit, coconut and toasted pecans over most of the melted chocolate and then drizzling more melted chocolate over the top to keep the goodies in place.

Holiday Candy Bark - a perfect hostess gift or quick treat at home for busy holiday schedules!

Best of all, Holiday Candy Bark is great throughout this holiday season. I’ve even heard a rumor that Santa loves a batch with his milk and cookies!

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Holiday Candy Bark

Holiday Candy Bark

A delicious, no-bake treat perfect for hostess gifts and holiday gatherings!

Ingredients

  • 1 cup 141 grams dried cranberries, chopped
  • 1 cup 172 grams dried apricots, chopped
  • 1 cup 120 grams pecan pieces, toasted
  • ½ cup 40 grams unsweetened shredded coconut
  • 2 pounds 910 grams bittersweet, semisweet, milk or white chocolate, melted

Instructions

  1. Line a 9” x 13” baking pan with heavy duty aluminum foil. Add 4/5 of the melted chocolate and use a small offset metal spatula to spread it evenly in the pan. Top with the cranberries, apricots and most of the pecans and coconut.
  2. Drizzle half of the remaining chocolate over the top. Sprinkle the remaining pecans and coconut over this. Lastly, drizzle the rest of the chocolate on top to ‘glue’ the pecans and coconut onto the bark.
  3. Place in the freezer for 20 minutes. If the block of chocolate is too hard to cut through, allow it to sit out on the counter until a knife cuts through the chocolate without breaking it into shards of chocolate. Cut in squares.
© Betsy Cohen

 

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Filed Under: Desserts, Fruit, Grains/Nuts/Seeds Tagged With: bark, candy, Chocolate, Holiday, no-bake dessert

Food Friends

September 20, 2016

Greetings, All!  I am away in Idaho this week with my friends from Idaho Potato!  In lieu of posting a new recipe, I wanted to share some awesome recipes from my super talented friends.

I do hope you will check out their recipes, as I happen to think they are pretty great!  Besides being amazing in the kitchen, they are good humans and I am lucky to know them.  I can’t wait to tell you all about Idaho and the fun things happening there right now!  I’m updating and sharing pics on social media every day, so if you want to see what we’re up to, check out my Facebook page,  Instagram account or Twitter feed for the latest shenanigans.

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Filed Under: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter Tagged With: bars, cake, Chocolate, coffee, corn, cream, custard, Dessert, Food, friends, jam, macadamia, mocha, noodles, nuts, oats, panna cotta, pork, rice, risotto, salad, sauce, soup, tart

Triple Chocolate Bread Pudding

April 14, 2016

bread pudding with creme anglaise

Triple Chocolate Bread Pudding

Triple Chocolate Bread Pudding with Creme Anglaise is a deliciously decadent dessert. Cubes of buttery brioche bread are soaked in custard and three types of chocolate are added in before baking to make a delicious bread pudding recipe that is worth every calorie. As if that’s not enough, it is served with a creme anglaise – a sauce that tastes like melted ice cream.

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Filed Under: Desserts Tagged With: baking, bread, Chocolate, cream, Dessert, easy recipe, eggs, Food, how to, pudding, recipes

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