What’s the first thing you think about in the morning?

For me, yesterday morning it was chocolate chip cookies. I NEEDED a chocolate chip cookie. Like NEEEEEEEEEEEDED one. It was 6:30 am.

Every week, I sit down and plan out a list of recipes to make for the blog. Without that, I would have no sense of organization in my life and my grocery bills would be a thousand dollars because I’d run to the store every single day to get ingredients. I’d also spend more money on coffee since Starbucks is in the grocery store. Catch my drift? However, this pie was a totally spontaneous creation designed only to give immediate gratification….since I woke up thinking about it and all.

I mean, who doesn’t like a chewy chocolate chip cookie the size of their head? And the extra sprinkling of sea salt puts everything right over the edge.

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These brownies are the fudgiest. They are SO fudgy, in fact, that they refused to come out of the pan as perfect little brownie squares.

Who needs perfect little brownie squares anyway?

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I’m perfecting the art of the sugar high.

Whatever you do, don’t eat this fudge with a cafe cubano. I don’t even want to know what would happen if you did. It might get ugly. Actually….try it!! I double dog dare you.

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Saturday was a great day. The perfect weekend day, really.

I went to a yoga class in the morning and in the afternoon, Adam came over to fix one of my kitchen cabinets that had gotten unhinged and to be my official cookie taster. He left, I curled up on the couch to watch Love, Actually (how have I never seen that movie before?!) and then he came back over to pick me up for our weekly date night.

You know what the very best part was though??? Not those mussels, not the fries and not even that amazing garlic aioli that literally melted on my tongue. Nope, the very BEST part was when Adam took one bite of these fudgy cookies and told me they were the best cookies he’s ever tasted in his entire life.

Bold statement.

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Seriously…I don’t do this…

I don’t want to give you the wrong impression. I’m honestly not like this…

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I lied.

I told you the other day that I would only be making one Valentine’s Day dessert this week. Buuuuuut…..I just couldn’t help myself!

I’m a sappy girl, after all.

A sappy girl who loves her chocolate cake and pretty pink buttercream frosting, that is. This chocolate cake roll is full of everything I love in life: extra chocolatey cake, fluffy delicious buttercream, rich chocolate ganache and of course, pink heart sprinkles!

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I’m not sure what you were expecting out of me this week, but this is what will not happen.

I will not be telling sappy love stories.

I will not be posting a recipe with chocolate in it every single day (I figure I do this enough anyway the rest of the year).

I will not be recounting odd tales of ex-boyfriend past.

I will not be telling you of my plans this year (mainly because I have no idea what they are).

However, what I will be doing is sharing with you one kick-butt, perfect Valentine’s Day dessert. A dessert that I wait on pins and needles all year to make and then yelp with joy the second the pink sprinkles come out. A dessert that’s so incredibly easy that anyone can do it and a dessert that is one hundred percent appropriate to even give yourself.

Homemade chocolate truffles.

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Happy Friday!

Now, I’d consider myself a pretty big nutella lover. There was a time in college when my roommate and I would sit and watch Lifetime movies with a jar of nutella between us and a box of graham crackers on my lap. That was fun.

I also have enjoyed more than a few nutella crepes in my day. In my mind, there’s really not much better than a warm crepe filled with oozing nutella and maybe a few banana slices.

But nutella hot chocolate?

How I have lived on this earth for almost twenty six years without trying such a thing? How have I dared to call myself a true nutella lover without trying this simple heavenly creation?

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I’ve made some bad decisions in my life.

Cutting my own bangs in fourth grade? bad decision.

Wearing a baby tee that said groovy past 1998? bad decision.

Hopping into a industrial sized steam kettle after a company Christmas party? very bad decision.

However, I’ve also made some good decisions. And I like to think that my best decision yet has been to bake these triple layer mint s’more brownies.

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Surprise!

What you have before you is rather ridiculous…but at the same time, might just be my new favorite thing. Ever.

These chocolate cake balls came into fruition after I laid awake at night wondering what to do with extra flourless chocolate cake.

You know, the cake that fell on the floor.

Don’t worry, I didn’t use the cake that actually fell on the floor for this little project—I used the cake that was still safely right side up in the pan.

I mean, really…who do you think I am? (Raise your hand if you believe in the ten thirty second rule)

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