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Chocolate Cookie Recipe

Chocolate Cookies

Some cookies so good you want to eat them all yourself. And then there are some cookies sooooo good you just can’t help but share.

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  • 1 H
  • 11
Cosmopolitan Shot Recipe

Cosmo Shot

When you want just a taste of seduction and intrigue, rather than the full hangover, try this little number.

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  • 5 M
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  • 2
Hershey Chocolate Cake Recipe

Hershey's Chocolate Cake

Forever? Completely? Sounds like words used only in conjunction with things that inspire lasting love. Like this cake.

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  • 55 M
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Chocolate Pots De Creme

Chocolate Pots de Crème

This is like a choose-your-own-ending recipe, with varying outcomes depending on the chocolate—bittersweet for truffle-like or semi-sweet for pudding-esque.

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  • 25 M
  • 7 H
  • 17
Valentine's Sugar Cookies

Valentine’s Sugar Cookies

Sure, you could say it with flowers. Although if novelty is what you’re after, a bouquet isn’t exactly the answer. These sweet little somethings, on the other hand….

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Chocolate Macaroon Pies

Chocolate-Coconut Macaroon Pies

These little cups of toasted coconut, full of creamy dark chocolate, are like chocolate-dipped macaroons in reverse: lots of chocolate and a little coconut.

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Linzer Heart Cookies

Linzer Heart Cookies

A batch of hazelnut-inflected, raspberry-jamwiched linzers is nothing if not a testament to your heart most definitely being in the right place.

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  • 30 M
  • 3 H
  • 5
Roast Chicken Recipe

Roast Chicken for Two, um, Four

This sassy roast chicken gets its moist meat and ultra-crisp skin from the two-step process of searing it in a skillet then sliding the whole thing in the oven. Simplicity.

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Open Mushroom Lasagna

Open Lasagna of Mushrooms, Pine Nuts, and Thyme

Elegance was never achieved with such ease. Simply stack cooked lasagna noodles with sauteed ‘shrooms and smother with a luxurious cream sauce for some everyday extravagance.

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Seared Foie Gras with Grapefruit Reduction

Seared Foie Gras with a Chardonnay-Grapefruit Reduction

A little late-harvest Chardonnay lends balance and elegance to this already luxe foie gras number. Best reserved for when you truly, madly, deeply love your guests.

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  • 45 M
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Gianduia Brownies Recipe

Gianduia Brownies

And, on the seventh day, God created gianduia (zhahn-doo-yah), chocolate to which ground hazelnuts have been added. The world has been a more glorious place ever since.

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Chocolate Torte

Chocolate Torte

This stunning Southern belle and its dozen tiers—yup, count ‘em, 12—is astonishingly easy peasy to make thanks to a savvy cake-baking tactic.

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Red Eye Devil's Food Cake

Red Eye Devil’s Food Cake

This caffeinated incarnation of a classic comprises layers of cocoa-inflected cake and fudgy ganache that take their bittersweet jolt from a cup of joe.

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Sole à La Meunière

Sole à La Meunière

Classic bistro cooking at its best, sole meuniere maintains a balance between nutty brown butter and the lilt of lemon. A simple dish with a complex taste.

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Pound of Chocolate Cake Recipe

Pound of Chocolate Cake

True to its name, this dense, brownie-like cake takes its allure from a full pound of chocolate. A hint of cocoa lends even more chocolatey complexity.

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Sauteed Veal Cutlets Recipe

Sauteed Veal Cutlets | Saltimbocca

A classic Italian recipe. Tender veal is pounded thin, topped with a sliced of cured ham and a sage leaf and sauteed until golden brown.

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French Chocolate Macaroons

French Chocolate Macaroons | Macarons

Simultaneously creamy and crispy and chewy, these flourless French indulgences make us swoon each and every time, without fail.

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  • 4
Oysters with Sweet Pepper Relish Recipe

Oysters with Sweet Pepper Relish

The combination of peppers, both sweet and hot, lemon zest, cilantro, cinnamon, and cumin make these plump oysters something special.

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Cheddar-Chive Gougeres Recipe

Cheddar-Chive Gougères

These wee cheese puffs are made with sharp Cheddar cheese and chives. For a little bit of spice and heat, dry mustard and cayenne pepper are mixed in.

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  • 35 M
  • 1 H, 5 M
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Chocolate Nougat Recipe

Chocolate Nougat

This is a soft chocolate nougat, similar to what’s in some well-known candy bars, except this one has more chocolate flavor. Call it the Fourth Musketeer.

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