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Remember when I said I wasn't going to bake any more chocolate and peanut butter, and I was going to start baking for Spring? Well--call me Miley Cyrus, but I can't stop. I won't stop. Around here, we love chocolate like David Hasslehoff loves a good cheeseburger.
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Am I slightly disappointed that I've baked my way through a 3lb bag of miniature Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, and now I don't have a valid reason to bake, eat and share more peanut buttery chocolateness?
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| Photo by Katie Kay |
The path that led me to these Blondies was a beautiful, complicated, calorie-laden adventure that began and ended with a giant 2 1/2 pound bag of Miniature Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and had a whole lot of awesomeness in-between.
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Some of my favorite Italian dishes are some of the most simplistic ones with very few ingredients. I love this sauce made of good quality canned tomatoes, garlic, and basil. The first time I made it I served it with my own homemade pasta and it was restaurant-worthy. Truly fabulous. I bought bagged linguine noodles this time, and they looked like they might taste fresher than pasta in a box. They were still excellent, even if they weren't homemade.
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Take note, this is an overnight French Toast recipe, so don't look at the pretty pictures without reading the recipe, then wake up at 8am in the morning with big promises to little kids, thinking you can whip up some of this sticky sweet goodness! You'll be about 8 hours short.
I don't like cooking in the kitchen once I've already entered my evening relaxation time. Once dinner is done and the kitchen is clean with lights off, I want to leave it that way. But thankfully this recipe prepares quickly, and from start to fridge it only took me about 20 minutes with minimal mess. It was an easy recipe to make, especially the caramel. I hadn't heard of a caramel recipe that calls for dumping everything in a pan and cooking it all at once, but it turned out dark, thick, and perfectly sweet.
