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22 recipes | ferrero rocher nutella cupcakes

Ferrero Rocher Nutella Cupcakes by Lick the Bowl Good

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I don’t know if these technically count as cupcakes, because they don’t have the traditional buttercream/cream cheese frosting. Either way, cupcakes and I have a love-hate relationship. Sometimes they turn out beautifully; other times, they stress me out to no end. But I love that these cupcakes turned out wonderfully with no stress at all. The chocolate cupcakes came together easily and the “frosting” was so easy to put together.

Plus, the thought of Nutella AND Ferrero Rocher together for this Nutella-loving girl was too good to pass up.

Interestingly, the chocolate cupcake recipe for this uses chocolate syrup instead of cocoa powder as most other chocolate recipes do. However,  this cupcake base didn’t impress me – it was a little dry and wasn’t one of the better chocolate cake recipes that I’ve tried. But the combination of Nutella and Ferrero Rocher more than made up for the lack of flavor that the chocolate base was.

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How do you resist such layered goodness of chocolate cake, Nutella and Ferrero Rocher?

We ate a couple, and I stored the leftover cupcakes in the fridge. I suppose there’s no reason not to store them outside. But I decided against that in the end, because of how humid things get around here, and because I wanted to ensure that the Ferrero Rocher remained crisp. So the refrigerator it was. Or you could always store them in an airtight container. Problem solved.

2 down, 20 to go.

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The 22 recipes are part of my 22 list, a list of 22 things I’m working to accomplish while I’m twenty-two. Check out my other 22 recipes here.

22 recipes | snickerdoodle blondies

Snickerdoodle Blondies by My Own Sweet Thyme

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I think it seems like snickerdoodles have a very special place in my heart. The reason? They were one of the first cookies I remember learning how to bake. I had a Betty Crocker Cookie Recipe book and snickerdoodles were one of the things I kept making whenever I needed cookies. (Chocolate chip cookies are the exception to this, but let’s just focus on snickerdoodles for now, shall we?)

But I stopped making them after awhile, for some reason, and just never quite got to them again.

Then I came across this recipe for Snickerdoodle Blondies and they combined all the goodness of snickerdoodles into one easy bar! My friend and I made this for our baking date and I think they turned out pretty well – these blondies are soft and crumbly, pretty much all you could ever want in a snickerdoodle (: Plus, it came together in about fifteen minutes, which is definitely bonus brownie blondie points. No pun intended, ha.

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Fast and tasty recipes are always right up my alley.

1 down, 21 to go.

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The 22 recipes are part of my 22 list, a list of 22 things I’m working to accomplish while I’m twenty-two. Check out my other 22 recipes here.