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22 recipes // tiramisu brownies

Tiramisu brownies by Roxana’s Home Baking  

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I was looking for a recipe for a friend’s birthday cake and came across these tiramisu brownies that I had pinned on Pinterest. Turns out that these made an interesting combination.

My taste-testers didn’t think this resembled a true tiramisu. But aside from the name, the mix of mascapone cheese and coffee made this pretty good.

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My brownies didn’t swirl and marble as prettily as I would’ve liked. But anyhow, I think this kinda makes a fancy, grown-up cake, and a good after-dinner dessert. Yum.

9 down, 13 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 | 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.

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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.

Adelia Makes no. 007 // sugar donut muffins

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Sugar donut muffins by Stylish Cuisine

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I was planning to make these myself but I ended up being too busy the day I wanted to. So my awesome little sister tried them out instead. These muffins are pretty + simple + yummy all at the same time. I love how the sugar makes them glisten – too good.

I’d definitely love to try making these myself sometime!

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Adelia Makes is a blog series featuring my very own little sister and all the fun things she makes. Read more about Adelia Makes here.

Adelia Makes no. 003 // chocolate souffle

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Chocolate Soufflé

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Something about a soufflé makes it tricky to master that it sometimes even catches some of the most experienced chefs by surprise. But as always, my little sister loves a good challenge. So she googled a soufflé recipe and decided to try this one. In her words, it was a little too simple to capture the full depth of the soufflé.

Not to be outdone by a soufflé, she went back and found another recipe, and decided to try this recipe by Gordon Ramsay instead. With quite a few more steps than the first recipe, this soufflé turned out pretty good. Alas, I don’t think we remembered to get a picture of it because we were too busy savoring all the goodness that is chocolate soufflé (:

I think with many things, practice makes perfect. So I’m pretty sure we’ll be trying this out again to make the perfect chocolate soufflé!

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Adelia Makes is a blog series featuring my very own little sister and all the fun things she makes. Read more about Adelia Makes here.

21 recipes // salted fudge brownies

Slowly, but surely, I’m catching up on all these overdue posts.

I made these salted fudge brownies at the end of February. I am no bake-expert, but I am quite convinced that the secret to a good fudgy moist brownie is melting the chocolate and mixing it in the batter. Seriously good.

I may have been a little too stingy with the sea salt, but these remind me of another fudgy brownie recipe that I constantly go back to.

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Forgive me that mine don’t quite look like the original post but we were in a hurry to start eating so this will have to suffice. And we had ours with roasted almond ice-cream – a really yummy way to end dinner.

You can follow the link and drool over these delicious brownies (:

11 down, 10 to go.