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Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

Did you know that I am a huge cookie monster and that my favorite cookie is the traditional chocolate chip cookie? I tried 20 recipes before I settled on this recipe. When I started my blog in 2017, I believed I would only publish  cookie recipes. Cookies usuallly require few utentils, are whipped up in a jiffy and need little time in the oven. They are so flavorful and the perfect comfort food. I seriously didn’t think there was anything better. But alas, apparently all these blondies and bars are often based on cookie dough. Who would have thought? So essentially below recipe is my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe, but instead of chilling the dough and forming each cookies, it is all going right into the pan and baked immediately. Essentially, you will be able to bite into one of these chocolate chip cookie bars in half an hour, beginning to end. Are you in?

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Fudgy Brownies

I don’t know about you, but I feel like I need a lot of comfort food and soul food. Hence I felt like making brownies. I feel brownies taste great any time of the year. The best thing is, they are rather easy to make and don’t take too long. The below recipe is made with melted chocolate and cocoa powder. This makes them extra fudy. I usually reduce the amount of sugar in the recipe as I feel that the sugar can easily overpower the chocolate flavor. Below version contains chopped walnuts and coarse sea salt, but you can omit these two ingredients.

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The Ultimate Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Mousse and Ganache

Die ultimative Schokotorte mit Schokomousse und Schokoganache

Today you will get the ultimate chocolate cake with creamy chocolate mousse filling and chocolate ganache! If this is not something for dark days in November, I don’t know what is. I believe there is a reason why the most loved, baked, and clicked recipe on my site are these brownie cookies. I originally posted that recipe in November while living in Hamburg, which is known to be dark in winter. So here we come again with yet another chocolate recipe to cheer you up. As a chocoholic I have a full category dedicated to chocolate of course, feel free to check it out.

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