chocolate

It’s A Hershey’s Giveaway!

December 16, 2012 | 71 Comments

On this fourth day of giveaways we’re getting down and delicious with some chocolate! Chocolate! And more chocolate!

Rich, sweet Hershey’s chocolate, to be exact…

That’s right, the good folks at Hershey’s want to make your holiday baking even better with a prize pack designed for the chocolate lover in all of us. Specifically, the lucky, lucky winner of this giveaway will be receiving the following:

1 canister Hershey’s® Cocoa
1 package of Hershey’s® Baking Melts Chocolates
1 package of Hershey’s® Bits ‘o’ Brickle® Toffee Chips
1 package of Hershey’s® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
1 package of Hershey’s® Kisses® Chocolates
1 Hershey’s® Cookie Headquarter Apron
1 set of recipe cards featuring Hershey’s® holiday recipes

Simply enter your name and email address or login via Facebook below, click on the big ‘+1′ buttons, and follow the instructions listed to enter to win – you can enter up to 20 times! You do not need to have a Facebook account to enter. Apologies, but this prize can only be shipped to addresses located within the continental United States. Questions about this giveaway? Feel free to message me at meagan (at) scarlettabakes (dot) com.

Chocolate lovers unite! And chocolate lovers enter to win! Time to get your chocolate on!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Filed Under: Unbaking Tagged With: chocolate, giveaway, Hershey's, unbaking

Junk Drawer Ice Cream

July 23, 2012 | 26 Comments

I can never remember not having a junk drawer in my life – double negative aside, it’s true. We moved around a few times when I was young, but there was always a junk drawer on the premises. And now that I operate my own premises, I insist on curating my very own junk drawer.

The thing about junk drawers is that they are commonly known to contain, well, junk (duh). But I learned early on that they’re actually a veritable gold mine of available castoffs just waiting for one to claim as their own.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: cajeta, chocolate, egg yolks, heavy whipping cream, ice cream machine, peanut butter, pecan, recipe, salt, sugar, sweet, whole milk

Milk Bar Mondays: Chocolate Chocolate Cookies

July 16, 2012 | 18 Comments

Isn’t baking fun? Yes! Duh.

And when it comes to baking, I actually enjoy the failures just as much as the successes. Most of the time.

Take the Milk Bar cookie, for example.

It would be an understatement to say that the story of Me & The Milk Bar Cookie began as a tale of epic failure. Fire reigning from the sky. Swarms of locusts. Clothing rending. Fetal positioning. (Stay with me – there’s chocolate at the end of this story.)

If you’ve stopped by here on a Monday over the past few months, you know that I have no shortage of love for all things Milk Bar: cakes, pies, curds and creams – there’s really nothing for a sugar addict such as myself not to love.

So cookies were going to be a lock, right? Simple to bake, so easy to consume, cookies, to me, are like dessert redux; they’re everything a sweet tooth could want and so much more.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Abuelita, chocolate, cookie, Mexican chocolate, Milk Bar Mondays, Momofuku Milk Bar, Plugrá butter, recipe, sweet, vanilla

Chipotle Chocolate Chunk Cookies

June 4, 2012 | 22 Comments

If I’m honest, the last few weeks have not been the best for me. Just the stuff of life. With a dash of frustration. A pinch of missed opportunity. And a cup and a half of failure.

No biggie.

But one of the major benefits of growing longer in the tooth is that you learn to self-soothe. Don’t you think?

So when I found myself on the couch at the end of last week, surrounded by no less than 3 empty cartons of Ben & Jerry’s Greek Frozen Yogurt, listening to the dulcet tones of Hanson, and weeping over a particularly emotional commercial for Tillamook cheese, I saw the writing on the wall. It was time to kick the self-soothe machine into high gear.

I hit the gym for some Sweat Therapy. I hit the stores for some Retail Therapy. I hit the business end of my remote control for some Reality Therapy. And, of course, I hit the kitchen for some Calorie Counseling.

You know, the usual recipe for feeling better in no time.

But what’s this?

What to do when all the usual suspects aren’t answering with the warm wash of comfort?

Peanut butter, pizza, impulse shoe shopping and Say Yes To The Dress don’t fail me now!

Filed Under: Cookies Tagged With: butter, chipotle, chocolate, cocoa powder, cookie, ground chile, recipe, semi-sweet chocolate, sugar, sweet

Chocolate-Dipped Agave Bars

April 17, 2012 | 19 Comments

Not a lot of words today. Just a few pictures.

Pictures telling the story of a clumsy batch of Agave Nut Bars that tripped and fell into some melted chocolate.

Really? Be more careful, lil’ Agave Nut Bars! What if you’d fallen into a pot of my mole negro?!? Uh… whatever. More on that later.

Filed Under: Bars & Brownies Tagged With: agave bar, agave nectar, butter, chocolate, light brown sugar, pine nut, pinyon nut, recipe, sweet, vanilla

Momofuku Compost Cookies & A Cookie Swap

December 12, 2011 | 33 Comments

The other day at the library I overheard a tutor teaching a young boy how to identify the ‘main idea’ in an article that he was reading. Young Boy seemed smart. I think he got it.

So if Young Boy was reading SB today he would have no trouble telling you that the main idea of today’s post is cookies.

Baking cookies. Swapping cookies. Eating cookies.

Cookies. Cookies. Cookies. Cookies. Cookies.

Starting with some spectacular Momofuku Compost Cookies.

Since we have so much cookieness to discuss today, I’ll keep the talking to a minimum. But I did want to tell you about this book. Momofuku Milk Bar. I’m obsessed with it.

I just adore the unconventional, science + culinary arts approach that is Momofuku.

So when I signed up for the 1st Annual Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap, I knew that I needed to get my Momofuku on with these Compost Cookies.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: #fbcookieswap, butterscotch, chocolate, Compost Cookies, cookies, graham crust, Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap, instant espresso powder, Momofuku Milk Bar, potato chip, pretzel, recipe, rolled oats, sweet

Chocolate Chile Pumpkin Cookies

October 28, 2011 | 34 Comments

I’ll keep things short today. Because, you know… #itsFriday

#andyouhaveimportantthingstodo

#likebuyingmorecandy

#andstitchingupcostumes

#andIclearlyneedtospendlesstimeonTwitter

#whatever

Seriously, the time suckage around here is epic.

There are tweets to be tweeted, pins to be pinned, statuses to update…

And then there are the jack-0-lanterns that need to be carved, candy that needs to be taste-tested (for safety, of course), and certain doggies that need to sit still for their final costume fittings.

What can I say? #IcantwaitforHalloween