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What are you favorite baking recipes?

Baking is one of my favorite things to do:) but I swear right now I can't think of my favorites!lol I do make a chocolate pie froms scratch (not the crust...crust and I are not friends!lol) that seems to be really popular! I guess my Pumpkin Chocolate Cheese Cake is another really good one...I'll have to post recipes and pics soon!

Shell!! You MUST post this Pumpkin Chocolate Cheesecake!!! haha. I'll post a recipe for dark chocolate raspberry brownies once I find it in my mess of papers! haha

Ooh, yes! Pumpkin choc cheesecake sounds yummy! Definitely post the recipe. I'll make the boyfriend make it! LOL

Okay ladies, here is my favorite cousin's (she's a memeber of GoodReads so she might see this!lol) Pumpkin Chocolate Cheesecake recipe, she made this one time when I was visiting and I fell in love! Now I make it all the time♥♥♥

Pumpkin Chocolate Cheesecake


Crust:
1 ¼ Cup – Graham Cracker Crumbs
2 T – Sugar
¼ Cup – Butter (melted)
1 Cup – Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips

Combine crumbs, sugar, & butter. Press into 10” greased spring form pan. Sprinkle with semi sweet chocolate chips.


Cheesecake:
1 Cup – Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips
3 (8 oz pkg) – Cream Cheese
1 Cup – Sugar
¼ Cup – Brown Sugar
1 1/3 Cup – Pumpkin
4 – Eggs
½ Cup – Evaporated Milk
¼ Cup – Corn Starch
¾ t – Cinnamon
1/8 t - Nutmeg

In a small saucepan, melt chocolate chips on low heat, stirring constantly.

In a large bowl:
Beat Cream Cheese, Sugar, and Brown Sugar.
Add Eggs & Milk. Beat together
Add Corn Starch, Cinnamon, & Nutmeg. Beat together

Take 1 cup of above mixture and combine with chocolate. Drop tablespoons full of chocolate mixture in cheesecake and swirl with a knife.

Bake cake: at 325 degrees for 60 minutes. At the end of the 60 minutes, turn off the oven, leaving the cake inside the oven for an additional 30 minutes with the oven turned off.

Damn, that sounds good; methinks I'll show it to the boyfriend! lol

The key to a good cheese cake is the Spring Form Pan This allow you to "unsnapp the side and it releases...no sticking to the pan!

I can't wait to make this!! :)

Can't wait to hear what you guys think!!!

Double Chocolate Pound Cake

2 tsp instant coffee
½ c boiling water
½ c cocoa powder, unsweetened
3 cups All-purpose flour
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
3 sticks of butter, softened (NOT margarine)
2 cups granulated sugar
½ c brown sugar firmly packed
4 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 c sour cream
1 c mini semisweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 325°F. Grease and flour (or use pan spray with flour) to prepare pan.

In small bowl, dissolve instant coffee in water; stir in cocoa powder and mix well. Set aside to cool.

Stir together flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.

In large bowl, beat butter, granulated sugar, & brown sugar with electric mixer until light and fluffy.

Beat in eggs, one at a time. Add vanilla; mix well.

Combine cocoa mixture and sour cream. Add flour mixture alternately with soure cream mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture; beating after each addition until smooth.

Fold in chocolate chips. Spoon batter into top of tube pan.

Bake 90 minutes or until toothpick is inserted into center and comes out clean. Cool cake in pan on wire rack for 15 minutes.

Turn Cake onto wire rack to cool completely.

White Chocolate Key Lime Pie(This thing is awesome ☻)

1 c whipping cream
1 11oz package white chocolate morsels
1 Tbsp sour cream
1 tsp grated lime zest
1/3 c fresh key lime or lime juice
1 9in graham cracker crust

Combine sour cream and white chocolate morsels in a medium sauce pan over low heat. Heat until morsels melt, stirring constantly to prevent scorching. Remove from heat and add sour cream, lime zest and juice. Stir well and pour into crust. Garnish with lime slices. Cover and chill at least 8 hours.

Ahh! Those sound wonderful! :) Can't wait to try them!

It's that time of year when I start baking a lot more! And I have been seriously craving my Chocolate Chip Banana bread...but I'm thinking I might try one of your recipes Jen☺