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All chocolate, all the time
Once Upon a Chocolate Life is all about working with chocolate. Think the best hot chocolate, fudgy brownies, deep, dark chocolate cakes, and the chewiest chocolate cookies. With over 300 chocolate-infused recipes, you’re sure to find something special to try!
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Chocolate Cookie Recipes
The Cozy Kitchen Chocolate Chip Cookies
Buttery and chewy with a crisp bite on the edges and ooey, gooey centers, these are hands-down the best chocolate chip cookies! The original recipe comes from The Cozy Kitchen and is sure to stand the test of time. It’s the best!
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Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate
Start your day off right with a big, steaming mug of peanut butter hot chocolate topped with whipped cream and drizzled with peanut butter.
Hot Chocolate Recipes
Dark Chocolate Atole
This post may contain affiliate links. As the weather get warmer a cup of hot chocolate in the morning or before bed is one of my favorite beverages. This chocolate atole is a wonderful addition to your drinking chocolate repertoire because it “kicks it up a notch” with a little spice and a little rum….
Chocolate Cupcake & Cake Recipes
Chocolate Mummy Cake For Your Halloween Celebrations
This post may contain affiliate links. White plates, Cheesecloth, Black and White String I am not a huge fan of Halloween, because I hate creepy and scary things: movies, decorations and even food. I did however make an exception for this mummy cake. It is so easy, it’s a chocolate cake, buttercream frosting, a flat pastry tip, 1 Oreo…
Chocolate Brownie Recipes
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Brownies with Peanut Butter Glaze
These over-the-top Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Brownies are moist and fudgy, then drizzled with melted peanut butter and chocolate. If you like peanut butter and chocolate together, you will love these!
Quick Bread & Muffin Recipes
Double Chunk Chocolate Muffins
If you love chocolate, I have the perfect recipe for you to make this weekend for breakfast. These double chunk chocolate muffins are so easy, chocolaty and delicious you are going to want to make a batch or two to eat or to share.
Chocolate Ice Cream Recipes
No Churn Chocolate Bourbon Brownie Fudge Swirl Ice Cream
Cold and creamy with chewy bites of brownie in every bite, this no churn chocolate brownie bourbon fudge ice cream is decadent and over-the-top in all the right ways. Best of all, it’s made in the stand mixer so you don’t even need an ice cream machine!
Icing, Sauces, & Frosting
Bailey’s Hot Fudge Sauce for the Perfect Sundae
This post may contain affiliate links. Summer is all about ice cream and cool treats. They are the perfect things to make if you do not want to turn on the oven. When I was a child my favorite thing ever was hot fudge, I would eat it from the jar by the spoonful with…
Puddings & Custards
Bailey’s Irish Cream Chocolate Rice Pudding
Rich, creamy, and infused with a boozy hit of Bailey’s liqueur, this easy Irish Cream Chocolate Rice Pudding is the most decadent dessert of all time. Best of all, it comes together quickly with leftover rice and a few pantry staples!
Cereal Treats & Rice Krispies
Chocolate Peanut Butter Marshmallow Treats
This post may contain affiliate links. The weather is getting warm here and although I love to bake sometimes I just don’t want to turn on the oven. Inevitably I make cereal treats, they are easy, versatile and delicious. This recipe is a combination of Scotcheroos and Rice Krispie treats and they are delicious. The…
Other Chocolate Treats
Bailey’s Irish Cream Chocolate Rice Pudding
Rich, creamy, and infused with a boozy hit of Bailey’s liqueur, this easy Irish Cream Chocolate Rice Pudding is the most decadent dessert of all time. Best of all, it comes together quickly with leftover rice and a few pantry staples!
