Hot Chocolate Cake

This super fudgy hot chocolate cake so moist and incredibly fluffy! Think of it as having a warm cup of cocoa in cake form. The cake is soaked in a hot chocolate made with evaporated milk and chocolate Cortés, a Puerto Rican style chocolate bar. I served it with a light whipped cream and poured more hot chocolate on the bottom. Every bite was pure chocolate Heaven!

There’s something pretty magical about drinking hot chocolate. If you drink coffee, or even tea, then you need to have a sip of that in your daily routine. But you don’t need to have hot chocolate. That’s a drink for pure pleasure. You do it just for you. Because there’s nothing like grabbing…

cake recipesDev AmadeoApril 16, 2024chocolate, hot chocolate, whipped cream, buttermilk, puerto ricoComment

Brownie Crinckle Cookies with Coffee and Cinnamon

If you are looking for a highly addictive chocolate cookie (who doesn’t), you landed in the right place! These fudgy and chewy brownie crinkle cookies are super soft and chewy with a glossy crackly topping and a lightly crisp bottom. This is a super easy recipe made in less than 30 minutes and with only 5 ingredients. Add some flaky salt on top for an added layer of contrast and texture. They are the perfect everyday chocolate cookie and a number 1 on my list!

Brownie crinkle cookies are basically cookies made with brownie batter instead of a more traditional cookies dough, which tends to be thick and pasty. Here you will work with a wet batter and…

Classic Moist Chocolate Cake with Ganache Frosting

This classic moist and rich chocolate cake recipe is the only one you’ll need for a basic chocolate cake in your recipe book. This cake is decadent but still feels light and not overly sweet. The simplicity of it is what makes it extra! Each bite will awaken your senses to a delightful trip of pure bliss! It’s unfussy but still looks beautiful. You can approach it with easiness and no stress at all, which is the key for a perfect chocolate cake!

To this day, chocolate has to be one of the foods we are more passionate about. Just thinking about it makes you feel lush and opulent and yet is a comforting taste that you crave when feeling blue. It’s everything all at once. Like what we are at the essence of our soul. And that essence should be celebrated…

Sugared Cranberries

Are you as excited for Christmas as I am? I can’t tell you how much we have been waiting for this time of the year. It’s always an uplifting time for the soul!

In the rush of the season, when I want to bake basically everything and share it with the people I love, sugared cranberries are always around. They are so full of sweetness and make the perfect thinking-of-you gift. Also, they will make any baked good look as if it came out of a Christmas tree instead of an oven.

What I love about sugared cranberries, besides that deep burgundy reddish color, is that they are…

Sugar Cookie Wreath

If you are looking for an adorable Christmas baking project but feel intimidated just by the thought of having to pour a glaze, this Sugar Cookie Christmas Wreath is the perfect one for you! Soft, chewy and simply the most delicious sugar cookies are arranged to form this wreath. The arrangement is what gives this wreath its beautiful poinsettia shape. No complicated decoration techniques or special tools required. It’s the cutest thing!!

You know I love the idea of creating beautiful things with less. That’s why I always found myself on a mission to create the prettiest things even when I have zero decorating skills. My goal is to create a a delightful experience for anyone, regardless of their decorating skills (me!!!!). Because no decorating skills shouldn’t mean no beautiful bakes!

This festive sugar cookie wreath is the perfect creation to embrace just that. The cookies are made with a very simple…

sweet eats, decadent desserts recipes, basic recipesDev AmadeoNovember 14, 2023chocolate, make ahead desserts, christmasComment

S'mores Puff Pastry Tart

What can be more amazing than s’mores wrapped in a buttery and flaky puff pastry? You’ll love this s’mores puff pastry when you need a snack or, let's face it, during those mornings when you are craving chocolate for breakfast. Each bite is crunchy and delicious! You only need 5 ingredients and 30 minutes to put this together. Start now and thank me 30 minutes later!

I’m not a big fan of s’mores but someone around here loves them. What I love is creating s’mores versions of other beloved recipes, like I did with…

sweet eats, tarts and pies recipesDev AmadeoAugust 9, 2023puff pastry, chocolate, smores, sweet breakfastComment

Super Creamy Espresso Cheesecake

You won’t find a creamier and silkier espresso cheesecake. The coffee taste is very present in each and every bite, without being bitter. The filling is ultra decadent but still airy, thanks to a trick I talk about below. And I made the chocolate crust with Dutch processed cocoa powder for a more intense chocolate flavor. I’m telling you, this is the cheesecake you must have when you have your next cheesecake craving!! It’s so good and so special to me!

A few Christmases ago we bought my hubby an espresso machine. The big one with lots of shiny buttons that I wasn’t allow to touch during the early days. My husband has always bonded with our daughter over coffee because…

sweet eats, cheesecake recipesDev AmadeoApril 28, 2023chocolate, coffee, meringue, cream cheese, christmas, make ahead desserts, thanksgivingComment

Nutella Heart Shaped Puff Pastry

What else can be easier than a Nutella Heart Shaped Puff Pastry for Valentine’s?! This 3 ingredients Valentine's breakfast can be made by anyone in no time. Add fresh raspberries for a sweet romantic touch and you my friend will have created a true love masterpiece!!

I’m so happy to be posting here after being away the last few months while working on The Cooking Course! But now that the course it’s officially done and out in the world I was impatient to return to my regular postings. I had an amazing experience creating the course and am having a blast with the current participants. So many details and so much work is behind it. Enough to make you see the calendar one day and realize…

breakfast recipes, what mom really wants, tarts and pies recipesDev AmadeoFebruary 5, 2023nutella, valentines day, chocolate, BreakfastComment

Classic Easy Tiramisu with Brownie Crust

I made this classic tiramisu with a brownie crust and it has to be one of the best things I have made lately! What’s not to love about this combo of coffee and chocolate?! To bring more flavor to the tiramisu, I sweetened the espresso with some of the sugar and infused the mascarpone cream with some of that espresso. The brownie crust, besides adding an amazing chocolate note, adds an incredible contrasting texture to the soft and creamy tiramisu. This tiramisu is a wonderful dessert that no one will have enough!

White Chocolate and Macadamia Brookies

You are going to love these brookie bars. Brownies and cookies combined!! What’s not to love about that?! They’re super gooey and decadent and I promise you won’t be able to eat just one! The brownie layer has mini chocolate chips for a fudgy texture and the cookie layer is full of white chocolate chips and roasted macadamia nuts, so not only we are combining brownies and cookies together, we are combining dark chocolate and white chocolate as well. It’s the best of so many worlds!!

What are brookies in the first place? Brookies are a mix of brownie batter and cookie dough baked together. There are recipes that layer both batters up, as I did here, and there are…

bars and cookies recipes, sweet eatsDev AmadeoMay 25, 2022chocolate, white chocolate, brownies, cookies, summer, brown sugar, nutsComment

Nutella Chocolate Blossom Cookies

These chewy and chocolaty strawberry Nutella blossoms are incredibly cute and impossible to resist. They’re soft and pillowy with a sugary chewy bite. Completely made with basic pantry ingredients, because I truly hope that by now everyone considers Nutella a very basic pantry item! Dough is made in no time and you can bake the whole batch at once or just bake the ones you are planning on eating. These are the perfect everyday cookie in my book!

You know I’m not a big fan of sugary and artificially colored anything. But these strawberry kisses made their way into my sight and definitely caught my attention. Between confusion, curiosity and grossing out, I was in the drug store aisle…

Lavender Flourless Chocolate Cake, with lavender infused whipped cream

You are going to fall in love with this light and airy, yet fudgy, rich and decadent flourless chocolate cake infused with lavender as much as I did. It only takes 6 ingredients and a bit more than an hour to prep and bake this amazing cake. The contrast of textures is what makes it so interesting; rich and decadent on the inside with a thin and crispy shell on the top. And it’s naturally gluten-free. The addition of lavender makes this cake perfect for any spring or summer gathering. And I promise the flavor is floral and mellow and perfectly balanced. Everything about this cake is sensational!

One of the things I love most about this cake is how unpretentious it is, and still it causes a commotion when it’s out of the oven and, most importantly, when someone takes a bite of it. It’s kind of unreal…