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OK, baking fans, we have a real project for you if you're up for the challenge. Set aside your basic banana bread, because it's time to move on to a recipe for the patient pros. Yes, patient, because this recipe for chocolate babka will take several hours to complete. Once you've made it, though, all the hard work will be worth it. Traditional babka, which is a sweet bread-like cake, has Jewish and Eastern European origins. It's most commonly made with a cinnamon sugar swirl, but chocolate has become a more prominent flavor in recent years. The babka really isn't...

Imagine: a bite that’s perfectly chocolaty, crunchy on the top and moist on the inside. Yes, these chocolate banana muffins are calling you! They’re the perfect texture, not too rich and just sweet enough. This recipe happened by chance when I was searching for a banana bread recipe using two bananas. We turned our Chocolate Banana Bread into muffins and topped it with crunchy turbinado sugar. Now, these muffins have become one of our favorite banana recipes…ever. Made with just 2 bananas! Ever had only 2 solitary bananas with peels blackening on your counter? The other day, I had this...

I hope you enjoy it! Grandmama’s Chocolate Pound Cake with Fudge Glaze I have received a lot of requests for recipes in the past, but this is the one cake that I am asked to make most often. Its just a good old fashioned chocolate pound cake recipe from my Grandmama that is sublime on its own, but when you add Grandmama’s fudge icing, it becomes a favorite to all. The icing used on this cake is what the old folks refer to as a “boiled icing”. This means they make it in a pot on top of the oven...