Chocolate Mousse

When my sister called me yesterday with a “mousse emergency”, my mind immediately jumped, like every Vermonter upon hearing those words, to her having hit a “moose” with her car.  A scarily, common occurrence around here that can have dire, and sometimes even deadly, consequences.  Once she calmed me down, she specified that it was,…

Night Owls

An owl shaped cookie with coffee liqueur and expresso favored dough and a bittersweet chocolate glaze.  A little something that keeps you going at all hours. Ingredients: 1 cup Butter (room temp) + 2 tbsp Butter 1 cup Sugar 1/4 cup Coffee Liqueur 1 Egg 3 cups Flour 2 tbsp ground Expresso 1 1/2 tsp…

Almond Joy Iced Coffee

There is a wonderful coffee/donut shop along Massachusetts’ southern shore that serves up New England style iced coffees inspired by classic American candy bars.  Four hours, usually more due to Boston traffic, is a long ways to drive in order to get an iced coffee, no matter how good it is, so I have taken…

Tahini Chocolate Iced Coffee

I saw a recipe for an Iced Tahini Mocha, and decided to create my own version of it.  I find iced expresso to be nothing short of coffee sacrilege – you may as well drink water with brown food coloring in it – gone is the bold coffee flavor and in its place is a…