
Cheesecake Brownies with Raspberry Marble
Although I routinely get the ‘brownie-shakes’, it’s not often that I crave cheesecake. But last week, the urge hit and I couldn’t ignore it: I just had to make something with cheesecake in it. Since I had decided that bars would be more practical if I wanted to share these with my colleagues at work, it was just a matter of choosing the type of base I wanted.
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O Canada! Our home and native land… (NOT sung to the tune of ‘O Christmas Tree’, as so many of you delight in doing. /evil glare.)
Happy Canada Day! Well, yesterday was Canada Day (July 1) but I still hope you had a merry one! It was also my dear borther’s birthday (he gets to celebrate with everyone in the country!). Last year, for his 21st, we threw him a big party and instead of a cake, I made cupcakes, each with a chocolate flower on top. I remember for at least a week beforehand I was at it each night, molding the chocolate plastic into pansies, lilies, and roses… until our freezer began to resemble a bizarre stash of the decapitated heads of flowers.
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