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Chocolate Peppermint Cookies

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With crushed candy canes both inside and out, these rich, decadent Chocolate Peppermint Cookies add festive color and flavor to the holiday season!  With crushed candy canes both inside and out, these rich, decadent Chocolate Peppermint Cookies add festive color and flavor to the holiday season!  Awhile back, my daughter found a video detailing the process for making candy canes. Oh, wow! As I watched it with her, I fell more in love with these cool, minty holiday confections. …

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Grasshopper Tart

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A simple-to-prepare chocolate shortbread crust provides the perfect backdrop for the cool, minty filling of this grasshopper tart. The tart’s pale green filling makes it an ideal dessert for St. Patrick’s Day.  It shouldn’t surprise me that my daughters love grasshopper pie….

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Grasshopper Cupcakes

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Inspired by the after dinner drink, these rich chocolate cupcakes topped with minty frosting come together as decadent and delicious Grasshopper Cupcakes. Grasshopper Cupcakes | Flour Arrangements A few weeks ago, my husband ordered a Grasshopper after we’d finished up our meal at The Boxing Room in San Francisco. I’d never actually tried this after dinner drink that inspired Grasshopper Pie, one of my favorite childhood desserts, so I couldn’t help taking a few sips to see how I felt about it….

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Mint Chocolate Brownies

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Deep, dark chocolate and refreshing minty goodness come together in these dense and rich Mint Chocolate Brownies. Mint Chocolate Brownies | Flour Arrangements Eliza fell in love with some ultra precious rainbow heart sugar cookies this week and decided she needed to make them. It’s totally my fault….

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Smashing | Peppermint Chocolate Cake

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Deep and rich, this Peppermint Chocolate Cake gets a cool, refreshing burst from both peppermint extract and schnapps. Topped with peppermint ganache and crushed candy canes, it’s a breathtaking holiday dessert.

Peppermint Chocolate Cake | Flour Arrangements

Much to my kids’ dismay, I rarely frequent the candy aisle at the grocery store.  I bake too much cake and pie to want to mess around with candy most of the time, but I needed some candy canes to crush as topping for this Chocolate Peppermint Cake the other day….

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Minty Fresh | Peppermint Patty Tart

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This simple-to-prepare peppermint patty tart — with its delicious, minty filling and a thick layer of chocolate ganache — will take your breath away. 

Peppermint Patty Tart | Flour Arrangements

My kids always jump at the chance to go to the hardware store with my husband.  Sure, they love his company, but mostly they go because he buys them York Peppermint Patties at the check stand….

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Minted | Grasshopper Tartlets

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Pale green minty deliciousness billows up from inside little chocolate cookie crusts. These cupcake-sized grasshopper tartlets make perfect finger food. Grasshopper Tartlets We didn’t eat much junk food at my house growing up, but we did indulge in dessert most nights after dinner.  Often, we finished our meal with a simple bowl of ice cream, but sometimes my my mom — a master of sweet, indulgent treats — served us something much more exciting….

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