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Mocha Ricotta Pie with Strawberries

May 1, 2015 By Becky 14 Comments

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Mocha Ricotta Pie with Strawberries (Gluten free, Grain free) | acalculatedwhisk.com
 
This mocha ricotta pie is one of my absolute favorite desserts. It’s in my top three of all time, right up there with almond butter thumbprints and salted caramel brownies.
 
What makes it so fabulous is the trifecta of a lightly sweetened, crunchy shortbread crust, a rich and creamy ricotta filling with chocolate, coffee, and a hint of lemon (yes, lemon!), and a topping of juicy strawberries. It reminds me of the amazing Southern-style chocolate pie I always used to eat at the now-defunct Marimont Cafeteria in Austin, Texas, but with a mature Italian twist and bright berries to lighten things up.
 
Mocha Ricotta Pie with Strawberries (Gluten free, Grain free) | acalculatedwhisk.com
 
Really good dark chocolate and high quality, full-fat ricotta are important for this pie. (Good coffee won’t hurt either, but I love my Café Bustelo.) I was so excited about having a tub of Narragansett Creamery ricotta in my fridge that I proceeded to completely forget I’d bought it to make zucchini lasagna, and dumped all of it into the filling for this pie.
 
 

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Chocolate for Breakfast: Ghirardelli Intense Dark 72%

April 7, 2014 By Becky 8 Comments

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and also my favorite.  Today I’m sharing how to make Ghirardelli Intense Dark 72% chocolate part of a complete breakfast.  Don’t tell me chocolate for breakfast is strange–I promise that if you love chocolate at night, you’ll love it even more in the morning.

Do you remember those cereal ads that used to run in the nineties during kids’ shows–the ones that always said the cereal being advertised was “part of this complete breakfast?”  I never considered cereal a meal, even as a kid, and I always wondered: what ELSE is part of this complete breakfast?

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