Valentine's Day is super stressful. From getting a gift that's personal but not TOO personal (like Spanx because she always complains about her muffin top, for instance) to picking out a bouquet of her favorite flowers, you probably have a lot on your plate.
Well, at least with this recipe you're getting a serving of fruit (though, admittedly, you're probably cancelling out a good portion of the banana's nutrients with large amounts of dark chocolate, butter, and ice cream). Well, diet be damned!
When BabyCakes NYC founder Erin McKenna realized there was not a single bakery out there that catered to people with food allergies and sensitivities, she decided to make her own.
Canadians aren't so "eh" about making good food. In fact, one of the most popular desserts in Canada, called Nanaimo chocolate bars, is also one of the most complex and time consuming treats you can make.
We didn't think it could get any better than cupcakes laden with buttercream icing until we saw these dark chocolate ganache-dipped cupcakes. Dripping in rich, velvety layers of ganache, these cupcakes are then topped with iced on Christmas shapes like trees and snowflakes for a festive flair.
In our opinion, fake flowers are much better than the real things. While we're never going to turn down a handsome lad knocking at our door with a bursting bouquet of peonies in one hand and a box of chocolates in the other, fake flowers - in origami form - last far longer.
Let's face it, gals: Not all of us were born with those covetable beestung Angelina Jolie lips. In fact, most of us have average sized lips or even thin lips.
Give yourself a sexy look with luscious lips in all your pictures using Photoshop. This tutorial shows you how to retouch portraits and give your subject some great looking lips.
Dr. Dre has produced many of the best gangsta-rap beats of all time, and his deep luscious bass beats are perfect for dancing and relaxing at the same time. Watch this video to learn how to create a very Dr. Dre-style beat yourself using Reason 4.
For the greater population of women, luscious, volumnous curls become a reality only with time, patience, and a lot of styling gel and curling with a curling iron.
Learn to create this hot sexy pop Japanese look. Become a Harajiku girl with luscious lips and amazing eyes.
Enjoy hot chocolate during the stifling summer months by putting it on ice. To make iced hot chocolate, you will need:
Miss Jessica Harlow provides a step-by-step tutorial on makeup application to get a perfect smoky eye inspired by rocker Taylor Momsen.
What a lovely present for your sweetheart on Valentine's Day. What better way to show your loved one that you can't get enough of him/her than by making this cute origami kissing fish?
These vanilla cupcakes, topped with luscious amounts of raspberry butter icicing and a few real raspberries, are delectable any time of year. And best of all, they can be made from scratch in your own home.
Golden child (and Goldie child) Kate Hudson really doesn't need any help looking gorgeous and sexy in a surfer girl/bohemian way. So when she does dress up for the red carpet she simply glows.
Shirley Temple curls aren't the only way you can curl your hair. Forget those iron-fisted curls of your childhood and make your hair curly and beautiful the adult way by watching this video.
Eric demonstrates how to make simple chocolate truffles from his home kitchen. The ingredients you need to make these truffles are: chocolate pieces (whichever sweetness you desire) heavy cream, butter, some type of flavoring (a liquor or an extract), and also a topping to roll the truffle in when it is done (powdered sugar, nuts, cocoa powder, etc.). You begin the process by putting your chocolate pieces in a bowl with the butter. Then you heat up the heavy cream to boiling. Pour the boiling...
This hot chocolate mix recipe from chef Jason Hill is a decadent Valentine's Day treat or winter drink. Hot cocoa is a hit for adults and children alike. The ingredients are milk, chocolate chips, vanilla extract, whipped cream, and chocolate shavings. Learn how to prepare this sweet cocoa drink by watching this video beverage-making tutorial.
If you've never baked, assembled, and then decorated a cake before but you would like to learn how to then this is the perfect video for you. Press play to learn how to bake a fluffy chocolate cake and then coat it with chocolate icing and chocolate shavings.
Despite what its name would naturally suggest, the chocolate egg cream drink doesn't actually contain any eggs...or cream. It does, however, contain chocolate (thankfully). The chocolate egg cream is actually a chocolate soda (thank the heavens for such an invention) that's not well known outside of New York, though we're it soon will be.
Chocolate. Everybody loves chocolate. Unless you're allergic. If you want to melt chocolate, then this video tip is the perfect recipe for melting chocolate, straight from Real Simple.
Trust us when we say that no woman out there can resist the temptations of a chocolate dessert. Whether it's white chocolate drizzled on top of strawberries or chocolate lava cake, there's something about chocolate that draws us in time after time.
Volumnized hair with a flat iron? Sounds like situational irony, but with clever maneuvering and a few tweaks here and there creating luscious volume in your hair with a flat iron is possible!
Make a hungry belly pleased with this recipe by chef, Simon Rimmer for creamy fish pie. In this cooking video, Rimmer makes a luscious Halibut pie with additional prawns and mini capers, the pie being topped with a layer of crisp sweet potatoes... Perfect for fall!
Smashbox artist Hank Hoffman shows you how to create this super sultry runway look. It's all about softly smoked matte eyes, luscious skin and a deep, vampy lip that pops.
In this tutorial, we learn how to melt chocolate in the microwave. When melting chocolate in the microwave the key is to not microwave it for a long time to melt it all at once, or it will end up burning. To do this properly, you will first need to cut up the chocolate and then place it into the microwave for 10 seconds. After this, take a spatula and mix it all together. Then, put it back in for another 10 seconds and then stir it again. Continue to do this process until all the chocolate is...
In this tutorial, we learn how to make homemade valentine's hot chocolate stones. First, take 8 oz of a good dark chocolate and chop it up. Place this in a bowl, then add in 1/8 tsp of chipotle peppers. Also add in a pinch of salt, then add in 1/2 c of heavy cream to a skillet and bring to a boil. After it boils, pour it over the chocolate and let it sit for around 3 minutes. Then, give it a stir until it's completely smooth and beautiful. Pour this onto plastic wrap, then roll into a log sha...
Food writer Andreae Callanan shows how easy it is to make chocolate truffles. She says truffles are one of the easiest things to make, they are inexpensive, and there's no cooking involved.
Follow these easy step-by-step instructions to make The Original Nestlé Toll House chocolate chip cookies. This is the original chocolate chip cookie recipe, straight form chocolate chip cookie inventor Ruth Wakefield. This is the recipe from the bag that makes the best CCCs in the world! Ingredients are listed below the video.
How to make hot chocolate from scratch. Stir things up with this decadent hot chocolate recipe. You will need:
This is a dangerous recipe for anyone who's a serious connoisseur of chocolate. Those who love chocolate (chocoholics, if you will) dig just about anything and everything coated with cacao plant treat, but this recipe for chocolate peanut rocks coated with coconut flakes will just about burst your taste buds and get you eating them nonstop.
What’s a more sensual dessert than chocolate-covered strawberries? Learn how to make chocolate covered strawberries for your next date.
The decadent, chewy, fresh-from-the-oven brownie is a classic American dessert. US History Scene states that the first brownies ever made were a result of socialite Bertha Potter Palmer's request of her chef at Chicago's Palmer House Hotel in 1893 "to create a dessert that could be tucked into a box lunch for ladies to eat while attending the Columbian Exposition."
There's nothing quite like a steaming cup of hot chocolate - and maybe some chestnuts roasting and a fireplace burning - to get yourself in the Christmas spirit.
We can't promise you'll get mistaken for Megan Fox after you complete this makeup look, but we can guarantee you'll get more than a few swoony stares when you're walking down the street.
Watch this instructional cooking video to prepare a luscious hors d'oeuvre of baked camembert with pears and cranberries. This cheese appetizer can be served on its own or with bread and crackers. Marie Antoinette would be jealous.
Learn how to make organic whole wheat oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, with healthy expert cookie tips in this free recipe video series on making organic cookies.
Learn from this luscious belly dancer how to do the classic head movement found in belly dance and traditional Indian dance.
Need chocolate now!?! Of course you do! That's why you've googled "5 minute mug cake", right?!
