Moist Chocolate Cake - The Best!

I really hope I don't get in trouble for this.  :(  But here goes.
Last year, sometime near the end of the year, I had to bring some morning snacks for the staff at our school.  I really really really wanted to bake some yummy and super moist chocolate cake so I went a searching for a recipe online.  All I did was type 'moist chocolate cake' on google.  There were quite a few recipes, as you can imagine, so I did my research and sifted through a few recipes and landed on this one.  The ingredients and the how-to just looked like they would work beautifully.  I baked little moist chocolate cupcakes out of them and they really were the best kind of chocolate cake.  They almost tasted like one of those high-end chocolate cakes that you get from really expensive pastry shops.

I was utterly pleased with them.  But I could not blog about them because I forgot the site.  I know.  This is very very bad.  I took screen shots of the recipe but could not find the original site for me to let you know where I got the recipe from.  Bad. Bad.  But I will keep searching and let you know the original site when I find it.  But in the meantime.  Enjoy them.  They will be certain to brighten up anyone's day.

Peanut butter Cookies

Here are the peanut butter cookies I baked for my colleagues for Christmas.  I'd stopped doing Christmas goodie bags for awhile.  Only because Christmas time always gets so hectic, I eliminated some things to alleviate stress and this was one of them.  But this year I opted to go ahead with the Christmas bags at work, as I was going to be in a new role the following year which meant I will not be working with the same people anymore.  I wanted to show them how much I enjoyed working with them and what better way to do that than with cookies.  Peanut butter cookies.

I have to say, readers, that these cookies taste better than their scrumptious appearance, if you can believe it.  They really are amazing cookies and should definitely be in everyone's baking repertoire.   They freeze very well, too.  Oooh, almost forgot.  I used crunchy peanut butter - which is the best kind of peanut butter.  I also used regular sugar to coat the cookies but the crystalized(?) ones (the bigger sugar) will probably work better - as is shown on Smitten Kitchen's post. 

Here's the Smitten Kitchen link to the recipe.  She got it from the Magnolia Bakery book.    :)
By the way.  How was your Christmas and New Year's?