Salted Mudslide Cookies

Another recipe for cookies, guys...prepare yourselves!

I have really latched onto this whole sea salt with desserts craze. There is something so lovely about salty and sweet together. What makes this little treat so good is that it also has a little Kahlua kick and coffee in it. All of the different elements work together so well..you have the sweet liqueur and a little bitterness from the coffee plus the salty of the sea salt. YUM! It has everything a cookie needs! I absolutely adore that it has chocolate chunks because you get the ooey gooey sweetness in each bite. It's really just perfection. Y'all have to make them ASAP!

Secret Recipe Club: Kahlua Brownies

It's time once again for a Secret Recipe Club reveal! For those interested, the Secret Recipe Club is a group of food bloggers who are secretly assigned another blog to pick, make, and post a recipe on reveal day. This reveal marks my 2 year anniversary with the club - I've never missed a month (other than the months where the group takes off for the holidays) and I've had so much fun. I look forward to the surprise of someone making something from my blog - and making a recipe from someone else's :)

This month I was assigned to Shari's blog, My Judy the Foodie. Shari's blog chronicles learning how to cook through recipes of her late mother, Judy. I love the whole story of Judy and urge you to go read it. When I visited Shari's blog, the Kahlua Brownies were the very first recipe I saw and that was all the convincing I needed.

I made a Kahlua dessert for SRC a few months ago - and it was divine! I still had Kahlua leftover since I had only used it for that dessert (that I made twice), so Shari's mom's brownies seemed like the right decision. These brownies are delightfully fudgy which isn't something I typically get with brownies. Normally, I am more on the cakey side of brownies. I made a pan just for me, cut them, and froze them. It's been a few weeks and I take out one when I get a hankering for chocolate. They are just utterly perfect.

What do you all prefer: fudgy or cakey?

Secret Recipe Club: Kahlua Cake

This month was a month that I had been looking forward to a while - taking on the mom/daughter duo, K&K Test Kitchen. First off, the blog itself is just the cutest. It's probably my favorite design ever. Secondly, there are so many recipes that I was trying to choose from because everything looks incredible. I narrowed it down to six: Double Chocolate Kale Muffins, Peanut Butter Granola, Huevos Rancheros, Buttermilk Biscuits, Kahlua Cake, and Seven Layer Dip.

As you can see, I went with the Kahlua Cake. When I chose it, it wasn't necessarily the one I personally wanted to try the most - I had a cake auction coming up that I had volunteered to make a cake for. I thought that this would be the most appealing cake, without a doubt. I made a trial cake for myself, after reading Kim's post about how this cake freezes well. I loved it. Let's just say that it never got put in the freezer...it did not survive. Thank you, Kelsey & Kim, for this amazing recipe :) I can't wait to try the others!