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Happy Memorial Day, everyone! Now that we’ve reached the official kickoff of camping season, it’s time to whip out the s’mores! If there’s one treat I could never go without during the summer, it would definitely have to be s’mores. Not only is it one of the easiest treats to throw together, but there’s definitely an element of nostalgia every time I bite into one of those ooey gooey, crispy crunchy stacks of heaven. So this week, I thought it would be the perfect time to share a recipe dedicated to one of the greatest summer treats of all time…...

This post is sponsored by King Arthur Baking Company. Thank you for supporting the brands that support What The Fork Food Blog. All opinions are my own ♥ Blackout Cake, also known as Brooklyn Blackout Cake, is a moist chocolate cake with a chocolate pudding filling, frosted with chocolate icing, and garnished with chocolate cake crumbs. The original Brooklyn Blackout cake is from Ebinger’s Baking Company in Brooklyn, New York. Unfortunately, it isn’t a cake you can buy because the bakery closed in 1972. The cake wasn’t named after the chocolate but after the blackout drills that took place in...

Around Christmas time I love baking cookies which bring me back to my childhood. One of my mum’s classics was a chocolate-cinnamon crinkle cookie, rolled in granulated sugar to give them a chewy crust and sparkly appearance. They’re almost like a chocolatey cousin of a ginger cookie in that sense, and the hint of cinnamon in there gives them that warm spiced flavour. I’ve used the recipe for that base dough here but made things extra special by cooking up a soft caramel infused with ground coffee beans (from Pact Coffee) which I stuffed into each cookie dough ball before...