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Chocolate Cream Pie

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  This easy chocolate cream pie is smooth, rich, and decadent, for the perfect old-fashioned chocolate cream pie recipe everyone will love. Advertisement I consider myself more of a cook than a baker. Sometimes desserts intimidate me, so if I’m making one, go easy on me, please. This chocolate cream pie recipe is my idea of a classic, easy dessert that’s perfect for non-bakers like myself. This chocolate cream pie can be made with a store-bought frozen crust (pre-cooked and cooled), or you can go the homemade route (pro-tip: I always keep pie dough in my freezer in case the mood strikes) and my no-fail, go-to all-butter pie crust is perfect for this recipe. I recommend using high-quality chocolate and cocoa powder (Dutch) in this recipe, for the best chocolate flavor. The chocolate pudding filling comes together in no time on the stove (you have to allow at least two hours for it to chill and set before eating, but I can assure you it’s worth the wait!). Let’s dig

Pull-Apart Cinnamon Pecan Rolls

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Store-bought frozen rolls make these super easy but delightfully delicious pull-apart cinnamon pecan rolls easy to make for any weekend or holiday brunch. This post is in partnership with McCormick I am a nut about Christmas traditions. Even today, I still make sure the garish Christmas ornament I made in third grade from a paper plate wrapped with red and green yarn to look like a wreath and sporting a photo of my Brownie Scout-buck-toothed grin hangs in its place of glory, in the same spot, every year, on my mom’s elegantly decorated Christmas tree. When it comes to holiday traditions, it’s the little things that count. For our family, one of the most revered traditions is our Christmas morning breakfast. In fact, it’s so special, we only serve it once a year, and this pecan cinnamon monkey bread is a favorite part of it.  I can’t remember even one Christmas as a kid that we didn’t have these pull-apart pecan rolls. Every Christmas Eve, the la