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Dark Chocolate Olive Oil Cake; Review of Olive Oil cookbook
October 31, 2014 by Laura 13 Comments
Dark chocolate olive oil cake is easy, healthier, rich and indulgent. A copy of Olive Oil was provided to me by the cookbook authors for purposes of an honest review. Affiliate links have been used in this post to link to items I am discussing.
Trust me to go with the chocolate cake. I receive a cookbook all about the joys of cooking with olive oil, and I head straight for the chocolate.
I’m predictable like that.
But let me tell you a bit about the book first, which has a lot more going on for it than just chocolate (although we shouldn’t discount the genius of including chocolate recipes in cookbooks about…
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