Today I am entering my very first foodie blog event - the Master Bake challenge. This is an event created by Nikki and this is the first month of the challenge. I am looking forward to meeting other food bloggers and see what they create.

This months ingredient is cinnamon. Deciding to do this the night before I leave town I had to create something using what I had in my pantry last night as the deadline is fast approaching. The recipe I came up with is a combination using a brownie from Nigella Lawson and a Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting from Emeril.

The brownie is a dense chocolate but a bit thinner than I expected. The Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting is very good but I should have made it a bit thicker. Either way, I still think these will get eaten up quickly.

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I needed a quick dessert to bring for a meeting. I had some cream cheese in the frig so I decided to try these. I just bought a new to me cookbook, Gale Gand’s Chocolate and Vanilla Cookbook. They are easy to make.

The recipe is from Gale Gand’s Chocolate & Vanilla Cookbook.

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