Showing posts with label chocolate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chocolate. Show all posts

CHOCOLATE BANANA BREAD

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Yep, you read it correctly, chocolate banana bread, and it is really good!! The chocolate (cocoa and chocolate chips) lend the predominate flavor, but you can still taste the banana AND the fruit keeps the bread extremely moist.


1  1/4  cups of mashed bananas
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1  1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup baking cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon  salt
1 cup chopped pecans
1 cup semi-sweet mini chocolate chips (a must)
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Beat all of the wet ingredients and sugar together until well combined and smooth. Beat in the dry ingredients just until combined then stir in the nuts and chocolate chips.
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Bake the bread in a greased 8" x 4" loaf pan, in a pre-heated 350F oven for 60 to 70 minutes or until toothpick tests clean (see note below). Cool bread in pan, on rack, for 15 minutes, then remove from pan . Immediately, wrap hot bread with plastic wrap and cool, this will seal in all of the moisture......important step.



If you click on the (above) photo, you can see the melted chocolate chips...a slice of this bread, heated in the microwave for 10 seconds or so, will satisfy any serious choco-holic.


 NOTE: Im not a big fan of baking all that batter in a single 8" x 4" loaf pan for over an hour. That always seems to produce a lot of hard crusty corners. I much prefer to make two smaller loaves which bake in about 45 minutes. Whatever pan size you use, try the toothpick test for doneness. When you remove the toothpick, you will see some melted chocolate chips on the toothpick, but no gooey batter.
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NOTE: Yes, that is snow (higher than my kitchen window) in that last photo. Snow also accounts for the ultra-bright window-light in the first photo. We live at the base of a mountain pass and we get a lot of snow...but, hey, its nearly mid-March, so this is even a lot of snow for us. Tonight its zero again. I heard on the radio today that the Iditarod dog team racers are experiencing 35 below zero this week!!
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Favorite chocolate cake recipe secrets

Saturday, April 19, 2014

Resistance is futile! It is indeed hard to resist, cake sweet smell of chocolate, particularly when it is linked to the bouquet with fond memories.

My mother is a person who is always willing to share. Not only it is generous with their advice, but they can use you share everything they know. It is always willing to explain, sewing, cooking, or advanced mathematics. But there one thing that is jealously guarded. It is their greatest secret, and one that they it swore that she will carry to the grave. And this is their chocolate cake recipe. We have tried to it by her for years, and have been so far unsuccessful.

This is not some normal chocolate mix cake- recipe. This is truly a gourmet. It is no easy chocolate cake recipe, either. Chocolate cake is usually very easy to Cook, but it requires all day and all night. It is simply there for 12 hours at a time, which create perfect chocolate cake. But it is very good. It is of inestimable value. It is the most delicious thing I have ever eaten. I could not do this chocolate cake recipe.

The thing is, in General, that is my mother everything, what in chocolate. It rarely makes chocolate of brownies. You will order not even a chocolate brownie if it starts. But this chocolate cake recipe , their favorite is thing in the world. Holiday cooking them there, and every time we ask for more. No one is ever sick of. Even my cousins, strict vegetarians, the only vegan chocolate cake recipes typically can consume, will make an exception for their delicious chocolate cake. It is really so great.

The really sad part is that, since I first of all, that chocolate cake cost, I will desert any other kind of chocolate, no food. Even the largest German chocolate cake recipe leaves me flat. Part of it is that my mother made it. It is hard to resist, because she spends so much time on it, and will clearly, that we it as much as. I dont know whether I love it quite as much, would if it someone else, that it made, but I still like it would. She won several cooking competitions has, finally with their chocolate cake recipe. It has only a few times, entered but each time, and every time when it enters the same recipe, if she won. Ive tried secretly in the kitchen, but it was no use. She simply refused to go on cooking, until I left. I hope that one day they their recipeexposed. So, I now enjoy their delicious recipe and certainly not complaining.


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Burnt Caramel Sea Salt Dark Chocolate Coins with my mind on my money and my money on my mind

Thursday, April 10, 2014

I wonder if Snoop Dogg visits this blog, and if he does, what he thinks about my gratuitous, trying to be cool, hip-hop reference.

This chocolate video features one of my rare forays into the world of candy. These chocolate coins are inspired by my love for the chocolate-salt-caramel flavor combination, and my fascination with edible money.

To this day, if Im in a store and I see those little mesh bags of chocolate coins, I immediately turn into a 5-year-old. Those foil wrapped chocolates were, for whatever reason, my absolute favorite. Come on, money and chocolate in one shiny package…beautiful.

It also provided a valuable life lesson. I always thought the saying should have been, "you cant have your chocolate coins and eat them too." I mean who wants to keep cake around? It gets stale. Of course you eat cake as soon as you can - thats a no-brainer. Chocolate coins presented the real have-or-eat dilemma.

Before you watch, let me say that Im not a candy maker or chocolatiere. I didn’t really use a recipe, so if you are experienced in chocolate manipulation you very well may see errors in both technique and execution.

I also didn’t bother to wrap them in gold and silver foil. I was very tempted, but time management and sanity prevailed, and I just piled them up.

The chocolate I used was made by a company called Amano, which is quickly gaining a reputation as one of the top artisan chocolate makers anywhere. They are one of the few American companies that create their chocolate directly from the cacao beans. Its amazing stuff and Ive included a link here so you can learn more, and hopefully taste it for yourself. Enjoy!



Ingredients:
6 oz dark chocolate, broken in small pieces
1 tbsp sugar
1/4 cup heavy cream
sea salt
cocoa for dusting
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Make chocolate truffles 3 delicious chocolate truffles learn recipes

Friday, April 4, 2014

Delicious chocolate truffles is easy and exciting. White chocolate truffles, hazelnuts or almonds truffles and grand Marnier truffles are 3 chocolate Trüffeln-recipe-s that are easy to prepare.

The following will try at home recipe-s for you:

1. White chocolate truffles

Ingredients:

-1 / 4 C butter
-1 / 2 C icing sugar
-1 Teaspoon almond
-Extrahieren you 1 egg yolk 8 oz
-Weiße chocolate divided chopped into small pieces 1 C blanched almonds, slightly roasted

Makes about 2 dozen truffles

Directions:

-Schmelzen of chocolate and butter in the top of a double boiler over low heat, stirring constantly.
-Remove from the heat. Add sugar, egg yolks and almond extract; beat with an electric mixer until smooth.
Ask on a flat glass casserole.
Cover and refrigerate 1 hour.
Shape mixture into 1-inch balls.
Roles in almonds.
Cover and refrigerate at least 8 hours.
Values in miniature slide cups at room temperature to serve.
-Speichern in airtight container in the refrigerator.

2. Hazelnuts or almonds truffles

Ingredients:

-2 / 3 Cup finely crushed roasted almonds or hazelnuts
-7 T melted butter
-3 Ounces bittersweet chocolate
-3 Oz milk chocolate
-1 T amaretto (for almonds) or 1 T Frangelico (for hazelnut)
-4 Egg yolks
-2 / 3 Cup powdered sugar
-1 / 2 Teaspoon vanilla extract
-1 1 / 2 Teaspoon almond extract

Makes about 30 truffles

Note: Pregnant or breastfeeding women, young children or an immune deficiency should eat not food with raw eggs.

Directions:

-Chop roasted nuts in a blender or food processor hacked up fine.
-Nieselregen slowly, merge in 3 tablespoons butter and process to good.
-Setzen you aside.
-Heat the remaining 4 T butter in a small saucepan until very hot and sparkling wine (be careful not to burn let).
-Remove from heat and add the chocolate.
-Rühren constantly until melted and smooth.
-Setzen you aside.

-In a large bowl, Beat egg yolks frothy.
-Schlagen in sugar and extracts and spirit and continue to beat until thick.
-Mixer on medium speed slowly, gradually beat in the nut mix, then gradually beat in the melted chocolate mixture.
-Schlagen, until smooth and well mixed.
-Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least thirty minutes or until firm

-Platzieren type your choice of the coating in a bowl.
-If youre going to more than one, use separate bowls.
-Some possible coating choices are: toasted coconut, chopped nuts, unsweetened cocoa, chocolate, crushed Oreo ® cookies in powder form.
-Schaufel from a teaspoon full of truffle mixture and with your fingers, roles you it into a ball.
Work quickly as the heat of your hand quickly start, melt the chocolate.
-Drop ball in the bowl of coating. Repeat the process until there are 4 or 5 balls in the bowl of coating.
Roles you gently the truffle in the coating mixture and a sheet of waxed paper.

Save wrapping, truffle in an airtight container and in the refrigerator for up to ten days or in the freezer for up to one month.

3. Grand Marnier truffles

Ingredients:

-4 T melted butter
4 Ounces bittersweet chocolate into small pieces broken
Broken-4 ounces milk chocolate into small pieces
-4 T Grand Marnier
-4 Egg yolks
-1 1/4 Cup powdered sugar
-2 Teaspoon orange extract

Makes about 30 truffles

Note: Pregnant or breastfeeding women, young children or an immune deficiency should eat not food with raw eggs.

Directions:

-Hitze butter in a small saucepan until very hot and sparkling wine (be careful not to burn let).
-Remove from heat and add the chocolate.
-Rühren constantly until melted and smooth.
-Setzen you aside.
-In a large bowl, Beat egg yolks frothy.
-Schlagen in sugar gradually, add, extract and spirit and continue to beat (see photo) until thick.
-Mixer on medium speed slowly, gradually into the melted chocolate hit with mixture.
-Schlagen, until smooth and well mixed.
-Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least thirty minutes or until firm.

-Platzieren type your choice of the coating in a bowl.
-If youre going to more than one, use separate bowls.
-Some possible coating choices are: toasted coconut, chopped nuts, unsweetened cocoa, chocolate, crushed Oreo ® cookies in powder form.

-Schaufel from a teaspoon full of truffle mixture and with your fingers, roles you it into a ball.
Work quickly as the heat of your hand quickly start, melt the chocolate.
-Drop ball in the bowl of coating.
-Wiederholen you again until there are 4 or 5 balls in the bowl of coating.
Roles you gently the truffle in the coating mixture and a sheet of waxed paper.
-Save wrap truffles in a container air tight and in the refrigerator for up 10 days or in the freezer for up to month.


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Savory Chocolate Crustini with Maldon Sea Salt Crystals

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

This short and simple clip may seem a bit strange. The thought of topping a warm, olive oil soaked Crustini with chocolate and sea salt does take an open mind to contemplate. The first time I came across this combo, I too was understandable skeptical, but one bite and I was convinced. It worked. Not only did it work, it rocked!

The blending of the fruity/peppery olive oil, bittersweet dark chocolate, the warm crispy-edged bread, and the tiny crunch of briny sea salt crystals is quite the epicurean experience.

Most good cooks know that a pinch of salt in a dessert recipe is a must to bring out the sweetness of whatever you’re making. So topping the chocolate with flakes of the Maldon sea salt is really not that crazy. I guess it’s the fact that it’s served on top of warm Crustini that makes it seem so unusual.

To me this is a savory recipe, not a dessert. I think these are perfect with a nice glass of red wine or port. It would make for a very unique passed Hors D’ouvre. This is not a sweet bite if you use the bittersweet chocolate I suggest. You could use semi-sweet, but then I think you just crossed the savory-sweet border and now definitely have a dessert item. Anyway, it’s the season of faith, so have some, and give this a try!

By the way, this was NOT inspired by a certain animated TV Chef from South Park, Colorado! If it was, I would have called it, “Chef’s Salty Chocolate Crustini.” I almost provided a link to the song, but discretion prevailed (and hey, you can always google it). Apologies to all of you that are not South Park fans and have no idea what I’m talking about.





Ingredients:
Sliced baguette
bittersweet chocolate
olive oil
Maldon sea salt crystals, or other flaky type sea salt

The Maldon salt you see in the clip is a really interesting ingredient and I’ve included a link here, in case you want more info.
igourmet 8.8-oz. Maldon Sea Salt
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Chocolate sauce

Friday, February 7, 2014

Chocolate sauce


Ingredients
  • Sugar 4 tbsp
  • Coco powder 2 tbsp
  • Water ½ cup
Method
  • Cook sugar and water till sugar dissolves add in coco powder, whisk well, remove from fire and cool, use as required.
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