Chocolate
Easy Chocolate Dessert Recipe – 10 Minute Mocha Pots De Creme
Are you looking for a super easy chocolate dessert recipe that is rich and satisfying? I think you will love these 10-minute mocha pots de creme from one of my favorite baking books – The Weekend Baker: Irresistible Recipes, Simple Techniques, and Stress-Free Strategies for Busy People by Abigail Johnson Dodge. I discovered the recipe back in 2008 when I was putting together the menu for a private baking/dessert class I was teaching and have made it many times since.
Easy Homemade Chocolate Recipes
If you would like to make some chocolate treats then there are lots of different ways of doing this.
The simplest chocolate cakes don’t even require the oven to be switched on. You will need to melt some chocolate though. Do this in a bowl over a pan of bubbling hot water. Use a couple of hundred grams of chocolate chips, or a large bar. You will also need a spoonful of golden syrup stirred in to the melted chocolate and a large volume of either cornflakes or crispy rice cereal. Melt chocolate, add syrup, take off heat. Pour in the cereal and stir until well covered. If you don’t put enough cereal in then there’s a higher chocolate ratio which some people like. The general rule is you keep adding cereal until you have no melted chocolate at the bottom of the bowl. Put the mixture in to cup cake cases and leave to set. Children can help you mix in the cereal and ladle out the mixture.
Take Your Pick of Chocolate Gifts
Bringing a box of chocolates can be a sweet gesture, especially when you don’t know the receiver well enough to get him/her something more personal. This can be a good solution to bringing a gift to a house warming party, holiday event, or even just to tell your lover how sweet you think he/she is.
Chocolate gifts can come in all sorts of forms. Bunnies wrapped in shiny aluminum paper are both pleasing to the eye and full of fun when biting off the ears or cute little paws. They are good on Easter or anytime of the year.
HB Reese – The Man Behind the Reese’s Cup
We’ve all heard the story about the infamous peanut butter and chocolate collision that resulted in the Reese’s Cup known and loved since the 1920s. Is this the true origin of Hershey favorite, or is there more to it than that? Comedian Mitch Hedberg once raised an excellent, little considered question in one of his typically short, non-sequitur stand up jokes. “I get the Reese’s candy bar,” he tells the audience. “You look at that, there’s an apostrophe-s there. That means the candy bar is his. I didn’t know that. Next time you’re eating a Reese’s candy bar, and a guy named Reese comes by and says, “Gimme that”, you better hand it over.” Mitch raises an interesting point about ownership – not of each delicious Reese’s cup, of course, but about ownership of that initial peanut butter cup production. So who is Reese, the man responsible for this peanut butter and chocolate delight, and how did we come to eat his candy?
What Everyone Likes About Chocolate
A deliciously decadent treat just right for everyone is what we call chocolates. This can be eaten as it is or mixed in cookies, cakes, and other food, especially in pastry. Just imagine a mountain of chocolates and trees and river just pure Choc. It is a dream comes true for everyone. People around the world know what a chocolate is. This was introduced by the Mesoamerican by fermenting cacao seeds to produce the bitter taste ideal for a beverage. Upon its discovery by European settlers, that was the start of production of a one of a kind tidbit the whole world loves today.