HOT CHOCOLATE ON A STICK recipe. If you’re new here, welcome. I’m AmberLee, and since writing this post, I’ve opened up a little chocolate shop. I’d love to have you stop by, don’t forget to send me a hot chocolate flavor suggestion. Or say hello on facebook. I’d like that too. NOTE: If you blog this recipe, I’ll be thrilled and flattered. Oh how I love when the weather turns cold enough for hot chocolate. This idea is something I’ve been wanting to try for a couple winters now. Me in Venezuela, I’m the pudgy one in booties Enough of my life story, and on to a recipe for real, amazing hot chocolate. I’m glad I finally took the time to puzzle this through and do a little taste testing, because the recipe turned out to be so simple, and the results so delightful. First things first: what chocolate to buy (see a whole post dedicated to this here) The trick to making the best hot chocolate on a stick is using good, serious chocolate that melts easily.
Barry Callebaut, Dagoba, Michel Cluizel, El Rey, Valrhona, Guittard. Now you're cooking with comics. Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies « Betchacanteatjustone's Blog. This just may be my new favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie. It’s made with butter AND cream cheese. It’s dense, chewy, chocolatey and very delicious. I had half a package of cream cheese that needed to be used up and I really wanted chocolate chip cookies so I figured surely there must be a recipe… a quick google blog search led me to baking blonde and a really delicious recipe that’s definitely being added to my regular cookie repertoire!
Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe from BakingBlonde 4 oz cream cheese, softened (recipe called for 5-6 but I only had 4)3/4 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled1 cup brown sugar1/2 cup granulated sugar2 tsp vanilla extract1/2 tsp baking soda1/2 tsp salt2 cups plus 3 tbsp all purpose flour1 1/2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips Preheat the oven to 325 degrees and line baking sheets with parchment Cream together the butter, cream cheese and sugars until light and fluffy. Sift together dry ingredients and then add them to the butter mixture. Enjoy! Science of Candy: Caramels Recipe. Chocolate Brownie Cookies « Namely Marly. If you’re looking for a sweet treat these Chocolate Brownie Cookies might just be the ticket. Some days you wake up realizing you’re stuck in a rut. You don’t really know what got you there, except for the perpetual motion in the same direction.
(That’s sort of the definition of a rut.) But then some days something will come along to shake your tires plum out of their tracks. Hopefully that something isn’t a panicked phone call from a loved one or an unexpected (and expensive) bill in the mail. Or a realization that your daughter is more excited about leaving for college in a few years than sitting in her mother’s lap and reading Where the Wild Things Are for the thousandth time. No, our something was not that dramatic. It’s September and we have an autumn breeze in the air. Summers are hectic in our household so I welcome this imposed change of pace. (Adapted from a recipe by Heat Oven to 350) Ingredients: Directions: Begin by heating your oven to 350F. S'mores Coffee and Fudge Ice Cream Cake Recipe at Epicurious.
Photo by David Bishop yield Makes 10 to 12 servings A decadent, impressive dessert that appeals to everyone's inner Boy Scout or Girl Scout. Begin preparing this a day ahead. Preparation Preheat oven to 350°F. Spread 2 cups softened ice cream in crust. Preheat broiler. 100 Ways to Use Strawberries. Strawberry season comes but once a year, and before you know it, you’ve spent way too much at the farmers’ market buying an entire flat of them, only to panic when you remember they go bad faster than bananas.
So what to do with all those juicy little red guys? Oh we’ve got your covered… Click on the photos for full recipes. 100 Ways to Use an Apple From bacon to bananas, find the rest of our 100 Ways here. Sponsored Content. How to Make Peanut Butter S'Mores Turnovers. Peanut Butter- S’Mores Turnovers I’m not much of a camper. My husband often takes my son on camping trips, and I happily stay behind and thank the gods for our bug-free house, cozy bed and well-stocked kitchen. I always send them off in comfort… marinate a little meat for them to throw on the grill, pack up some convenience foods and bake a few goodies too.
When they return from their camping weekends, I hear mostly about the evenings sitting around the campfire. Story telling, snuggling in blankets, singing songs and roasting marshmallows for S’Mores seem to be recurring favorites. It all sounds great and everything, but it’s just not for me. Here’s the How To: Thaw out a box of Puff Pastry, and cut along the fold lines to make 6 large rectangles. Layer 1/4 of a whole graham cracker, a piece of milk chocolate bar and a spoonful of peanut butter on one side of the Puff Pastry. Transfer filled turnovers to a parchment-lined baking sheet, and brush with egg wash.
Vanilla-Bean Frozen Yogurt with Chocolate Velvet Sauce. This is a fun summer sweet treat that my daughter-in-law, Lindsay makes. Lindsay is a great cook and told me about this yummy recipe several weeks ago. While she was visiting us this past weekend she whipped up a batch of this refreshing frozen delight…… I am also sharing a favorite family recipe to go along with the frozen yogurt if you want to splurge a bit. This Chocolate Velvet Sauce is the best and easiest chocolate sauce ever! You simply heat the milk (in the microwave), throw it on top of the other ingredients in a blender container and let the machine do the magic trick. Most nights Nick and I crave a sweet treat after dinner- our favorite is ice cream. Vanilla-Bean Frozen Yogurt 3 cups good quality whole milk Greek yogurt*¾ cups sugar1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste (or vanilla extract) 1. 2.
Notes:Frozen yogurt will be soft-serve consistency from the machine, but will firm up in the freezer. Chocolate Velvet Sauce 12 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips, 1 bag dash salt ½ cup milk Notes. BBC - An Agatha Christie birthday cake to die for. Delicious Death is featured in A Murder Is Announced A chocolate cake with a difference will be on the menu at Agatha Christie's Devon home to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the writer's birth. Jane Asher has created a chocolatey tribute to Christie using The Delicious Death recipe in Christie's 50th novel A Murder Is Announced. The cake will be served at Greenway in Devon throughout Agatha Christie Week which runs from 12-19 September 2010.
Christie was born in Torquay on 15 September 1890. Lovers of crime fiction and chocolate cake can also attempt to make the cake themselves by using the recipe at the bottom of this page. In the novel, first published in 1950, the cake is the victim's last supper before she is poisoned. Baked by Miss Blacklock's housekeeper, Mitzi - the cake is dubbed Delicious Death because it is so rich. It becomes an apt name when Dora Bunner is found dead in her bed after her birthday tea. Log on to the BBC Archive website to find out more. Ingredients: Method. Chocolate Dutch Baby › shutterbean. Don’t give me that look. It’s perfectly acceptable to have chocolate for breakfast! Especially when you realize that the slice of powdered sugar dusted cake on my plate is actually a PANCAKE.
It’s a chocolate pancake, PEOPLE! And it takes absolutely no time to make! I was able to execute this recipe whilst getting ready for work, feeding Cooper, quieting an incessantly mewing cat, wrangling a diaper bag, taking pictures, sneaking in a few morning kisses with my husband, and cleaning up my kitchen on a weekday. Let me say that again- A WEEKDAY!! If that doesn’t give you a hint of how easy it was, then I don’t know what will! All you need is a small group of ingredients, a blender, a medium sized cast iron skillet & a hot oven and you’re just 20 minutes away from digging into a chocolate pancake for breakfast. And we’re off! Get your ingredients together. Toss them all in a blender! BLEND for a minute. Melt butter in a skillet.
Pour the batter in the skillet. Dust it with powdered sugar. 10 Rich Recipes for National Cheesecake Day. Twix Cheesecakes – Gingerbread Bagels. Strawberry & Chocolate Nachos. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: sometimes the best creations are the ones you don’t set out to create! This might be my new favorite thing. It’s the perfect easy, throw-together, family style dessert for summer.
I did a local tv segment this week and made my Baked Cinnamon Chips and Fruit Salsa. When I got home I had a bag full of cinnamon chips left over and started snacking. Then my boys walked in from the back yard with handfuls of strawberries from our garden and I started thinking about how chocolate covered strawberries sounded so good right then because my first thought when I see any sort of food product is how it would taste covered in chocolate. So I chopped up those berries and let them sit in a spoonful of sugar for a bit. Then I sprinkled them all over those crispy cinnamon-sugar coated chips. I grabbed some chocolate chips, and ate a few. Adding just a touch of vegetable oil or shortening to your chocolate makes it nice and smooth for drizzling. Holy Frijoles. Honey Bun Cake. Well, I just keep giving y'all sweet dishes to work with lately, don't I?
I can't help myself some weeks. Every now and then you get into a sweet baking mood and you just can't shake it. And today's recipe is no exception. This recipe is called Honey Bun Cake. Doesn't it just sound good? And you know why I especially love this recipe? Ingredients: 1 box yellow cake mix 4 eggs 1 cup sour cream ¾ cup vegetable oil 1 cup light brown sugar, packed 2 tsp. ground cinnamon 2 cups powdered sugar 4-6 tbsp. milk 1 tsp. vanilla extract Directions: Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.Spray 13x9 baking dish with nonstick cooking spray (I like the kind that has flour in it). In a medium bowl stir the cake mix, eggs, sour cream, and oil and mix until combined. In a separate bowl, mix together the brown sugar and cinnamon until well-blended; set aside.
Pour half of the cake batter into a greased 13×9 pan, spreading it out evenly. Add all of the brown sugar/cinnamon mixture to the top, covering the entire layer of batter. SHF, so horribly fluffy – S’more cupcakes. I came across S’mores quite late in life. A Michael Recchiuti book. A tiny note at the bottom of a page. S’mores. A piece of chocolate and a marshmallow, sandwiched together in crisp graham crackers. After a quick moment in the oven, the chocolate and marshmallow melt into each others, making for the most delicious sweet sandwich ever. As good as it may sound, I’ve never had the chance to taste S’mores – let alone graham crackers – in real life. I even thought of making a S’more tart.
But well, I eventually forgot about it. When I started thinking about all the cupcakes I could put together for this month’s SHF, you can guess what came first. S’more cupcake. The S’more cupcakes were born. S’more cupcakes With a healthy dose of chocolate and fluffy marshmallow, those delicious cupcakes will make everyone happy. The cake is fragrant with brown sugar, cinnamon and vanilla; and has that slight saltiness I suspect graham crackers have (or maybe, I just see graham crackers as English digestives). Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries | Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries These cheesecake stuffed strawberries are the perfect dessert treat! Can I just say that I have died and gone to heaven. Cheesecake stuffed strawberries….how have I not made these before?!
I’m serious. They are amazing! I ate four of them yesterday. Making up the filling was a breeze too. Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries Yield: 10 - 12 strawberries (depending on size) Prep Time: 10 minutes Cook Time: 0 minutes Total Time: 15 minutes Ingredients: 1 pound large strawberries 8 ounce block cream cheese – softened 3 – 4 tablespoons powdered sugar (depends on how sweet you want the filling) 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (or use almond, lemon, etc. ) Graham cracker crumbs Source: Inspired by pictures seen on Pinterest Directions: Rinse strawberries and cut around the top of the strawberry.
Combine cream cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla with a mixer or by hand. You could also drizzle or dip strawberries in chocolate if desired. Enjoy!!! Correcting The World's Wrongs With Campfire Bananas - Home - Burgh Baby. "What are you doing? " my husband asked. He was staring at me as if I had eighteen heads, each with 20 piercings and Mike Tyson-esque tattoos.
"Making Campfire Bananas," I said. In my head, his question was quite possibly the dumbest one I had ever heard him ask. "What are those? " he asked. ::blink::blink::blink:: ::blinkblinkblinkblinkblink:: "Are you serious? " "Yeah, what are they? " "You are a victim of child abuse," I told him in a bewildered tone. I turned to Twitter to report this crime against humanity. My memories of Campfire Bananas are wrapped in Girl Scout camp and fires by the lake and all sorts of . . . . hell, who really cares? Anyway, let me share with you how joy can be packaged in a banana peel. Campfire Bananas You'll need some bananas, chocolate chips, marshmallows, and I am a fan of throwing some peanut butter into the mix as well.
Stuff that strip full of good stuff. Put the peel back in place. Wrap it in foil. Once it's done, unwrap it, pull the peel all the way off, and eat. How to Make Homemade Candy Bars (Resolution Breaker) If you’re like most people, you probably started off the year with a whole list of resolutions: more sleep! Less coffee! More exercise! Less television! More vegetables! Less sugar! I call them “Resolution Breaker Candy Bars,” and if you’re absolutely wedded to your healthy eating habits, stop reading now before it’s too late… Still here? Resolution Breaker Candy Barsyield: about 20 bars Ingredients 24 ounces chocolate candy coating1/2 stick (2 oz) butter1 cup granulated sugar1/4 cup evaporated milk1 jar (7 oz) marshmallow creme or fluff1 tsp vanilla extract1/3 cup peanut butter, creamy or chunky14 oz soft caramels, unwrapped1.5 cups roasted, salted peanuts To make it easier to remove and cut the bars, line a 9×13 pan with aluminum foil.
Most nougat recipes are pretty complicated and involve whipping egg whites into a meringue and using a candy thermometer to boil a sugar syrup. Scrape the peanut nougat on top of the chocolate layer in the pan, and spread it into a smooth, even layer. BetterBaking.com - A Passion for Better Baking - June 2011. Beehive Cake (Brown-Butter Banana Cake and Honey Buttercream) Strawberry Torte.