How to Bake a Christmas Chocolate Log + Video
This fabulously traditional recipe for How to Bake a Christmas Chocolate Log is perfect for the Holidays, even as a host/hostess gift. Chocolate log cakes are traditionally made & enjoyed for Christmas, but this cake can be made any time of the year. I found this spectacular recipe in an eBook called A Cornish Grandmother’s Family Favourites available on Amazon. In this eBook, the Chocolate Christmas Log recipe uses the same...
How to Make White Chocolate Mousse with Toasted Almonds
Creamy, dreamy, decadent White Chocolate Mousse is a perfect romantic dessert. Chocolatey, light & airy…what could be better? Plus, chocolate has an aphrodisiac effect too…don’t forget! How to Make White Chocolate Mousse: If you wish to fill Chocolate Cups with this mousse, prepare cups first & fill cups before serving, topping with a Raspberry Sauce. Type: Dessert Recipe Serve with: a romantic dinner for...
How to Bake Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies + Video: Valentine’s Day Treats
Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies for Valentine’s Day just seems like the perfect cookie for the occasion. Chocolate chips & maraschino cherry chunks inundate this rich, buttery cookie dough, creating flaky deliciousness upon baking. Surprise your sweetheart with these sweets. How to Bake Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies: Use a heart-shaped cookie cutter for romantic results! Type: Cookie Recipe Serve with: tea, coffee or...
How to Make Chocolate Cups: Valentine’s Day Treats
Using Chocolate Cups for your desserts really shows panache & a uniqueness when you bring your sweets out to enjoy, especially for Valentine’s Day! How to Make Chocolate Cups: Type: Dessert Recipe Serve with: any sweet treat you can dream up to put inside Prep Time: 40 min Yields: 6 – 8 cups Ingredients: 3/4 lb bittersweet or semisweet chocolate – melted & tempered 6 – 8 small balloons Instructions:...
How to Make Chocolate Rum Balls
Some folks relate their Christmas Joys to their annual indulgence in delicious Rum Balls. However, these rum balls are perfect throughout the New Year’s Holiday too! How to Make Chocolate Rum Balls: My recipe yields about 72 one-inch rum balls. These dainties have more flavor if they’re allowed to age somewhat. Type: Dessert Recipe Serve with: confectioners sugar Prep Time: 30 – 40 min Cook Time: 2 min Storage: up to...
How to Make Chocolate Turtles
This is an easy & tasty recipe for Homemade Chocolate Turtles! If we have one chocolate to choose for the Holidays, like Christmas or Easter, it would be Turtles, hands down. With their ooey-gooey caramel centers cloaking pecans & coated with chocolate, these are quick to disappear around our house. How to Make Chocolate Turtles: 2 lbs of chocolate will yield roughly 38 pieces of chocolate turtles. Type: Candy Recipe Serve...
How to Make Dark Chocolate Truffles: Chocolates Day
Chocolates Day is November 29th, and doesn’t Dark Chocolate Truffles sound heavenly? Who doesn’t appreciate chocolate truffles? We all know how addictive they are, and how delicious too. These chocolates have ganache centers, which are coated with bittersweet dark chocolate. A ganache is comprised of a mix of chocolate & cream. The chocolate used to coat the ganache centers, which can, if desired, be rolled in nuts,...
Chocolate Dipped Almond Crescent Cookies Recipe: Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day
National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day is a true celebration of flavors! The combination of bittersweet chocolate & almonds is quite wonderful, even though each of them are delicious by themselves. I’m giving you a recipe for Chocolate Dipped Almond Crescent Cookies. How to Bake Chocolate Dipped Almond Crescent Cookies: With their crescents dipped in chocolate, these almond cookies are a delight, especially around...
How to Bake Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake: National Chocolate Day
National Chocolate Day is here and I’m sharing with you a Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake recipe below… But first, a few chocolate facts. Chocolate Facts: What is more decadent than chocolate & very few wouldn’t welcome such a tasty treat at any time. Chocolate & cocoa come from an evergreen tree genus, theobroma, “Food of the Gods.” Cocoa beans grow in a pod of a cocoa tree. They are both identically...
How to Make Silky Chocolate Fondue Sauce: Sweetest Day
The 3rd Saturday in October marks Sweetest Day, and boy-oh-boy, this Silky Chocolate Fondue Sauce recipe is just what will satisfy your sweet tooth. The Sweetest Day, I can think of, would include a smorgasbord of sweet desserts, candies, cakes, pies, cookies, puddings, trifles, parfaits, fruit shortcakes, mousses & delicious ice cream, whipped cream & chocolate fudge toppings. Just picture what that would look like,...