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Unexpected Chocolate Dessert Recipes

While chocolate cake may always be a crowd pleaser at dinner parties or other celebrations, it can also feel like a cop-out to a creative host or hostess. If you’re tired of presenting the same old chocolate cakes, puddings, or ice creams to your guests for dessert, try these suggestions for some unexpected chocolate dessert recipes. Don’t be afraid to be adventurous. Dessert is all about having fun!

Revamp Other Dessert Recipes with Chocolate

An easy way to make a fun, new dessert is to incorporate chocolate into other familiar dessert recipes. Try putting dark chocolate chips and walnuts into a berry cobbler, or spruce up after dinner coffee with some chocolate liqueur then top with whipped cream and chocolate shavings. If you’re going light, add some extra life to an angel food cake with some natural unsweetened cocoa powder and serve with fresh raspberries on top.

Leave the Chocolate to The Whim Guests

A really simple chocolate dessert recipe is chocolate fondue. Let your guests go to town dipping an assortment of fruits, cakes, cookies, and nuts into a nice fondue. Spread out a few different fondue pots and play with flavors. Try a spicy chocolate fondue by adding just a touch of chili powder, or some peanut butter for a heavenly treat. Don’t limit your dippings to fruit. Cut up an assortment of bite-sized bits of cakes, brownies, candies, marshmallows, even cheesecakes.

Spicing Up Some Favorites

If you do like the idea of a cake, but want to get away from traditional recipes, spice things up a little with a modern chocolate cake dessert recipe. Add some fruit or berries to the bottom of your bake pan and create a chocolate-upside-down cake with a nice coffee or caramel glaze. Create a layered chocolate cake, alternating layers of caramel sauce and homemade whipped peanut butter topping, served with vanilla ice cream.

Frozen Chocolate Dessert Recipes

Plan ahead and whip up a frozen chocolate dessert recipe. Try a banana split with frozen chocolate covered bananas. If you have an ice cream maker, try a nice chocolate and fruit sorbet. If you’re a fan of Smores, don’t worry about the fire, try a frozen version instead. Spread some melted chocolate and marshmallow cream between two graham crackers, wrap each smore in foil, and stick in the freezer. This is an easy chocolate dessert recipe that is sure to be a crowd pleaser.

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December 2, 2009

Hot Chocolate - Love Potion #1 in Winter

Guide - If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner.

Chocolate… this word evokes such wonderful old memories - family holidays, mom’s chocolate cakes and chocolate chip cookies on Sundays… But it turns out that in the adult world this dessert has so much more to it! Did you know that chocolate is also known as a perfect seduction product?

A legendary Italian Mr. Lover Giovanni Casanova considered chocolate to be an indispensable part of any courting. The famous tempter always carried a silver box of chocolates that ladies simply could not resist. Besides, Casanova believed that the secret of his sexual strength laid in a ritual morning cup of hot chocolate.

This delicious drink is not difficult to prepare:

U’ll need:
2 table spoons of cacao powder
1 table spoon of cane sugar
100 ml of milk
a dash of chilli pepper
U’ll have just to mix it well and to put it on a slow fire. Don’t forget to stir it till it boils. As soon as it does - the drink is ready!

Guide - The largest chocolate bar ever made weighed over 5,000 pounds and was made in Italy in 2000. The largest slab of fudge was over 2,000 pounds and was made in Canada.

A cup of hot chocolate will warm your partner’s “feelings” up when it is so cold outside! ;)

P.S. Do not forget that chocolate is very rich in calories, so do not abuse with it. Its calorie count is over 500 Kcal per 100g. Among the popular chocolate bars Snickers and Mars are the most rich in calories.

 

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Guide - Children are more likely to prefer chocolate when they reach 10-11 years old than when they are younger.

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September 9, 2009

The Hot Chocolate Maker

Guide - The shelf life of a bar of chocolate is approximately one year.

What is hot chocolate and how do you make it using hot chocolate maker? Across the globe, hot chocolate is a very popular drink. While some might think of it as almost a medicine, an instant mood lifter, there are others who drink it just because it tastes good. No wonder hot chocolate makers are one of the most popular machines sold after coffee machines.
No more messing with boiling water or scalding milk. In this neat little machine, you just add your liquid, chocolate or cocoa mix to the goblet top, snap on the lid and you have a mug of tempting hot chocolate in just a few minutes!

Guide - Choose organic chocolates. Certified organic chocolate ensures there are no harmful pesticide residues.

How does the machine function?

Some models of hot chocolate makers, like the Tassimo Hot Beverage Maker, have special pods called T-DISCS that can be used to brew drinks. This T-DISCS contains the precise amount of chocolate and dry milk needed. Every disc has a barcode that is read by the machine when it is inserted. Based on the instructions it gives, the right amount of water will be pumped through the disc. You can also set the machine to make the strength of hot chocolate you want.

Guide - In 1842 Cadbury’s in England created the worlds first chocolate bar.

How can a hot chocolate maker help you?

Hot chocolate and family gatherings go hand in hand. This machine puts an end to overheated milk, milk boiling over on the stovetop and scorched pans to clean. The milk or water is heated to just the right temperature and in a few minutes, the machine whips up as many as four frothy cups of hot chocolate that you can enjoy on a chilly winter evening.

Features of hot chocolate maker:

• Makes 2 to 4 cups of hot chocolate at a time

• The hot chocolate maker heats milk to just the right temperature. There is no boiling over or scorching

Guide - ‘The superiority of chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain.

• The mixing disc thoroughly whips hot chocolate and other cocoa- or chocolate-based drinks as soon as you press the button.

• Finished drink has a frothy top for a delicious treat.

• It is easy to use.

• The machine is Easy to clean

The prices of this machine start from as low as $ 20 and go to $ 2000.

What to look for when buying a hot chocolate maker:

1. Construction: It should be made of durable materials so it will last a long time.

2. Work reliably: It should be able to make your drink in a minimum amount of time and be set according to your tastes.

3. User friendly: The hot chocolate maker that you purchase should be easy to use.

4. Compactness: The machine should not take much of your valuable workplace in the kitchen.

5. There should be no flavor transfer as you switch from one type of drink to another.

Best-known brands to buy:

1. Mr. Coffee’s Cocomotion machine. Mr. Coffee is probably about the best-known maker of hot beverage machine around. Mr. Coffee has a reputation for reliability, maker it a top choice.

Guide - Choose chocolates sweetened with evaporated cane juice or barley malt. If the evaporated cane juice used is the unprocessed whole juice of the cane, it acts in the body like a whole food and doesn’t give a sugar rush.

2. Tassimo from Braun is also one of the better-known appliances available. In addition to many kinds of coffee, this machine can make excellent Suchard Hot Chocolate drink.

Summary: A hot, comforting mug of hot chocolate on a chilly evening without any of the fuss - this is what you can easily have with a good hot chocolate maker. So choose the model you prefer and get cozy with a mug this winter.

Simon Oldmann is a chocolate lover just like the rest of us, maybe the years he spent in Belgium has forever changed his attitude to Chocolate. Simon writes articles for ZupaTips.com

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