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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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July 21, 2010

The Chocolate Heritage of Cadbury

Guide - My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates.

Cadbury Chocolate is a name nearly everyone knows today. Whether they are dedicated chocolate fans, the occasional chocolate fiend, or those that have chocolate on occasion, the name Cadbury Chocolate is well known. Today you can find their name in grocery stores, candy shops, and many other special confectionary shops. And never forget there’s the Easter basket as well.

Cadbury Chocolate History

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In the mid-nineteenth century, Frye and Sons of Bristol, England first formed a chocolate confection. In the early part of the twentieth century they combined with Cadbury. This makes present Cadbury Chocolates the direct descendants of the initial chocolates available in Europe.

Years later in the late twentieth century Cadbury introduced the first milk chocolate bar. It’s not hard to say that Cadbury Chocolate is a leader in the chocolate industry. It began with John Cadbury establishing a status of first-class chocolate from the start. The heritage continues onto today.

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

Now Cadbury enjoys international appreciation as a leader among confectionaries. This worldwide following occurred over the last century and isn’t likely to change any time soon. They still lead in the UK as well. Their current commodities include chocolate bars, candies, drinks, and even dry powered chocolate.

Finding Cadbury Chocolate

Cadbury Chocolate’s renowned holiday offerings are known far and wide. The Cadbury Crème Egg is a chocolate delicacy to many available at grocery store counters everywhere. There are few that haven’t had these around Easter. They are driven to these crème filled chocolate eggs that have been around for a few generations and will continue to be a holiday staple for a long time to come. It’s their number 1 seller from January through Easter each year.

While Cadbury chocolate is available internationally, not all products are available in all countries. The unique offerings in various markets make great gifts, snacks, seasonal delicacies, and many other Cadbury Chocolate desire fillers. If you want to be up on them all, you probably want to browse the World Wide Web for Cadbury Chocolate possibly beginning right here where you are now.

Guide - If you have a wrapped chocolate bar, remember, it must be unwrapped and allowed to breathe like a fine wine. Many people yield to the temptation of ripping open a candy bar and immediately taking a bite.

Their chocolate bars, eggs, and other mixed boxes are found at nearly every US grocery and candy store. History has kept them strong and they aren’t going anywhere. Besides the UK and US market; you will also find them when visiting Australia. They travel even on this smaller populated continent. A Cadbury Chocolate bar isn’t far off in too many places anymore.

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

So when Easter rolls around, don’t feel too unique or alone about feasting on the great Cadbury Crème Egg that many others do. It’s ok. Tell anyone else how Cadbury did it and you stand odds of saving face and maybe finding the frenzy isn’t yours alone. They also offer many other mixed chocolates for your Cadbury Chocolate feeding frenzies.

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

Now that you know there are even more Cadbury chocolate products, it won’t hurt to look around for many more. If history interests you, you may want to research even more on their times and candy that has made many delighted over the years.

 

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June 30, 2010

Don’t Forget About Belgian Chocolate

Guide - It is widely believed that chocolate consumption releases a chemical into your body very similar to what is produced when you are in love.

When he got lost looking for a shortcut to India in the late 1400s, Christopher Columbus found the delicious treat known as chocolate in the New World. It is commonly believed that the ancient Aztecs were to have drunk chocolate a long time before anyone else in the world even knew of its existence. In its original formulation, it was a very bitter concoction created from the roasted seeds of cocoa and mixed with spices. In the Americas it was considered to be a sacred drink that was enjoyed by the Aztecs but only the very elite of their society could afford it. The Aztecs were not ignorant of the value of the cocoa bean and began using it as part of their monetary system and to buy their gold.

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The treat that got its start in the New World is the same that would become known as Belgian chocolate, which is the original recipe that was kept secret by the Spanish Aristocrats. The nobility couldn’t keep the success of the drink from spreading to other European countries however, and it became widespread. The European nobles experimented with the recipe and were the first to add sugar to it, which made it much more drinkable then the previously bitter drink originated by the Aztecs. Medical practitioners even professed that it cured certain diseases because it held such a high and sacred value. When chocolate arrived in Belgium it was considered to be a magnificent gift, due to all of the history that came with it and the legends of its medicinal effect that it was told to have. The Belgian confectionary created the praline filling for the chocolate in 1912, which was packaged to give out as special gifts to others. The delicacy soon became known as Belgian chocolate because of the unique filling the Belgians created in rich milk chocolate.

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To make the special chocolate it is first taken from large pods that come from the cocoa tree, and then the cocoa seeds or beans are taken from the pods. The beans are then sun dried and delivered to the chocolate makers. Once the Belgians get the beans they roast them and crush them into the cocoa powder that they make the Belgian chocolate with. They then add the cocoa butter that comes from the beans and add that to the powder, sugar, and the milk powder.

The Belgian chocolate makers are very choosy with the cocoa powder that they allow for use in the making of Belgian chocolate and will only allow the finest quality to be used. They use the same discretion when it comes to picking the ingredients they use to make their chocolate filling that is known as praline. They make this product by hand so that they can be sure to bring out only the finest possible chocolate. The pride in their product also leads them to choose the cocoa beans by hand as well so that only the best possible source product is sued in the making of Belgian Chocolate.

Guide - Several medical studies show that eating chocolate in moderation can actually prolong your life by reducing risk of blood clots and fighting bad cholestorol.

Gregg Hall is an author living in Navarre Beach, Florida. Find more about this as well as fine chocolate at http://www.chocolates-plus.com

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