chocolate recipes
Twix Ice Cream Pie
May 8, 2013
If you love ice cream and like working with it in the kitchen, this recipe is for you.
We all love ice cream. Some love eating it, others love making it and then eating it. Give your usual ice cream pie oomph, and take it to a whole new level of deliciousness! This time, use Twix candy bars. Nobody can say no to Twix!
It feels just right when you whip this up. It will lure in the young ones and the once young, I tell you! No matter the weather. 🙂
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Twix Ice Cream Pie Spread one of the chopped Twix bars on the bottom of the cookie crust. Stir together the chocolate ice cream and spread it evenly over the Twix bar. Immediately cover the pie loosely with plastic wrap and freeze for at least four hours, or until ready to serve. |
Enjoy! 🙂
Chocolate Oreo Ice Cream Cake Roll
May 1, 2013
At some point in my life, I was crazy about Oreos. As a kid, I remember not being able to sleep if I didn't have my Oreo fix. I was the typical kid who would open the sandwich cookie, and lick the filling. Â Then I would close it again, and dunk it in my tall glass of milk. You get the picture.
Chocolate Cupcakes with Creamy Nutella Frosting
April 25, 2013
My weekends are always “cheat weekends”.  I’m no health buff, but lately, I’ve been trying to eat less during weekdays. Come weekends, I indulge myself in good food, sweet treats being one of them.
Just this weekend, I came across a patisserie stall and I saw that they had Nutella cupcakes. I swear by Nutella. I love dark chocolate, I’ve been saying that forever, but Nutella just happens to be one of those chocolaty treats I can’t do without.
I don’t have their cupcake recipe, though. I can’t muster the guts and ask them for a recipe, and heck, why would they even give it to me? Haha, so I searched around looking for a comparable recipe to share with you.  I found this, but I haven't made it so I’m not sure if this tastes exactly like what I had, but I hope this will do!
Quick & Easy Microwave Peanut Butter Fudge
April 10, 2013
Microwave ovens are the best friend of people who are always on the go. Did you know you can make a quick treat with just the help of this trusty machine? 🙂
Before I give you the recipe, here's a fun fact for ya. If you have been a loyal reader, you may have already heard about this from me some time back. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, did you know that chocolate had something to do with the invention of the microwave oven?
An American scientist by the name of Percy Spencer was working on what is known as the magnetron for radar sets. Allegedly, he walked by a cavity magnetron while it was at work then felt some heat and realized that a chocolate bar that he had been carrying in his pocket had melted into a sticky mess.
Butterscotch Chocolate Chunk Cookies
April 3, 2013
Butterscotch is defined as a type of confectionery with brown sugar and butter as the main ingredients. The authentic recipe for "making Doncaster butterscotch is one pound of butter, one pound of sugar and a quarter of a pound of treacle, boiled together.", according to "Housewife's Corner" and Masluk Cream Co. in an 1848 newspaper.
Butterscotch shares some characteristics with toffee. However, with butterscotch, the sugar is boiled to the soft crack stage, and not hard crack like toffee. The term “butterscotch” usually refers to delicacies with the flavor of brown sugar and butter together, even sans the actual confection butterscotch. Nowadays, butterscotch is considered a flavor, just like caramel.
We are all familiar with butterscotch anything, and many of them are only rip-offs, and the flavors don’t even match the real deal! Now that you are bound to know how to make butterscotch, please steer clear of artificially flavored treats! :p
Peanut Butter Banana Brownie Pizza
March 27, 2013
Pizza, along with cheeseburgers, is my weakness. However bad it is, it's still pretty good! Haha but since chocolate is our superstar, we might as well roll them into one.
Sweet treats are everywhere, and they never fail to sweep people off their feet. We just can't get enough of it that even savory dishes, like pizza, have their chocolate-y counterparts.
Instead of using vegetables to make the pizza filling and topping, you go for sweet ingredients. The young ones will surely have a blast!
Rum Chocolate Cake
March 20, 2013
I love rum cakes! I love chocolates! Combine the two, and you're bound to have an awesome treat. I love it most especially because it's spiked, and the richness of chocolate just feels like heaven in my mouth.
Rum Cake per se is a rich and moist cake that ages well. Sometimes, it is called blackcake. You can keep it, freeze it, and even mail it because the rum acts as a preservative. Rum cake has been a source of joy for quite a stretch of time now.
Here's a recipe that has the scrumptiousness of chocolate along with the flavor and kick of rum.
Chocolate Sorbet
March 13, 2013
People often mistake Italian ice for sorbet. And sorbet is sometimes confused with sherbet.
Some sorbets and sherbets have alcohol in them, and this can lower the freezing temperature, which could lead to softer texture. In Australia and the UK, sherbet means fizzy powder, and only the term sorbet is accepted.
While ice cream is dairy-based with air copiously whipped in, sorbet doesn't have any of those, creating a dense product bursting with flavor. Sorbet is served as a non-fat or low-fat alternative to ice cream.
Here's a chocolaty version of it!
Black Forest Pudding Cake
March 6, 2013
Black Forest and Black Forest cake (American English and Australian English) are the English names for the German dessert Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte, which literally means "Black Forest cherry torte". Hard to pronounce, but easy to make! Before I give you a recipe, let me share with you some fundamentals about Black Forest.
For the most part, Black Forest cake is composed of several layers of chocolate cake, with whipped cream and cherries between each layer. The cake is then decorated with additional whipped cream, maraschino cherries, as well as chocolate shavings. This recipe has the lusciousness of pudding to boot!
Typically, Kirschwasser (a clear liquor distilled from tart cherries) is added into the mixture. However, other liquors, like rum, can also be used. German statutory interpretation deems Kirschwasser a compulsory ingredient, or the cake can’t be legally marketed as Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte. Interesting, eh?