Chocolate Recipes

Chocolate is used in many of the foods we eat but is most famous for being made into deserts. Who can say they do not like chocolate cake or chocolate pudding? There are very few people that can honestly say they do not like chocolate. There are thousands of recipes for chocolate deserts or chocolate snacks. There are chocolate deserts that you have to bake and others that do not require heating up the oven at all.

Our favorite fudge recipe is quick and easy and does not require the oven:

Ingredients:

2 cups of chocolate chips
1 fourteen ounce can of sweet condensed milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract
¼ cup of chopped walnuts

Place the chocolate chips, sweet condensed milk, and vanilla into a microwavable dish and place it is the microwave for about two to three minutes or until the chocolate has melted into the milk. Add the nuts to the mixture and pour into a small container. Place it in the refrigerator for about two hours or until the fudge is hard and able to be cut. Cut it into one inch pieces and enjoy.

Variations:

1 – Use white chocolate instead of dark chocolate and use the same method.

2 – Pour half of the mixture into a graham cracker crust and either slice some bananas on top of it or some cut berries. Cover the bananas or berries with the remainder of the fudge mixture and refrigerate. When ready to serve, cut slices and add whipped cream to each serving and serve.

3 – Serve the fudge as a side with vanilla ice cream and fruit topping.

4 – Make on batch of white chocolate and one batch or dark chocolate and place them into two separate containers spreading each batch fairly thin. When they have hardened cover the white layer with either peanut butter or your favorite preserves and cover it with the dark chocolate. Return it all to the refrigerator and let it set up. When it is hard then place it on a cutting board with the white chocolate layer on top and drizzle with melted chocolate. Cut into one inch squares and serve with ice cream. The end product here should be two layers of fudge with a filling.  It’s a very rich desert but absolutely delicious.

Lava Cupcakes

Ingredients:

You favorite chocolate cake recipe,or a box mix for a chocolate cake
About one cup of chocolate chips

Procedure:

Make your chocolate cupcakes using your favorite recipe, or in accordance with the directions on the cake mix

When you have the batter in the cupcake molds, drop about one
tablespoon of chocolate chips into the center of each batter filled mold.

Bake according to directions

What will happen here is that while the cupcakes are baking the chocolate chips are melting consequently, the finished cupcake will have a liquid center when it is ready to be served.

Serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and a scoop of whipped cream and savor the double chocolate flavor.