Ilona's Favorite Chocolate Desserts
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From One Chocolate Lover To Another, My Favorite Chocolate Dessert Recipes
The one thing all these desserts have in common is the addition of rich chocolate flavor as the main ingredient. Do not only read, gaze and dream- bake and eat!
Rich dark chocolate cake and fudge icing, easy brownies full of cocoa flavor and walnuts, Auntie Mary cookies with melting chocolate filling, and a cream cheese cake with sweet chocolate flavor... delve in and indulge.
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Contents at a Glance
Serious Baking Chocolate
Baker's German Chocolate, 4-Ounce Bars (Pack of 4)
Amazon Price: $20.11 (as of 06/01/2012)
When you are serious about baking chocolate desserts get lots of good quality chocolate.
The BEST Chocolate Cake
Chocolate Velvet Cake
Moist with Fudge Buttercream Icing
Ingredients
- 1 6 oz. pkg. chocolate chips
- 1/4 c. water
- 2 1/4 c. sifted flour
- 1 tsp. soda
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1 3/4 c. sugar
- 3/4 c. softened butter
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 3 eggs
- 1cup water
- ICING:
- 6 oz. chocolate chips
- 3 T. butter
- 1/4 c. milk
- 1 t.sp. vanilla
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 3 c. confectioner's sugar
Instructions
1.Melt chocolate chips with 1/4 c. water in saucepan over low heat until smooth.
2.Sift flour, soda, and salt together.
3.Combine sugar,butter,and vanilla,beat well. Add eggs one at a time, beating well.
4. Blend in melted chocolate to egg mixture
5. Stir in flour mixture alternating with 1 c. water.
6. Pour into two greased and floured 9" cake pans.
7. Bake for 30-35 minutes @ 375° . Cool.
Icing:
1. Melt chocolate and butter in double boiler.
2. Add milk, vanilla, and salt; mix until well blended.
3. Beat in confectioner's sugar gradually.
Frost and fill Chocolate Velvet Cake.
Aprons and Baking Go Together
the cuter the apron, the better
Auntie Mary Cookies
The melted chocolate is in the center
- Serves: 4 dozen cookies
- Total Time: 4 hrs or more
Folded inside rich cream cheese pastry is a melty chocolate filling. One of my family's favorites.
Ingredients
- 1 c. softened butter
- 8 oz. softened cream cheese
- 1/2 c. sugar
- 1/2 c. packed brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- filling for dough:
- 2/3 c. sweet condensed milk
- 4 oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 c. chopped walnuts (optional)
- Powdered sugar
Instructions
Filling: In medium saucepan combine condensed milk and chocolate chips. Cook over medium heat until chocolate is melted (best to use double boiler). Remove from heat; stir in nuts. Cool to room temperature.
Dough: In large bowl with mixer at medium speed, cream butter, cream cheese and sugars until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla and beat until well mixed. Stir in flour, baking powder and salt. Divide dough into quarters and form a ball. Wrap in waxed paper; refrigerate 2 to 24 hours. Roll balls on floured surface to form 10 x 6 inch rectangle. Spread filling lengthwise down center of each. Fold in thirds, transfer to greased cookie sheets, seam down.
Bake approximately 20 minutes at 350 degrees or until light brown. Cool on racks. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and cut each roll in 12 slices. Makes 4 dozen. Store in airtight container, room temperature up to 3 weeks or freeze up to 3 months.
Chocolate Cheesecake Swirl
a very easy and quick recipe
- Serves: 10
- Total Time: 1 hr 20 min.
The chocolate is swirled throughout the rich cheesecake. Simple to make.
Ingredients
- 1 c. sugar
- 3 (8 oz. each) pkgs. cream cheese- softened.
- 5 eggs
- 1 tbsp. vanilla
- 1 (4 oz.) pkg. Baker's German sweet chocolate -melted and cooled.
Instructions
Add sugar to cheese in a bowl, beating well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla. Measure 2 cups of: the cheese mixture,; fold in chocolate. Pour remaining cheese mixture into well-buttered 10 inch pie pan or 9-inch square pan.
Add spoonfuls of the chocolate-cheese mixture and zig-zag a spatula through batter to marble. Bake at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes. Cool; then chill. Cut in 9 inch wedges.
*** for just chocolate flavor add 1 more pkg. Baker's German sweet chocolate and mix all together in batter.
I Love Chocolate
...just like millions of you do!
Full of chocolate flavor and highlighting the best ingredients in a way that fulfills my desire for the way the baked goodies ought to taste. Moist or cakey, fudgy and rich - it doesn't matter as long as it is the best incarnation of its kind in a chocolate dessert.
I don't mind a box of chocolates, either.
My Favorite Brownies
the best brownie recipe
- Serves: 1 -I'm kidding. makes 2 dozen brownies
I don't usually frost my brownies, but there is an icing recipe included, for those of you who do.
(hint) Don't ever overbake brownies.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 2 cup sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 4 squares baking chocolate
- 1 cup sifted flour
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
Instructions
Melt butter and chocolate in double boiler. Cool slightly.
Beat eggs until foamy and add sugar gradually. Add butter and chocolate mixture, blend. Add the flour. Add nuts. Stir together and pour into greased 9x9x2 " pan. Bake at 325° for 40-50 minutes.
Optional chocolate icing:
2 c. sugar
1/2 c. white corn syrup
3/4 c. heavy cream
1 square chocolate
1 tsp. vanilla
3 T. butter
Melt first three ingredients to the softball stage, add the resulting syrup to butter, add vanilla and beat well.
Mocha Walnut Drops
- Serves: 24 3" cookies
A favorite for Christmas... though I didn't include it in my Christmas cookie collection yet....
Ingredients
- One 12 oz. package semi-sweet chocolate chips -divided
- 2 T. instant coffee granules
- 2 tsp. boiling water
- 1 1/4 c. all purpose flour
- 3/4 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 c. softened butter
- 1/2 c. sugar
- 1/2 c. packed brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 c. chopped nuts
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350°
Melt half the package of chocolate chips over hot but not boiling water in double boiler. Stir until smooth, then cool.
Dissolve coffee in boiling water in small bowl, set aside.
In small bowl combine flour, baking soda,salt and set aside.
In large bowl combine butter, sugar, brown sugar, and coffee. Beat until creamy.
Add egg and melted morsels; mix well.
Gradually add the flour mixture, stir in remaining 1 1/2 c. chips and the walnuts.
Drop by rounded Tablespoons onto ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake 8-12 minutes, allow to stand 2-3 minutes before removing from cookie sheets. Cool completely before storing.
Best Chocolate Dessert Cookbook
Maida Heatter's Book of Great Chocolate Desserts
Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 06/01/2012)
It is a classic cookbook of the richest chocolate desserts on the planet.
Chocolate Dessert Tips
Don't ever burn chocolate... not even a hint of it. That is why melting chocolate calls for a double boiler. Basically that is cooking the pan of the chocolate over a pan of hot water, just to melt the chocolate.Any chocolate chips can work, but better quality chocolate means better tasting final product.
Double Boiler
to melt the chocolate perfectly
Farberware Classic Series 2-Quart Saucepan with Double Boiler Insert and Lid
Amazon Price: $31.00 (as of 06/01/2012)
This is a good quality, while not too expensive double boiler pot. It is serviceable for all your chocolate melting needs I think. I've used Farberware pots, my mother and my grandmother used them. They last, and they look good. More importantly they cook and clean well.
The Best Brownies Should Always...
be the way I like them :)
I say cakelike brownies are the best way to enjoy them, and add walnuts while you are at it; my kids say fudgelike and no nuts! What is your opinion?
What is your opinion on the texture of brownies ?
I'm with you, CAKELIKE
Brownies should always be fudgy, and that is all I have to say about it.
KateHon says:
Fudgy brownies are tops in my book!
Heather426 says:
fudgy
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blackspanielgallery
May 23, 2012 @ 9:45 pm | delete
- Nice lens
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KateHon
May 16, 2012 @ 11:24 pm | delete
- The chocolate swirl cheesecake makes me swoon! Kudos on being featured on the chocolate monsterboard!
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Ilona1
May 25, 2012 @ 7:51 am | delete
- thank you- it is an honor to be featured in the community of Squidoo!
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smithlights
Jun 18, 2011 @ 1:38 am | delete
- This lens is going to be very bad for me!
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Ilona1
Jun 26, 2011 @ 3:30 pm | delete
- go ahead.. indulge. chocolate is good for you ( its the other stuff you have to watch out for) That's what I tell myself when serious temptation for chocolate kicks in....
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