Archive for the ‘Chocolate’ Category

A little bitter, a little sweet

April 27, 2009 | Posted as Chocolate at 12:21 pm | Comments »

For me, bittersweet chocolate is where it’s at. Oh, I enjoy snacking on the occasional milk chocolate bar (especially if it’s something excellent like Lindt), but as a baker I must absolutely have bittersweet chocolate in the house at all times. Bittersweet chocolate contains no milk. It’s basically unsweetened chocolate with a little sugar and [...]

Chocolate Mousse Cake

March 31, 2009 | Posted as Cake Recipes, Celebrity Cooks, Chocolate at 12:34 pm | Comments »

Before anything else: this cake is not a pretty one. It is at its most basic a recipe for chocolate mousse that you stick in a tin and bake in an oven. But oh my, if you like chocolate, this tastes amazing. It’s light and melts in your mouth, yet is impossibly rich. And because [...]

The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes

March 20, 2009 | Posted as Chocolate, Cookie Recipes at 3:22 pm | (3) Comments »

I’ll admit it: Chocolate Chip are my favorite kind of cookie. They’re one of the few cookies I actually get cravings for, and whether they’re chewy or crunchy or cakey, I always say bring ‘em on! Also: the best chocolate chip cookies are always the ones you’ve just brought out of the oven. Indeed, even [...]

Sinfully Silky Chocolate Buttercream

March 6, 2009 | Posted as Chocolate at 11:21 am | (9) Comments »

This- this silky and smooth, rich but impossibly light buttercream- is my favorite chocolate frosting of them all. Oh, I love ganache of course, and the truth is I’ll never say no to the old powdered-sugar-meets-butter frostings of my childhood- but this buttercream, an Italian Meringue Buttercream with melted chocolate mixed in, definitely tops my [...]

Nigella’s Intense Chocolate Cookies

December 23, 2008 | Posted as Celebrity Chefs, Chocolate, Cookie Recipes at 11:27 am | (1) Comment »

var iamInit = function() {try{initIamServingHandler(234,341,371648,”http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/Resources/Css/css2.css”)}catch(ex){}}() I am a big chocolate lover and for Christmas dinner, I think I shall try my hand at Nigella’s version of chocolate cookies. I have not tried to make them myself but a friend, who is an avid baker, told me that these cookies are to die for! Here is [...]