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Monday, March 17, 2014

CHOCOLATE MARSHMALLOW BROWNIE PIE

Ive noticed a trend on my birthday (which is today); it seems I always treat myself to something CHOCOLATE!! Todays birthday post is ULTRA-chocolate (and delicious).

It starts with a rich brownie layer that you top with miniature marshmallows while it is still piping hot out of the oven. Then it is topped with a rich chocolate glaze and sprinkled with lots of toasted sliced almonds. It was heavenly!!

BROWNIE LAYER
In a small bowl whisk the following ingredients together:

3/4 cup all purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt

In a different bowl, beat the following together:

1/2 cup butter melted
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla

Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until smooth.

Place batter in a greased 9" round pan (spring form pan works the best) and bake in a 350°F oven for 25-30 minutes or until toothpick tests clean (my electric oven took 25 minutes).

Remove from oven (and turn oven off). Top HOT cake with miniature marshmallows (I used about 4 large handfuls) and put it back in the hot oven for 2-3 minutes or until marshmallows have puffed up a little. Remove from oven.

FUDGE FROSTING

6 tablespoons melted butter
6 tablespoons BOILING water
6 tablespoons dry cocoa powder
2 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Whisk until smooth. Gently pour (evenly) over the warm marshmallows and then sprinkle with TOASTED sliced almonds (nuts optional). If you dont like nuts, colored sprinkles look festive too.

Let everything cool off a little, then put it in the fridge for about an hour to "set" the chocolate frosting. Bring the cake back to room temperature before serving.

NOTE: You can bake this in ANY greased 9" cake pan, but a two piece spring form pan will allow you to remove the cake a little easier. If you use a 2 piece pan, make sure you put a cookie sheet under the pan.

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Chocolate Chilli Ice cream

This has been on my list of must makes for about two years since I first tasted it at the Appleby Manor Hotel. I love the combination of the rich chocolate, the cold ice-cream and the sweet heat of the chillies. We ate this on Christmas Eve with homemade mini mince pies filled with my Chocolate Mincemeat and it proved very popular, although my son would have been up for even more chilli!
I am entering this for the Sweet Heat Challenge #3 Christmas

The recipe is adapted from a couple of different ones, so here is what I did:

Chocolate Chilli Ice Cream

600ml double cream (you can use 300ml milk and 300ml dbl cream)

200g Dark Chocolate

4 large egg yolks

100g caster sugar

3 red chillies

1/4 tsp chilli powder

Slice the chillies and add with the cream to a saucepan, include the chilli seeds.

Warm the cream until just below boiling point then leave to infuse for 30 minutes.

Strain the chillies and seeds from the cream, add the chilli powder and reheat the cream.

Mix the egg yolks and sugar in a bowl and slowly pour the cream onto the eggs stirring all the time.

Return the egg mixture to the saucepan along with 150g of the dark chocolate broken up into small pieces, heat gently stirring until the mixture thickens slightly. Remove from the heat and let it cool in the fridge.

Chop the rest of the chocolate and stir this into the mixture once it is cool.

At this point it is ready for the ice cream maker (if you dont have one then you can freeze it in a shallow box but you will have to keep taking it out of the freezer and beating it every 30-40 minutes) once it has thickened and frozen in the ice cream maker, decant it into a box and freeze.

Homemade ice creams generally need around 30 minutes out of the freezer before serving.

Friday, February 28, 2014

Chocolate cake

Chocolate cake

Ingredients
Butter 8 ounces
Caster sugar 7 ounces
Flour 6 ounces
Coco powder 2 ounces
Baking powder 2 tsp heaped
Vanilla essence 2 tsp
Eggs 4
Milk ½ cup
Method
Beat butter and sugar till light and fluffy add essence add in 1 egg at a time, alternating with sieved mixture of flour, coco and baking powder till 4 eggs have been added, fold in the remaining flour and coco with ½ cup milk. Line a 10 x 10 inch square pan with butter paper, pour the cake mixture, and bake for 40 minutes on 190 degrees. Remove and cool.
Ingredients for chocolate icing
Butter 6 ounces
Icing sugar 12 ounces
Coco powder 3 tbsp heaped
Hot water 3 tbsp
Method
Beat butter gradually adding in icing sugar and coco alternating with hot water, beat well, ice your cake with this icing, and decorate with chocolate decoration.

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Chia Chocolate Pudding – Sort of a Pet Project

If you’re my age, you can’t hear the word “chia” without thinking of the famous 1980’s commercial, and its “cha cha cha chia” jingle. That did make it a little tougher taking this seed seriously as a legitimate recipe ingredient, but as long as you manage expectations, it proved its worth beyond a gardening option for lazy people.

If you’re looking for a rich and decadent chocolate pudding then keep moving. As nutritious as this “superfood” is supposed to be, you can’t expect the same results substituting bird seeds for eggs, butter, and cream. That said, if you’re craving something sweet, relatively chocolately, and comparatively healthful, then chia seeds may be a good option.

Chia seeds are all the rage right now, and are usually seen in breakfast pudding form. In fact, I learned about them after seeing this on my friend Elizabeth’s blog, Saffron Lane. I’ve never been a big breakfast pudding guy, so I decide to do a dessert for my first attempt. Plus, I needed an excuse to use chocolate covered hemp seeds.

Theyre incredible easy to work with, and I look forward to doing more experiments. If you have any tips or tricks I should know about, please feel free to pop off. And if you’ve never tried using chia seeds before (the pet plant doesn’t count), I hope you give this a try soon. Enjoy!

Ingredients for 2 servings:

1/4 cup chia seeds

1 tablespoon brown sugar

1 tablespoon white sugar

2 tablespoons cocoa powder

1/2 teaspoon instant coffee

1/4 tsp vanilla

a few grains of salt

1 cup milk
chocolate covered hemp seeds, optional

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Chocolate Soufflés with Nougat Whip Warning Intended for Mature Audiences

Chocolate Soufflés with Nougat Whip Photo (c) SmithBites.com

My friend, Linda from Salty Seattle, called this Chocolate Soufflés with Nougat Whip video, “porn without people,” and I couldn’t agree more. The term “food porn” gets thrown around way too easily these days. Sorry, that picture of your red velvet cupcakes was nice, but it wasn’t really pornographic. This, however, could make you blush. By the way, the surface temperature of a blushing face is the exact temperature at which chocolate melts. Coincidence?

This semi-sweet tour-de-force is from Debra and Rod “The Professor” Smith, from SmithBites.com. I’m relatively new to their work, but quite impressed to say the least. I’m very proud Food Wishes helped pioneer the chef-less recipe video, but this is taking that idea to a whole other place – surreal and viscerally sensual, yet still comforting and familiar. Please follow this link to check out the original post, and see more of their fine work. Enjoy!

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Paleo No She Didnt! Featuring Ginger not bread and Paleo Hot Chocolate

Over the summer, I got the harebrained idea to start a Paleo cooking web series, and because YouTube is free to anyone with an internet connection and a dream, I finally got my life together enough to put the first episode together for you.

Im proud to present "Paleo No She Didnt!" A show about how I bastardize what it means to eat paleo. This week, Im kicking things off with two holiday favorites: Gingerbread and Hot Chocolate! I hope you like it!