Dark Chocolate Bread Pudding with Crystalized Ginger, Caramel Drizzle, and Crème Fraîche
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Christmas Dinner for Six
Who doesn’t love a Christmas Lasagna! Pop it into a multi-course lineup that includes a savory cheesecake, Opah, salad, butterflake rolls, and chocolate stout cake and you’ve got an epic celebration.
Salted Caramel Six Layer Chocolate Cake
Martha Stewart’s recipe for Salted-Caramel Six-Layer Chocolate Cake uses Dutch process cocoa powder as well as semisweet chocolate, so it’s black as night, but packed with true chocolate flavor. Nothing beats homemade caramel, and the caramel-chocolate pairing is intense. This cake is not for the timid.
Molten Chocolate Lava Cake:
Ooey, Gooey, and Double-Baked
This molten chocolate cake is the final post in our three-part chocolate cake binge. It’s intensely chocolaty: melted chocolate compounded with a ton of cocoa. It’s best freshly baked, but you can easily re-moltenize the lava, as it reheats well in the microwave.
Chocolate Birthday Baileys Surprise Cake
Chocolate Birthday Baileys Surprise Cake, is a Dutch-process, hot water chocolate, four-layer cake with an espresso-laced Baileys filling and a triple cream (sour, cheese, whipping) frosting. Buttermilk makes it rich, oil (rather than butter) makes it moist, and dark, dark cocoa gives it its profound flavor.
Make Your Own Thin Mints
How to make your own Thin Mints, using a chocolate cake mix or Ritz crackers. This is a review of two popular methods, and includes advice about easy-yet-successful ways to work with chocolate.
Madre Chocolate
In this post, Keith and I review three chocolate bars from Madre Chocolate, a bean-to-bar Hawaiian producer who uses beans grown in the Kona region. Two thumbs up!
Cinna-Choco Cakeughnut
The Cinna-Choco Cakeughnut is made out of cinnamon doughnuts! Topped with a delicious chocolate glaze! This recipe is easy; it’s hardly more difficult than following box-cake directions . It relies on day-old, old-fashioned, cake-style doughnuts. You can make it with fresh doughnuts, however, if you follow the directions precicely.