Category Archive: Chocolate

Brown Sugar Cupcakes With chocolate frosting and Chocolate Candy Recipe

 

These Cupcakes Rock!!! we all loved these cupcakes , they were gone in 2 days and we are only three in the family. I usually don’t like frosting but in this case it was different , the chocolate frosting along with candy pairs really well with the brown sugar cupcakes. The original recipe calls for  malted milk ball candy, but I used Twix candy bars because I  thought the caramel and cookie in the Twix candy bar will go really well with the brown sugar cupcakes and I was so right but of course feel free to use your favorite candy on top.

 

Ingredients:

makes 12 cupcakes

1 stick butter ( 1/2 cup)

2/3 cup light brown sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 eggs

1 3/4 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

2/3 cup milk

2 Twix candy bars chopped

For Chocolate frosting:

1 3/4 cup powdered sugar

1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1 tbsp. butter

about 2 tbsp. boiling water

 

Directions:

 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line standard muffin tin with cupcake liners.

Using electric mixer , cream butter and sugar until fluffy.

Beat in Vanilla.

Add eggs one egg at a time, beating well after each addition.

Sift flour and baking powder in a small bowl.

Fold flour mixture into butter mixture alternating with milk starting with flour and ending with flour.

Spoon cupcake mixture in liners up to two thirds full.

Bake for 20-25 minutes until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Transfer cupcakes  and let them cool completely.

To make chocolate frosting, Sift powdered sugar and cocoa powder in a bowl.

Beat in butter and add enough water for a smooth spreadable consistency.

Spread Chocolate frosting over cooled cupcakes and top with chopped Twix candy.

 

 

Source: Cupcakes & Muffins By Weldon Owen

 

 

 

 

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Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

For the last two days my son who is 28 months old been asking for cookies. He really never had cookies before but he was watching some cartoon when they were eating cookies , so it got stuck in his mind. I’m not really a cookie person , I never buy or make them and that’s why he never had them before. So I decided yesterday to make him some cookies.I made this recipe using the big milk chocolate chips, next time I will be using the small size semi sweet chocolate chips.The recipe was easy and quick  and they were done in no time. I got this recipe from Martha Stewart. Hope you like them :)
Ingredients
Yields about 3 dozen small cookies.
  • 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 cup packed light-brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 cups (about 12 ounces) semisweet and/or milk chocolate chips

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a small bowl, whisk together the flour and baking soda; set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine the butter with both sugars; beat on medium speed until light and fluffy. Reduce speed to low; add the salt, vanilla, and eggs. Beat until well mixed, about 1 minute. Add flour mixture; mix until just combined. Stir in the chocolate chips.
  2. Drop heaping tablespoon-size balls of dough about 2 inches apart on baking sheets lined with parchment paper.
  3. Bake until cookies are golden around the edges, but still soft in the center, 8 to 10 minutes( mine took about 12 mins). Remove from oven, and let cool on baking sheet 1 to 2 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack, and let cool completely. Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature up to 1 week.
I had time to take a pic of every step of the recipe , so for those visual ones out there I’m sure you will like these pictures.

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Chocolate Mousse Recipe

Never thought making chocolate mousse is that easy. I always had it in restaurants but never tried it at home. I got encouraged to do it because recently I  bought a stand up mixer and now I’m up to try any recipe even if requires  a lot of whipping which I avoided before.I substituted some of the chocolate in this with Nutella but you can stick with only chocolate.

Ingredients:

2 ounces semi sweet chocolate ( cut into small pieces)
2 ounces Nutella about 1/4 cup or (2 ounces of semi sweet chocolate)
2 large eggs separated
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup whipping cream
1/8 tsp cream of tartar
2tbs butter
2tbs sugar

Directions:

In a stainless steel bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water, melt the chocolate and butter. Remove from heat and set aside to cool for a few minutes. Then whisk in the two egg yolks. Refrigerate while you whip the egg whites and whipping cream.
In the bowl of your electric mixer (or with a hand mixer), whip the two egg whites with the cream of tartar until foamy. Gradually add  1tbs sugar and continue to beat until stiff peaks form.

In another bowl, whip the heavy cream, remaining one tablespoon sugar, and vanilla extract until soft peaks form.

Remove the chocolate mixture from the refrigerator, and stir a couple of spoonfuls of the beaten egg whites into the chocolate mixture to lighten it, and then fold the remaining whites into the chocolate mixture, gently but thoroughly. Fold in the whipped cream.

Spoon the chocolate mousse into six individual serving dishes or glasses. Cover and refrigerate for a couple of hours.

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Frozen Chocolate Wafers Recipe

This is one of my favorite desserts, it just brings memories from my childhood. The best part about it is that is so easy to make and yet so delicious. You should try this one :)

Ingredients:

5 tbs cocoa powder
6 tbs butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup milk
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
30 plain tea biscuits

Directions:

In a small sauce pan over medium heat, melt butter. Then add sugar and cocoa powder and stir until well mixed.
Gradually add milk while stirring and then add vanilla.
Get the mixture to boil and reduce heat and simmer for 2-3 mins until sauce is somehow thick.
Turn heat off and and move from gas top to cool for 5 mins.
In meanwhile break biscuits to bite size pieces.

Pour the chocolate mixture over the biscuits and mix with a wooden spoon , until all biscuits are covered with chocolate.
Over a rectangular piece of aluminum foil, pour mixture in a log form.

Roll the foil around the chocolate wafer and twist the ends.

Put in Freezer for at least 6 hours or until hard and frozen.

** If you are not serving the whole log , keep it the foil and cut as much as you want.

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Moist Chocolate Cupcakes Recipe

Recently a friend of mine was visiting and I was shocked when she told me that she doesn’t care for  chocolate. What!!! I thought those people do not exist. Who doesn’t like chocolate!!!! Although she doesn’t like chocolate she tried those cupcakes and she loved them. I think because these cupcakes do not have  chocolate in the recipe, instead it calls for cocoa powder which gives them a smooth mild chocolate flavor . So if you are looking for devil’s chocolate cupcakes this is not the recipe  you are looking for.
I like those cupcakes simple with just stawberry on top but you can have them with  frosting or whipped cream.
EnJoY:)

Yield 18 cupcakes
Ingredients
·         1 ½ cups all purpose flour
·         ½ cups cocoa powder
·         ¾ teaspoon baking soda
·         ¼ teaspoon salt
·         ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter at room temperature cut into small pieces
·         1 1/3 cups sugar
·         1 teaspoon vanilla extract
·         2 large eggs
·         1 cup milk at room temperature
Directions
1.      Preheat oven to 350 F.
2.      Wisk flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt together in a small bowl to aerate and combine, set aside
3.      In a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium high speed, beat butter until creamy, about 2 minutes.
4.      Add sugar gradually, beating until light and fluffy about 3 minutes, scraping down the bowl once or twice
5.      Beat in Vanilla extract
6.      Beat in eggs one at a time, scraping down after each addition, allowing each egg to be absorbed before continuing.
7.      Add the flour mixture in 4 additions, alternately with the milk. Begin and end with the flour mixture, and beat briefly until smooth on low speed after each addition.
8.      Divide batter evenly among cupcake wells.
9.      Bake for 22 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center shows a few moist crumbs

     

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