Simple Chocolate Mouse

The preparation...

I also added some choco chips...

Ready to eat...

Yummy Sunday

Chocolaty Multi-grain Pancake

It's not from scratch but I added chocolate powder and chips to the multi-grain pancake mix. It turned out like chocolate brownies or simply chocolate cake, and dding cream on top made it rich taste.

Hot Pot Chocolate (Fondue)

I'll be moving back to the Philippines for good, I'll be busy and while I'm away, here's a treat to everyone! I'll be back posting once I'm settled. See you guys when I get back. Cheers!

Time to dip the Pancake Muffin and Choco Coconut Balls in this small pot I bought in Dante Coffee. For those who love chocolate, never mind if it's summer, just let it cool first before eating :) The kids love it!

Chocolate Chip Walnut Bars

How many hearts can you see?

A big hit! Just by looking at it you can tell it's really good and what more if you have a piece in your hand. First time to make bars and I'll make again and again, changing or adding ingredients more next time.  This Chocolate Chip and Walnut Bars is dapted from my cookbook Hmmm Baking. I don't have a square baking sheet, but I managed to cut them in bars. I used bitter-sweet chocolate chips and didn't add much sugar.

Walnut-Mallow Brownie Bites

For today I made another creation of my last pouch of brownies mix. My friends enjoyed eating this brownies with walnuts and melted marshmallow on top. Good thing about marshmallow in here is not that sweet. It's not a new recipe to everyone, but I made it for an experience and I think kids will love it . I also added more water to the mixture, it came out like soft cake. The soft cake, crunchy walnuts, and chewy marshmallow made it really taste good.

Cream Cheese Brownie Bites



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I'm trying to use all the brownie mix I have before the heat begins. I don't think I would stay in the kitchen to bake by then. This is second to the last pack and I decided to make into mini-cupcake with cream cheese frosting and decorated with colorful candies to catch up Mayflower season. I still have to improve the process of making frost. I admit, I'm having a hard time when it comes to frosting.

Vanilla Chocolate Chip Cookies

I found a box of Vanilla Cookie Powder in the supermarket, out of curiosity I bought it and added bitter-sweet chocolate chips. I couldn't really taste the vanilla flavor, maybe because I added a spoon of honey. But I ate three in one sitting with my hot green tea.

Banana Walnut Choco-Chip Cookies

It's second time around, much improved than my first Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies. The process is just the same except choco-chips met walnuts and they really blend together. As I mentioned, it's just like eating a piece of banana bread. This time it's chewy and crunchy plus much sweeter.

Banana Chocolate Brownies

The premixed brownies are too sweet for me, that's why I find ways how to improve the taste. This time I added one cup of whole wheat flour, additional water and oil to the original instruction from the box. For final addition, two mashed bananas :)

Chocolate Light Cheese Cake

I prepared this as one of the desserts on Chinese New Year dinner at home. I admit I have a hard time doing this chocolate cheese cake adapted from Cheese by Alex Goh's Cookbook of Hong Kong. It should be feather light cheesecake, and I didn't follow the ingredients and procedure that's why the come out looks like saggy. I should remove the cake from the pan immediately. Still, it tasted creamy especially after I refrigerated it.

250g fresh milk

20g butter (I always use the stick butter kind equivalent to 100g, then I just divided it)

125g light cream cheese

50g flour

50g sugar (I used brown)

50g chocolate powder (I used unsweetened)

3 egg yolks

3 egg whites

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

little bit of cream of tartar (about 1/8 teaspoon)

pinch of salt

In a pan, cook milk and butter until it boil (set aside). In a mixing bowl, cream the cream cheese until smooth, add the boiling milk and butter then mix until well blended. Add the flour into the cheese mixture and beat until well blended. Place the cheese mixture  over double-broiler, mix until thickens. Remove from the double broiler.  Add the egg yolks and mix until well blended.

In another bowl,whip the egg whites in until foamy, add cream of tartar, sugar, chocolate powder, and salt. Continue whipping until soft peaks. Add into cheese mixture and keep mixing until  well incorporated. Pour the batter into a prepared pan. Bake in water bath at 160 for 50-60 minutes until the center is set and golden brown. Remove the cake from the pan immediately, let it cool.

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Choco-Candy Cookies

As I've mentioned in my previous post, Chinese New Year means the beginning of Spring. To welcome the spring, colorful spring candies are available everywhere. Sometimes, I just need to be creative to come up with what available I have  like this choco-candy cookies. I only used the ready-mix brownies and place some choco-candies to make them colorful.

1 pack ready mix brownies, mix as directed in the package plus add 1/2 cup all purpose flour. Bake only for 20-30 minutes. Let it cool, make a ball and roll in powder sugar. Press in the middle and place choco-candy. Bake again for another 15 mintues. The coated sugar will be melted, to make the cookies a little bit hard and chewy.

I brought this to our get-together lunch earlier.

Happy Chinese New Year!

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Creamy Chocolate Brownies

Here's my first baked for 2011. Once again, no exact recipe. The ingredients I used were the only available in my kitchen. I added crumbled oatmeal and mixed nut cookies (my sister made them), and used Godiva dark chocolate powder. Instead of milk or buttert milk, I used all purpose cream.

1 cup cake flour
1/2 cup cocoa/chocolate powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
100 g butter
250 ml all purpose cream
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
1 cup crumbled oatmeal cookies

In a bowl, whisk mix flour, cocoa powder, and baking soda.

In a mixture, whip the butter, sugar, and vanilla. Add egg and mix up well. Slowly add half of the he dry ingredients, and half of cream. Continue adding the dry ingredients and the rest of the cream. Make sure all the ingredients are well mixed. Add the crumbled oatmeal, whisking with spatula.

Fill the pan with batter, and bake for 35 - 40 minutes in 180°C (350°F). Let it cool, cut into a small square.

Happy New Year!

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Home-made Dark Chocolate Truffles

OK fine, I'm a chocolate eater only if it's dark. Sometimes, I can eat a box (12 pieces) in one sitting while watching TV. It would be nice if I will learn how to make chocolate, as a start I have here Truffles. Truffles are very cheap here in Costco, but they are made of milk-chocolate. I made them into cubes instead of cirlces :)

I adapted this recipe from Famous French Dessert. The mistake I made here was I refrigerated the truffles first before I rolled in cocoa powder. That's why the outcome looks like wet.(I know better next time!)

8 oz 70% dark chocolate (break into small pieces)

1 cup cream (I used all purpose)

1 cup cocoa powder (I used Godiva cocoa)

Place the chocolate in a large bowl, then set aside. Slightly boil the cream, pour the cream over chocolate and keep stirring until the chocolates melted. Keep stirring until the gnache (chocolate mix) thickens and warm. Spread the gnache in a wax paper. Slice the gnache into a small cube. Roll the gnache in cocoa powder.

Voila! Home-made Dark Chocolate Truffles!

Note: This can be made into ball, roll it with other toppings like coconut, butter, and other variations.

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Diverse Chocolate Cake

I know there are lots of recipes about chocolate cake. This time, I would say I made my chocolate cake into diversity. Well, I used ready mix DIY (Do It Yourself) Japanese Chocolate Cake Mix. The box has 200g cocoa flour mix and 100g sugar. Then, the preparation and cooking was inspired from  Giuliano Gasali's Kitchen 05 Cookbook. The come out is more of brownies :) look!

200g chocolate flour
100g sugar
250g chocolate  (I used sweetened)
125g butter
6 egg yolks
6 egg whites
2 tablespoon rum (optional)
chocolate sauce (optional)





Here's the preparation:

 Sprinkle with icing sugar and cut into slices. Serve with the chocolate sauce (optional).

Serve with ice cream on top.

or

Serve on top of the ice cream.

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