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Mmmmmmm. Chocolate.

It is no secret that I love chocolate. White chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate. The chocolate oranges that you whack to break apart, candy bars, chocolate chip cookies, chocolate-covered pretzels, chocolate truffles (easiest ever are from one of Marcel Desaulniers’ cookbooks), hot chocolate on a winter day. A couple of years ago, my husband gave me this luscious chocolate-brown long winter coat for Christmas. Chocolate everything.

In celebration of the “What’s Your Chocolate?” blog hop today, I’m sharing my favorite chocolate recipe, a flourless torte adapted from one that appeared in the first issue of Chocolatier magazine. ( Read the rest of this entry � )

Originally published at Erin M. Hartshorn. You can comment here or there.

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Mmmm. Chocolate chip cookies

Yes, I’m grateful for chocolate chip cookies. I’m grateful for how easy they are to make, how good they taste (with or without nuts), how much my family appreciates it when I make them. There’s nothing quite like taking a break in the middle of working to have a hot cup of tea and a couple of cookies. Of course, then I have to plan for some exercise to work off those cookies, but that’s okay.

Mmmmm. Chocolate.

Originally published at Erin M. Hartshorn. You can comment here or there.

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Free chocolate?

Found via YumSugar: Mars is giving away coupons on Fridays through September for bags of Twix, Dove, etc.

Check out RealChocolate.com. If you're one of the first 250,000 on a given Friday to visit (or the first 500,000 today), you get the coupon! Or that's the theory, anyway. I did the registration, but didn't get any coupon to download. Maybe they're going to send it to me via mail?

UPDATE: I received an e-mail this morning saying that yes, I do get the coupon . . . it will be mailed to me, and I should see it in about six weeks. O.o

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Monday food musings

This weekend, I made Dark Chocolate Flan With New Mexican Chili, Cinnamon and Pepita Praline from a recipe in the New York Times' Dining Section. (From an article titled "You Call That Pudding, Grandma?")

Notes:

This is insanely rich. The flan is about an inch high, as wide as a normal bread pan, and I'm making slices maybe 1/4 inch thick. Maybe. Those who know how much I love dessert might want to be careful making this unless they have *lots* of people on hand to help eat it. And, in my opinion, it's a lot more similar to a flourless chocolate torte than to a custard.

When it says to use butter on the waxed paper with the pepitas, do it. A good, thick layer. Plain wax paper will not work. Nor will butter-flavored cooking spray. Also, where the recipe says "Butter for pan," yes, that does mean butter the loaf pan you're putting the flan into.

It's pepitas brittle, not pralines.

Current Mood: complacent

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chocolate torte

I thought

cammykitty would enjoy this, and Val agreed that I should post it.

6 ounces very good bittersweet chocolate (I use Scharffenberger, 70% cacao), chopped
1/4 cup strong brewed coffee

6 ounces unsalted butter, softened

3/4 cup white sugar
4 large eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla extract

Wrap bottom of springform pan in foil. Spray inside of pan with cooking spray. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Place the chocolate and coffee together into a double boiler over hot water for 5 minutes. Remove from heat, let sit 5-10 minutes. Whisk until smooth. Add butter.

In large bowl, combine sugar, eggs, and vanilla. Beat. Pour chocolate mixture in while stirring constantly.

Pour batter into prepared springform pan. Bake 30-35 minutes.

Let cool before releasing from pan and serving.

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I may tinker with the recipe a bit; it came out a bit cake-like, and I'd like it more like a fallen soufflé, I think.