City Tavern Baking and Dessert Cookbook: 200 Years of Authentic American Recipes From Martha Washington’s Chocolate Mousse Cake to Thomas Jefferson’s Sweet Potato Biscuits

March 12, 2011 by  
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City Tavern Baking and Dessert Cookbook: 200 Years of Authentic American Recipes From Martha Washington’s Chocolate Mousse Cake to Thomas Jefferson’s Sweet Potato Biscuits

In this handsome sequel to the original City Tavern Cookbook, Walter Staib, the chef of America’s earliest gourmet restaurant, focuses on the baked goods and sweets that must have pleased the signers of the Declaration of Independence as much as they delight modern palates: Apple-Fig Crumble, Vanilla Bean Blanc-Mange, Martha Washington’s Chocolate Mousse Cake, Thomas Jefferson’s Sweet Potato Biscuits, and more than 175 other delicious colonial treats.

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Susan Brown Designs Dessert Themes – Frozen Chocolate Mousse – Water Bottles

March 7, 2011 by  
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Susan Brown Designs Dessert Themes – Frozen Chocolate Mousse – Water Bottles

Frozen Chocolate Mousse Water Bottle is 21oz capacity – 8 inch tall, 2.5 inch diameter. Sports bottle have become a welcome addition to today’s fitness craze. Use sports water bottle while exercising, gardening or watching sports events. Water bottle comes with image on both sides and it is top shelf dishwasher safe.

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Chocolate Dessert Recipes For Parties

May 6, 2010 by  
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People now days have little time to cook decent meals for themselves and their family let alone find the time to make a dessert of any kind. There is however nothing better than enjoying a home-made dessert and what with the huge selection of dessert, especially chocolate dessert, recipes to choose from it is easier than you think.

Although a lot of them aren’t too bad, we are not talking about boxed cake or cookie mixes here. Home-made chocolate dessert recipes will take some time to prepare and a little more time to perfect but the effort will be well worth it. Just take a quick look at some ideas you may never have even thought of before.

•    Apple Chocolate Chip Dessert Pizza
•    Black & White Chocolate Tartlets
•    Chocolate And Peanut Butter Blondies
•    Black and White Chocolate-Dipped Strawberries
•    Chocolate-Almond Ice Cream Roll
•    Chocolate Fudge Squares with Mocha Glaze
•    Chocolate Waffles With Coffee Syrup
•    Chantico Chocolate Cake

There are hundreds of chocolate dessert recipes and they will have all your taste buds begging for sweet release. It’s a dieter’s worst nightmare and once your appetite is satisfied your teeth will be left aching with mischievous pleasure.

You’ll find chocolate recipes for every occasion, from simple, quick dessert recipes to elaborate treats that will have everyone eating out of the palm of your hand. Whether you’re planning for your next dinner party or want a simple recipe the kids will enjoy, nothing says decadence like a chocolate dessert.

Working with Chocolate

Did you know different types of chocolate require different methods for cooking, and when melting chocolate it is best to use a metal spoon as wooden and plastic spoons retain moisture that will cause the chocolate to seize?

Many dessert recipes will require you to melt chocolate in a double boiler. This is really easy to set up. All you need is a glass bowl big enough to hold the chocolate and at the same time fit into the top of a sauce pan without touching the bottom. In the sauce pan you simply boil water and then place the bowl of chocolate pieces on the top of the pan, stirring constantly until the chocolate is smooth.

Fresh fruit can be a perfect and light ending to any meal. You can give it that little something extra and have melted chocolate on the table to dip the fruit into. Satisfy everyone’s taste buds.

If you want delicious dessert recipes as well as the quickest and easiest way to make them without spending hours in the kitchen, just type ‘chocolate dessert recipe’ into  your preferred search engine.

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Paleo Dessert Recipes – Important Alert: The Following Paleo Dessert Recipes Will Make You Drunk!

April 30, 2010 by  
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Who wants a couple of Paleo dessert recipes that are not only ridiculously easy to prepare, but also taste ridiculously great?

WOW! So many hands up… great! So, I want to disclose 2 Paleo diet dessert recipes that are quite simple to make, yet taste really yummy.

Wait, did I hear someone say “that’s it? Only 2 measly recipes?”

Alight, alright, to be honest, I have a ton of Paleo dessert recipes neatly tucked away in one of my computer folders. Since, I have very limited space here, I’ll share only a couple of recipes – sorry!

To make it up to you, I’ll reveal the place where you can download those recipes to your computer. They can be found in some highly organized Paleo cookbooks, so check them out after these 2 recipes.

Besides, the author will be fuming mad if I reveal all her recipes here!

Okay, enough jabbering, here are your “caveman” dessert recipes… These desserts are so good; you’ll feel drunk with joy after eating them!

Dessert Recipe 1: Paleo Coco Pudding

Ingredients: ¼ Cup of carob powder, 1 tablespoon raw honey, 1 medium ripe banana, 2 small ripe avocados

Directions: Place carob powder and honey in a food processor. Next, slice the banana and avocado into chunks and throw them in the food processor. Finally, blend the mixture until it becomes thick and smooth.

Dessert Recipe 2: Special Paleo Brownies

Ingredients: Approximately ¼ cup of coconut oil, 2 ¼ cups of almond flour, 1 teaspoon organic kelp granules (salt alternative), 1 teaspoon baking soda and 2 pears (use food processor to puree them first!)

Directons: Set flour aside but dump all ingredients in a food processor. Blend until the mixture becomes buttery. Now put the flour in and blend.

Spread some coconut oil evenly on a baking pan. Also, sprinkle a bit of almond flour on the pan.
Pour mixture into the pan, spread it well and bake at 350 degrees for approximately 30 – 35 minutes.

Now, enjoy these Paleo dessert recipes!

As promised earlier, here’s the place to download a set of cookbooks that contain hundreds of Paleo recipes. Desserts, main courses, appetizers, special chocolate recipes and more – they are all covered in those books. Just follow this link: http://www.paleorecipecookbooks.info/

Sam Hutchinson is a junior pastry chef and a follower of the Paleo diet. To download cookbooks containing stacks of tasty Paleolithic diet recipes, (including many Paleo dessert recipes as well) Click here.


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Easy Chocolate Dessert Recipe

March 25, 2010 by  
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Chocolate is one of the oldest processed foods enjoyed over the past millennium. It came from the tropical tree called cocoa. This tree is native to South America, Central America and Mexico. The seeds of the cocoa tree are dried and fermented and finally grounded and liquefied. As a result of these processes, pure unsweetened chocolate is formed.

There are different kinds of chocolate. Each is classified according to its composition and color. Milk chocolate is the combination of sugar, cocoa butter and milk. It is considered not a true chocolate because of the absence of cocoa solids formed from the processes involved in production of pure chocolate. White chocolate can be consumed by animals. The addition of sugar and fats makes up the third kind of chocolate. Dark chocolate has high cocoa content and is believed to have health benefits by reducing the occurrence of heart attack. One example of dark chocolate is semisweet chocolate which is used in cooking recipes. Sometimes vanilla is added for a more pleasing aroma.

Chocolate is enjoyed in a wide variety of preparations nowadays. If one would go to a nearby restaurant, cafeteria or snack bar, one would definitely come across chocolates in various attractive servings ranging from breads, cakes, drinks and ice creams.

Below is an easy chocolate dessert recipe that you can enjoy doing. It’s a recipe on how to make your ice cream richer, creamier and attractive when served after a sumptuous meal. It is very easy to prepare.

Chocolate Caramel Sauce
Ingredients:
½ gallon vanilla ice cream of any flavor
10 caramels
¾ cup of Nestle Carnation Evaporated Milk
1 ¾ cups of Nestle Toll House Milk Chocolate Morsels

Directions:Combine caramels, 1 ½ cups morsels and evaporated milk in a saucepan under low heat. Continuously stir until mixture is smooth. Serve as a topping on ice cream.

This easy chocolate recipe has an estimated cooking time of ten minutes. It yields to seven servings of ¼ cup each. In case of left over, refrigerate and reheat in saucepan while continuously stirring.

You can also use this sauce to add flavor to your brownies and cheesecakes. You can even add peanut butter chips, colored chocolate chips to make it more attractive for kids. This stuff is heavenly and your friends will compliment you for its rich and tempting taste.

This is just an example of an easy to prepare chocolate recipe. Other recipes vary from their ingredients, procedures, cooking time, skill level and the number of servings. Nestle, a multinational packaged food company, offers a wide range of easy chocolate recipes for you to choose from to fit your interests. With its line of chocolate products, dairy products, and ice cream you can surely select a wide variety of easy recipe suggestions to satisfy your eagerness to learn more about easy chocolate recipes.

These easy chocolate recipes let you spend little time in your kitchen yet let you delight anybody’s taste buds. These are easy to follow recipes that you alone can enjoy doing even on a busy day. Enjoy the chocolates. Enjoy the recipes.

More recipes can be found at the Easy Chocolate Dessert Recipes site.