There is something just so comforting and delicious about chocolate.
For years, whenever my friends and I would get together, we would have a bowl of chocolate dessert in front of us. Bake a chocolate cake in a single layer & let it cool. Poke a few holes in the top and pour some Kahlua over it. In the meantime, make some chocolate mousse and some fresh whipped cream (or use cool whip - works just as well)! Then into the large bow we'd break up half the cake into pieces, cover with 1/2 of the chocolate mousse, and 1/2 of the cream. Repeat and cover the top with shaved chocolate or cocoa powder. Amazing!
Of course, you can beat the taste of just plain milk chocolate: Hershey, Dove, Cardbury Milk; as well as the delectable tastes of Godiva chocolates, Lindt chocolates, Guilyan chocolates, and Terry's Chocolate Orange.
I now need to go and have a piece of chocolate!
For years, whenever my friends and I would get together, we would have a bowl of chocolate dessert in front of us. Bake a chocolate cake in a single layer & let it cool. Poke a few holes in the top and pour some Kahlua over it. In the meantime, make some chocolate mousse and some fresh whipped cream (or use cool whip - works just as well)! Then into the large bow we'd break up half the cake into pieces, cover with 1/2 of the chocolate mousse, and 1/2 of the cream. Repeat and cover the top with shaved chocolate or cocoa powder. Amazing!
Of course, you can beat the taste of just plain milk chocolate: Hershey, Dove, Cardbury Milk; as well as the delectable tastes of Godiva chocolates, Lindt chocolates, Guilyan chocolates, and Terry's Chocolate Orange.
I now need to go and have a piece of chocolate!
LizzieAnn wrote:
There is something just so comforting and delicious about chocolate.
For years, whenever my friends and I would get together, we would have a bowl of chocolate dessert in front of us. Bake a chocolate cake in a single layer & let it cool. Poke a few holes in the top and pour some Kahlua over it. In the meantime, make some chocolate mousse and some fresh whipped cream (or use cool whip - works just as well)! Then into the large bow we'd break up half the cake into pieces, cover with 1/2 of the chocolate mousse, and 1/2 of the cream. Repeat and cover the top with shaved chocolate or cocoa powder. Amazing!
Of course, you can beat the taste of just plain milk chocolate: Hershey, Dove, Cardbury Milk; as well as the delectable tastes of Godiva chocolates, Lindt chocolates, Guilyan chocolates, and Terry's Chocolate Orange.
I now need to go and have a piece of chocolate!
Liz
That is the best recipe I ever saw. You are killing me though since I have been on a diet.
That recipe sounds much like one we have always called "Death by Chocolate!" in our house. I've never tried the Kahlua, but we would use instant pudding (chocolate, or butterscotch, or whatever is your favorite) and cool whip along with crushed candy bars. Layer that with the cake, and you do feel like you are going to die a slow but happy death. 
I get ideas for my ever increasing chocolate urges at http://www.chocolate-candy-mall.com Heaps of chocolate candy recipes - to die for. I gotta go get me some.
I get ideas for my ever increasing chocolate urges at http://www.chocolate-candy-mall.com Heaps of chocolate candy recipes - to die for. I gotta go get me some.
This recent resuscitation of the chocolate topic prompts two thoughts:
1. I love this Nigella Lawson baking book, despite the silly title (whenever I bake from it, my wife likes to tell my friends I'm busy being a domestic goddess. But if I threaten not to let her have any of the brownies, all the teasing stops...)
2. The most decadent homemade dessert I know of is to make croissant bread pudding using chocolate croissants. Haven't done it in a while, but I highly, highly recommend it. Unless, you know, you care about cholesterol...
1. I love this Nigella Lawson baking book, despite the silly title (whenever I bake from it, my wife likes to tell my friends I'm busy being a domestic goddess. But if I threaten not to let her have any of the brownies, all the teasing stops...)
2. The most decadent homemade dessert I know of is to make croissant bread pudding using chocolate croissants. Haven't done it in a while, but I highly, highly recommend it. Unless, you know, you care about cholesterol...
happywife wrote:
That recipe sounds much like one we have always called "Death by Chocolate!" in our house. I've never tried the Kahlua, but we would use instant pudding (chocolate, or butterscotch, or whatever is your favorite) and cool whip along with crushed candy bars. Layer that with the cake, and you do feel like you are going to die a slow but happy death.
You probably won't see me again, but the lure of a discussion centered around chocolate must have somehow pulled me in from the other boards...lol.
Chocolate bread pudding w/ carmel sauce...ah, sounds like heaven. If I wasn't so impossibly lazy, I'd attempt to make it. Though of course I'd probably end up poisoning myself. (echoes of former cooking attempts..just kidding
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Chocolate bread pudding w/ carmel sauce...ah, sounds like heaven. If I wasn't so impossibly lazy, I'd attempt to make it. Though of course I'd probably end up poisoning myself. (echoes of former cooking attempts..just kidding
)
That sounds totally sinfulll. I must try it!!
I like to mix Betty Crocker Chocolate chunk supreme brownie mix with the ultimate fudge. You mix the supreme according to the box and pour it in the pan then mix the ultimate according to the box but leave out the syrup. Spread the supreme on the ultimate then drizzle the syrup on top and swirl a little with a fork. It is to die for. By the way feel free to add extra chocolate chips or chunks.
you can also mix any fudge or brownie in with devils food cake. Don't layer these mix it all in.
I like to mix Betty Crocker Chocolate chunk supreme brownie mix with the ultimate fudge. You mix the supreme according to the box and pour it in the pan then mix the ultimate according to the box but leave out the syrup. Spread the supreme on the ultimate then drizzle the syrup on top and swirl a little with a fork. It is to die for. By the way feel free to add extra chocolate chips or chunks.
you can also mix any fudge or brownie in with devils food cake. Don't layer these mix it all in.
BookParana wrote:
That sounds totally sinfulll. I must try it!!
I like to mix Betty Crocker Chocolate chunk supreme brownie mix with the ultimate fudge. You mix the supreme according to the box and pour it in the pan then mix the ultimate according to the box but leave out the syrup. Spread the supreme on the ultimate then drizzle the syrup on top and swirl a little with a fork. It is to die for. By the way feel free to add extra chocolate chips or chunks.
you can also mix any fudge or brownie in with devils food cake. Don't layer these mix it all in.
Oh! Wow! that sounds heavenly! Will have to try it this year!
