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Here it is. The thread for all things chocolate! Whether it's candy, hot cocoa, chocolate milk, plain cocoa, or everything in between, it can be discussed here. Recipes welcome (and encouraged).

As of late, I've been in to Dutch Hot Cocoa. The flavor is "deeper" than regular hot cocoa, and it doesn't leave a strong taste in your mouth when you're done. Good stuff! Recipe? Well, why not...

1 cup of milk
2 teaspoons of unsweetened cocoa
1 teaspoon of unsweetened Dutch cocoa
2 tablespoons of sugar
Dash of salt

Mix the cocoa, sugar, and salt together until blended thoroughly. Microwave milk for 1 minute and 15 seconds on maximum power. Mix cocoa and milk. And there you have it.

mmmm yummy. tag.

Mmh. Chocolate! That recipe sounds like something I might enjoy...

Anyway, I just got back from grocery shopping and bought (amongst other necessities) 1,5 kg of chocolate. Sounds much, equals only 15 bars and lasts (in good times) for about 2-3 weeks. In bad (or study) times, maybe a week...

I love dark chocolate

The chocolate cake off of the Nestle' Cocoa container.

2 cups all purpose flour 1/2 tsp. salt 2 large eggs
2/3 cups Cocoa 3/4 cup butter/ 1 cup water
1 tsp. baking powder margarine
1 tsp. baking soda 1 3/4 cups sugar 2 tsp. vanilla extract

PREHEAT oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour two 9-inch round baking pans or one 13X9 baking pan.
COMBINE flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl.
Beat butter, sugar and vanilla extract in a large mixer bowl until creamy. add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually beat in flour mixture alternately with water. Spread into prepared pan(s).
BAKE for 25 to 35 minutes or until wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan(s) for 15 minutes; invert onto wire racks to cool completely.
FROST - This cake is so moist and chocolately that frosting isn't necessary.

yeuch. I'm too obsessed with chocolate to be able to drink it watered down in cocoa - I'd much rather just drink a whole mug of pure undiluted molten milk chocolate.... mmm....

Heh, I thought a thread like this would take off much faster. Oh well, that cake recipe looks especially tasty.

yeuch. I'm too obsessed with chocolate to be able to drink it watered down in cocoa - I'd much rather just drink a whole mug of pure undiluted molten milk chocolate.... mmm....

It'll be your funeral... :p

I just wish they would forbid chocolate that´s very low in quality and high in fat and sugar since they use less cocoa.

Anyone ever notice that the great-big muckle bars of chocolate taste better than the small ones?

I have recently declared my true and undying love for almonds covered in chocolate.

my motto?
I'm not a chocaholic, I'm a professional.;)
No way I can pick a favorite, but lately I've found myself attracted to chocolate milk...does a body good.

Slurp! Yummy! Burp!

I like Chocolate Soy Milk, but it has to be the Soy Nice brand. All the chocolate, none of the yucky cow-milk.

I hates milk-chocolate. Its for kids and people with terrible sugar addictions. Plus it includes cow milk (blech!)

I make chocolate crepes using orange rind and dutch cocoa in the crepes. The sauce I make using bittersweet cooking choclate, strawberry freezer jam, some butter and a little Ammaretto(sp?) Sorry I can't be more exact...I just eyeball everything. The strawberry jam must be FREEZER jam(recipe on a box of Certo) or you can use frozen strabweries in a pinch. Why just clog ateries when you can give them a traffic jam?

My favourite Hot Chocolate is the Mexican variety, made by roasting cocoa-beans in the oven, grinding them up and infusing them with either hot water or milk. I don't have the recipe myself unfortunately, and no restaurants around here make it anymore :(

Slurp! Yummy! Burp!

I like Chocolate Soy Milk, but it has to be the Soy Nice brand
*Ahem*

This is the best choco(faux-late) drink.
http://www.thesoydailyclub.com/Food/choc20milk.jpg

Good ole Chocolate. The good, tasty, makes you feel better food. Time for some Hershey's Bars, Kisses, Chocolate Milk, any other chocolate products!

*Ahem*

This is the best choco(faux-late) drink.
http://www.thesoydailyclub.com/Food/choc20milk.jpg

Uhhh, I'm in Canaduh, your in Scootland, lets just agree that each is the best available where we are, okay?

Over here, Alpro is the name of shady telemarketing firm.

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Is it that you just don't like milk, or are you lactose-intolerant?

I am a lover of hot chocolate. But when the preparation guide says "water" I read "milk". So much nicer.

Favorite type of chocolate? Milk. Then white. Then mint.
I hate dark and orange chocolates.

Favorite bar? Either Galaxy or Nestle Double Cream.

*Ahem*

This is the best choco(faux-late) drink.
http://www.thesoydailyclub.com/Food/choc20milk.jpg
I though Alpro made dog food? :confused:

:p :D

Personally, I'm a sucker for dark, bittersweet chocolate. Hershey's Special Dark rules. :)

For all of you who are looking for something really healthy, the following might be interesting as it does catch free radicals from your body without much effort:

This is for a large glass of cacao:

5-6 tea spoons of cocoa (that bitter-tasting "real" cocoa powder)
1-2 tea spoons of sugar (ever once in a while I don't even do that)

Boil water and let it sit for a little while (about 80-90°C - 180°F)

Stir, drink, be healthy. That's pretty much the way the South American high cultures drank their cocoa.

I know, you hear cocoa and think milk - but the health-beneficient "radical trap" is turned to nothing* with milk (don't ask me why...).

At first, it sounded a little strange to me as well, but the cocoa-taste is so much stronger than with milk and it's good for you ;)

*(nothing = a very tasty milk-chocolate drink with real cocoa; not really nothing but not what I intended this recipe to be!)

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Yep. The Mayans would put chili peppers in the Cacao to make it spicy. I wonder how that tastes...

probably like crap. i like any chocolate. and by any i mEAN ALL! those asteroid crunches are crunchy and chocolate me
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Yep. The Mayans would put chili peppers in the Cacao to make it spicy. I wonder how that tastes...
You tell me - I'm not inclined to try that since I'm not all too fond of food which is too hot & spicy.
I like salt better (wouldn't want to combine that with cocoa though!).

You tell me - I'm not inclined to try that since I'm not all too fond of food which is too hot & spicy.
I like salt better (wouldn't want to combine that with cocoa though!).

Actually, putting just a *dash* of salt in hot cocoa will kill the oversweetness. Well, as long as you follow the rest of the recipe.

Oh, Chocolate Princess
With your smooth, dark skin and your deep, dark eyes
Your cherub's face, your large soft breasts
How I wish to kiss those full lips
To grasp that thick, curly hair in my hands
Just once
To taste of your sweetness