teacher by day - chef by night
Rich LOVES Cookie Dough (reminder here) so when I saw this recipe I knew that I needed to make it for his family’s Christmas Celebration! The best part about these truffles is that they are egg-free so you CAN eat your raw cookie dough (although …
The holidays are here (in case you didn’t know) and that means that although today was Christmas – you will probably be spending the next few days entertaining and visiting lots of friends and family. You never want to show up empty handed (Miss Manners …
YUM – I love Chocolate (although I hate headaches – one of which I had a pretty major one while everyone else was enjoying these at Aunt Pat & Uncle Mikes during our annual tree decorating this year)! Every year we bring dessert to Tree Decorating (and in recent years I have begun to take over the cooking from mom – and it is almost always chocolate) while Aunt Pat makes her Bacon/Cheese wrapped Hot Dogs in Buns with bacon beans – YUM (earlier mentioned headache kept me from taking photos of them like I had planned). The eclairs were made for this event and I also wanted to attempt to make these mousse filled chocolate cups.
To make these chocolate cups I melted down chocolate and put them in mini-cupcake paper liners. ADVICE… when if you try this, do it in two batches: first just get a very thin base on and then go reinforce the cups (since the bottoms were really thick). You must make sure to get it thick enough though so that after chilling in the fridge for a while you can peel off the paper.
To make this mousse just take a pint of heavy whipping cream (with some sugar) to make whipped cream & add about 8oz (my mouse was more like whipped cream – I did not add enough chocolate) of melted chocolate OR use your favorite mousse recipe! Then just fill the cups with the mouse (and top with whatever) and enjoy.
CHOCOLATE heals all – so get out there and enjoy it (and be sure to leave some feedback for me here on the blog)
One last thought/quote (found on the net) on this Christmas Eve: “I don’t understand why so many “so called” chocolate lovers complain about the calories in chocolate, when all true chocoholics know that it is a vegetable. It comes from the cocoa bean, beans are veggies, ’nuff said.”
Growing up in a house with 2 Jewish parents (in an area where I was one of the very few Jewish Kids) I had lots of cool menorahs, went to decorate the tree annually (just did it for the 29th year – we have being …
“Houston – we have a problem”
“Its the end of the world as I know it (and I [don’t] feel fine)”
… Just a few of the phases that went through my head Thursday night when after about 20 minutes of making cookies and preheating the oven and then the oven not being warm at all! Rich proceeded to take apart the whole oven and found out that the igniter- glow bar thing is DEAD! No one has one in stock – we will have to order it (or take donations for a new oven!?) and and I am out of oven commission for a while (thanks Mom & Dad for letting me use your oven to bake this weekend).
Anything posted for the next few days has either (A) already been cooked, (B) was cooked at my parents [thanks again mom/dad and you know that I do share], or (C) didn’t need the oven!
“I’m a surviver – I’m not gonna give up – I’m not gonna stop – I’m gonna work harder – I’m a survivor – I’m gonna make it – I will survive – Keep on Surviving!”
