Chocolate Biscotti Recipe

Chocolate Biscotti Recipe

4 oz Unsweetened chocolate
1/2 c Butter
1/2 ts Vanilla extract
3 lg Eggs
1 1/4 c Sugar
3 c All-purpose flour
1/2 ts Baking powder
1 c Hazelnuts or walnuts; chop
1 Egg white; lightly beaten

Melt chocolate and butter in a heavy saucepan over low heat. Beat eggs at medium speed with an electric mixer until frothy; gradually add sugar, beating until thick and pale (about 5 minutes). Add chocolate mixture, stirring until blended. Combine flour and baking powder; stir into chocolate mixture. Stir in nuts. Flour hands, and form dough into a 13" log. Place on a lightly greased baking sheet. Brush with egg white. Bake at 350F for 45 minutes; cool on a wire rack. Cut log with a serrated knife crosswise into 24 (1/2-inch) slices, and place on an ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake at 350F for 10 minutes on each side. Remove to wire racks to cool.

Banana Nut Chocolate Chip Bread

Banana Nut Chocolate Chip Bread Recipe

1/3 c Butter or margarine, softened
3/4 c Sugar
1 ea Egg
1 c Mashed banana
2 c All purpose flour
2 1/2 ts Baking powder
1/4 ts Baking soda
1/2 ts Salt
1 c Chopped pecans (or walnuts)
1/2 c Chocolate chips (or more if desired
1/2 c Buttermilk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Cream butter and sugar. Mix in egg and banana. Stir together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, nuts and chocolate chips. Add this mixture to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk. Stir until just blended. Pour batter into a greased and floured loaf pan (9 x 5 x 3 inches).

Bake for 65 minutes, or until bread tests done.

Cool in pan for about 5 minutes, then turn out on a wire rack.

Makes 1 loaf.

Chocolate Bars Recipe

Chocolate Bars Recipe

2 c All-purpose flour;
1 c Sugar;
1/2 c Cocoa;
1 ts Baking soda;
Dry substitute equal to 1/3 cup sugar
1/2 ts Cinnamon;
1/2 ts Salt;
1 c Margarine (2 Sticks); at room temperature
2 lg Eggs;
2 ts Vanilla;
1/2 c Semisweet chocolate chips;

Place flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, dry sugar substitute, cinnamon, and salt in a mixer bowl and mix a low speed to blend well. Add margarine, eggs, vanilla and water, and mix at medium speed to blend well. Spread batter evenly in an 11" by 15" jelly roll pan that has been sprayed with pan spray or greased with margarine.

 Bake at 325 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes, or until bars pull away the sides of the pan and a cake tester comes out clean from the center.

Place on wire rack and sprinkle chocolate chips evenly over the top of the hot bars. Mark four by eight and cool until chocolate has hardened. Cut as marked. (Might be a good idea to cut even more sugar out of this.)

Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins 

2 md Ripe bananas
2 Eggs
1 c Brown sugar
1/2 c Butter, melted
1 ts Vanilla
2 1/4 c Flour
2 ts Baking powder
1/2 ts Ground cinnamon
1/2 c Mini-chocolate chips

Puree bananas, eggs, sugar, butter and vanilla until well blended. Add flour, baking powder and cinnamon, mix until just blended. Fold in chips. Spoon into well-greased muffin pans.

Bake at 350F for 10 minutes.

Chocolate Banana Mousse

Chocolate Banana Mousse Recipe

1 oz square chocolate unsweetened
1 c (250 mL) evaporated skim milk
3 tb (45 mL) granulated sugar replacement
2 Egg yolks
1/4 ts (1 mL) salt
1 ts (5 mL) vanilla extract
2 Bananas (sliced)

Combine chocolate, 1/4 cup ( 60 mL) of the milk and the sugar replacement in top of double boiler. (Chill remaining milk in freezer.) Cook and stir over simmering water until chocolate melts. Pour amount of hot chocolate mixture over egg yolks and beat well. Pour egg mixture into chocolate mixture on top of double boiler. Stir in salt. Cook and stir over hot water until mixture thickens.

Cool completely. Scrape cold or slightly frozen milk into mixing bowl and beat until very stiff. Fold chocolate mixture into stiffly beaten milk. Fold in vanilla and banana slices. Spoon into mold, freezer tray or individual cups and freeze until firm.

Foolproof Dark Chocolate Fudge Recipe

Foolproof Dark Chocolate Fudge Recipe

3 C semisweet chocolate chips
1 can (14 oz.) sweetened condensed milk dash salt
1 C chopped walnuts
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla

In heavy saucepan over low heat, melt chips with sweetened condensed milk and salt. Remove from heat; stir in walnuts and vanilla. Spread evenly into aluminum foil lined 8 or 9 inch square pan. Chill 2 hours or until firm. Turn fudge onto cutting board; peel off foil and cut into squares. Store loosely covered at room temperature.