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Some easy DIY chocolate recipes to try out

December 15th, 2015

Chocolates are yummy and they are all time favourite of everyone. Various kinds and types of chocolates are readily available in different stores. If you want to order online, there are various sites from where you can order variety of chocolates. When you send chocolates by post to your near and dear ones, you look for the best bars available. But what if you try your hand on making chocolates and send home made chocolates to your loved ones? Sounds much better! It is a great idea and a beautiful gesture.

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To make chocolates at home, the main ingredients that are needed are cocoa butter, icing sugar, unsweetened cocoa powder and full fat milk powder. Firstly, one has to blend icing sugar and cocoa powder very well to see that there is no lump left. Then one has to melt the cocoa butter in a heated pan and then add milk powder to it. After it is stirred well, one has to add the icing sugar and cocoa powder to this mixture. When it is mixed well, it will become a glossy texture. After that, one can easily give it tiny shapes and moulds and then enjoy it. This is the easiest milk chocolate recipe, which one can try anytime at home.

Sauce it up

Chocolate sauce is an easy recipe and is needed as a topping in any dessert. It takes a very little time to make chocolate sauce at home. Things you need to make it are sugar, cocoa powder and water. Heat sugar and water in simmer. When the sugar turns light brown, add cocoa powder to it. Whisk it till it forms a paste. Then cool it and your desired chocolate sauce is ready.

Fudge cake

Why only chocolate? One can even bake a chocolate fudge cake at home. For this, you need white flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, egg, sour cream, vanilla extract and corn oil. This is for baking the cake. For the fudge, you need dark chocolate, unsweetened butter and some more vanilla extract. First you need to make a batter of the ingredients needed for the cake. Then you have to bake it half the way. After that you will have to pull the cake out of the oven to pour the fudge cream inside the cake and then keep it inside the oven and leave it till it is fully baked. You can also add whipped cream on the top of the cake with sliced cherries for a proper decoration. Either you serve it hot with molten chocolates or you can have it frozen after keeping it in a refrigerator for a while.

Thus, making chocolate is not a big deal anymore. One can easily do that at home, and if you need to surprise your loved ones, send them some handmade chocolates mixed with love. They will appreciate it to the core. They will love the gift that you have sent and will be more than happy.

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Chocolates demystified

July 31st, 2015

Some of you may be mystified by the title of this article. Well, myths surround objects, living things, places and phenomena, both mundane and marvellous. You may be surprised to know that chocolate cannot escape the net of myths either! Yes, it is true that there are false beliefs that surround this oh-so-adorable member of the food family! If you are looking to send chocolates by post this year to someone special, but they decline to accept your gift citing on or more of the following myths – then be sure to let them know that their belief is in fact just a myth about chocolate that should be discarded immediately!

  • People with high levels of bad cholesterol should give up chocolates – or those who believe this myth, you should know that the source of at from chocolate is in fact twin pronged. One is from cocoa butter present in chocolate, which does have high levels of unsaturated fat. But, the second and more important source of fat in chocolate is stearic acid, which does not have the same properties as saturated fat. So, moderate amounts of chocolate will do no one any harm!
  • High caffeine levels – If you enjoy your morning cup of coffee from the local bistro or Starbucks, then you certainly should not be saying this! Chocolate contains very little caffeine. A Starbucks grand cup of coffee has 320 mgs of caffeine whereas a rich bar of regular chocolate has just 9 mgs of caffeine; the dark chocolate version having just 31 mgs!
  • Very high sugar levels – High sugar levels means hyper active people, right? Well, this is a correct statement. But assuming that chocolate has very high sugar levels and is to be avoided by children, who tend to be more hyper active than most, is not a correct statement. Children, by nature, have a very agile mind and are eager to do everything, see everything and eat everything! Eating chocolates has nothing to with them!
  • Chocolate and weight gain – The next time a diva talks about eating a green salad and turns up her nose at a chocolate bar – remind her that a small quantity of chocolate (of the good variety and not in a fudge or poured all over a brownie, mind you!) every day, in fact, helps a person reduce his weight! The foods usually consumed with chocolate add to the weight problem, not chocolate itself.
  • Increase in stress levels – Really – this myth borders on incredulity! Everybody knows that chocolate is the “fell happy” food because some of the ingredients actually trigger that part of the brain or gets serotonin (a chemical, again in the brain) released which relax a person. So, the next time you are on a verge of a loud and long bout of crying, buy yourself a tub of chocolate and indulge yourself a bit!

Chocolate also has nutritional value and makes for a tasty as well as healthy gift – so don’t hesitate to pack some in your next hamper!

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