Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Happy mother's Day: Chocolate pancakes with caramelised bananas, chocolate sauce and fresh strawberries


Hi everyone,
This is a great recipe to spoil your mom this mothers' day with this delicious pancakes, and make even more perfect with breakfast in bed. Happy Mothers' Day!

Chocolate pancakes with caramelised bananas, chocolate sauce and fresh strawberries

Ingredients:

Pancakes:

2 cups of self-raising flour

1/3 cup of caster sugar

2 eggs

500 ml of full cream milk

50g of butter

¼ of Organic Raw Cacao

Mix all the ingredients with an electric mixer, place a frying pan on low heat, pour a generous amount of the pancake butter on pan, cook it and turn as it starts to form bubbles.

Caramelised bananas

6 chopped bananas

1 tablespoon of butter

1/3 caster sugar

Put the butter on the pan, wait until is melted and bubbly, put the sugar, mix until it turns of a golden colour, add the bananas and mix well.

Chocolate Sauce

50 g of semisweet chocolate (or 25g of dark chocolate and 25g of milk chocolate)

2/3 of cream

Put water in a sauce pan, place a bowl of water, put the cream in the bowl, add the chocolate, mix well until it is creamy and chocolate is fully melted.

Halved strawberries 

Put one pancake on a plate, place the caramelised banana on top of the pancake, put another pancake on top of the banana, pour the chocolate sauce over it and add fresh halved strawberries on top of the pancakes and VOILA! Bon Appetite!

For a full video of this recipe please go to Chocolate House Youtube Channel:
https://youtu.be/YGiSOF8VKiM

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Chocolate and Banana Jaffle


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Good morning everyone, this sandwich is a great treat that can be served for afternoon tea or morning tea. It is delicious and a treat that will impress even the picky eaters.  

Chocolate and Banana Jaffle

Ingredients:

2 slices of bread

1 medium banana chopped

Chocolate spread

Organic Raw Cacao for dusting 

Method:

Spread a generous amount of chocolate spread on both bread slices, place chopped bananas on one bread slice.


Place the other slice on top and put it in the toast sandwich machine for about 3 minutes. Put it on a plate, cut in half and dust with Organic Raw Cacao.

Yummmyyyyy!!!

 

Thursday, April 23, 2015

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Monday, April 20, 2015

How to temper Chocolate

 
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How to temper Chocolate
 
 

Place a heatproof bowl over a pan with water to simmer, do not allow water to touch the bottom of the bowl, stir the chocolate until melted to the right temperatures as described below:                                   

 

White chocolate            melt to 40°C, cool down to 25°C and heat it up again to 28 °C

 

Milk chocolate:              melt to 45 °C, cool down to 26 °C and heat it up again to 29 °C.

 

Dark chocolate:             melt to 45 °C, cool down to 27 °C and heat it up again to 32 °C.

 
You can cool the chocolate down by adding pieces of chocolate to the melted chocolate that way cooling the chocolate to the right temperature.

This is a technique that needs practice and patience, so have fun practicing.

Monday, April 13, 2015

Nutty Chocolate Bar Recipe

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Hi everyone I have a simple and decadent chocolate bar recipe full of nuts for you to enjoy.
 
If you have a chocolate mould please use if not just use a plate or a tray.
 
Melt two standard chocolate bars of your preference, I used milk and dark chocolate for this bar, that way it is not too bitter and not too sweet.
 
First you must temper the chocolate. Please refer to my post on How to temper chocolate.
 
Pour half of the tempered chocolate on a mould, tray or plate. Fold a tea towel and place the bowl with chocolate on the tea towel that way you will avoid chocolate cooling too fast. Do not let water fall in melted chocolate.   Put as much nuts as you wish on top of the melted chocolate. For this bar I used mixed nuts.
 
Add the rest of melted chocolate and wait until it is set.
 
Have fun!


Friday, April 3, 2015

Happy Easter to all From Chocolate House

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Wishing you and family a Happy Easter

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