My cycling/swimming buddies are having a good luck dinner for me on Sunday for CdA. I’m on dessert duty. I know that red wine will be abundant so I was thinking of something dark, dark chocolate. It will be a pretty fancy dinner because my friend LOVES to cook. Any ideas for dark chocolate desserts that look really nice? I love to bake, so it can be a difficult recipe. But I will be making it on Saturday so it needs to be able to sit for a day before serving.
Any ideas?
Jodi
How about a jar of peanut butter and a spoon? Simple enough?
That would totally work for ME… but I’m not so sure about my friends…
Jodi
Ok. How about some rice crispy treats as well. Peanut butter is so delicious on them.
Jodi:
Here is my absolute favorite company dessert. VERY easy to make but everyone will think you are a master chef. Also not really heavy.
Do the whipped cream and berries just before you leave for the party. It won’t hurt if they sit for a couple of hours.
That looks awesome!!! Just the kind of thing I was looking for!
Jodi
Molten Chocolate Cake is my favorite decadent dessert. It is especially tasty when paired with homemade vanilla bean ice cream, but you can top it with whipped cream or just powdered sugar.
There are tons of recipies on the internet and the batter can even be frozen in the ramakens for easy transport to a party. It only takes 12-14 minutes to bake and they need to be served hot.
Molten chocolate cake IS delicious. I’ll look into it…
Jodi
This is like a Molten Chocolate Cake, but they’re done in ramekins. This is my favorite dessert recipe. All my friends rave about it when I serve it after dinner parties. It can all be prepped the day before and then baked while you’re eating dinner.
Choco-Hoto-Pots
3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
4 oz unsalted butter
2 large eggs
3/4 cup superfine sugar
3 tbsp flour
1/2 cup white chocolate chips
Place baking sheet in oven, preheated to 400 degrees. Butter 4 2/3 cup ramekins.
In double-boiler, melt the semisweet chocolate and butter. Set aside to cool.
In separate bowl, combine eggs, sugar, flour. Add cooled chocolate mixture and mix until blended. Fold in white chocolate chips.
Divide among ramekins and place on baking sheet. Bake until tops are shiny and cracked and chocolate beneath is hot and gooey. Approximately 20 minutes.
If you do it the day before do you just put the Ramekins in the fridge?
Thanks!
Jodi
http://www.recipezaar.com/162642
This is a flourless dark chocolate cake that my wife and I make for each other on our birthdays. Goes very well with rich, oakey red wines.
If you bail on the cake ideas you can do what I do in a pinch - especially this time of year:
Chocolate dipped long-stemmed strawberries. Vary the chocoloate as you wish. But don’t skimp - it has to be the highest quality you can find: Callebaut, Valrhona, even Lindt, etc.
Yes. Keep the ramekins in the fridge overnight.
Sex in a pan. Everyone will love you for it.
http://southernfood.about.com/od/cakespiesdesserts/r/bl30418d.htm
This time of the year I think you have to go with a peach or apricot crisp or cobbler using fresh fruit.
Mrs last Tri made a peach crisp last night with fruit from our tree. whoa!
I’m really liking the desserts that include fruit… and chocolate.
It’s going to be such a tough decision with all these great suggestions!
Jodi
We’ve got strawberries and cherries in season in Maine right now… dark chocolate dipped strawberries and dark chocolate dipped cherries… mmmmmmmmmm
I’ll see if Mrs. Vitus is willing to share her chocolate cake recipe. Really heavy chocolate cake with a ganache icing. And she makes a point of making it a day ahead of time, because it’s better after sitting for a while.
She had to torture a friend of my mom’s to get it, though, so I am not sure she’ll give it up. Seriously.
You can PM it. I swear, I won’t tell a soul
Jodi
I don’t think you understand. I haven’t actually been entrusted with the recipe. And I don’t think Mrs. Vitus is going to be satisfied with your word on it, either. She might insist on some collateral. Like your firstborn, or something. This is going to be a delicate operation. Chances of success are slim. The payoff, though- it’s really good cake.