Recipe: You Must Try My Devil’s Delight Chocolate Cake If You Love Chocolate!

You won't work hard making this extra rich, chocolate cake.

Those that can’t enough chocolate will love this delicious chocolate cake that I want to share.  My Devil’s Delight Chocolate Cake is every chocoholic’s dream with extra chocolate in a moist, big cake.  To play against that deep, rich chocolate flavor, top with your favorite creamy, white frosting, which compliments it so well.  

Another thing that you’ll appreciate about my recipe is that you won’t spend a lot of time working on this cake.  There is a minimum amount of creaming involved,  just basically mixing the dry with the wet ingredients.  

I hope that the next time that you’re in the mood to bake that you’ll print out my recipe and try it at your house!

Recipe: Blast Winter’s Cold With My Homemade Hot Cocoa Mix!

Warm up with a mug of my delicious hot cocoa!

Are you like me and can’t get enough chocolate?  Who doesn’t love hot cocoa on a cold winter day or night? With winter here there is nothing better for my chocolate fix than a steaming mug of hot cocoa made with my homemade hot cocoa mix.  

You can try it as is or you can scale it up to make an even larger batch.  This makes a great homemade gift too! 

My Homemade Cocoa Mix

5 cups powdered milk 
3 cups of powdered sugar 
1 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder 
1 cup of a powdered coffee creamer 
4 teaspoons of cornstarch 
1/4 teaspoon of salt 

You can mix these dry ingredients in your food process or just mix this in a big bowl. Once you have it mixed, find a nice, sealable container to store it in. 

I put 1/3 cup of this mix into a coffee mug and add boiling water to fill the cup. Stir it and you've made and easy replacement for all those costly packets. 

Be creative with extra toppings like whipped cream or marshmallows. 

ENJOY!

Recipe: My Spicy Choco-Apple Bars Recipe Is a Delicious Way to Put Those Apples to Good Use!

A Spicy Choco-Apple Bar 

My Spicy Choco-Apple Bars combines a few of my favorite flavors of apples, chocolate and spices in these moist, fruity bars.  This recipe is also another easy one that hardly requires much effort except for basic assembling of the ingredients, a bit of mixing, and peeling a few apples. The truth is the hardest part of making my bars will be waiting for them to come out of your oven!

I hope that when you are in the mood to bake and have apples on hand that you will want to print my recipe and give it a try because it is sinfully good.  


My Spicy Choco-Apple Bars

½ cup of butter
1 cup of sugar
2 large eggs
1-1/4 cups of flour
1 cup of rolled oats
1 teaspoon of baking powder, leveled
½ teaspoon of baking soda, leveled
½ teaspoon of salt
1 tablespoon of unsweetened cocoa
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
½ teaspoon of ground cloves
½ teaspoon of nutmeg
1-1/2 cups of peeled, finely diced apples (about four small apples)


Cream the butter with your sugar throughly.

Add your eggs next into that mixing bowl with the sugar-butter mixture and beat again. 

In another mixing bowl, sift all the dry ingredients together except the oats.

Stir in the oats along with the moist ingredients to the sifted dry ones until everything is well combined.

Add the finely chopped apples last to the batter and pour into a well-greased 12-3/4" x 9" x 2" baking pan and bake in a 375-degree oven for about 25 minutes, depending on how your oven is regulated.  Test if done with a toothpick.

Cool slightly before attempting to cut into bars.

ENJOY!

Recipe: Your Family Will Demand Seconds Once They Taste My Yummy Chocolate-Sauerkraut Cake!

Today I have an easy and delicious chocolate cake to share with you. My recipe has an unusual ingredient of sauerkraut, which may not sound appetizing in a dessert but is what make this delicious cake extra moist with what may fool you as coconut instead of sauerkraut!

What you will get is a hearty sheet cake that really goes over well with the family or friends. Finish this off with your favorite white or chocolate frosting and serve. Then wait for the compliments to start rolling in.

You can use buttermilk or sour milk. If you happen to find your milk just went sour, this is a great recipe to save you from throwing it out. Then again if you don't want to run to the grocery store for buttermilk, you can simply make your own by adding a tablespoon of lemon juice to the cup of milk needed.

Be sure to use your measuring spoons for the baking soda and baking powder and level with a knife to produce the best growing cake. Don’t think that giving your recipe a heaping spoon or skimping on the amount will help make your cake grow more because it will do the opposite.

Another tip that I want to mention is sifting the dry ingredients together, especially when dealing with baking soda. Just adding your measured baking soda alone to the batter can give that awful taste of a sour spot. Sifting everything together solves that problem. 

I hope the next time that you don't know what to do with that can of extra sauerkraut that you will make my cake.

My Yummy Chocolate-Sauerkraut Cake

1/2 cup or 1 stick of margarine (not spread)
1-1/2 cups of sugar
2 cups of flour
3 large eggs
1/2 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
1 cup of buttermilk or sour milk
1 teaspoon of baking powder, leveled
1 teaspoon of baking soda, leveled
1 cup of sauerkraut, drained, rinsed, chopped

Sift the dry ingredients together in one mixing bowl.

In another mixing bowl, cream the butter with the sugar thoroughly. 

Add eggs, one at a time, beating well with your electric mixture until combined before adding to the creamed butter-sugar mixture. 

Take the vanilla and the milk and slowly start adding it to the creamed ingredients alternately with the dry ingredients until everything is added.

Stir in the sauerkraut.

Grease and flour a 9 x 13-inch baking pan.

Pour the batter in your prepared sheet cake pan and bake in a 350-degree oven for about 35-40 minutes. 

Test with a toothpick or slender knife to see if anything sticks.

ENJOY!

Seapoint Farms Edamame Crunch Chocolate Bars Review and ($40) Giveaway!--Ends February 5, 2013

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Praim Group

Edamame Crunch Milk Chocolate Bar

Edamame Crunch Dark Chocolate Bar

Though typical chocolate bars are far from being smart food choices for your health and figure, I must confess that sweet confection is a guilty pleasure of mine.  Whether it is milk or dark chocolate, I find it hard to resist.  Until I discovered Seapoint Farms Edamame Crunch Milk and Dark Chocolate Bars sent to me for this review and giveaway launched under the PRAIM Group, I was unaware how deliciously you can satisfy that chocolate craving in a better-for-you bar.

The Edamame Crunch is a gourmet chocolate bar with dry roasted edamame for a tempting sweet with salty flavor with 10 grams of soy protein to each 3.5 oz. bar!  

The edamame gives this smooth natural premium chocolate an amazing nut like type of crunch to compliment either their Edamame Crunch Milk Chocolate with its 34% cocoa or that decadent Edamame Crunch Dark Chocolate with its 55% cocoa.  If you had been unable to eat peanuts due to allergies, you now can satisfy that longing for peanuts in your chocolate with soy protein in each bar as a wonderful substitute.

As I indulged, I found the velvety richness of these bars was incredible along with edamame, adding to my eating pleasure with that bit of salty crunch from sea salt, mingling with that chocolate.  Edamame Crunch Dark Chocolate now is my new obsession with how those flavors really went together for a slightly less sweet delight.  

While both Edamame Crunch bars would satisfy any chocolate lovers cravings, I can tell you they also were filling.  These bars would be perfect to refuel when you lack time but need something to get you through your morning or afternoon without leaving you starving like a regular chocolate bar. These would be also a sweet gesture to give your sweetie this Valentine's Day.  Shop for Edamame Crunch and show some love. 

Thanks to the PRAIM Group and Seapoint Farms Edamame Crunch, one lucky Nuts 4 Stuff reader in the United States or Canada wins an assortment of 6 Edamame Crunch Milk Chocolate 3.5 oz. bars and 6 Edamame Crunch Dark Chocolate 3.5 oz. Bars for a $40 value!

Seapoint Farms Edamame Crunch Chocolate Bars prize!

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Recipe: Resistance Is Futile When It Comes to My Decadent Peanut-Chocolate Pie!

Today, I plan to spoil you with one of my favorite pies.  Imagine digging into a creamy piece of what tastes like a liquid candy bar is what you get with my decadent peanut-chocolate pie!  This terribly delicious way to indulge your sweet tooth is easy to make as well with a base of peanut butter, corn syrup and crunchy peanuts, swimming among melted semi-sweet chocolate chips.  Serve this chilled delight alone or top with a fluffy cloud of whipped cream or topping for ultimate ecstasy.

Those that are reluctant about making homemade pie crust and believe it is beyond their abilities, I do hope you finally try my fool-proof oil pie crust dough.  Sincerely, friends, this crust always turns out flaky and is so much cheaper than buying any prepackaged pie crust.  In fact, you can use this recipe to make a pot pie, quiche, or any dessert pastry likes pies and tarts. 

Trust me, if you want to impress your guests over the holidays serve them this pie and they will be singing your praises because this one is that special!

My Decadent Peanut-Chocolate Pie

1 cup of sugar
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1 cup of creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup of dark corn syrup
3 eggs
1 teaspoon of vanilla
1 cup of dry-roasted peanuts
1 unbaked 9-inch pie shell 
1 cup of chocolate chips
2 tablespoons of butter or butter-flavored shortening
Whipped cream or your favorite whipped topping (optional)

Cream the sugar, salt, and peanut with your electric mixer until fluffy.

All you do next is to add your corn syrup, vanilla, and eggs, beating one egg in at a time until thoroughly combined.

Stir in your peanuts, butter, and chocolate chips into the mixture last and pour into your pie shell.

Cover your filled shell loosely with foil and bake in a 375-degree oven for 30 minutes.

After that half hour of baking, you take the foil off and continue baking for about ten more minutes or until the crust is golden brown. 

Cool and keep refrigerated.

Top with your favorite whipped cream or whipped topping.  This is entirely optional.

ENJOY!

Ghirardelli Chocolate Squares: Milk Chocolate & Truffle Review

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Ghirardelli Chocolate Squares: Milk Chocolate & Truffle 

Nothing soothes my cravings for sweets better than devouring quality chocolate.  I love the smooth creaminess as you allow it to leisurely melt in your mouth.  The time together that your tongue glides over the darkly decadent piece of heaven can nearly take me over the edge of bliss as I prolong savoring that exquisite sensation as long as possible.  

As a member of She Speaks, I was invited to review Ghirardelli Chocolate Squares:  Milk & Truffle variety.  The moment that I unwrapped my first blue and gold wrapper, I could smell that tempting deliciousness calling.  And then, I took my first bite and felt that indescribable richness of the perfect milk chocolate, driving me wild with pleasure. 

This was a chocolate square to be slowly enjoyed and melted in your mouth.  Finally, I needed a bigger bite and then the truffle filling oozed out.  One taste of that darkly sinful filling and I sealed my fate.  I was doomed.  Like an addict, I was hooked on Ghirardelli Squares and had to have another before long. 

I eventually had to hide the Ghirardelli Squares bag out of sight.  Otherwise, I was tempted to eat too many at once because they are just out of this world special.

Trust me, if you love good chocolate, then you too will love Ghirardelli Squares in this flavor or any of the six other varieties.  Do visit Ghiraradelli and check these out.

Balance Bar Balance-tine Day Chocolate Gift Assortment Review and Giveaway! (3 Winners!)--Ends January 29, 2012

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Balance Bar Balance-tine Day Chocolate Gift Assortment

Just mention chocolate and my mouth begins to water.  In fact, I eat it practically every day when I add some unsweetened cocoa to the water (a tablespoon) as I cook oatmeal for breakfast.  Adding a little peanut butter to that plain chocolate oatmeal in your bowl with a spoon or two of sugar makes it taste like a candy bar.  Therefore, you can understand why I welcomed this invitation to do a review and giveaway with Balance Bar and their Balance-tine Day Chocolate Gift Assortment with my obsession for anything healthy and chocolate!

You don't have to feel guilty once you grab one of these inside this Balance-tine Day Chocolate Gift Assortment since each delicious 1.76 oz. bar is low-cal at 200 calories and loaded with 14 grams of protein to keep you energized and satisfied.  In addition, you can enjoy a healthy treat while also getting 23 vitamins and minerals, antioxidants and vitamin D to keep you strong.

You will love all eight different varieties of chocolate that this Balance-tine Day Chocolate Gift Assortment from the Caramel Nut Blast, Chocolate Craze (my favorite one with chocolate chips and chocolate coating over more chocolate), Chocolate Mint Cookie Crunch, Chocolate Peanut Butter, Cookie Dough, Double Chocolate Brownie, S'mores (second favorite with graham cracker a bit of marshmallow filling and covered with chocolate), and Triple Chocolate Chaos (a tie for second place that reminds you of chocolate with chocolate fudge and topped with milk chocolate).

Seriously, if chocolate is your passion, then you will love this assortment.  I enjoyed all the flavors really and found it hard to really narrow it done since they all tasted rich and brimming with chocolate like a candy bar--not a protein bar!

Do check Balance Bar out and show that love with this amazing healthier selection of chocolates with Balance-tine Day Chocolate Gift Assortment this Valentine's Day! 

Thanks to Balance Bar, three lucky Nuts 4 Stuff readers in the United States win a Balance-tine Day Chocolate Gift Assortment!

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