Chocolate
Used in 5 recipes on RecipeWiki.
Dark chocolate is the form this page covers: chocolate made mostly of cocoa solids and cocoa butter, with less sugar than milk chocolate and little or no milk. Bars of around 70 per cent cocoa give a bittersweet, roasted flavour with fruity notes that suits baking without tipping into sweetness. It melts to a glossy pour for Dark Chocolate Mousse, sets the fudgy middle of Dark Chocolate Brownies and coats Ptichye Moloko. Melt it gently over barely simmering water, or in short bursts in a microwave, stirring often. Keep every utensil dry: a few drops of water make melted chocolate seize into a stiff, grainy lump.
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VanillaRecipes with chocolate
Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate chip cookies made with browned butter and a long overnight rest, which deepens the flavour and stops them spreading thin.
American
Baking
Chocolate
Chilli con Carne
Beef mince simmered for two hours in a paste of toasted, soaked dried chillies, with beans added late and finished with dark chocolate and lime.
Beef
Dinner
Dark Chocolate Brownies
Fudgy brownies built on melted dark chocolate and eggs whisked to a foam, which is what gives them their paper-thin crackled top.
Dark Chocolate Mousse
Dark chocolate lightened with whisked egg whites and set by nothing but cocoa butter, which is why it needs no cream and no gelatine.
Desserts
French
Ptichye Moloko
An agar-set soufflé of whipped egg white, sugar syrup and butter on thin sponge, sealed under dark chocolate.
Russian