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Saturday, February 14, 2009

Chocolate & Strawberries for Valentine's

Try strawberries with a fruit dip or my favorite - dip the berry in sour cream (low fat kind works great and I'll bet plain or vanilla yogurt would also work well), follow this with a dip into light brown sugar - yum! There's a name for this but I can't remember what it is.
I'm a fan of fondue... what a great idea for Valentine's!Chocolate Fondue

½ cup butter
½ cocoa powder

¾ cup white sugar
½ cup evaporated milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1) Over low heat, melt butter in small saucepan. Remove from burner, immediately stir in cocoa. Stir in sugar and evaporated milk
2) Return to burner, cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until sugar dissolves and mixture is smooth (not gritty). Remove from heat an
d stir in vanilla. Serve warm with your favorite dippers. (thanks to fiddledeedeeblog for sharing the recipe)

Favorite dippers for me include berries, pineapple chunks, angel food cake, and marshmallows
Chocolate Truffles (Ganache Recipe)

12 ounces semi sweet or bitter chocolate, finely chopped
2/3 cup heavy cream
1 tsp vanilla


Heat the cream just to a boil, then add the chocolate pieces all at once. Begin stirring with wire whisk at the center. Continue whisking until consistency is smooth. Pour over cake if using as icing or into bowl (cover with plastic wrap and chill at least one hour).

Roll into balls for truffles. Traditionally these are rolled in cocoa or they can be dipped in dipping chocolate with nuts, chocolate sprinkles, etc. and chilled again.
(thanks to about.com for this recipe)

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