Prompt: Chocolate

[runpunkrun]

Let's talk about chocolate! Cocoa, cacao, white chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, unsweetened baker's chocolate, chocolate liqueur, cocoa butter—or if you don't do chocolate, the closest you can get, say carob or recipes that used to have chocolate in them but you took it out.

For the next month we're celebrating chocolate and also the absence of chocolate. Because, as we all know, you can't have everything.

To fill this prompt, you can:

1. Slide into the comments of this post and share a link to a recipe and why you like it.
2. Write up a favorite recipe and post it to the comm.
3. Post a review of a related product or cookbook to the comm.
4. Try someone's recipe and reply to their post (or comment) with any changes you made and how it turned out.

This prompt lasts all month, but it's only for inspiration and not a requirement. You can still post to the comm if it isn't related to the prompt.

Here's what's going on in the comments:

• Chocolate Mousse with Zabaglione sauce from sonia
• Flourless chocolate torte from rosefox
• Fudgy 5-Ingredient Chocolate Cake from j00j
• Mini Vegan Brownie Bites with Date-Sweetened Vegan Chocolate Frosting from runpunkrun

Comments

[celli]

I'm going to have to go eat some chocolate and think about this...

[runpunkrun]

It's the right thing to do.

[sonia]

A while back I posted my family's recipe for Chocolate Mousse. You can add Zabaglione sauce if you want it to be even more decadent.

Someday I will post a couple of recipe updates for last month's prompt!

[jesse_the_k]

I was delighted to discover -- through extensive trial and error -- that I can eat modest amounts of chocolate without getting migraines.

Right now, my go-tos are
1. Dark chocolate in the bar, either Equal Exchange or Divine
2. A heaping Tablespoon of dutched cocoa stirred in to my morning Greek yogurt
3. STASH brand decaf chocolate hazlenut black tea with a splash of Oh Yeah! Oat Creamer.

I had a delicious oatmilk cocoa at a local cafe. Anyone have experience cooking with oat milk?

[rosefox]

Flourless chocolate torte is a gluten-free classic and a favorite of mine.

[j00j]

I may have posted this before, but this is one of my favorite chocolate recipes. It's labelled an Easter treat but it also works for Passover and is gluten free, as it relies on almond flour! https://thestonesoup.com/blog/2013/03/26/a-duo-of-easter-treats/

A recent chocolate favorite is Cacoco 80% drinking chocolate-- can be made with milk, water, or a nondairy milk of choice. Takes a bit more work since you really have to make it in a pot over a burner and not in a microwave, but worth it if you have the time and energy. Best so far on my quest for a good drinking chocolate, and actually a bit dark even for me; I usually add a few dark chocolate chips for a bit more sweetness.

[runpunkrun]

Recipe updates, yes! I'm thinking for updates you can either make a quick post to the comm with a short summary of what's new and a link to your revised recipe, or if you've made significant changes, you can post the updated recipe in full with a link back to the original version. Or perhaps a third option I am overlooking...?

Mini Vegan Brownie Bites & Date-Sweetened Vegan Chocolate Frosting

[runpunkrun]

These Mini Vegan Brownie Bites from Beaming Baker are delicious, though as I recall I used 2 large eggs instead of flax eggs--so mine weren't vegan--and I used cacao powder instead of cocoa powder. I cooked them in a silicone mini-muffin pan and they popped out beautifully. They're dense and chocolatey and a little bitter, which might have been my cacao powder; I think it's just a little more intense than cocoa, and I dig it. These, if you have any left over, freeze great, and then you have little brownie bites whenever you want them!

And they'd probably be extra delicious with this Date-Sweetened Vegan Chocolate Frosting.

Two chocolates, free of soy- and milk-ingredients

[runpunkrun]

I, too, have to be modest in my chocolate eating, but some is better than none! My favorite bar chocolate is Pascha 55%, which is organic and free of virtually everything but chocolate and cane sugar, and they even make some zero sugar Keto-friendly bars.

For baking I love Guittard, which last I looked was certified GF as well as made in a peanut-free facility, but their allergen statement is now a PDF and I don't feel like opening it right now.

[runpunkrun]

I have bookmarked that cake!