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6 Chocolate Recipes for Valentine's Day

DessertsRebecca Shetler Fastchocolate
6 Chocolate Recipes for Valentine's Day

Post-delivery, I've found myself craving chocolate...lots of chocolate. This weekend is a great excuse to indulge! We've put together a collection of tempting chocolate recipes, from gooey, to spicy, luxurious, to simple. Go ahead, make yourself something sweet!

  1. Chocolate Maple Granola with Quinoa and Cranberries

  2. Mexican Chocolate Custard Cake

  3. Oat Chocolate Chip Cookies

  4. Black Fudge Pudding Cakes

  5. Mocha Mascarpone Mousse

  6. Dark Chocolate Pretzel Granola Bars

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Black Fudge Pudding Cakes

For Paul, hot fudge pudding cakes evoke memories of childhood birthdays in Tanzania and this sweet treat that is both cake and pudding in one. Somewhere between a fudge brownie and a custard, there is not much to improve in this sumptuous chocolate dessert. If you are a hot fudge pudding cake novice, it is an easy, quick, and guest impressing dessert that assembles like a science project. In our version, Black Fudge Pudding Cakes, we deepen the flavor with rich black cocoa powder, espresso, and dark chocolate chips. This week we made one batch to serve eight... and found that it only served two, delicious! 

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Black Fudge Pudding Cakes
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Valentine’s Day Dessert Round-Up

If you are a dessert lover, this week is a great opportunity for sweet indulgence. We've put together a collection of tempting dessert recipes, from gooey , to spicy, exotic, to homey, luxurious, to simple. Go ahead, make yourself something sweet!

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Valentine’s Day Dessert Round-Up
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Mocha Mascarpone Mousse

We all have our food indulgences. For Paul, it is a perfectly seared steak. For me, it is a custardy coffee dessert. This incredibly easy mousse recipe adapted from Gordon Ramsey, uses mascarpone cheese as a brilliant shortcut to avoid messing with egg whites. Somewhere between a classic mousse and an airy cheesecake, this Mocha Mascarpone Mousse is a crowd favorite. If you find the coffee and chocolate combination stuck on the brain, check out two of our other favorites:  Mexican Chocolate Custard Cake & Black Fudge Pudding Cakes.

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Mocha Mascarpone Mousse
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Dessert Round-Up

Thanks for following along with our new adventures! We recently moved from Pittsburgh to Haiti where we are starting a 5 year volunteer assignment with a non-profit relief and development organization. We will be in transition for the next few months as we complete our in-country orientation, language study, spend time living with host families in both the countryside and capital... and lest we forget, have our first baby somewhere in there as well! Please bear with us as we will not have ready access to internet or a kitchen throughout this time. We will continue to share new recipes that we've prepared in advance, and updates on our new life in Haiti as often as we are able.

In anticipation of the dessert making and eating season, we've put together a collection of both Paul and Rebecca approved desserts. You will find some very quick and easy slam-dunks among the group, and a few of Paul's more complicated creations, that are honestly worth the time investment.

  1. BLACK FUDGE PUDDING CAKES

  2. OAT CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

  3. MAPLE WALNUT BAKLAVA

  4. BLACKSTRAP MOLASSES COOKIES

  5. MOCHA MASCARPONE MOUSSE

  6. BLACKSTRAP MOLASSES & FRESH GINGER CAKE WITH SALTED MAPLE BUTTERCREAM

  7. MEXICAN CHOCOLATE CUSTARD CAKE

  8. RED WINE POACHED PEARS

  9. SALTED CARAMEL & PEAR BREAD PUDDING

  10. ALMOND MERINGUES WITH CRÈME ANGLAISE & BERRY SAUCE

  11. THREE LAYER PARSNIP CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

  12. MEYER LEMON POSSET

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Dessert Round-Up
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Best of 2015

Looking back, 2015 has been a pivotal year for us, we've changed jobs, careers, houses, countries, and in just a few weeks, our two will become three. Throughout all these transitions, food has played an important role, from eagerly trying our hand at Haitian recipes in anticipation of our move, to the sometimes bizarre pendulum swing of my pregnancy cravings, to meals shared with family and friends, celebrating holidays and saying goodbye. We have loved watching our readership grow, and receiving your many emails, recipe pictures, comments and support through these many life changes, thank you. 

To start off the New Year, we wanted to share our readers' favorite recipes from 2015 (click directly on the images above or recipe titles below):

  1. Berbere Spiced Chicken, Doro Wat

  2. Smokey Ancho Cheddar Burgers

  3. Yucatan Citrus Roasted Pork, Cochinita Pibil

  4. Flemish Beer Braised Beef and Onions

  5. Gascon Vegetable Soup

  6. Roasted Strawberry Buttermilk Milkshakes

  7. Barley Risotto

  8. Yucatan Quick Pickled Mexican Red Onions

  9. West African Kale & Peanut Stew

  10. Grilled Greek Greek Salad

  11. Garlic Ancho Chile Paste

  12. Whiskey Glazed Chicken Thighs

  13. Black Fudge Pudding Cake

  14. Oat Chocolate Chip Cookies

  15. Blackstrap Molasses & Fresh Ginger Cake & Salted Maple Buttercream

  16. Wild Rice & Quinoa Salad with Mushrooms & Asparagus

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Best of 2015