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Chocolate

From white to dark to milk, chocolate is a great ingredient for both sweet and savory recipes. From rich moles to cakes to sauces, these easy recipes will make chocolate lovers swoon.

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Chocolate Cakes

Cakes make birthdays, dinner parties, and any celebration special -- yet many of these chocolate cakes are also appropriate for weeknight treats.

" A triple chocolate treat, this deep chocolate cake uses cocoa powder plus unsweetened and semisweet chocolates … And, of the many ways to frost it, we vote for our classic Chocolate -Sour Cream Frosting. Dense chocolate cake hides a rich …"

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Chocolate: Melt, Dip, or Drizzle

For most recipes , you can melt chocolate using one of three methods: direct heat … methods when a recipe calls for melting chocolate with another ingredient, such as butter … cream. For best results, coarsely chop chocolate bars and squares before melting them …

Chocolate: Types, Selection & Storage

Pure chocolate without added sugar. Also known as: bitter chocolate , baking chocolate , chocolate liquor, and pure chocolate . Uses: Used almost exclusively for baking. Legally, at least 35 percent pure chocolate with some small amount of …

Chocolate Garnish Basics

Sweet, smooth, and decadent, chocolate makes the ultimate garnish for desserts … our simple techniques for quick-tempering chocolate and for using it as a garnish to turn all your chocolate desserts into eye-catching masterpieces …

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Display a Chocolate Cottage

Make adorable marshmallow snowmen and snowcapped pretzel fences to accessorize your chocolate cottage display.

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These cute chocolate houses wouldn't be nearly as much fun without all the whimsical curve appeal. I downloaded the template on how to make this chocolate house from bhg.com, and then I decorated it a little bit. So now, I'm ready to add all of my fun accessories that will make my village come alive. So let's start with the trees because who doesn't love a little landscaping? So I've got some ice cream cones here, and I've got some melted white chocolate , and using a pastry brush, I'm just gonna kind of paint on some chocolate unto my cone. This is like a coarse sugar that just happens to be green, and this is gonna give us a real sort of evergreen texture. And because no chocolate house would be complete without a little chocolate fence, here's how you do it. You start out with some Pretzels, and you're gonna dip these into some warm dark chocolate , and then you're lay them down on a piece of wax paper like this. You want to make sure that they're touching

that fence isn't going anywhere. And now, the final touch to our chocolate town are these adorable little marshmallow men, and they're super easy to make. So, I'm gonna start out with 2 marshmallows. I'm

I'm just gonna dip my snowman, my marshmallow snowman, into some white chocolate , and then I'm just gonna dip him into some sprinkles like this. So now he's got his little head and his little body, and of course, he needs some eyes, and maybe like a little couple of buttons on this jacket. So for his eyes, I'm actually using some dark chocolate that I've warmed up. And I'm going to use the back part of my paintbrush, get a little bit of chocolate , and just put on his eyes. There's 1 and there is 2. I'm gonna need some buttons on his chest, maybe 1 there. So now, how about a nose for our little marshmallow man? And I thought it would be really cute if we did like a nice little, nice big nose on his face. Super cute. So for that, I'm just gonna take some of my white chocolate that's still warm, and I'm just gonna dab a bit right there to put his nose on, and I'll just stick a little candy-coated chocolate right on there to make his little nose, and I'm just gonna put a dab on the side. I'll just have it

Decorate a Chocolate Cottage

Decorate your cottage with equally delicious ideas: colorful candies, crunchy nuts, or decadent chocolate .

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These houses are constructed from chocolate bars and then seamed with some more chocolate . So if you need the instructions on the template to make one of these houses, you can download it right from bhg.com. So I've let it set up so that it's nice and sturdy, and now, I can continue decorating. So I'm gonna continue with this side of the roof. You can see that I've used some little candy wafers here to make my shingles, and I'll show you exactly how I did it. So I've got my bag with melted chocolate here, and I'm just gonna squeeze out a nice thick line of chocolate . That'll go right across this bottom row. There we go. And now I'm just gonna line up my wafers. And these actually

notice it as much. So I'm just gonna squirt in some melted chocolate like that, and then I'll stick down my peppermint stick. Perfect. So this is really where you have fun. You can kind

the walls with some seeds. Now if you wanted to go the all- chocolate route, you could use some chocolate wafer cookies as the shingles for your roof. And then I left the little candy coin in its wrapper just to add

Build a Chocolate Cottage

Construct a clever little cottage using simple chocolate candy bars.

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own storybook scene this holiday with our easy construction instructions. These little chocolate houses are such a great project and once you see how simple they are, you're gonna wanna whip up a whole village. So you can either use a 5-ounce chocolate bar or an 8-ounce, but today I'm using the 5. And you can download the templates to make your houses from bhg.com

out your bars, you just kind of lay down one of your chocolate bars. You wanna make sure that your lay it with the front side up like that. And then I'm just gonna stick my template. Use the straight edges of your chocolate bar, you know, don't reinvent the wheels. So just line this up right with the bottom so you make sure you've got

microwave this and this is gonna be really crucial 'cause the melted chocolate is gonna be mortar for our little house. So I've got some melted chocolate here and I'm actually gonna use this to be the little mortar for our house. So I'm going to just put some

rooftop. You're always gonna need to fill it in with some melted chocolate . And that's all there is to it. So let these set up for a while so that they're nice and sturdy to