Yummy things ahead, these are the pictures of my centerpiece submitted for the contest being held by Green & Black's Organic Chocolate. The recipes will be published on my site over the next week. I would appreciate your votes for my Dark and Decadent Caramel Cupcakes, on the Green and Black's Organic Chocolate.
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| Bunnies on Parade |
Dark Truffles
were made with this is adapted from a recipe I formulated and published on my blog on 1/12/2012 Linda Gauthier
Base ingredients
2/3 cup 160 ml heavy cream
2 tablespoons 30 ml unsalted butter, diced
2 tablespoons 30 ml granulated sugar
¼ cup 60 ml organic unsweetened cocoa powder
Melt butter and cream and dry ingredients in top of a double
boiler and then divide in 1/3's
This way you can make 3 dark chocolate flavoured truffles the
following are the flavours I used.
Green & Black's bars used for flavouring
Green & Black's Dark 85% - break into 3 equal pieces
Green & Black's Ginger - ¾'s of a bar
Green & Black's Hazelnut and Currant - ¾'s of a bar
Green & Black's Butterscotch - ¾'s of a bar
To flavour your base ingredients follow these steps:
In a food processor, combine one each of the Green & Black's
Dark 85% chocolate pieces with each of the other three
flavours, grind them to a fine powder, or about 10 seconds.
Keep in separate bowls
White Truffles
Ingredients for base
½ cup or 150 ml Eagle Brand condensed milk
2 bars of Green & Black's White chocolate
1/4 to 1/2 c or 60 ml to 150 ml heavy cream
• Melt Green & Black's White chocolate in double boiler
• Add cream, condensed milk and chocolate and stir,
cooking it until thick
• Divide into half or 1/3 depending on how many flavours
you want. I only made 2 in addition to the plain white
chocolate
• Note with the additions of the flavorings I found I needed
the ½ cup or 150 ml of cream
Flavourings:
2 tbsp or 30 ml creamy peanut butter
½ of a Green & Black's Milk chocolate bar. This is for a peanut
butter cup truffle
½ of a Green & Black's Butterscotch bar
I made the following :
• One batch that tasted like peanut butter cups, rolled in
ground peanut butter baking chips by Chipit
• One that was like a milky caramel flavour, rolled in dark
chocolate sprinkles.
• One with the leftover Ginger & Dark 85% mixture from
the dark truffles with the plain white to make the Yin and
Yang truffle
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| Ying and Yang Truffle Green and Black's Organic Ginger and White Chocolate |
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| Assorted Bunny Truffles in a Cream Puff Pastry Basket |
Keep an eye out and you will be seeing the following recipes, all my original recipes created for the contest. Published in my blog over the next week.
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| Sweet Deception Strawberry Compote |
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| Dark and Decadent Caramel Cupcake |
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| Another view of the Dark and Decadent Caramel Cupcake This is the recipe chosen by Green and Black's Chocolate for entry into their Easter Recipe Hunt. |
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| Chocolate Snaps in the back and forefront has the basket of Truffles and the Dark and Decadent Caramel Cupcake |
