“Hey Carrie, it’s Miranda. Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably need this information when you check me into the Betty Crocker Clinic.”
-Miranda Hobbs
Sex and the City Season 6 Episode 9
Valentines Day, Single Awareness Day, what ever you call it these days, is just around the weekend and hop skip and a jump to Monday. Even though this holiday bears a love-hate relationship with anyone who spots that big pink teddy bear in your local gas station it is a time of year when we can let go and eat as much chocolate as we can! Chocolate Cupcakes, Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Bars, Chocolate Kisses….it would be a sin to not celebrate the gift of the cocoa bean! To help celebrate I have found the best chocolate recipe that you can enjoy by yourself with a great chick flick or with that special someone and flickering candle.
Molton Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
Chocolate Cake Mix 8 oz. Bittersweet Chocolate (Chopped)
½ cup Heavy Cream 4 Tablespoons unsalted butter
1 Tablespoon Light Corn Syrup Carmel Sauce
Directions:
Preheat the Oven to 350 degrees.
Assemble cake batter according to box directions.
Brush four 1 ¼ cup brioche molds (or 10 oz ramekins or jumbo muffin tins) with 2 Tablespoons of melted butter. Dust the molds with cocoa powder and tab out the excess
Fill brioche molds with the cake batter until it is ¾ full.
Microwave the chocolate, cream, butter, and corn syrup in a microwave safe bowl in 30-second intervals, stirring each time, until chocolate starts to melt.
Use the tip of a paring knife to gently loosen the cakes from the molds and then invert the cakes onto a cutting board.
Hollow out the cake with a spoon, save the scraps. Wrap the cakes with plastic wrap and microwave until steaming. (1 Minute)
Drizzle plates with caramel, then unwrap the cakes and place on top of drizzled caramel. Pour about 3 Tablespoons of filling in each cake.
Plug the hole with cake scrap. Save or discard any remaining scrap.
Top each cake with a scoop of ice cream, spoon more chocolate sauce on top, spreading it thin so it hardens into a shell.
Grab a spoon, a glass of milk, and sit back and enjoy.
For those who aren’t HUGE Chocolate fans I have a little something for you too!
Cheesecake Cupcakes
Ingredients:
2 Cups Crushed Gram crackers 4 Tablespoons Butter
2 (8 oz) packages of Cream Cheese ¾ Cups White Sugar
2 Eggs 1 Tablespoon Vanilla Extract
Cherry or Strawberry Pie Filling
Cherry or Strawberry Pie Filling
Directions:
Preheat oven 350 degrees
Crush gram crackers and mix with butter. Place 1 Tablespoon of gram cracker mix in the bottom of each cupcake liner and press until they mold together.
Beat together cream cheese, sugar, eggs, and vanilla until light a fluffy.
Fill each cup cake liner with cream cheese and fill almost to the top.
Bake for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and cool.
Top it off with cherry or strawberry filling.
Whether you are spending Valentines Day alone or with your sweetheart, there is no reason to not enjoy it. I have a firm belief that even if there is one thing to look forward to it will always change your outlook and it always seems to make things better. Celebrate your love for your friends, your family, or even your love of cooking!
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