Archive for February, 2010

Delicious Dark Chocolate Cake

Friday, February 26th, 2010

This is the perfect dark chocolate cake to bake for a chocolate lover’s special day. It’s also delicious as a special holiday dessert or a sweet Valentine’s Day treat.

Ingredients

1/2 C  butter or margarine, softened

1/2 C  sugar

3/4 C  unsweetened baking cocoa

2 C  flour

pinch of salt

2 tsp  baking soda

1 tsp  baking powder

1 C milk

1 C strong coffee, cooled

1 tsp vanilla

Mixing and Baking Instructions

Sift dry ingredients together; set aside.

Cream butter and sugar until it gets fluffy.

Add sifted dry ingredients alternative with milk, beating gently until combined.

Add coffee and vanilla, stir it until well blended.

Bake in 2 greased and floured 9-inch cake pans at 350 degrees F, or awaiting cake tests done. Begin testing layers after around 20 minutes baking time.

Cool cake layers for 20 minutes or until pans are easy to handle. Remove cake layers carefully from pans. Complete cooling on cake racks.

Assemble and frost the cooled cake layers with Chocolate Icing or your favorite butter cream icing or whipped cream.

Chocolate Icing

1/2 C. butter or margarine (1 stick), melted

1 box (2 C.) confectioners sugar/powdered sugar

2 tsp. unsweetened baking cocoa

1 tsp. vanilla

1 tsp. milk

Melt butter in pan, remove from heat and stir in sugar and cocoa, then add vanilla and milk.

Stir icing until glossy and thick. Cool slightly and spread on cake with spatula.

Chocolate Gift Box

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Chocolates are the special gift item for expressing our love to our loved ones. Chocolates are lovely gift item to give someone special on any special occasion. Chocolates can be gifted with a bunch of beautiful roses, cute teddy bear and also with greeting cards. Chocolates are also available in different beautiful shapes and sizes along with different appetizing flavors in it. Chocolates are available in round, coin, and heart and in many more shapes. Heart shaped chocolates are mostly preferred by everyone especially on Valentine’s Day.

Chocolate brings smile on someone special’s faced, and indirectly expresses your feelings for them and many more. By gifting chocolates to your loved ones, you can return years of love that they had showered upon you provisionally. Also, by gifting chocolates to your friend or colleague, you can wish them a good luck for the important and special work they are going to do. You can also greet someone by gifting chocolates on any special occasion or festival to be a happy one. In short, whatever be the celebration, chocolate gifts are sure going to work in any special relation.

Chocolate gifts are mostly available as chocolate gift baskets. Chocolate gift baskets are filled with a beautiful array of chocolates. You will also find different flavors of chocolates like milk chocolates, dark chocolates, raspberry chocolates, white chocolates etc. Different chocolates filled with different fruits, nuts and almonds are also included in it which is also very crunchy and luscious.

These chocolate gift boxes are decorated beautifully and artistically. And the person to whom you would gift the chocolate gift box is the one who loves chocolates, would be surely thrilled as that special person will get all his or hers favorite chocolates in a single chocolate gift box. It would be the most beautiful and lovely gift that person have ever had.

Chocolates for Everyone

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

There is always a chocolate lover in all of us. Everybody likes chocolate, it has an effect that everyone likes, and a taste the no one ever forgets. Everyone has their own favorite flavor of chocolates. Some like sweet; other desire a more dark and bitter taste. Some people desire white chocolate. It doesn’t matter what your chocolate taste are, there is a chocolate out there great for you. The aroma of chocolate entices taste buds, and the creamy melt-in-your mouth of sweet chocolate can make a chocolate lover’s day.

Chocolates are amazing thing to give to someone you love; there are chocolate gifts for someone. On special days, anniversaries and Valentine’s Day, you can show that special someone how special they really are with a chocolate shaped hearts or roses. Birthdays can be celebrated with an excessive chocolate cake. Anniversaries can be celebrated with more idealistic chocolate gifts.

Some businesses decide to promote themselves by giving away chocolate gifts. Today, some chocolate bars can be made that are stamped with your business card and you can give your associates a very sweet treat. Chocolate is even molded and packaged as a CD, or other shapes that you can create for your prospective clients. That too is a very unforgettable chocolate gift.

The great thing about chocolate is the assortment. If you’re looking for gift baskets you can find chocolate gift baskets with white, milk or dark chocolate. No matter what your preference is, you will certainly spot it online. It’s time to ditch the insecurities that go along with all those bogus gifts you spend loads of time picking out, but aren’t even certain if the receiver will like them. You need chocolate gift baskets. These tasty, yet fun gifts work for almost anyone. If you’re not sure where to browse for fine chocolate gift baskets, pop open Google and punch in a few key words.