White Chocolate Rocky Road Bars

January 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I have five words for you. Individually the words are nondescript, virtually a yawn, but when you put them all together, they become a beacon of light and hope to all midnight snackers everywhere. The words are White Chocolate Rocky Road Bars and the recipe is originally from the English version of Technicolor Kitchen.

They are an inspired combination of dried strawberries, marshmallows, dried cranberries, white chocolate and dried apples. Not a preservative in sight, which ensure they are eaten quickly, although I doubt the family will need any encouragement to devour these bars.

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Dark Chocolate Plus Coconut Equals Heaven

November 10, 2011 By 1 Comment

Coconut filled chocolate bars by Leonor de Sousa Bastos I’m always on the look out for cookies and cakes to look at, I love the idea of making my own candy bars, and I’d probably grow by twenty sizes if I had all the ingredients all the time. I have most of the ingredients for the next recipe, Coconut Balls (truffles), a combination of condensed milk, dessicated or grated coconut under a dark chocolate shell. All I need to do is get the chocolate and I’m ready to be descend into chocolate induced incoherency. I found the recipe from Flagrante Delicia, Portuguese chef Leonor de Sousa Bastos’ blog with some of the most amazing pictures of food I have ever seen. It’s enough to make you drool.

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