Spiced Chocolate Soup Food

SPICY TOMATO CHOCOLATE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil and butter in a stock pot over medium high heat until butter melts.
• Add onion and sauté until translucent, approx. 5 mins. Add garlic, carrots, celery and sun dried tomatoes.
• Season with salt, pepper, harissa, paprika, cumin and coriander. Saute for a couple of minute to toast spices and soften vegetables.
• Add wine and continue cooking on high until all of the liquid has evaporated. Add tomatoes and chicken broth. Bring to a boil. Cover and reduce heat to a simmer. Cook for 45 mins or until the vegetables are tender.
• Pass soup through a food mill or blender to puree and remove any large particles. Return soup to pot and place over low heat.
• Add parsley and cilantro. Add chocolate and enough honey to balance acidity. Adjust seasoning to taste.
• Serve hot, garnished with queso fresco, fresh goat cheese or crème fraiche.

SPICED HOT CHOCOLATE

Steps:

• Sift all ingredients together into a large bowl. Whisk the mixture together to be sure the spices are evenly distributed.
• To serve, stir 3 tablespoons of the mix into 1½ cups (12 ounces) of hot milk. Serve in large mugs. Store the remaining mix in a tightly-sealed jar.
• Split the vanilla bean lengthwise and scrape out the seeds with the back of a knife. Combine the sugar, vanilla pod and seeds together and store in an airtight container for at least 1 week before using.

SPICED HOT CHOCOLATE

Steps:

• Heat the milk in a saucepan over medium-low heat until lukewarm; stir the cocoa powder and sugar into the warmed milk until dissolved. Add the vanilla, cinnamon, chili powder, nutmeg, and cloves. Heat another 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.

SPICED TOMATO SOUP

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Cook and stir onion in the hot oil until softened, about 5 minutes. Stir in cumin, ginger, and cinnamon and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds.
• Stir tomato soup, coconut milk, and diced tomatoes into the onion mixture and cook until soup is heated through, about 10 minutes.

SPICED CHOCOLATE WAFFLE COOKIES

Steps:

• Whisk flour, cocoa powder, cinnamon, cardamom, baking powder, and salt together in a medium bowl.
• In a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat butter, sugar, and stevia until smooth. Beat in eggs one at a time, then vanilla. Stir in flour mixture just until combined. Cover batter and refrigerate at least 2 hours.
• Preheat a Belgian waffle iron. Add spoonfuls of batter (about 2 1/2 tablespoons per cookie) to the waffle iron, spacing them evenly. Close the iron and cook until golden brown, 3 to 4 minutes per batch. Transfer to a rack to cool completely and repeat with remaining batter.
• For glaze, in a food processor, combine cream cheese, stevia, tapioca, and vanilla and process until smooth, scraping down sides of the bowl as needed. With machine running, add cream to reach a smooth, pourable consistency.
• Drizzle cookies with glaze before serving.

SPICED CHOCOLATE SOUP

Steps:

• Place a small saucepan over medium-low heat. Sprinkle 5 tablespoons of sugar into the pan, a little at a time; adding more as the sugar melts. When the sugar has melted and turned a deep golden brown, carefully add the butter, salt, and 1 cup of the heavy cream. Increase the heat to medium-high, and bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve. Remove from heat and let cool. Transfer to a bowl, refrigerate, covered, at least 6 hours or preferably overnight.
• Transfer the chilled cream mixture to the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Whisk until medium peaks form. Remove bowl from mixer, and refrigerate.
• Place chocolate in a medium heatproof bowl. Bring the milk and the remaining 3 tablespoons of sugar to a boil in a medium saucepan. Add the crushed peppercorns, and remove from heat. Cover, and let stand at room temperature for 5 minutes to infuse.
• Strain the milk mixture through a fine sieve into a small saucepan, and bring to a boil. Pour over the chocolate, and stir until the chocolate has melted and the mixture is smooth. Strain through a fine sieve into a medium bowl.
• Ladle the soup into 4 warm bowls. Serve topped with a dollop of the caramel whipped cream.

CHOCOLATE SOUP

Steps:

• Bring the milk, cream, vanilla and cocoa to a boil. Mix in the chocolate chips and serve.

SPICED CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease and flour two 9-inch round cake pans.
• Mix flour, cocoa, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt together in a large bowl.
• Whisk sugar, melted butter, eggs, milk, yogurt, and rum together in a medium bowl until blended. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients. Pour in rum mixture, stirring until combined. Pour batter evenly into the prepared pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of each cake comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Allow to cool in the pans. Pierce cakes 15 to 20 times with a toothpick to prepare for rum glaze.
• Melt 3/4 cup butter in water in a saucepan for rum glaze over medium-low heat. Bring to a slow boil. Stir in 3/4 cup sugar and continue to boil, stirring constantly, for 5 minutes. Let mixture cool for 5 minutes, then mix in 7 ounces of rum. Let cool for 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, melt remaining 1/4 cup butter in another saucepan for chocolate glaze over medium-low heat. Bring to a slow boil. Stir in remaining sugar and continue to boil, stirring constantly, for 5 minutes. Let mixture cool for 5 minutes, then mix in remaining rum and chocolate bar until melted.
• Pour rum glaze over the tops of the cakes while still in the pans. When tops are saturated, turn out onto plates and drizzle more on the bottoms. Repeat until all rum glaze is used. Spread the melted chocolate glaze over the bottom of the cake and then put on the top layer. Spread any remaining chocolate glaze over the top for a nice, dark sheen.

SPICED CHOCOLATE-ZUCCHINI BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a loaf pan.
• Blend sugar and oil together in a mixing bowl. Beat in eggs and vanilla; add grated zucchini. Stir in flour, cocoa powder, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg, salt, baking powder, and allspice. Hand mix in chocolate chips and nuts. Pour batter into the prepared loaf pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out mostly clean, about 50 minutes.

SPICED CHOCOLATE PUDDING

Steps:

• Generously grease 8 half-cup ramekins liverally with butter.
• Pour the chocolate into a food processor and then add the butter and sugar and pulse until the ingredients are combines and then add the remaining ingredients and plus until they form a mass.
• Fill the ramekins to 3/4 full and cover with plastic wrap or tie baking paper on with cooking string.
• Cook the puddings 4 at a time at 100 per cent for 90 seconds.
• Pierce the plastic or paper and stand for a minute before serving with cream and chocolate sauce.

SPICED CHOCOLATE APPLESAUCE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F Line 2 nine-inch round cake pans with parchment paper, and grease the sides of the pans.
• Sift together flour, cocoa, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; set aside.
• Beat together the oil and sugar in a mixing bowl.
• Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Blend in the vanilla and the applesauce.
• Add the dry ingredients alternately with the buttermilk to creamed mixture, beating well after each addition.
• Divide the batter evenly between the two pans.
• Bake in the preheated 350°F oven for 45 to 50 minutes or until cake tests done.
• Cool 10 minutes in pan on rack.
• Remove from the pans; cool on rack. Ice with frosting as desired.