For the love of chocolate

On World Chocolate Day, here's a list of mouth watering recipes that will surely leave you with a sugar rush!

KOCHI, KERALA, 24/10/2014: Chocolate cake at Kashi Art Cafe, Fort Kochi. Photo: Thulasi Kakkat

From being a source of culinary pleasure to mere temptation, people from across different age groups enjoy indulging in chocolate. Of course, one can add extra ingredients like different kinds of nuts, dry fruits or caramel to add to the taste. 

From chocolate chip muffins to cookies  

There is something about the smell of freshly baked bread or the joy of eating warm cookies straight from the oven. Theuy can simply be therapeutic.  Here are some of the interesting chocolate-based recipes.

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CHENNAI, 17/07/2014: How to make Hot Chocolate, a step by step view, at Sandy's, Ganapathy Colony, Alwarpet in Chennai on July 17, 2014. Photo: R. Ravindran.

 

Epic hot chocolate

There are many different ways of making hot chocolate and no way is necessarily better than the other. Here are three different ways of making this indulgent drink.

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Rich chocolate brown cake

One can never have enough of chocolate. Here's a sweet recipe of chocolate brown cake,  a truly delicious one!

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For Metro: Puducherry 24/10/2013: Kannan brothers, one of the small scale sweet merchants preparing for Diwali orders. Photo : T_Singaravelou

 

Chocolate Barfi

Ingredients:

Condensed milk: 200 grams

Butter: 30 grams

Chocolate, chopped: 30 grams

Cocoa powder: quarter cup

Whole-wheat flour: quarter cup

Lightly roasted nuts: half cup

For greasing add a few drops of ghee 

Method 

Lightly roast the flour. Remove it from the flame when it turns light brown in colour. Melt butter in a heavy-bottomed pan, mix in condensed milk, cocoa powder and roasted flour.Cook for 4-5 minutes on a low flame and stir continuously to avoid sticking and burning. Mix in chopped chocolate and cook for one minute. Add nuts and spread the mixture in a greased metal tray. Gently flatten with spatula. Cool it for an hour, slice it into squares and serve.

Coffee-Choco milk shake

Coffee and chocolate make a wonderful combination, perfect for the morning, afternoon or evening!

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Chocolate tasting!

And if the baking and cooking gets too much, one can always head out to explore the fine art of chocolate tasting.  

Here is a one-minute, nine-step guide to appreciating chocolates. Click here