You can find thousands of free recipes on My Romantic Recipes Index. I have them divided into courses for convenience. Also be sure to check out my EASY CANDY CREAMS RECIPES, ROMANTIC DESSERTS, and ROMANTIC FONDUES.
There are many free excellent drinks' recipes to go with your fabulous chocolate buffet. I recommend the Faux Champagne recipe as it tastes great with no hangover the next morning. All the recipes are very good though.
For my own Chocolate Buffet, I like to buy a really moist double chocolate fudge cake from the bakery, brownies with nuts, Pepperidge Farm has a wonderful selection of fancy cookies in bags and Pirouettes in cans, Cella individually wrapped chocolate covered cherries, Ferrero Rocher individually wrapped chocolate hazelnut truffles, (Pepperidge Farm's Pirouettes, Cella, and Rocher chocolates might seem a bit pricey but they are worth every cent you pay for them, as their tastes are exquisite), chocolate fudge pudding, mini chocolate chip cookies to dip in a chocolate fondue, Oreo double chocolate cookies, large ripe strawberries to dip in melted chocolate, Smoky Mountain Fudge Ice Cream with a bottle of Heath hard-shell chocolate ice cream topping, several chocolate/cookie candybars like Mars Bars, Hershey's, Snickers, Milky Way, Nestle's Crunch, Reese's, M & M candies, and Hershey's Kisses and Hugs.
You can melt chocolate chips or Candy Melts easily in your microwave to make your fondue or sauce and dip anything you enjoy in it. If it's too thick use heavy cream to thin it. Chocolate will burn easily, so melt and stir at one minute intervals only. Once chocolate is burned it's no good and must be thrown away. You can also melt almond bark in the same way to make a vanilla fondue or sauce for dipping or you can use white chocolate chips. Large fresh ripe strawberries and stemmed large maraschino pitted cherries are especially delicious dipped in either melted vanilla or chocolate Candy Melts. Candy Melts are about three dollars a bag at Wilson's or WalMart and come in many colors for any occasions. Mini cookies and the excellent line of Nabisco Fig Newtons available, such as Strawberry Shortcake and Cherry Cheesecake are delicious dipped in Chocolate Fondue. Snackwells makes Black Forest Cookies that are delicious. You can cube poundcake or angelfood cake to dip in chocolate fondue. Puddings are available ready made in delicious chocolate fudge now in individual servings. Your supermarket's bakery can provide you with a moist chocolate pound cake. You can buy those mini brownies and split them in half, fill the middle with German Chocolate Frosting then dip them in melted Candy Melts and make your own Chocolate Petit Fours that are so delicious to eat! Your grocer's frozen dairy case can supply the chocolate ice cream, having many flavors to satisfy your chocolate cravings.
The whole point is to simply buy or prepare some of the chocolate foods that you enjoy already and eat them in a decadent Chocolate Buffet anytime you feel the need to be pampered. If you are counting calories, then you will need to use common sense when buying or preparing these decadent goodies. Sometimes we just have to forget the calories and enjoy ourselves.
CHOCOLATE SOUFFLE
8 oz. chocolate chips
1 cup heavy cream
8 egg whites, beaten stiff
2 Tbsp. sugar
ramekins greased with butter then dusted with sugar
Preheat your oven to 400 degrees.
Make sure all your ramekins are butter sprayed then dusted on the insides with sugar. Set them on a baking sheet.
In your microwave melt the chocolate chips and heavy cream, stirring them at one minute intervals until smooth. Should take about 1-1/2 minutes on high. Cover and let this cool, while you are beating your egg whites in another bowl with an electric mixer. Add the sugar when they are beaten. Fold in the egg whites mixture to the melted chocolate and cream mixture until blended. Divide the batter evenly between your prepared ramekins. Bake for 15 minutes until puffed. Serve immediately and carefully as they will usually fall within five minutes of taking them out of the oven. Garnish with powdered sugar and fresh strawberry slices or fresh raspberries. Whipped topping can be added if desired instead of the powdered sugar.
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