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Make
this Valentine's Day really special. Chocolates are the best
way to express your feelings to your loved ones. If U try out
something at home and present a box of handmade chocolates to
your beloved thats all the mpre special. Try out our special
valentine's day chocolates recipes. |
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Rich Chocolate Slices
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Ingredients:
Half cup butter
preferably white 2 tablespoons honey
4.5 tablespoons cocoa 225 gms semi-sweet biscuits
2 tablespoons raisins
2 tablespoons chopped nuts (walnuts, almonds, or peanuts)
Preparation:
Start with crushing the biscuits using a grinder or putting the
biscuits in a clean bag and then crushing it with something
heavy. After this grind the nuts. Put butter, cocoa and honey in
a pan & put on the gentle heat. Keep stirring it till the butter melts.
After this Stir the butter, honey and cocoa together.
When this mixture cools add the biscuits and nuts and mix it thoroughly.
Take a cake tin, and grease it. Rub the base of the thin
thoroughly with butter. Now pour the biscuit mixture, and press in
very lightly. Put this in refrigerator to cool. Cut it in thin slices.
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Valentine's Day Sugar Heart Cookies
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Ingredients:
1 1/2 cubes sweet butter (6 oz)
3 1/2 cup sifted flour
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 tsp Salt
1 tbsp milk
2 tbsp sour cream
2 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
grated rind of one lemon
colored sugar for sprinkling
Preparation:
- Begin with mixing together
baking powder, flour, and salt. Then Cream together butter,
, lemon peel, sugar, sour cream. Beat this well. Add to this
eggs, and then the milk. After this add the dry ingredients
and mix it thoroughly. Divide the dough in half. Each
half is to be then wrapped with foil paper and kept in
refrigerator so that it can get chill. Heat the oven to 400 degrees F. One
half of the dough is to be placed on the pastry cloth. Keep
turning the dough so that the flour could be distributed on
all the sides. Take a heart shaped cookie cutter and
cut out the cookies in heart shape.
Move the cookies tothe cookie sheets which are not greased.
Take color sugar and decorate the top of cookies with it and
bake them till they are lightly brown
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DARK CHOCOLATE WAFFLES WITH STRAWBERRIES
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Ingredients:
1/2 c. butter, melted
1/4 c. sugar
2 eggs, separated
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
3 oz. bittersweet chocolate, melted and cooled
1-1/2 c. flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt (optional)
1/2 c. milk or 3/4 c. buttermilk
Powdered sugar
Fresh strawberries, sliced and sweetened
Preparation:
Take an electronic mixer and mix well butter and sugar. To this
add vanilla, egg yolks and cooled chocolate.
Mix baking powder, flour, and salt. Once this is done add the
mixture of flour to the chocolate mixture alternately with milk.
Blend it well. Take an electric mixer, and beat the egg whites
until stiff. Once it becomes stiff fold them into the batter.
1/3 cup batter is to be placed in a hot waffle iron, and then
close the cover. It should be baked until the steaming stops. To
decorate sprinkle some coloured sugar and strawberry
slices. |
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