Tag: chocolate

  • 5-minute Molten Chocolate Lava Cake

    I developed this recipe based on the popular “Microwave Chocolate Mug Cake” that makes the email rounds every year.  That recipe was actually developed by a Spanish molecular gastronomist (basically a creative food scientist/chef) and was considered a “high cuisine” dessert, to make and serve tableside at his $200-a-plate restaurant, to the amusement of his…

  • Christian’s Big Chocolate “O”

    Christian is a chocolate FIEND.  I have never seen anyone who can eat more chocolate than Christian.  For his birthday several years ago, Julia Child’s Chocolate Bombe just wasn’t cutting it any more, which was my replacement for Chocolate Blackout Cake.  So I had to think of something new. This was the result: Christian’s Big…

  • Crispy-Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Everyone LOVES chocolate chip cookies, right?  I don’t like desserts, and even I like chocolate chip cookies. This is a great recipe honed for several years to produce what I think is the ultimate chocolate chip cookie.  I don’t like cakey cookies because they seem dry in my mouth.  I like the soft, chewy kind,…