Once Upon A Chocolate Life: March 2012

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Tripple Chocolate Kettle Corn

While visiting Milwaukee recently, my mom gave me a bag of kettle corn that had dark and white chocolate drizzled on it. Normally I do not like kettle corn but I loved this stuff. I cannot tell you the name of the company because I ate the whole bag and threw it away. But I did manage to duplicate it.

Friday, after going to an appointment I ran into Trader Joe's, you know the saying, "never go to the store hungry"? It was almost embarrassing the things I was hastily throwing into the cart, my plan was to tell the check out person I was having a party if any comment was made. One of the items that found its way into the cart was the Trader Joe's Kettle Corn, and its companion package of "Movie popcorn and from that outing this delicious and tasty treat was born.

Now, you can make your own kettle corn(recipe here), or you can just use a pre-made bag as did; this may be the easiest thing you have ever made. I prefer the Trader Joe's Kettle Corn because it is just lightly sweetened and you can still taste a hint of the salt.

Ingredients:

1 Bag of kettle corn
1 cup of white chocolate melted
1 cup of semi-sweet chocolate melted
1 cup of milk chocolate melted

Directions:

Place kettle corn on large rimmed baking sheet or large Silphat baking liner. Drizzle chocolate over popcorn. alternate between the three chocolates until all of the chocolate is used up or corn is coated to your desired tastes.

Can it get any easier? You can stir your chocolate to coat the kettle corn a bit more, that is what I did. It is not as pretty as if you just leave the drizzles of chocolate but I was a little impatient.

This is a great snack or even a nice little gift in a cute tin or Cello bag. I hope you try it!

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Friday, March 9, 2012

Chocolate Butter Cream Frosted Cupcake Recipe

Happy Friday!

I do not know about you but the weekend is when I love to try out new recipes, mostly baked goods but also savory eats too. I thought I would share an easy and delicious recipe for chocolate cupcakes with chocolate butter cream frosting that I made last weekend. These cupcakes are delicious! My favorite part was liking the spatula for the frosting, it is some of the best I have ever made.

The recipe for Chocolate Butter Cream frosting came from a great blog I found while perusing Pinterest, called Savory Sweet Life. The recipe for the cupcakes is the one I always use, you can find it on the back of the Hershey's cocoa can or go here where I wrote about it.

Sweet Savory Life

Butter Cream Frosting Recipe:

INGREDIENTS:
2 sticks of softened butter (Must be SOFT not melted)
31/2 cups of powdered sugar
1/2 cup of cocoa powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp of vanilla
4 tablespoons of heavy whipping cream

DIRECTIONS:

Cream softened butter in an electric mixer for a few minutes. Turn off mixer and add the cocoa powder and the powdered sugar, start mixing on low speed otherwise you will have a huge mess. Mix ingredients until incorporated and then add the salt, vanilla and the heavy whipping cream. Mix on high for 4 minutes or until light and fluffy.

I hope you try this delicious recipe! If you do let me know how it turned out and how you liked it. If you have a recipe I should try send it to me, I love learning new things.

Have a fabulous, relaxing weekend.

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