How to make chocolate chip cookies

Ingredients 85g/3oz butter  85g/3oz granulated sugar  85g/3oz brown sugar  Few drops vanilla essence  1 egg  170g/6oz self raising flour, sifted  Pinch salt  60-120g/2-4oz chocolate chips Method Grease two baking trays.  Cream the butter with the sugar and vanilla essence.  Beat in the egg.  Fold in the flour and salt with the chocolate chips.  Drop spoonfuls of mixture onto the baking trays and bake the cookies at 175°C, Gas Mark 4 for 12-15 minutes.  Stand for 1 minute then place chocolate chip cookies on a wire rack to cool.

How to make choclate bowls

You will need ...

Some balloons

300 grams of chocolate

A desert to fill your bowl with

 

1. Break the chocolate into small pieces. Melt the chocolate.  Remove from the heat and leave to cool for 5 mins. 
2. Meanwhile, blow up your balloons. Try to pick small balloons and don't blow them up too much. Tie with a knot.
3. Line a baking tray with parchment. Holding the knotted end of the balloon, dip it into the melted chocolate to create your bowl. Repeat with all your balloons. Leave for at least 30 mins or until set.
4. When the chocolate has set, pop the balloons and carefully peel them away from the bowls. Fill with your chosen dessert ,ice cream is good because it keeps the bowls cold.

Five fun chocolate facts

The word “chocolate” comes from the Aztec word, “Xocolatl”, which rather funnily means “bitter water”.

The biggest bar of chocolate ever made was created in 2000 and weighed 5,000 pounds.

Chocolate manufacturers currently use 40% of the world’s almonds and 20% of the world’s peanuts.

Every Russian and American space voyage has taken with chocolate bars.

The chocolate company Cadbury made the first chocolate bar in the world in 1842.

10 chocolate muffins

INGREDIENTS

• 250g plain flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 4 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
• ½ tsp salt
• 100g caster sugar
• 75g plain chocolate chips
• 1 large egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 250ml milk
• 90ml vegetable oil

METHOD

1. Preheat the oven to 190°C, fan oven 170°C, Gas Mark 5. Put 10 paper muffin cases into a muffin tray.

2. Sift the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, cocoa powder and salt into a large bowl. Stir in the sugar and chocolate chips.

3. Beat together the egg, vanilla extract and milk. Add the oil, stirring to mix.

4. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, stirring until just combined. Do not beat or over-mix – the batter will still be a little bit lumpy.

5. Spoon the mixture into the muffin cases and bake for 20-25 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.

Chocolates story

Where does chocolate come from? Actually, it DOES grow on trees. It all starts with a small tropical tree, the Theobroma cacao. About 70% of the world’s cacao is grown in Africa.

A cacao tree can produce close to two thousand pods per year. There is a sticky white pulp and about 30 or 40 seeds inside the pods. The seeds are very bitter. 

Next they are roasted and cleaned and the outside of them taken away. The inside is crushed and made into a creamy paste which is added to sugar, vanilla, milk and cocoa butter. Finally its put into moulds, wrapped and packaged, sent to the shops and eaten by us! 

So that is chocolates story very briefly. 

Chocolate week

This week is chocolate week! So this week I will be blogging everything about chocolate! So each day will be a simple chocolate recipe and some chocolate facts. 

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Chocolate week

Next week is chocolate week! So everyday i am going to post a chocolate recipe and fun chocolate facts! So make sure you have plenty of chocolate with you!!!!! 

Recipe : chocolate brownies

This is how to make amazing chocolate brownies, 

Ingredients: 

185 grams of unsalted butter

185 grams of dark chocolate

85 grams of plain flower

40 grams of cocoa powder

50 grams of milk chocolate

50 grams of white chocolate

3 large eggs

275 grams of golden caster sugar

3 bowels

Method :

Melt the dark chocolate and butter, then turn your oven onto 180 c , gas mark 4, 

next let the chocolate and butter cool. 

Place some grease proof paper onto a tin. 

Pour the flower and coco into a bowel and chop the milk and white chocolate into small pieces. 

Then add it to another bowel and also add the golden sugar and the eggs. 

Mix it all together. Add the melted chocolate and butter and then pour the coco and flour into that bowel. 

Mix it all up and pour into the tin. 

Put in the oven for about 25 mins. 

Then shake it a little and put back in the oven for another 5 minutes. 

Lastly cut the brownie up into pieces and comment below on how they taste!!! 

Favourite of the week

Cake : chocolate

Ice cream flavour: mint

Sweets or toppings: hundreds and thousands

Style: mexican

Milk shake recipe

To make a vanilla milkshake all you need to do is  blend 1 pint of vanilla ice cream, 1 quater of a cup ofmilk and a teaspoon vanilla.

Quick cooking tip:

When reading a recipe, read the whole thing through before you start!

Quick cooking tip

When icing cakes wait for the cake to cool before icing so that the icing does not melt!

Weekend recipes

As its the weekend I am sure we all want to cook and there is nothing better to bake than cupcakes!

Here is a very simple recipe:

Ingredients and equipment: 
125 grams of unsalted butter
125 grams of caster sugar
125 grams of self raising flower
2 large eggs
1/2 a teaspoon of vanilla extract
2 - 3 tablespoons of milk 
(If you want to ice your cake you will need some icing and if you want sprinkles) 
1blender  (and power)
1teaspoon
1 tablespoon 
 A mixing bowel 
Cupcake holders
Cupcake tray
An oven

Method:

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C , gas mark 6
Put all of the ingrediants except the milk, icing and sprinkles into the blender
Blend until the mixture is smooth
Lay out the cupcake holders in the cupcake tin 
Put the mixture into the cupcake holders
Put them in the oven for 15 - 20 minutes


 And that is how you make delicious cupcakes!

Favourite of the week:

Cake:  lemon drizzle cake
Ice cream flavour: white chocolate 
Sweets or cake topping: marshmellows 
Style: Italian 

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