Category Archives: Recipes (all types)
Chocolate Marshmallow Brownies
This is one of our old family recipes, it’s also one of the recipes where gourmet chocolate is not needed, it actually tastes best with Bakers brand Semi-Sweet chocolate (the red box), it comes in one ounce squares. You could probably use semi-sweet chips, but then you’d have to weigh them. (and that sounds like [...]
Tagged brownies, Chocolate, recipes, semi sweet
Leave a comment
When to temper?
One of the questions we get asked is when you need to temper and when you don’t. I’ve created the following table to help identify when chocolate needs to be tempered and when it does not.
Also posted in Chocolate History & News, Chocolate How to
Tagged bananas, brownies, cakes, Chocolate, chocolate covered strawberries, fondue, frosting, ganache, molds, pretzels, recipies, strawberries, tempering, tips, truffles, when to
Leave a comment
How to temper chocolate
Long before there were expensive tempering machines: people used to temper chocolate by hand, here is how I do it when I’m away from the equipment:
Also posted in Chocolate History & News, Chocolate How to
Tagged Chocolate, cocoa butter, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, recipes, tempering, white chocolate
Leave a comment
Recipe: Molasses Cookies
This is another of the recipes that I got asked for (a lot), it’s very simple and has no chocolate in it at all
The O’Donnell Family Molasses Cookie Recipe
As passed, and updated as needed, from Mrs O’Donnell to her daughter Eliene O’Donnell Wentz, to her daughter Janice Wentz Manley, to her son Paul [...]
