Our Recipes

Blondies - Chocolate chips in a rich bar cookie.  Mmmm

Cake Mix Tricks - Wow your guests with easy, easy recipes

Chocolate Cake - Rich, rich, rich

a Goodbye Lie favorite

Chocolate Cheesecake - Yum.  Chocolate.  Cheesecake.

Chocolate Chess Pie - Rich, and did we say, "CHOCOLATE?"

Chocolate Mice - These cute little guys are simple and delicious

Chocolate Milkshake Recipe

Chocolate Oatmeal Semi-Smoothie - Can you say, "Healthy yummm"?

Chocolate Pretzels - An easy snack

Chocolate Sicles - Rich, (easy) homemade frozen treats

Cool Mocha Pie - A year round favorite

Ginny's Deadly Chocolate Dessert - The name says it all

Frozen Peanut Butter - This is sooo easy, and it tastes wonderful.

Hot Cocoa Mix - Save a little money and savor the richness

Mocha-Choco Cooler - Cool, quick and low-cal

No Bake Cocoa Oat Cookies - With peanut butter

Peanut Butter Choco Chip Cake - All your favorite flavors.  Sooo good.

Peanut Butter Pinwheels - Pretty AND tasty

Ritz® Bits® Treats - A chocolate covered snack

Safe Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough - Eat it RAW!  You know you want to.

Surprise Meringues - A light cookie with something extra inside

Chocolate Categories

Almond Bark - artificial white chocolate

Baking chocolate - bitter or unsweetened chocolate

Bittersweet chocolate - see semisweet

Cacao - beans are the source of chocolate - the word comes from the Aztec (Nahuatl) "cacahuatl" or gift of the gods

Carob - brown powder from an evergreen plant used as a substitute for cocoa

Cocoa - brown powder from the cacao plant

Cocoa Butter - fat from cacao beans

Chocolate Liquor - shelled, cleaned and roasted chocolate from crushed cacao beans - the basis for all things chocolate, it contains no alcohol

Couverture - professional grade chocolate, at least 32% cocoa butter; "couverture" refers to the use of this type of chocolate as the outer layer for expensive candy

Ganache - a cream and chocolate filling often used in cakes

Milk Chocolate - 10% or more chocolate liquor + 12% milk solids + sugar + cocoa butter + vanilla

Semisweet Chocolate - same as milk chocolate with higher per cent of chocolate liquor

Sweet chocolate - made of at least 15% chocolate liquor plus cocoa butter and sweetener

White Chocolate - same ingredients as milk chocolate without the chocolate liquor - despite the minimum 32% cocoa butter, this isn't real chocolate

More cocoa and less sugar mean better chocolate.  Modern Baking's Klaus Tenbergen, a Certified Master Baker, defines quality grades by per cent of cocoa: