Chocolate Recipe: Simple and Delicious

Chocolate, as you know, tonus It increases the content of endorphin and serotonin in the brain. In addition, there is an opinion that chocolate also increases hemoglobin. Undoubtedly, this is a useful treat. But it is also necessary to treat the useful with caution. Theobromine, like caffeine, increases blood pressure and can cause heart palpitations. In small doses, it is useful, but in high doses it is dangerous. The standard (125 g.) Caffeine chocolate bar contains more than an espresso cup. Unlike sweets and other sweets, chocolate is quickly washed off the surface of the teeth, and therefore almost harmless to them. And this, of course, is an additional plus in favor of the product.

The first recipe for chocolate belongs to the Indians: they started frying beans and mixing them in a ground form with water, adding chili. But then it was just a drink. In the XI century, Benzio (monk and scientist in one person) gave a report on the properties of this miracle drink. The report was immediately classified, and the recipe for chocolate was declared a state secret. And only at the end of the XIX century. Confectioners independently deduce the formula of chocolate.

But the making of chocolate was expensive then, so this delicacy was available only to rich people.

Now chocolate is widespread and popular all over the world, and making it is available even to an ordinary housewife. How to make chocolate at home is described below. So...

1. Recipe for chocolate "Pyatiminutka."

The name, of course, is conditional, since cooking will take a little longer, but, nevertheless, it is prepared really quickly.

Ingredients: 100-gram pack of dark cocoa powder, 4 tbsp. (Without a slide) sugar, cream (2 tablespoons), 70 gr. Butter (creamy).

We cook like that. In hot, but not boiled milk, we add cocoa mixed with sugar and melted in a water bath oil. Boil, stirring, all the components at the lowest possible heat for 5 minutes and cool, pre-spilling on the molds.

2. Recipe for chocolate "Vanilla with nuts."

Ingredients: 100 grams of dark cocoa powder, a glass of ordinary sugar, a bag of vanilla sugar, a third of a glass of cream, 155 g of butter, a handful of fried and detailed nuts, and a half cup of milk powder.

We cook like that. In the hot milk, pour sugar (including vanilla) and begin to stir. Add the melted butter and milk powder. Boil for another 5 minutes at the lowest possible heat. Let's cool down. In a warm mass we add nuts, mix and pour into molds.

3. Recipe for chocolate "Coffee".

Ingredients Nut: 100 g of dark cocoa powder, sugar (2 cups), a packet of butter, vanillin, ground coffee, dry milk (a glass).

We cook like that. Pour two tablespoons of ground coffee with cold water, bring to a boil, remove from heat, strain and add vanilla, cocoa powder, milk powder and sugar. After a couple of minutes, the mixture is again brought to a boil and removed again. Now add the oil. The whole process is carried out with frequent stirring. Warm chocolate is poured into molds.

As a mold, the usual baking tray (in this case, the frozen mass should be cut with a knife), ice molds, liners from boxes with sweets (as a rule, the molds there are different) perfectly fits the molds.

Bon Appetit!