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Homemade Chocolate “Ice Cream”
Happy Chocolate Ice Cream Day!
If you’re looking for a healthy way to celebrate, try this easy recipe:
*3 Frozen Over ripe bananas
*1/3 c cocoa powder
*2-3 Tablespoons peanut or almond butter
Combine all ingredients in the blender and process until completely smooth.
Either serve as soft serve right away or freezer and scoop in an hour!
Enjoy!
-Peter & Shannyn
(excepted from chocolatecoveredkatie.com)
Happy Chocolate Chip Day!
Few things bring a family together faster than a fresh, warm plate of COOKIES!
On May 15th, we recognize a morsel of a thing. It’s National Chocolate Chip Day!
Have you ever wondered if an ingredient would work in a recipe? It is hard to imagine where we would be without the invention of chocolate chips.
In 1937, Ruth Graves Wakefield of Whitman Massachusetts must have been curious what a little bit of chocolate would add to her cookies. While working at the Toll House Inn, she added cut-up chunks of semi-sweet Nestle chocolate bar to a cookie recipe. The cookies were a huge success and in 1939 Wakefield signed an agreement with Nestle to add her recipe to the chocolate bar’s packaging. In exchange for the recipe, Wakefield received a lifetime supply of chocolate. The Nestle brand Toll House cookies were named for the Inn.
Nestle initially included a small chopping tool with the chocolate bars. Starting in 1941, Nestle and other competitors started selling the chocolate in chip or morsel form.
Semi-sweet was the original flavor of chocolate chips. Today the chocolates come in bittersweet, semi-sweet, mint, white chocolate, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and white and dark swirled.
The imagination is the only thing limiting what recipes chocolate can be used. Today chocolate chips are used in a variety of baking methods from sweet to savory. Had Ruth Graves Wakefield never wondered what a few chopped up chunks of chocolate would be like in her baking, we wouldn’t even have chocolate chip cookies.
(excerpted from National Day Calendar)