Homemade Chocolate Recipes

The holidays, or any day for that matter, are ideal for creating and eating decadent and savory treats in your home kitchen. This draws your family together while enjoying the creations. Knowing how to make some delicious chocolate recipes allows you to present mouthwatering and sinfully sweet confections to the family during the holidays or whenever you like.

Homemade Hot Chocolate

1 cup semisweet baking chocolate
¼ cup condensed sweet cream
Double boiler
Milk steamer
2 cups whole milk
2 coffee cups
2 peppermint sticks

Add the chocolate, whether it is chips or cubes, to the double boiler. Pour in the condensed sweet cream. Sweetened evaporated milk is adequate for this task. Allow the double boiler to slowly simmer as the chocolate and cream melt and blend together. Stir lightly.

Start the milk steamer and pour the milk into a 2 cup measuring glass. Allow the tip of the steamer to dip into the surface of the milk as it heats, and froths it into a foamy consistency. Do this for two minutes while the chocolate cream melts and heats thoroughly.

Pour the melted chocolate cream directly into the steamed milk. Stir thoroughly and then pour it into two cups. Embellish each cup of homemade hot chocolate with a peppermint stick.

Homemade Chocolate Fudge

1 cup baking cocoa
1 cup powdered sugar
½ cup condensed sweet cream
½ cup vegetable shortening
¼ cup chopped walnuts
2 qt. glass bowl

Add the baking cocoa, powdered sugar, condensed sweet cream and vegetable shortening to the 2 qt. glass bowl. Microwave the bowl on high for three minutes. This completely melts the shortening into the mixture. Stir it thoroughly, as it will be a creamy, thick mixture. Make sure all of the lumps are beat out of it. Stir in the nuts.

Pour the hot, melted mixture into a small baking pan, or wax-paper lined container. Let it cool to room temperature and then freeze it to be eaten later.

Homemade chocolate recipes are delicious, sweet and easy to make with minimal ingredients. This makes preparing them fun for kids as a family bonding craft that results in handmade chocolate snacks and gifts for friends and family members.