Came home last night from my normal evening pursuits of yelling at old women and pouring red dye over children and I realized I was jonesin’. You know. You know exactly what I mean–that unquenchable and perverse craving for chocolate that you can feel deep into the marrow of your shin bones.
Looked around. Well, not really anything here that’s handy. Well….except for these squares of Bakers chocolate, but they’re unsweetened. Ahhhh, but I do have sugar. So I began experimenting, mixing melted chocolate with sugar and powdered cocoa and a little milk and some butter.
You have to understand something about me. I like chocolate that tastes as dark and rich as a cup of black coffee. The dark chocolate that you can buy in stores is still too sweet and benign. I want my chocolate robust and complex.
First thing I learned from this recipe is just how generic-tasting Bakers is. Made by Kraft, so you know it’s aimed at the everyday consumer. If I’m going to work with this, I’m going to need a gourmet chocolate.
But here’s a recipe I made up tonight that seemed pretty good. Couple squares of Bakers, about a teaspoon of vanilla extract, a splash of milk, a tablespoon of butter, two tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa, and three tablespoons of sugar. I placed all that into the microwave and nuked it until the chocolate melted. Stirred it all together, let it cool, and voila. Piece of piss, as a British writer acquaintance of mine would say.
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