Rules for Chocolate

If you've got melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly.

Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries count as fruit, eat as many as you want.

The problem: How to get 2 pounds of chocolate home from the store in a hot car.

The solution: Eat it in the parking lot.

Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It'll take the edge off your appetite, and you'll eat less.

If calories are an issue, store your chocolate on top of the fridge. Calories are afraid of heights, and they will jump out of the chocolate to protect themselves.

If I eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is that a balanced diet? Don't they actually counteract each other?

Money talks. Chocolate sings. Beautifully.

Chocolate has many preservatives. Preservatives make you look younger. Therefore, you need to eat more chocolate.

Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you'll get one thing done.

A nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories in one place. Now, isn't that handy?

If you can't eat all your chocolate, it will keep in the freezer. But if you can't eat all your chocolate, what's wrong with you?

If not for chocolate, there would be no need for control top pantyhose. An entire garment industry would be devastated. You can't let that happen, can you?

Thought this was cute and wanted to share :)

More Chocolate Recipes!!

Can you tell I LOVE chocolate?!

Wacky Cake

3 cups flour                                      2 cups cold water
2 cups sugar                                    ¾ cup oil

6 Tbsp cocoa                                   2 Tbsp vinegar

1 tsp salt                                           2 tsp vanilla

2 tsp baking soda

            Sift together, flour, sugar, cocoa, salt, and baking soda. Add in order last four ingredients, beating after each addition. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes at 350°.

            Frost with cream cheese frosting.

Cream Cheese Frosting:

1 8 oz cream cheese, softened   4 to 5 cups powdered sugar

2 Tbsp butter, softened                1 or 2 Tbsp milk

2 tsp vanilla

           

            Cream together cream cheese, butter, and vanilla. Slowly add powdered sugar. It may be necessary to add 1 or 2 Tbsp milk to get a consistency that will allow the frosting to be spread onto the cake.

Fudge Pie

2 cups sugar                                    3 egg yolks, beaten

3 Tbsp flour                                     ¼ cup butter

3 Tbsp cocoa                                   1 pastry shell

2 cups milk

            Mix dry ingredients in saucepan. Gradually stir in milk. Cook over moderate heat until mixture thickens and boils. Boil 1 minute. Stir half of this mixture into egg yolks, then blend into hot mixture in saucepan. Add butter, boil until very thick. Pour into pastry-lined pan. Top with your favorite meringue recipe and bake until meringue is golden brown.

                       

I hope you enjoy these two recipes. Keep checking back as I will be adding more recipes. Please feel free to follow my blog and post comments. I'd also love it if you sent me your recipes so I could post them on here. You can e-mail me at customerservice@timelesstreasuresforyou.com

Yummy Chocolate Recipes

Chocolate Chip Cheeseball

1 pkg (8 oz) Cream Cheese, softened

½ cup butter (no substitute) softened

¼ Tsp. Vanilla extract

¾ cups Powdered Sugar

2 Tbsp. Brown Sugar

¾ cups Miniature Semisweet Chocolate Chips

¾ cup finely chopped pecans

Graham Crackers

In a mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese, butter, and vanilla until fluffy. Gradually add sugars, beat until combined, stir in chocolate chips. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours. Place cream cheese mixture on a large piece of plastic wrap; shape into a ball, cover and refrigerate for 1 hour. Just before serving, roll cheeseball into pecans. Serve with graham crackers.

Sex in a Pan

½ cup margarine, melted

1 cup Pecans, chopped

1 ½ cups graham cracker crumbs

8 oz Cream cheese

4 cups Cool whip, divided, thawed

3 oz Chocolate instant pudding

3 oz Vanilla instant pudding

3 cups Milk

I Unsweetened chocolate square

1 cup powdered sugar

Mix well margarine, pecans, and graham cracker crumbs and pat into 9x13 inch pan. Bake at 350°F till lightly brown, about 20 minutes. Cool completely. Beat together cream cheese, powdered sugar, and 1 cup of Cool Whip. Spoon this mixture onto baked graham cracker crust. Mix both puddings with milk and beat as per package directions. Let pudding almost thicken and pour over second layer. Put remainder of Cool Whip on top and swirl melted chocolate throughout topping.

I hope you enjoy both of these chocolate recipes!!

 

2 Recipes Kids Might Enjoy :)

Peanut Butter/Marshmallow/Cracker Snack


INGREDIENTS:                                         ITEMS NEEDED:

Peanut Butter                                                Cookie sheet

Marshmallows (1 bag of mini or large)             Butter knife

Crackers (salted or unsalted tops)


PREP TIME: 10 to 15 minutes
Step 1: Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Step 2: Spread peanut butter on tops of crackers. Place on cookie sheet.
Step 3: Top the crackers with 3-6 mini marshmallows or cut large marshmallows in half and place each half on top of crackers.
Step 4: Place crackers in oven and bake for 8-10 minutes or until marshmallows are golden brown. (Note: Marshmallows will puff up while in the oven).
Step 5: Carefully remove the cookie sheet from the oven and let cool for a few minutes before heating.
You can store any left over crackers in an air tight container for up to five days.

 
SMORES PUDDING


INGREDIENTS:                                     ITEMS NEEDED:



2 Boxes of Instant Chocolate pudding         2 large bowls

1 bag of Mini Marshmallows                        Hand mixer

1 box of Honey Teddy Grahams                   Spoon

Milk

PREP TIME: 10 to 15 minutes

Step 1: Mix instant chocolate pudding according to directions on box.
Step 2: Place a layer of Teddy Grahams and marshmallows on the bottom of a large bowl.
Pour some of the chocolate pudding over this layer. Repeat (can make however
many layers you desire). Top with a layer of Teddy Grahams and marshmallows.

*Variation for parents or teachers: Make up the pudding ahead of time, give each child a small bowl, a handful of Teddy Grahams and mini marshmallows and let them make their own individual smores pudding treat.

Any uneaten pudding can be stored three to five days in the fridge.