Chocolate Fondue Duet Recipes

CHOCOLATE FONDUE

Steps:

• To make the sauce, in a small bowl, combine the chocolate and 1/2 cup milk or cream and melt gently in a barely simmering water bath or microwave on Medium (50 percent) power for about 2 minutes.
• Stir until smooth.
• Add more liquid if the sauce seems too thick or look curdled.
• Remove from the heat and stir in the vanilla.
• Use warm fondue immediately or set aside until needed and rewarm briefly.
• Have forks, skewers, or pretty (or goofy) swizzle sticks available for guests to dip with.
• If the fondue gets too thick or cool, reheat gently (without boiling) for 1 minute in the microwave on Medium (50percent) power or set in a pan of barely simmering water.
• Leftover sauce keeps several days in the refrigerator.
• It is a prefect topping for ice cream.
• Note: This is a versatile recipe that can be tailored to your taste and the type of chocolate you are using.
• For the most intense chocolate fondue, use milk, rather than half-and-half or cream, and omit the butter.
• For even greater intensity, choose a bittersweet chocolate labeled anywhere from 66 percent to 70 percent and use the greater amount of liquid called for.
• Butter or cream results in a softer, mellower chocolate flavor.
• Ideas for dipping: Kumquats or segments of seedless clementines, oranges, or ruby grapefruit- If possible, separate the citrus into segments without breaking the membrane.
• If you set the segments on a rack to dry in a warm place or in the oven, preheated to 200° F, then turned off for several hours, the membrane will dry like crisp paper and the juices will burst in your mouth when you take a bite.
• Chunks of pineapple Chunks of fresh coconut or large curls of dried coconut Chunks of banana Dried fruit such as apricot, mango, papaya, pineapple, or Bing cherries Strips of good-quality candied orange, grapefruit or lemon peel Cubes of pound cake or angel food cake, or toasted cubes of brioche or challah Cigarette cookies, fan wafers, graham crackers or digestive biscuits, or pretzels Marshmallows or meringues Toasted shaved almonds (to sprinkle on after dipping).

CHOCOLATE FONDUE DUET

Steps:

• Mix semi-sweet chocolate, corn syrup and 2 Tbsp. of the cream in microwaveable bowl. Microwave on MEDIUM (50%) 1 to 1-1/2 min. or until chocolate is completely melted when stirred.
• Add white chocolate and remaining 2 Tbsp. cream to another microwaveable bowl. Microwave 1 to 1-1/2 min. or until chocolate is chocolate is completely melted when stirred.
• Place small serving bowl on serving plate. Pour both chocolate mixtures into bowl at same time. Serve as a warm dip with assorted cut-up fresh fruit, cookies, JET-PUFFED Marshmallows, pound cake cubes and/or pretzels.

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE FONDUE

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, combine sugar and 1 can milk. Cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until sugar is dissolved. , In a small bowl, whisk cocoa and remaining milk until smooth. Add to sugar mixture; bring to a boil, whisking constantly., Remove from the heat; stir in chocolate and butter until melted. Stir in vanilla. Keep warm. Serve with cake and fruit.

CHOCOLATE FONDUE

Steps:

• In a fondue pot over low heat, melt chocolate with sour cream, stirring. Add liqueur or coffee. Stir in cream until mixture reaches desired thickness; just thick enough to coat and cling to fruit. Keep warm over low heat. Serve with the fruit and pound cake.
• Serving suggestion: A selection of skewered, sliced fresh fruit, especially strawberries, finger bananas, cherries, pineapple, large marshmallows and cubes of pound cake.

CHOCOLATE DUET COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Beat butter, white sugar, and brown sugar together with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth and creamy. Beat 1 egg into butter mixture; beat remaining egg and vanilla extract into butter mixture.
• Stir flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt together in a bowl; add to creamed butter mixture and beat until the dry ingredients are integrated into a dough.
• Fold walnuts, white chocolate chips, and semisweet chocolate chips into the dough.
• Drop dough by teaspoonful onto baking sheets.
• Bake in preheated oven until browning along the edges, 9 to 12 minutes.

CHOCOLATE BAR FONDUE

Steps:

• In a saucepan over medium heat, melt the chocolate with the heavy cream. Mix in the instant coffee, vanilla extract, sugar, and hot water. Continue to heat, stirring frequently, until the mixture is smooth.

CHOCOLATE FONDUE

Steps:

• Place all ingredients in a double boiler over barely simmering water and heat, stirring occasionally, until melted and smooth. To serve, keep warm in a fondue pot. Use for dipping biscotti (see recipe), strawberries, banana slices, cherries, clementines, tangerines or cubes of pound cake.

CHOCOLATE FONDUE FOR DUMMIES

Steps:

• In a small pot, bring heavy cream to boil Remove from heat.
• Add chocolate chips.
• Stir, stir, stir, stir Stir it again And again Pour into fondue pot over candle or canned burner.
• Dip marshmallows, strawberries or pound cake into chocolate.
• This mixture tends to burn after about a 1/2 hour over a fondue with no temp control (candle fondue), so keep an eye on it.