I am totally addicted to chocolate candy, chocolate cake, chocolate ice cream, or just about anything else you can create out of chocolate. I don't remember being quite so excited about chocolate when I was a kid, but nowdays, just the thought of a Three Musketeer candy bar has me grabbing my car keys for a quick trip to the store--to do important errands of course.
What is sad about my addiction is that I think I have passed it on to my oldest daughter. She, too, has to have her daily chocolate "fix" or she gets cranky and hard to live with just like I do.
We used to joke about it. One year I bought her a Chocolate Orchid for Christmas. I kid you not. It was a real live orchid plant that smelled like chocolate. I'll admit that it wasn't that really chocolaty aroma that makes your mouth start to water, but it did smell like chocolate. She thought that was pretty funny so the next Christmas, she bought me a chocolate nativity set. That nativity set is the only chocolate ever to survive in my house for more than a day. In fact, I have had it for about 4 years now and even though it still smells like chocolate to me, I can't bring myself to bite the head off the Baby Jesus, or even Joseph or Mary for that matter. It seems sacreligious somehow.
These days, in addition to my frequent outings for candy bars, I often head for the kitchen to concoct something chocolate from my chocolate recipe e-book. I bought it online for $3,through Paypal, and it has been worth every penny. The recipe book has 109 pages and 100 different recipes. That means I could probably have a new chocolate dessert on the table at least twice a week for almost a year. Yum. It even has a one recipe where you combine 2 Milky Way candy bars with butter, vanilla, and powdered sugar to make icing for a cake--chocolate cake I presume.
A side benefit of this recipe e-book is that whenever I recommend it to someone else and they purchase it, I get a cut of the money and the purchaser gets not only the recipe book but a link so they, too, can recommend the book and make a commission. It's a win-win situation, but I'm only recommending it if you really are a chocoholic like me, since the money you make selling the book isn't a huge amount.
If you want to check it out further, click on the link below. If you buy the book, I hope you'll enjoy the recipes as much as I am doing. (The Hot Fudge Sunday Cake on page 84 is so good, you'll want to invite guests over to help you eat it.)
100 Chocolate Recipes
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