Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Chocolate Sauce

This is great for ice cream.

In a small saucepan over low to medium heat.

Melt 1/4 cup butter.
Add 1/4 cup cocoa and 1/2 cup sugar, whisk until combined.
slowly add 1/4 cup or less of water until the consistency you want, simmer 1 minute or so untiled thickened.

Cream Puffs

This is super easy and nice presentation:

1 Cup water
1/2 cup butter
1 cup all-purpose flour
4 eggs

Heat oven to 400*.
-Heat water and butter to a rolling boil in a small 1quart saucepan. 
-Stir in flour.  Stir vigorously over low heat until mixture forms a ball, about 1 minute.
-Remove from heat; cool 10 minutes.
-Beat in eggs, all at once;continue beating until smooth.
-Drop dough by 1/4 cupfuls about 3 inches apart onto an ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake until puffed 35-40 minutes.  Cool away from draft.  Cut off tops; pull out any filaments of soft dough.  Fill puff with ice cream; replace tops and drizzle with chocolate sauce.