Rings with chocolate

If you like the chocolate so much that you would like to carry it on arms, then wear even in the form of hand-made accessories. 

Frosting for cake

Better to see once than hear a hundred times. So here's a helpful video from Zoe Francois (pastry chef and cookbook author) that shows how to properly and fairly easyto cover the cake with buttercream. Learning from professionals and quickly to the kitchen to make repeat :)

First illustration of the cacao tree

The first illustration of the cacao tree appeared in the book "The History of the New World" by Girolamo Benzony. This book was originally published in Venice in 1565.

Chocolate chubbies with nuts

This soft chocolate dessert is just melts in the mouth. This recipe is for 24-26 chocolate cookies. 

Soft chocolate cake

This soft dessert will be a celebration cake for any chocolate gourmet.

Chocolate pots then and now

Then...

Royal cake

Cake from chocolate meringues with chocolate cream

Chocolate folklore: marriage chocolate

In 1615 the Spanish Princess Maria Theresa was betrothed to Louis XIV of France. And she gave her fiancé an engagement gift of chocolate, packaged in an elegantly ornate chest. Their marriage was symbol of the marriage of chocolate in the Spanish-Franco culture.

Chocolate Poulain posters

Until the middle of the 19th century, chocolate used for happy mood and also for such medical purposes as to sweet the taste of the medication. And during the of the second part of the 19th century the chocolate manufacturers started to grow up. One of the them was the french brand Poulain. The Poulain gives away color prints, each of them contained the part of a whole story: the complete collection yields "Cinderela" or "Around the world in 80 day". The collections are renewed every 3 month. It was very popular and it gives an idea about large color advertising posters. And the fullcolor posters can no longer be ignored. 


These posters presented Chocolat Poulain in the end 19th and beginning 20th centuries.

Chocolate mousse

We have a lot of recipes of chocolate mousse, and each of them has its taste. This chocolate mousse with vanile will be perfect dessert for family dinner. I think parents like it even more then children. 

Hot chocolate

Winter is in full swing, so coming from the street in winter evenings nice to pamper yourself with a cup of hot chocolate. But I do not mean that "chocolate" in the powder, which is sold in every store, but real. Try it, it will take a little time and the pleasure will be much greater.

Prunes in chocolate

One of the simplest dishes of chocolate, that will satisfy any who has a sweet tooth, is prepared in just 10 minutes. So if you want to bring some chocolate happiness your family or guests with dessert with something new, but you have a little time, then this dish is just right for you. Cooking of prunes in chocolate is very simple.

Lagend of chocolate discovery

Everyone knows that chocolate has appeared more than 3000 years ago. His first explorers were the Aztecs and Maya. Both did a drink (a little differently) from the cocoa powder and water. Assuming that the chocolate drink of the gods, the Indians used it in some rituals, and sometimes chocolate replaced even the money.