Chocolate Coated Banana Ingredients

• 12 bananas, peeled
• 400g dark or milk cooking chocolate, chopped
• 60g copha
• 1/2 cup hundreds and thousands, to decorate
• 1/2 cup finely chopped peanuts, to decorate

How to make Chocolate Coated Banana

• Line a baking tray with baking paper. Insert a paddle-pop stick into 1 end of each banana. Place onto baking tray. Cover with plastic wrap. Freeze for 30 minutes.
• Place chocolate and copha into a small, heat-proof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water. Stir with a metal spoon for 5 minutes or until smooth. Place hundreds and thousands and nuts into separate small bowls.
• Remove bananas from freezer. Pour chocolate mixture into a tall glass until three-quarters full. Dip bananas, 1 at a time, into chocolate. Roll tip of each banana in hundreds and thousands or nuts. Stand upright to set. Refrigerate. Package in cellophane bags for fete.

serves: 12

Hot Chocolate Drink Ingredients

• 175 g. semisweet chocolate, break into small pieces
• 2 1\2 cup heavy cream
• Pinch cinnamon
• Whipped cream

How to make Hot Chocolate Drink

• Melt chocolate pieces in a double boiler over hot water.
• Add the cream and stirring constantly bring to boiling point.
• Add the cinnamon and pour in 4 cups.
• Top with whipped cream.

Ingredients

Chocolate Banana Coconut Bread Recipe

:

• 1 large ripe banana, peeled and mashed
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 cup milk
• 1 cup caster sugar
• 2 1/2 cups plain flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 cup dessicated coconut
• 250g milk chocolate, broken into pieces
• 100g spreadable cream cheese, to serve

How to make Chocolate Banana Coconut Bread

• Preheat oven to 200°C. Grease and flour a 19cm x 9cm x 6cm loaf pan. Mix together the mashed banana, vanilla, eggs and milk. Stir in the sugar. Sift the flour and baking powder over the wet ingredients. Add the coconut and gently fold through the mixture, using a large metal spoon.
• Fold in the chocolate, being careful not to over-mix. Spoon into the prepared loaf pan and bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Allow to cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn onto a wire rack to cool. Serve sliced with cream cheese.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1 cup light cream* (half and half)
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 pinch salt
• 1/4 cup mini chocolate chips (or chocolate shavings)

How to make Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Recipe:

• Combine ingredients. Stir until sugar dissolves. Freeze according to ice cream freezer’s directions. Stir in chips just before storing chocolate chip ice cream.
• Makes 1 quart
• 1/2 cream and 1/2 milk may be substituted for light cream

Ingredients:

• 300ml full fat milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or 1/2 vanilla pod
• 4 large egg yolks
• 75g caster sugar
• 200g white chocolate-chopped
• 200ml double cream

This is a lovely luxurious ice cream, I used Green & Blacks organic white chocolate to give it a rich flavour.

How to make White Chocolate Ice Cream Recipe:

• Boil the milk and vanilla together in a pan until it starts to bubble gently, meanwhile whisk the egg yolks and sugar together.
• Pour the milk on to the egg mix and stir and then gently pour the mixture back in to the saucepan and simmer very very lightly (or it’ll split). Stir continuously until the custard mix thickens or coats the back of a wooden spoon then add the chopped chocolate stirring until the heat melts the chocolate.
• Cool the mixture, put it in the fridge to chill. Once chilled, add the cream to the mixture (if you are not using an ice cream machine whisk the cream until stiff and then fold into the mixture).
• Pour in to an ice-cream machine-or set in a shallow container in the freezer, stirring every 30 minutes till set, approx 3 hours.