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Simple Chocolate FrostingPies, Pastries & Desserts
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Submitted by Lyndance - The Cajun Dancer with a Great Smile
on Thursday, January 01, 2009
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| Makes: | 1 cake servings |
| Prep Time: | 10 minutes |
| Cook Time: | 20 minutes |
| Ready In: | 30 minutes |
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One of the simplest and perfect cake frostings. - From 5starchocolate.com : Ever Wonder How Chocolate is made? It all begins on a plantation within 2 degrees of the equator. 1 cacao tree, planted in the shade of a larger tree, will produce 5 pounds of chocolate per year (each seedling takes 5-8 years to mature, so starting a plantation can take a while).
At harvest time, plantation works gather, split and dry the cacao beans until they have reached a moisture content of only 7%. The average harvest requires 400 fermenting trays, 50 long-handled pod whoppers, 25 machetes, and a lot of burlap.
The dried pulp and other debris is removed from the beans. The beans are then sorted, selected and roasted. The outer shell is removed and the nibs are left to be crushed by a mill. The heat generated liquefies the pulp, resulting in what is referred to as “chocolate mass”. This mass is then sweetened and cooled into bricks to be used by chocolatiers like Stephany's Chocolates.
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| Ingredients |
| 1/4 cup Hershey's Cocoa Chocolate |
1 cup white granulated sugar |
| 1 stick butter (8 tbsp) |
1/4 cup milk |
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| | | Directions | | In a medium saucepan, combine all the ingredients and bring to a hard rolling boil stirring the entire time. Boil for one minute after hard boil is achieved; remove from heat, add the vanilla and beat the mixture until it starts to thicken. Spread immediately on cooled cake. |
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