Category: Chocolate

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Bittersweet Chocolate Granola

ittersweet Chocolate Granola | Bijouxs Little Jewels

Some mornings you just really need chocolate, Bittersweet Chocolate Granola is here to fulfill your breakfast cravings-No. 621 from the Membership Collection.

BITTERSWEET CHOCOLATE

The combination of raw cacao nibs and dark cocoa powder create this rich and deeply chocolate breakfast bowl. Add  a splash of milk and chocolate milk appears, a reminder of your favorite cocoa cereal only this is healthy.  Just sweetened with a touch of honey and the sweet-tart surprise of dried cherries this not-to-sweet cereal is bound to become a morning favorite.

GRAIN FREE GANOLA

Nuts and seeds create the base of the granola, no grain fillers are required. Crunchy, sweet-tart and loaded  with chocolate into Bittersweet Chocolate Granola.

Bittersweet Chocolate Granola | Bijouxs Little Jewels from the Kitchen

Bittersweet Chocolate Granola | Bijouxs Little Jewels

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Ada Boni’s Chocolate Cupcakes

Ada Boni’s Chocolate Cupcakes | Bijouxs Little Jewels

Happy Sunday! I bring you an incredible chocolate cake recipe that hits all the marks in today’s food scene: no dairy, no butter, a perfectly vegan cake; oh did I mention the recipe is from Italy in 1929? Amazing cooks, making something from nothing in hardship days-Ada Boni’s Talisman Cake, a true little jewel.

ITALIAN REGIONAL COOKING

This cake popped up on my IG feed a while back-it looked like a mistake, another flawed recipe from the internet. After research I found out that this cake, Ada Boni’s Talisman Cake, is from a 1929 cookbook that was touted at the time as a book to give new brides as a wedding gift. This peaked my interest and down the rabbit whole I went to understand the history of this recipe. Not to my knowledge, I had a copy of Italian Regional Cookbook I picked up for couple bucks at a local thrift shop, also by Ada Boni!. My cookbook collection is out of control.

CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES

Back to the cupcakes (cake) recipe. This cake recipe does read like mistake. I was skeptical, but after multiple bakings, each time  comes out fantastic, whether made as a cake or cupcakes. So, dense, so much chocolate, hard to believe recipe. The best thing is the simplicity. Dry ingredients in a bowl, add the wet and orange rind and bake, that’s all, really.

Ada Boni’s Chocolate Cupcakes | Bijouxs Little Jewels

A couple of things, do not over bake or add more than called for orange zest or cinnamon, I went a little overboard one time, not good.I frosted the cupcakes with a rich coconut milk vanilla-bean labne (thick yogurt) whip. I love the tang and it keeps things dairy-free.  Frost with your favorite vanilla frosting, or go crazy and do chocolate, you can’t lose either way.

Ada Boni’s Chocolate Cupcakes | Bijouxs Little Jewels

Ada Boni’s Chocolate Cupcakes | Bijouxs Little Jewels

 

HISTORIAL RECIPES

I can’t say enough how much cooking knowledge I have gained from reading from cook’s of the past from all over the world. My cookbook collection is a treasure. Food is universal, something that connects us all.

In creating Bijouxs Little Jewels from the Kitchen over 10 years ago, my was goal to bring you the” little jewels” a curated collection of recipes from different time periods and cultures. Now with 500 recipes on the website to search, you will find an abundant collection of eclectic recipes, something for everyone and every meal.

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