Depending on what you're after, a chocolate dessert can be made by: frying, stewing, freezing, chilling, setting with gelatin, caramelizing, or baking in the oven, slow cooker or microwave. And served on a platter or plate, in a tumbler or glass, in a dessert bowl or special molds, cold, warm or hot. With sauces and toppings, with a dusting or a glaze. In short, there are so many chocolate dessert recipes that you couldn't get through them all in one lifetime.
The five most commonly used ingredients in chocolate dessert recipes:
| Product | Calories per 100g | Protein g per 100g | Fats g per 100g | Carbohydrates g per 100g |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar | 398 | 0 | 0 | 99.7 |
| Cocoa powder | 374 | 24.2 | 17.5 | 32 |
| Butter | 734 | 0.5 | 82.5 | 0.8 |
| Chocolate | 550 | 5.4 | 35.3 | 57.6 |
| Milk | 68 | 3.2 | 3.6 | 4.8 |
When people mention them, they most often mean no-bake desserts. It could be a pudding, jelly, mousse, cream, ice cream, sherbet, pastille, cheesecake, sweet terrine, candy, fudge or cake. Preference goes to the kind served in portions, in glasses, tumblers or dessert bowls. Besides cocoa or ready-made chocolate, they can include: cream, butter, milk, gelatin, eggs, cottage cheese, any fruits, berries, dried fruit, nuts and candied fruit. And of course sugar or its substitutes.
For chocolate desserts that involve baking — like brownies, fondants, muffins, cupcakes, cakes, pies, pastries and cookies — the selection of ingredients is wider. In addition to the above, they can include flour of all kinds and all dairy products.
Tip: a dessert made with bitter dark chocolate has a more pronounced chocolate taste and aroma than one made with cocoa.
You can also use cocoa butter instead of regular butter to flavor chocolate baked goods. This is especially true for homemade candies.
The five lowest-calorie chocolate dessert recipes:
| Name of the dish | Cooking time | Calories per 100g | User Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melon jelly | 2 h 30 min | 43 | +6 |
| Fruit and berry salad with yogurt | 15 min | 55 | +6 |
| Kefir panna cotta | 2 hours | 83 | +195 |
| Fruit dessert with ice cream salad | 20 min | 97 | +21 |
| Layered jelly | 6 h 30 min | 100 | +75 |
Italian chocolate desserts are very popular around the world: gianduiotti, semifreddo, cioccolatini, caprese (not the salad!), budino. By the way, the famous Nutella spread also hails from Italy. Sweets such as brownies, fondant, terrine and many others have become favorites here.