Hot Fudge Sauce #Choctoberfest

It has been way to long since I posted. And here we are in the midst of #Choctoberfest.  I blame colds and hurricanes.  Regardless I am back this week with a slew of chocolate posts. 

Let's just say this past weekend was super sweet.  First up is this amazing hot fudge sauce.  I had this go to recipe for hot fudge from the microwave.  It was my constant until now. This recipe is just four ingredient and one pot on the stove top. Five minutes later and you have this amazingly rich and thick hot fudge sauce.  It is so good you don't even need ice cream. Just grab a spoon. 

I used Imperial Sugar for my granulated sugar ingredient. I love that it is not chunky and pours smooth. This is key for nice and smooth hot fudge.  No one wants lumpy hot fudge sauce.  The recipe makes about 3 cups, quite a bit of hot fudge but it stores well in the fridge in an air tight container.  

Hot Fudge Sauce

by Emily Morris

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 5 minutes

Keywords: saute dessert chocolate

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Ingredients (makes 3 cups)

• 1 cup Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
• 1 cup Imperial Sugar
• 1 cup Heavy Cream
• 1 stick Salted Butter, Cut Into Pieces

Instructions

In a medium saucepan, gently whisk together the cocoa powder and sugar.

Whisk in the cream, then turn the heat to medium and whisk it as it warms up.

When the mixture starts to heat up, add the butter and stir it in to melt. Then when the mixture is nice hot stir it to combine. Sauce will thicken.

Let the sauce cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then transfer it to a jar. Store it in the fridge (it will become solid as it cools).

To serve, scoop out the amount you need and place it in a microwave-safe bowl. Heat it for 20 seconds, then stir and heat for another 10 or until the sauce is warm.

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#Choctoberfest this week!

Today is one of my favorite days of the year... because it is the first day of #Choctoberfest 2016! #Choctoberfest is a virtual event put together by The PinterTest Kitchen. Bloggers from around the world will be posting their favorite chocolate recipes, and you’ll get a chance to win some awesome prizes. What’s not to love? Thank you to the sponsors who make #Choctoberfest possible! This year, Imperial Sugar is back as our Gold Sponsor. They have been a trusted name in kitchens since 1843, and their website is home to thousands of sweet recipes tested in the Imperial Sugar Kitchen. You can find Imperial Sugar on Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube, or join their Sweet Community so you can share your own recipes, save recipes to a virtual inbox, print Imperial Sugar coupons, and connect with other sugar lovers. Imperial Sugar and our silver sponsors have banded together to offer a huge #Choctoberfest prize pack, which you can enter to win below! One lucky winner will be chosen at random to receive the following:

• From our Gold Sponsor Imperial Sugar: 1 case of granulated sugar (40 pounds), 1 case of brown sugar (24 pounds), 1 case of dark brown sugar (24 pounds), 1 case of powdered sugar (24 pounds bags), and an Imperial Sugar red ruffle apron
• From our Silver Sponsor Nature Nate's: 32 oz. Raw & Unfiltered Honey bottle, Honey Syrup, Honey Packets, a Nature Nate’s T-shirt, various kitchen supplies, and $50 Amazon gift card
• From our Silver Sponsor Barlean's:16 oz Barlean’s Butter-Flavored Coconut Oil, 9.52 oz canister of Chocolate Silk Greens, and 8oz bottle of Essential Women Omega-Swirl Chocolate Mint

From our Silver Sponsor Caveman Coffee: 1 Bag of Coffee (you choice of blacklisted or sabertooth), 1 coconut MCT oil, and 1 Cacao Butter

From #Choctoberfest blog hosts The PinterTest Kitchen: 1 specialty chocolate gift pack (your choice of dark or milk chocolate), 1 tin (14 ounces) drinking chocolate, and Divine's Fair Trade Gift Set

Enter now to win our #Choctoberfest 2016 prize pack! We'll be picking a winner at random winner on Saturday, Oct. 15, so enter by Friday to make sure your name is in the drawing: a Rafflecopter giveaway Here's a list of all of the bloggers participating in #Choctoberfest 2016. Visit any of their blogs to get delicious chocolate recipes throughout the week: The PinterTest Kitchen • 2 Cookin’ Mamas • A Kitchen Hoor's Adventures • addicted 2 recipes • Amy’s Cooking Adventures • An Affair From The Heart • Balancing Motherhood • Body Rebooted • Bottom Left of the Mitten • By the Pounds • Canning and Cooking at Home • Coconut & Lime • Cook with 5 Kids • Cook's Hideout • Cookaholic Wife • Cooking with Carlee • CopyKat Recipes • Cricket's Confections • Crumbs in my Mustachio • Elisabeth Jean • Fairyburger • Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice • Family Around the Table • Fantastical Sharing of Recipes • Feed Your Soul Too • Feeding Big • Frankly Entertaining • Full Belly Sisters • Get the Good Stuff • Grumpy’s Honeybunch • Hezzi-D's Books and Cooks • Hostess At Heart • Ink and Sugar • Jane’s Adventures in Dinner • Join Us, Pull Up a Chair • Karen's Kitchen Adventures • Kate's Recipe Box • Kudos Kitchen by Renee • Kylee Cooks • Letz Eat • Life Currents • Life on Food • Making Miracles • Monica's Table • Moore or Less Cooking Food Blog • My Catholic Kitchen • My Gluten Free Miami • Our Good Life • Palatable Pastime • Restless Chipotle • Seduction in The Kitchen • Sew You Think You Can Cook • Simple Food 365 • Southern With A Twist • Sumptuous Spoonfuls • Take Two Tapas • Tampa Cake Girl • Teaspoon of Goodness • That Recipe • The Crumby Cupcake • The Flavourista • The Food Hunter's Guide To Cuisine • The Freshman Cook • The Pajama Chef • The Redhead Baker • The Spiffy Cookie • Tramplingrose • Wildflour's Cottage Kitchen • Zesty South Indian Kitchen I'm looking forward to seeing all of the yummy recipes posted on these blogs. Check them out throughout the week and don't forget to follow our sponsors and bloggers using the Rafflecopter giveaway widget above for your chance to win our sweet prize pack.

Cheese and Zatar Sticks #secretrecipeclub

We have been super busy the last few weekends with guests.  And work is crazy with each of us being out of the house every few days. We get by but have little energy left over.  It's times like this that extra bills come in and random house things come up to really put us over the edge.  I am looking forward to this upcoming week when we are both home all week and a weekend free of activities. 

As an extra treat for the week I whipped up these cheese and Zatar sticks from Chef in Disguise.  This is the blog I was assigned for the October Secret Recipe Club post.

Sawsan, the author behind Chef in Disguise is Palestinian, but was raised in Jordan. I lived, studied and worked in Amman up until June 2014  when her and her husband moved to United Arab Emirates. Her blog is full of delicious Middle Eastern foods as well as pictures from her travels and where she lives. Having never been to this area of the world I am always amazed at the vibrant colors and different architectural designs. I had so much fun exploring this blog. 

There were so many interesting recipes to pick from I had a list a mile long but had trouble sourcing some of the ingredients.  We don't have many Middle Eastern grocery stores around me.  A shame too because don't these recipes sound delicious, Cheesy Flatbread and Harissa Cake.

Sawsan has so many bread or yeast recipes that I was immediately drawn to too. I really liked this meat galette but then these Cheese and Zatar Sticks showed up in my search.  I just got Zatar to try out and I was itching to open it.  I couldn't not make these sticks. 

The dough came together easily and quickly. My little one helped do the twisting before we popped the trays into the oven. These were a great snack to have on hand but I will definitely be saving this recipe for the holidays. They would make a great appetizer for sharing.  

It was such fun seeing all these new recipes and Middle Eastern spice combinations through Chef in Disguise. 

Cheese and Zatar Sticks

by Emily Morris

Prep Time: 15 minutes, plus rise time

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Keywords: bake bread

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Ingredients (Makes 24 plus sticks)

• 2 ¼ cups flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 cup olive oil
• 2 teaspoons yeast
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 130 grams Nabulsi cheese grated
• 150 ml warm milk
• 1 tablespoon vinegar
• 3 tablespoons Zatar

Instructions

Proof the yeast by mixing it with the sugar and warm milk, set aside for 10 minutes.

In a bowl place the flour and salt, add the olive oil and rub it into the flour with your finger tips.

Add the Zatar and grated cheese, toss to combine.

Add the yeast/ milk mixture and the vinegar and knead , until the dough comes together into a smooth ball.

Cover and leave in a warm place till it doubles.

Roll out the dough and then cut it into strips using a pizza cutter.

Then you can shape the strips by rolling them into sticks, coiling them or twisting in two opposite directions to give them a twisty look.

Bake in a 400 degree oven on the middle rack till the bottoms are golden brown, about 15 minutes.

Cool on a wire rack then store in an airtight container.

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