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Starbucks Replacement Ideas – Hot Chocolate

Lately I’ve been trying to cut out my Starbucks habit.  And I’ve found some very yummy (and 10% of the cost) hot chocolate recipes!
Austrian Cocoa
Makes 3 servings:

2 Tbsp cocoa
2 Tbsp sugar
3/4 c boiling water
2 1/3 c milk
1 -2 sticks cinnamon
1/2 tsp vanilla

Directions:

In saucepan, combine cocoa, sugar, and hot water.  Sir to combine.
Add the milk and [...]

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Kahlua Mousse

mmmm. Thats all I have to say about this divine (& naturally gluten-free) dessert.

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Chocolate Molding

I went to a girlfriends last week for a chocolate demonstration.  We were going to learn to melt and mold chocolate.  And we were supposed to do it all – proper like.  This means I had to sneak into the kitchen to do my taste testing.  Because.  Um.  I just had to.
Here’s the how [...]

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Gluten Free Brownies

These are VERY delish!  All the credit goes to the Complete Gluten Free Cookbook (except I substituted my regular gf flour blend instead of the flours in the recipe).
Ingredients:

1 1/2 cup flour blend.
2 cups sugar
1/2 c cocoa pwd
1/2 tsp baking pwd
1/4 tsp salt
4 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup water
4 tsp vanilla

Directions:

Preheat oven to 325 – [...]

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After 8 Dark Chocolate Tablet

is gluten free.  I thought you’d want to know!
*wink*

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Low-fat, Low-point, gluten-free snacks

Hubs is just down-right ticking me off with all his weight loss.  He’s winning hands-down.  And don’t even try to tell me that it isn’t a competition.  If it is something we are both doing, then obviously its a competition.
Oh.
That’s not obvious?  Anyway, here’s my observations from raiding his gluten-free snack cupboard:
3-4% MF Cheese

Freybe Turkey [...]

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Fluffy Chocolate Cake

I would say this is medium-fluffy.  But compared to most gluten free chocolate cakes – this is fluff-heaven.    Recipe modified from taste.com.au
Preheat to 170°C.  Grease and flour a 7″ springform pan.  I used a regular 8″ cake pan.
Ingredients:

1 c rice flour
1/2 cup corn starch
1/2 cup potato starch
2/3 cup cocoa pwd
1 tsp guar gum.
2 [...]

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Banana Pops

3 bananas, peeled & cut in half width-wise
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1 Tbsp margarine
6 popsicle sticks

Microwave on high: chocolate chips & margarine. 30 seconds. Stir. Another 15 seconds on high. Scrape this onto the bottom of a container/ plate.
Stab bananas with sticks.
Roll bananas in chocolate so they are fully covered. (you [...]

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