MUST. HAVE. CHOCOLATE.

Here is your chance to torment me: post your favorite recipe which you make when you absolutely have to have a chocolate fix. Mine, of course, is chocolate microwave cake. And you? And do you go for white, milk or dark? (I go for dark, myself.)

I am trying to lose weight. This is not helping. Um . . . lo-cal recipes to enjoy chocolate while not busting the calorie budget are welcome, too.

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First solution: Breyer's Chocolate Ice Cream.
Second: Breyer's Coffee Ice Cream with Butterscotch sauce. Oh, wait, that doesn't have any chocolate. But it fixes the sugar craving.
Second alternative solution: plain M&Ms.
Third alternate: Heath bars.
If I were -planning- a chocolate dessert & not just indulging a whim, I'd make pots de creme. But this requires at least 2 days' notice as I don't keep whipping cream on hand, though the Baker's Semi-sweet cooking chocolate is always around, and the recipe is better if it ripens in the refrigerator at least 6 hours. Want the recipe?

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Sure!

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coalboy.livejournal.com

Sorry to be so long in posting this - my copy is missing & I had to get the recipe from my cousin.
Pots de Crème Makes 6

½ lb. german sweet chocolate
¼ c. light cream
2 egg yolks (slightly beaten with fork)
1 C. cream, whipped

Melt chocolate in double boiler, remove double boiler top from heat. Add light cream. Stir until smooth. Pour small amount over egg yolks, mix well. (If you put the yolks into the hot chocolate, they will curdle.) Add rest of egg yolks and return all to the double boiler and cook 3 min. stirring constantly with whisk. Cool until mixture gets to temp so that you can fold in whipped cream without curdling. Turn into pots de crème cups leaving space to put a dab of whipped cream or plain cream. Put on lids. Refrigerate overnight.

This recipe came originally from the Chicago Tribune in the 1950's (without the parenthetical interpolations.) My family usually uses demitasse spoons to eat this, partly because it is so rich & partly to make the experience last longer!