Villa del Conte set of bars are sublime and chocolatey rich yet the lightest taste is smooth and velvety that can incorporate to different set of food.
With the start of Foods on the Spot 2015, I decided to put our home made simple creations either it’s for appetizer, main meal or desserts.
This is how our family bond together where all of us cook from breakfast til midnight snack. To cap it up, sometimes I combine it with healthy ingredients.
One time, when I was in the client’s office, I got this bag of chocolate bars from Villa del Conte with a note of anticipating my next creation. Maybe seeing it with my posts of sharing our simple recipe, then this would be chance for me to do it.
With a smile in my face, it made me recall my love for chocolate which also become my hobby last five (5) years ago doing chocolate lollipops and truffles. Soon emerge a small family business where we distributed it to stores and school as we name it Choco Heaven.
Well, when tech projects kept on pouring out at that time, have to stop it, still do some chocolate creations and gave them to my clients as a gift or a present for special occasions.
What will I do with these two bars? To tell you honestly, many in my mind to think of. LOL! But as I said, simplicity would always be my first hand priority.
First things first, to test the chocolate on how I can incorporate them, have chopped and melted it. Whow, as I was blown away as it taste is like Ferrero Rocher using my fingers to licked those melted chocolate.
One would know if one is using premium cacao to make it really taste this good. It has the equal taste of bitterness yet the velvety taste has the smooth, rich and creamy touch of what a chocolate really is.
Definitely, these chocolate bars are perfect with our everyday indulgence yet our family comfort food.
Hot Chocolate made in Chocolate Bar
I was exhausted then with the metro traffic as hubby was inviting me for dinner. Told him, light snack would do. What he did was to prepare me Villa Del Conte Hot Chocolate and four Egg Sandwich pandesal . Ay ang #AgaNgBrekkie. LOL! Sipping the rich chocolate is a comfort food on its own.
Ingredients:
For one (1) mug:
1 (1.55 ounce) dark chocolate candy bar, finely chop
2/3 cup milk, or add more for tasting
Directions:
- Place chocolate pieces in a saucepan over medium-low heat.
- Add the milk
- Mix it until chocolate is melted for 5 minutes.
- Remove from heat and serve it in a mug.
Note: You can topped it with marshmallow, add more milk or add some cinnamon. Usually, have put more milk.
Chocolate Mousse
Like me, my culinary daughter also taste test the chocolate and use it to prepare hubby’s birthday cake – a chocolate mousse. The taste was sooo decadent that once the candle was blown away, in less than an hour, it was all gone considering it was served early in the morning and prepared in the evening.
Ingredients:
10 – 11 ounces dark chocolate, finely chop
20 ounces cold heavy cream
1 ounce sugar (optional)
7 large egg whites
Shaved dark chocolate for top garnish
Directions:
- Place the chop chocolate in large bowl set over in bain marie in a medium low heat.
- Stir it until melted and turn it off. Let it stand.
- Beat the cream until it forms soft peaks and then set aside.
- With a mixer, whip egg and gently add the sugar. Continue whip it until firm.
- Remove the chocolate from the bain marie and using a whisk, fold first the egg whites all at once.
- When the whites are almost completely included, put at the top the whipped cream.
- Refrigerate it for 6 – 8 hours or until set.
- When serving, topped it with topped with shaved chocolate.
Champorado
I have shared my simple recipe of Champorado here as this would be our always breakfast once a week. We used Villa del Conte chopped chocolate bar instead.
Ingredients:
6 – 8 ounces dark chocolate, finely chop
1 ounce sugar (optional)
100 grams Quaker Oat Meal
Milk for toppings
Directions:
- Put 3 cups of water in a pan and heat it up. Once heat up, place the chop chocolates.
- Once melted, put the oat meal.
- Sometimes the water will drain the oat meal. Add more if that happens.
- Taste it. You can put sugar if you like to sweetened it more.
- Mix it and let it simmer for 3 minutes.
- Served hot and add milk.
Note: We usually partner it with dried dried fish like tuyo or dilis
Hotcake Syrup
For breakfast or snacks, my kiddos would like to play around with their hotcakes like eathing it with hotdogs or pouring out some chocolate syrup and sometimes with bananas in between.
2 ounces of dark chocolate candy bar, finely chop as we placed it in a over medium-low heat. Drizzle it around.
Note: If you think it’s too rich, you can add little milk
Chocolate Fondue for Fruit Platter
We were in the dreaded process of transferring data from one desktop to another last weekend and this chocolate fondue took us some breaks to chill out and munch those fresh fruits dip in rich chocolate of Villa del Conte.
Ingredients:
200 grams dark chocolate, finely chop
1/2 cup heavy cream
Choices of strawberries, banana, apple
Directions:
- Place chocolate pieces in a saucepan over medium-low heat.
- Add the cream.
- Mix it until chocolate is melted for 5 minutes.
- Remove from heat and serve it.
There you have it.
Hope you can try this simple Villa Del Conte chocolate creations as my family also enjoyed doing it putting up to our meal either in breakfast or desserts.
For more information, visit their:
Website: http://www.villadelcontecioccolato.com/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/VillaDelContePh
Instagram Account: http:/instagram.com/villadelconte
