On St. Valentine`s Day I make a chocolate Valentine. I combine, ice-cream, dark chocolate, biscuit and a liqueur to make a wonderful heart-shaped, mouth-watering desert.
Preheat your oven to 340 degrees. Lightly grease a pan. Mix the liqueur with the instant coffee and vanilla; stir until the coffee is dissolved. In a large bowl, mix the brownie mixture, eggs and oil; stir vigorously. Add the chocolate pieces. Pour mixture into the tin and coax the mixture out to the edges of the tin. Place pan in a 340 degree oven. Bake for 13-16 minutes. When brownies are done to your liking (for about 13 minutes), remove from oven and let cool completely on a wire rack.
However, making alcoholic ice cream is not easy, it takes practice to get the liqueur blended and frozen. The good news is that even if the 'failures' don't look elegant, the still taste good.
Ingredients for Valentine Chocolate Brownies:
- A box of brownie mix
- 2 eggs
- Half a cup of oil
- Two table-spoons of instant coffee
- One tea-spoon of vanilla essence
- 4 oz of quality dark chocolate, cut into smallish chunks. (Use your favourite chocolate not a cheap cooking substitute)
- Three fingers of a liqueur such as Bailey's Cream.
Preheat your oven to 340 degrees. Lightly grease a pan. Mix the liqueur with the instant coffee and vanilla; stir until the coffee is dissolved. In a large bowl, mix the brownie mixture, eggs and oil; stir vigorously. Add the chocolate pieces. Pour mixture into the tin and coax the mixture out to the edges of the tin. Place pan in a 340 degree oven. Bake for 13-16 minutes. When brownies are done to your liking (for about 13 minutes), remove from oven and let cool completely on a wire rack.
To create your sandwich masterpiece: use a heart-shaped cookie to create the brownies. Take a clean tin and spread out the brownie hearts in a single layer in the pan. Now get the ice cream from the freezer. Cut the ice cream into shapes using the same heart-shaped cookie cutter you used for the brownies.
Carefully place the ice cream shape on top of one brownies and cover with another brownie. If you have time, repeat this process to create a double-decker sandwich. Cover pan of Valentine sandwiches with cling-film (plastic wrap) and immediately place in the freezer. After about an hour in the freezer, the sandwiches can be individually wrapped in plastic if desired. For those not on a diet, you could even serve with whipped cream.
Oh!It's very tasty....Yam!
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