White Chocolate Celebrations!
 
Chocolate Inspirations
Issue 03 – Topics
- What’s New – Lots of White Chocolate Recipes.
- More Chocolate Covered Strawberries to make.
- I Need Your Help!.
- Sharing my chocolate Mothers Day Cake photographs.
- Subscribers only recipe – More ways to use white chocolate ganache plus a microwave lemon butter recipe.
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What’s New – White Chocolate Recipes.
 
White chocolate recipes Well I never knew just how many white chocolate fanatics there was out there until you all started asking for white chocolate recipes.
If you have not visited my site recently then GO THERE NOW! and discover all these new easy chocolate recipes. Brownies, Fudge, White Chocolate Raspberry Scones, Cookies, White Chocolate Ganache, Truffles and more.
I have also now added a white chocolate version of my best chocolate cake recipe and like the dark chocolate cake I have started including variations - coconut white chocolate and raspberry white chocolate are just the beginning.
Discover the white chocolate recipes here.
More Chocolate Covered Strawberries
You may remember me telling you in the last edition of Chocolate Inspirations that I was in the middle of adding to my chocolate strawberry collection. Well I did manage to get them done and here they are! My cute little Bunnies and Mice.
Click here to learn how to make them.
I Need Your Help!
Ok now I need your help.
I want to expand my site to include chocolate tours of the world. So no matter where you live if there is a chocolate tour or museum or even a really good chocolate making class that you know of please share it with me so that I can include it in my pages.
Just pass on the information through my contact me page. and I will be more than happy to include it - it will be nice to have personal imput from people who love chocolate.
Chocolate Mothers Day Cakes
 
I thought I would share these photographs of two Mothers Day Cakes I made for this Year. The reason being that they use my chocolate cake and chocolate ganache recipes.
One has my chocolate cake recipe the other the chocolate almond cake recipe this is just another way to show the versatility of this great cake.
I know it is too late to make these for Mothers Day this year but I am just inspiring you to use it as a base for your next decorated cake. A tip is to bake it the day before you plan to decorate, this will make it easier to layer and ganache.
My new white chocolate cake recipe also works equally as well, combine this with the white chocolate ganache recipe and you are on a winner.
Subscribers only recipe – White Chocolate Ganche Ideas plus Lemon Butter Recipe
White chocolate ganache can be used in many ways. Let it set and roll and you have truffles, pour it over a cake while still warm and you have a beautifully chocolate enrobed cake.
On these lemon tarts I have poured it on still warm and let it cool till it is thick enough to beat then pipe. The pastry bases are easy to make using your favourite sweet short crust pastry or store bought. Bake the pastry shells and leave to cool. Then fill with delicious lemon butter and top with white chocolate ganache. I made the flower and heart decorations out of ready to roll icing the night before so that they had time to dry.
I have given you my recipe for lemon butter below. I have been making this and giving it as gifts for many years. I love to make it in the microwave it is so quick and simple.
Ingredients
- 120g unsalted butter, melted
- 2 cups caster sugar
- 7 eggs, lightly beaten
- 2 tablespoons lemon zest, finely grated
- 1 cup lemon juice
Using a whisk combine all the ingredients in a large microwave safe bowl.
Cook on high for three minutes. Remove and whisk gently. When you are whisking you are justing trying to blend until smooth not aerate the lemon butter.
Cook on high for two minutes. Remove and whisk gently.
Cook on high for one minute. Remove and whisk gently.
Continue this in one minute intervals until the lemon butter has thickened. This will take approximately 8 minutes.
If you plan to give this as gifts then fill into hot sterilised jars and seal. If not pour into a container and leave to cool before covering.
The lemon butter will keep 10 days if refrigerated.
I have also used this lemon butter as layers in the white chocolate cake and then topped it with the white chocolate ganache. The sweetness of the ganache is balanced by the tart lemon filling.
You can find the recipe for the White Chocolate Ganache here.
Comments? Ideas? Feedback? I'd love to hear from you. Just reply to this white chocolate recipes e-zine and tell me what you think! I am already planning the next issue. I don’t think it will be too hard to come up with more Chocolate Inspirations.
I should also add that I have NEW PAGES ON DECORATED CUPCAKES recipes for the cakes and a growing list of ideas on how to decorate them. Have fun discovering them I think they are the most popular cake at the moment.
Bye for now,
Michelle
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