Roz Lee

Where Passion and Romance blossom into True Love

Chocolate Buffet

Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power. It is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits. - Baron Justus von Liebig (1803-1873), German chemist

This page is dedicated to The Midnight Chocolate Buffet,a favorite event aboard the Lothario, and one that makes an appearance, of sorts, in every book in the series. So, for all you chocolate lovers, here's an excerpt followed by a few of my favorite chocolate recipes. Click on the title of the recipe for a printable PDF version.

Chocolate Guinness Cake

1 C. Guinness (dark beer)

½ C. butter, cubed

2 C. Sugar

¾ C. baking cocoa

2 eggs, beaten

2/3 C. Sour Cream

3 tsp. vanilla extract

2 C. all-purpose flour

1 ½ tsp. baking soda

Grease a 9" springform pan and line the bottom with parchment paper. Set aside.

In a small saucepan, heat beer and butter until butter is melted. Remove from heat. Whisk in sugar and cocoa until blended.

Combine eggs, sour cream and vanilla. Whisk into beer mixture.

Pour batter into prepared pan.

Bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 min. Cool completely. Remove sides of pan.

Topping –

8 oz. cream cheese, softened

1 ½ c. confectioner's sugar

½ c. heavy whipping cream

In a large bowl, beat cream cheese until fluffy. Add confectioner's sugar and cream. Beat until smooth.

Remove cake from pan. Place on a platter or cake stand. Ice top of cake so it resembles a frothy pint of beer. Refrigerate leftovers.

Serves 12.

From – Tasteofhome.com

Red Velvet Cake

A hint of cocoa makes this a chocolate lovers favorite.

Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour two 8" layer cake pans.

1/2 c. Shortening 1 1/2 c. granulated sugar 2 eggs

2 oz. red food coloring 2T. Cocoa

2 1/4 c. plain flour 1 scant tsp. salt 1 tsp. vanilla

1 tsp. soda 1 c. buttermilk 1 T. vinegar

1 tsp butter flavoring (if desired) I desire!

Cream together shortening, sugar and eggs. Make a paste with the food coloring and cocoa, add to shortening mixture. Add salt and flour, alternating with buttermilk and vanilla. Add butter flavoring here if you want to.

Add soda. Stir in.

Add vinegar. Stir, but do not beat, until blended. (You don't want to overdo this step. Just mix it up a bit.)

Pour into prepared pans. Bake for 30 min. at 350.

Cool on wire rack. Frost when cool.

Butter Cream Frosting

(Some people like a cream cheese frosting, but this is my favorite, so this is what you're going to get!)

1 lb. Powdered sugar

6 T. Butter - softened

3 T. milk

1 1/2 tsp. vanilla (clear if you have it)

In large mixing bowl, using an electric mixer (or a brawny guy), beat butter until smooth. Gradually add in powdered sugar, adding milk and flavoring a little at a time. Continue beating until smooth. Spread over cake or the brawny guy helping you!

Just for fun!

Chocolate is such a versatile food! Here's an excerpt from THE LUST BOAT to illustrate the point.

Candace dipped a small brush into a bowl. She turned to the camera and held the brush to her lips. She blew against the brush and a dark cloud settled across her torso. Chocolate. His stomach growled as he imagined licking the fine mist of chocolate off her skin. Candace drew the brush over her skin, spreading the dark brown powder over her breasts, her stomach and over her waxed mound, leaving her skin glowing where she’d embellished it.

Ryan’s tongue darted out and wet his lips. His cock bobbed in response. In the silent room he heard his blood rushing in his ears. His heart pumped at a rate guaranteed to send him into cardiac arrest at any minute, but still he couldn’t look away. Candace dipped the brush again, this time into a jar of chocolate sauce and with one hand cupped around her breast, brushed the chocolate over her nipple and areola. Ryan swallowed hard and closed his gaping mouth. It fell open again as Candace switched her attention to her other breast. Once again she dipped the brush and propped herself up on her elbows to brush dark chocolate across her naked mons.

“Shit.”

He’d never seen anything so delectable in his life. His mouth watered at the sight of her chocolate tipped breasts and candy coated mound. He wanted to jump through the screen and fuck her brains out. Instead, he wrapped his hand around his cock and massaged it. “Hang on there. We’re going to get her back. Not tonight. She’s having her revenge, but she’ll be ours tomorrow.”

He should have cut the connection and taken a cold shower, but he couldn’t bring himself to end the torture. Candace had gone to a lot of trouble to stage this little titillating rebellion and he wouldn’t spoil it for her. He sucked in a breath between clenched teeth as Candace poured a tiny bit of chocolate into her belly button. A tiny stream spilled over and ran across her stomach in an enticing satin ribbon. She lay back and reached for something. A moment later she dipped the tip of a luscious red strawberry into her navel and drew it out, dripping chocolate. Tiny drops left a trail across her stomach, between her breasts and to her chin. Her tongue darted out and flicked against the strawberry. She lowered it to her lips and sucked it into her mouth.

Ryan fisted his hand around his cock, remembering how the hot cavern of her mouth felt around his shaft. Her lips worked as she chewed the berry. A drop of red juice ran from the corner of her mouth. Her reddened tongue swooped out to capture it.

“Holy shit!”

This next recipe earned me First Place in Desserts, and the Sweepstakes Prize for Gourmet Day at The Southern California Exposition in 1988. It's a true Chocoholics delight.

Not a gourmet cook? This one's for you!