Chocolate Fondue Recipe & Pics

HmmMmmmmMm ... looks yummy ya? It should be, the chocolate fondue is made from Toblerone Chocolates!


And all you need is:
1. Fondue set
2. Bittersweet Toblerone Chocolates - 3 X 100g bars (the black one)
3. Milk, cream or half & half - 2/3 cup (your choice depending on how "fat" conscious you are)

Method:
1. Break the Toblerone into pieces and let it remain at room temperature (don't keep in the fridge)
2. Heat liquid in a heavy base pan on low heat. When it's beginning to boil, tip the toblerone in and whisk continously till everything is dissolved. Turn off the heat, and scoop wat's needed into the fondue pot and serve.

Tip 1 : Halve the recipe if it's for 2 persons and you had a full meal already.

Tip 2: If you prefer your chocolate fondue to be thicker or thinner, adjust the liquid contents accordingly.

Tip 3: if you are interested to make it a bit more "adult", you could add 2 tablespoon of alcohol/ liqueur to the chocolate fondue. Most of the recommended liqueurs are 1. Amaretto 2. Kirsch 3. Chocolate Liqueurs. However, I believe you can add brandy, dark rum, kahlua, tia maria to it as well. Peppermint Schnapps would make it like After 8 but I doubt I'll like the taste on my strawberries. Add before the chocolate is full dissolved in the liquid.

Tip 4: Yes, I'm coming to it, you can certainly change to any chocolates of your choice. Just remember different chocolates have different "consistency" so you probably have adjust the liquids content according to your preferences.

NOTE: Typically chocolate fondues recipe I've look at puts 225g to 285g (8oz to 10 oz) of chocolate to 1/2 to 3/4 cup of liquid. Do take note that Milk is thinner than Cream so you can start off with less liquid first then add more if you think you prefer it thinner. The chocolate will also slightly thicken once it's taken off the heat.

The fondue set shown above was bought from Robinsons during a sale. Got it for $12! Good thing about this set is that it's pretty solid, and comes with a tealight candle!

As for what goes with the chocolate fondue other than strawberries? Did a quick search and came up with 1. bananas 2. cakes 3. biscottis 4. Venezuela fingers 5. marshmallows

But since my hubby doesn't like bananas, I wasn't too keen on marshmallows and I couldn't find fresh raspberries (the tartness would have gone very well with the chocolate), I settled for strawberries and cake. The biscottis weren't planned but since we popped into Coffee Bean for his fav BlackForest Ice Blend, I remembered that it was on the recommended list, so I got 2.

I wanted Sara Lee's Coffee Pound Cake(I believed I've seen it before), but they only had some other flavours and I chose the best of the lot - Strawberry Swirl Pound Cake. I took half of the cake and cubed it.

The above is the Espresso Biscotti from Coffee Bean & Tea Leaves ($1.50), broken into bits by hand.

The above is the Almond Biscotti from Coffee Bean & Tea Leaves ($1.50), broken into bits by hand.

The final ensemble! The only person upset by it was Rascal, since he couldn't partake in any of the delicious smells he's been sniffing in the air for at least 1 hour!

What am I doing at this time posting this? I can't sleep! Rascal woke me up at 2am and I can't sleep! *help!*