Combining chocolate with fresh fruit makes for a healthy and delicious treat. Have a look at the delicious recipes below and enjoy your chocolate without any guilt! These nutritious chocolate recipes follow at the bottom of the page. First we have a decadent chocolate raspberry cake! Enjoy.

Chocolate Rasperry Cake by

ANDREW KRAUSE

This is a moist chocolate cake recipe, it is a 3 layer cake with 2 layers of raspberry cream filling and topped with a chocolate raspberry butter cream icing. Are you salivating yet?

To make this cake use your favorite chocolate cake recipe or for the inexperienced baker just use 2 dark chocolate cake mixes.

Mix with

8 medium eggs

2 cups cold water

2/3 cup oil

Mix on medium speed until well blended, scrape bowl, mix for 1 more minute.

Pour in equal portions into 3 (10x2 inch baking pans).

Bake at 350 degree preheated oven for approximately 30 to 40 minutes or until done.

Cool on rack, remove from pans, level cakes by cutting off rounded tops.

Purchase a good fruitful raspberry pastry filling (H&H) is the best, place about 1 pound of filling in a bowl and add whip cream to it (whip the cream first) now fold them together until you reach the desired flavor and thickness (don't make it too thin).

Use any chocolate butter cream recipe that you like and add to the icing (black raspberry extract) until you reach the desired flavor (if you make the icing too thin just add some more 10x sugar).

Assemble the cake:

On the bottom layer put a dam of icing around the edge and your filling in the center and smooth to level, repeat for 2nd and 3rd layer, decorate as in picture, use shaved chocolate or chocolate jimmies in center of the top.

About The Author:

Andrew Krause is a Chef and Pastry Chef for over 30 years, at persent I own a Gourmet Bakery called The Cheese Confectioner.You can visit my site at http://www.andies.cashhosters2.com 

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Nutritious Chocolate Recipes

By Peter Cullen 

Are you eating enough fruit lately? How about chocolate?

Well, here are three cool ways to make sure you're getting enough of both of these important foodstuffs this summer and both are very quick and easy.

Godiva Chocolate Covered Banana Drink

Ingredients:

Method:

Pour Godiva into blender.

Add rum, banana and ice cream.

Blend until smooth.

Pour into serving glass.

Garnish with banana slice.

Makes 2 drinks.

Here's another one:

Frozen Chocolate Banana

Ingredients:

Method:

Wrap banana halves in wax paper or foil and freeze till hard.

On sheet of wax paper, spread half the cracker crumbs; coat 1 banana half with 1/2 tsp syrup, then roll in crumbs.

Repeat procedure with remaining banana half.

Serve immediately or wrap in moisture and vapor resistant wrapping and store in freezer till ready to use.

And last but not least....

Chocolate Plunge For Fresh Fruit

Ingredients:

Method:

In medium saucepan stir corn syrup and cream.

Bring to boil over medium heat.

Remove from heat.

Add chocolate, stir until completely melted.

Serve warm as a dip for fruit.

Makes 1 1/2 cups.

What could be easier? Enjoy!

Note: You may freely publish the above recipes in any way you wish, as long as the author's name and links are left intact.