Easy Japanese Chocolate Recipes
Today, we introduce the recipes of homemade chocolate desserts using some chocolate bars. We only carry Meiji's black chocolate bar at the store right now, but you can use any chocolate bars for these recipes. We'd recommend you to use milk chocolate if you prefer your desserts to be sweeter.
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Baked Chocolate
It's a delicious baked chocolate snack for Valentine's Day!
Ingredients are simply a chocolate bar and flour.
Ingredients (2 Servings)
3.5 oz. / 100 g of chocolate bar
3 tbsp of flour
Directions
1. Break the chocolate bar into a heatproof bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and heat in a microwave oven at 600W for 1 minute and 30 seconds to melt.
2. Mix with a rubber spatula until smooth after microwaving, then sift in flour and mix well.
3. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill in the freezer for 5 minutes to firm up.
4. Cut into 5 equal pieces with a knife and bake in a preheated oven at 320°F / 160°C for 14 minutes.
5. When cooled, it's ready to serve.
Tips:
When melting the chocolate in the microwave, if there is any leftover melting, heat the mixture for 20 seconds at a time and see how it goes.
It's also delicious with the addition of almonds.
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Gâteau Chocolat in Rice Cooker
This chocolate cake perfect for Valentine's Day can be easily baked in a rice cooker. This recipe is for the rice cooker of 7.8" / 20 cm large. You can change the quantity depending on how big your rice cooker is.
Ingredients (2 Servings)
7 oz. / 200 g of chocolate bar
6.7 floz. / 200 cc of cream
2 eggs
1.4 oz. / 40 g of pancake mix
Powdered sugar as needed
Directions
1. Divide the chocolate into the rice cooker and turn on the rice cooker to melt the chocolate. When smooth, add the cream and stir.
2. Turn off rice cooker. Mix in eggs and pancake mix.
3. After mixing, turn on rice cooker and cook.
4. Transfer to a plate and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Tips:
Check the heat with a toothpick or skewer, and if it's not yet done, turn the switch on again and see how it goes.
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