Thursday, July 14, 2011

Enjoy These Delicious Chocolate Recipes: Cookie Bars, Turtle Pie, Pinto Bean Fudge

All you chocoholics, there are some yummy chocolate recipes. From Double Chocolate Cookie Bars with an Oreo Cookie crust with Chocolate Turtle Pie Chocolate fudge with a surprise ingredient pinto beans, you will love this chocolate treat.

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE BARS cookie
2 cups of Oreo cookies, crushed finely.
1 / 2 stick butter, melted
2 cups (12 - pkg oz) semi-sweet chocolate Chips
1 can (14 oz.) Sweetened condensed milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup chopped pecans

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.

Combine cookie crumbs and melted butter until well mixed. Click on the bottom of a 9 x 13 inch - Pan baking.

In a medium saucepan, over medium heat, melt 1 cup of chocolate chips with sweetened condensed milk. Stir in vanilla. Pour the chocolate mixture evenly over crust in pan. Sprinkle the remaining cup of chocolate chips and chopped pecans to register.

Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until set. Cool in pan on wire rack. Cut to 24 large bars or 36 small bars.

These bars are good at room temperature or frozen.

CHOCOLATE Turtle pie
1 / 4 cup caramel ice cream topping
1 prepared Graham cracker crust
1 / 2 cup chopped pecans
2 pkgs (4 - serving size) chocolate cook and serve pudding and pie filling
3 cups milk
whipped cream for garnish

Chapter of the caramel over the bottom crust. Sprinkle the pecans over caramel. Freeze.

In a saucepan, stir in pudding mix into milk. Stirring constantly, cook over medium heat until mixture comes to full boil. Remove from heat and allow to cool 5 minutes. Irarantsum time during cooling. Pour into crust and place plastic wrap on surface of filling. Refrigerate about 3 hours or until set. Before serving garnish with whipped cream, if desired.

Yield: 8 servings

Pinto Bean CHOCOLATE fudge
1 can (15 oz) pinto beans, rinsed and drained
1 cup cocoa powder
3 / 4 cup butter, melted
1 tbsp vanilla extract
7 1 / 2 cups confectioners, sugar
1 cup chopped nuts

Place beans in microwave-safe dish and mash with fork until smooth. Cover the dish and heat in microwave 1 1 / 2 to 2 minutes or until heated through. Remove dish from microwave. Add cocoa powder, butter, and vanilla. This will make a thick mixture. Slowly stir in confectioners `sugar. Stir in walnuts Press mixture into prepared Pan. Cover and freeze until firm.

Yield: 3 1 / 2 pounds

Note: The pinto beans are usually used to replace some of the butter fudge. This fudge is creamy and the walnuts add crunch. No one will believe this silly thing in the beans.