One…Two… Chocolate Fondue

Ready, set, fondue! This chocolate fondue recipe is so easy, if you blink, you just might miss it. The ingredients are basic, it tastes delicious—in fact, you don’t even need a fondue pot to make it! It doesn’t get much more basic than that! Let’s get started!

Ingredients:

• 12 ounces good quality semi-sweet chocolate
• 2/3 cup heavy cream
• 2 tablespoons pure vanilla extract
• 3 tablespoons Grand Marnier or Amaretto liqueur (optional)
• Bite sized pieces of fruit or cake
  

Directions:

1) Combine the chocolate and heavy cream in a medium heavy saucepan over medium-low heat.

2) Stirring constantly, cook for about two minutes, or until melted and smooth. Add the vanilla and liqueur. Serve with the fruit and cake.

Yum! This chocolate fondue recipe is so delicious! My best friend and I have a little pink fondue pot and when we hang out, at nights we’ll break out the fondue pot, this recipe, and a chick flick! It’s so much fun.

Also, there are many different options to serve this recipe with. We especially like bananas, strawberries, pineapple, and mandarin oranges.

Pound cake is good too just so long as it doesn’t get crumby and break into pieces and fall into the chocolate.

For a special treat, try dipping tiny pieces of cheesecake into the fondue. We don’t do cheesecake too often, but when we do it’s so good! Try this recipe for yourself… make a night of it. It’s a great addition to any “girl’s night in” or “at-home date night”. Enjoy this fantastic chocolate fondue recipe… make seconds if necessary!

Patriotic Pound Cake Recipe

It’s the fourth of July! There are fireworks, there are picnics, there is music, there are desser–. Oh wait, where are the desserts! Never fear, this triple layer pound cake will surely save the day.

It’s a light blend of raspberries, strawberries, and blackberries which make you want to step up like Uncle Sam and proclaim, “Pound cake, I want you!”

This pound cake recipe is great for 4^th of July festivities. This cake is great for any gathering and if it’s a really large party, you can even make this cake in addition to some fun 4^th of July cupcakes.

Remember, any good party is only as good as the food you fill your guests with. With this cake, people will be knocking down your door, looking for the recipe and looking for another piece or cake!

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 4 hours and 20 minutes

Yield: 8 servings

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup cold milk
• 1 ½ cups cool whip topping; thawed and divided
• 10.75 oz. (one whole cake) frozen pound cake
• 1/4 cup orange juice
• 2 cups mixed raspberries and sliced strawberries
• 1/4 cup blackberries

Directions:

1) Add milk to dry pudding mix in medium bowl. Beat with wire whisk 2 min. or until well blended. Stir in 1 cup of the whipped topping.

2) Cut cake horizontally into three layers; brush with juice. Place bottom layer on serving plate; top with 3/4 cup of the berries, half of the pudding mixture and middle cake layer.

3) Repeat layers of berries and pudding mixture; cover with top cake layer. Top with 1/2 cup whipped topping and the remaining berries; cover loosely with foil.

4) Refrigerate at least 4 hours or up to 24 hours. Store leftovers in refrigerator

For 4^th of July, or Jimmy’s 4^th birthday, this cake is perfect. It’s better than cupcakes, it’s better than ice cream… it’s pound cake—patriotic pound cake.

Marble Pound Cake Recipe

Pound cake used to be made for families all around the world.

And even today they continue to be a classic dessert, but this marble pound cake is an easy way to spice up the generic pound cake.

This marble pound cake recipe is easy and it still has the same qualities of the classic pound cake, but with a swirl of chocolate throughout it!

It may look different from the classic but this marble pound cake recipe is bound to make it in your family recipes box also!

Yield: one 10 inch tube pan

Ingredients:

• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 cup butter, 2 sticks; softened
• 4 large eggs
• 3 1/2 cups cake flour
• 1 cup milk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

Directions:

1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 10 inch tube pan.

2) Combine granulated sugar and butter. Mix at low speed until blended then beat at high speed until light and fluffy. Add eggs and beat for 2 minutes. Add the flour, milk, vanilla, baking powder, and salt. Beat at medium speed until blended then beat at high speed for 3 minutes.

3) Remove 2 1/2 cups of the batter and pour into a medium bowl. Beat in cocoa until well blended. Spoon half of the vanilla batter into prepared pan. Spoon half of the chocolate batter on top of the vanilla batter.

4) Layer with the remaining vanilla and chocolate batters. Cut through batter with a knife to marbleize. During this step it is very important that you get your knife all the way to the bottom or else only ½ of your cake will marbleize. Now don’t get me wrong either way is tasty, but for that marbled look you need to go around a couple of times and get the knife all the way to the bottom.

5) Bake the cake for about 1 hour. Cool in pan on a wire rack for 20 minutes. Transfer the cake out of pan and straight onto the wire rack to cool completely.

This cake is a favorite for business parties, bake sales and just general goodies for the family!

Everyone always asks me how I gave the cake its special marbled look.

They love how it has a taste similar to the pound cake but with its modern makeover this marble pound cake recipe is anything but ordinary!

I love tell everyone just how easy these marbled delight really is!