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What to Do With a Naked Chocolate Jesus?

It was announced last Friday the Naked Chocolate Jesus art exhibit was cancelled due to protests from the Catholic Church. I was surprised at the church’s revulsion with Jesus in any art form. You can already buy chocolate Marys and Jesuses online.

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The Great American Toothache Diet

I have discovered a way to lose six pounds in three days. The process is simple, if painful, and I wouldn’t recommend it for the faint of teeth. I suffer from having a “meat trough.” If you don’t know what it means to have a meat trough, then color yourself lucky and move along! 

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Life Chocolate Oat Crunch Cereal Review

There have been few moments in my life when I’ve tasted something to eat and I am immediately forced to react to that tasting by spitting the food back out of my mouth. That unfortunate, autoimmune, pre-vomit-spitting-response happened to me again this week. I was stuck in an unfamiliar place and I was offered a way to feed my hunger that I had to accept if I wanted anything to eat over the next 12 hours.

 

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Chocolate Glaze

by Joyce Kohl

Chocolate Glaze Source: Go Inside™
Used mainly for glazing raised doughnuts, but good on cake doughnuts, too.
Servings: 18 Ingredients:
Enough to glaze about 1 1/2 dozen raised doughnuts

 

 

4 ounces Nestle’s Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips

OR any semi-sweet chocolate

3 tablespoons butter

1 1/2 cups sifted powdered sugar

3 tablespoons water

Directions:
  1. Using a heavy saucepan or double boiler. Melt chocolate and butter. Add sugar gradually. Add water until consistency is thin for glazing.
  1. Use immediately to drip or spoon over raised doughnuts or keep warm until needed.

 

Chocolate Cake Doughnuts

by Joyce Kohl

Chocolate Cake Doughnuts Source: Go Inside™
Frost with a Fudge Frosting or Frosting(s)
Servings: 18 Ingredients:
About 1 1/2 Dozen 1 1/2 cups granulated white sugar

2 whole eggs

4 tablespoons butter

3 ounces semi-sweet chocolate (cocoa or chocolate chips)

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 cup buttermilk

3 1/2 cups white flour

3 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

vegetable oil to fill pan 1/2 inch

Directions:
  1. Cream together sugar and eggs. Melt butter and chocolate in a saucepan over a low heat. Add to creamed mixture.
  1. Mix vanilla extract into the buttermilk, then stir into the sugar mixture. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir in the liquid mixture. Chill slightly, then roll out half the dough on a lightly floured board to 1 inch thickness and cut out doughnuts.
  1. Let doughnuts dry for 10 minutes. Heat vegetable oil in a skillet to around 360-375 degrees. Fry each doughnut about a minute and a half per side, then remove and drain on paper towels. Frost when cool.