This Chocolate Day, Club Mahindra chefs have shared their secret chocolate concoctions that will give you your daily dose of a sugary rush! Now, you can celebrate Chocolate Day any day of the year. Go ahead and pick up your favourite ones and make this Chocolate Day the sweetest one you and your loved ones remember.

 Here are some exciting chocolate recipes you can find below

1. Belgium Truffles
2. Chocolate Cheesecake
3. Chocolate Chip & Cashew Cookies
4. Chocolate Coated Candied Orange
5. Chocolate Marquise
6. Chocolate Coffee Tart
7. Chocolate Walnut Brownie
8. Dark & White Cheese Brownie
9. Chocolate & Date Torte
10. Dates Stuffed with Chocolate Pate’
11. Flourless Chocolate Cake
12. Mango Brownie
13. Soft Hot Chocolate Cake Served with Vanilla Ice Cream
14. Milk Chocolate Mouse
15. Pear Chocolate Layer Cake

1. BELGIUM TRUFFLES –

Ingredients:

• Butter – 250 gm
• Fondant – 60 gm
• Dark Chocolate – 500 gm

 Preparation –

• Whisk the butter in a machine.
• Warm the fondant, add the butter and whisk slowly.
• Add melted chocolate to the butter.
• Add some alcohol if you wish.
• Pipe as desired. Set in the fridge.
• Dip in tempered chocolate and roll it in chocolate flakes.

1. CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE –

 Ingredients:

• Cream cheese 900gm
• Sugar  250 gm
• Corns starch   64gm
• Amul cream  280ml
• Whole egg  3nos
• Yolk 2
• Chocolate Ganache 150gm
• Lemon juice  5 ml
• Vanilla essence 5 ml
• Lemon zest few

Preparation –

• Cream the cream cheese, sugar, add the corn starch add the cream allow to the mix until well creamed.
• Add the eggs & allow incorporating, finally adding the lemon juice mixing well finally add Chocolate Ganache into the Cheesecake Mixer.
• Pour the mixture into a greased round cake moulds.
• Bake in a water bath a 180c for 60 minutes
• Cool and de mould
• Do not keep in the fridge

1. CHOCOLATE CHIP & CASHEW COOKIES –

 Ingredients:

• Butter – 500 gm
• Brown Sugar – 300 gm
• Eggs – 2 nos.
• Flour – 600 gm
• Salt – 2 gm
• Baking Soda – 6 gm
• Chocolate Chips – 450 gm
• Cashew Nuts – 230 gm

 Preparation –

• Cream the butter and brown sugar.
• Add the eggs.
• Sieve flour with baking soda and salt. Mix it with Choco chips and cashew.
• Add the dry ingredients.
• Mix well make even sized balls and arrange in a tray.
• Bake at 185 degree C for 14 minutes.

1. CHOCOLATE COATED CANDIED ORANGE –

Ingredients:

• Orange Peels – 250 gm (From fresh orange. Do not remove the pith.)
• Water – 360 gm
• Corn Syrup – 120 gm (Or Liquid Glucose)
• Sugar – 450 gm
• Chocolate Sweet (For Coating)

Preparation –

• Cut Orange Skins as shown to Strips of ¼ inch by 2 inch (6 mm by 5 cm)
• Place cut Orange peels in a pan of cold water, cover and bring it to a boil; drain. Repeat this process three times, using fresh cold water each time to remove biter flavour from the pith.
• Combine water, corn syrup and sugar in a heavy-bottomed saucepan and bring it to a boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar, simmer on low heat & add the peels. Poach until translucent for about 1 hour.
• At this point, store the peels in the syrup in a tightly covered container under refrigeration, or dry and toss them in sugar and dip it in tempered chocolate.
• To dry these peels, drain them and spread them on a wire rack set over a sheet pan. Allow to dry and crystallize overnight at room temperature. (Or place the peels on a pan liner, lined sheet pan in a 130c oven for 1½ Hr.)
• Dip candied peels in melted chocolate before it is too dry. Refrigerate.

1. CHOCOLATE MARQUISE –

 Portion: 10

Ingredients:

• Egg yolk 7 
• Castor sugar 180gms
• Dark coventurer chocolate 220gm
• Unsalted butter  250gm
• Cocoa powder 60gm
• Whip cream  300gm
• Vanilla bean 1   
• Gelatin 20gm              

Preparation –

1. Melt the chocolate on a double boiler.
2. Make sabayon using egg yolk and sugar with continuously thick mixture, add vanilla bean or essence
3. Mix Sabayon to the Butter and melted chocolate Mixture.
4. Pour this mixture in the Small Sheet Pan ensuring that it is lined using the Pan Liner.
5. Refrigerate overnight.
6. Demold and serve

1. CHOCOLATE COFFEE TART –

 Ingredients

• Chocolate 250gm
• Butter 250gm
• Sugar 300gm
• Eggs 8
• Flour 135gm
• Coffee espresso 10 gm

Sweet tart base

• Sugar icing 75 ggm
• Butter 150gm
• Flour 225gm
• Eggs 1 each
• Vanilla essence 5ml 

 Preparation –

• Melt the butter chocolate together
• Beat egg & sugar with medium speed
• Mix flour & coffee powder & fold with above chocolate mixture
• Make a tart base with using ingredients straight dough process
• Make a sheet add on tray slightly blind bake
• Pour the chocolate mixture in top tart base bake at 180c 15 to 20 minutes
• Serve warm with chef recommended garnish
• Serve individual dust with powder sugar
• Garnish with white chocolate or tulip tower

7. DATES STUFFED WITH CHOCOLATE PATE’ –

Portions: 10

Ingredients:

Dates – 20 pcs.

GANACHE -

• Semi-Sweet Chocolate - 250 gm
• Butter - 10 gm
• Heavy Cream - 100 ml
• Cinnamon Powder - 2 gm

Preparation –

• GANACHE – Melt all the ingredients together and flavour with cinnamon powder once all the ingredients have blended well.
• DATES – Cut the dates into equal halves, deseed and reserve.
• ASSEMBLY – Pipe the ganache into the date halves using a small star nozzle.
• GARNISH - Garnish with small chocolate straight-line, run-outs.

8. FLOURLESS CHOCOLATE CAKE –

 Ingredients:

• Butter – 100 gm
• Chocolate – 350 gm
• Egg - 4 nos.
• Sugar – 100 gm
• Vanilla – 5 ml

 Preparation –

• Melt butter chocolate and butter together.
• Mix egg and sugar together till the sugar gets diluted.
• Mix chocolate mixture with egg and sugar mixture.
• Grease the mould, dust well.
• Steam bake at 190C for 40 minutes

9. MANGO BROWNIE –

Ingredients:

• Eggs – 245 gm
• Sugar – 440 gm
• Salt – 3 gm
• Dark Couverture – 245 gm
• Butter – 310 gm
• Flour – 240 gm
• Walnuts Roasted – 160 gm

Preparation –

• Whisk eggs with sugar and salt.
• Add the melted chocolate with butter.
• Add the Shifted flour.
• Add the roasted nuts.
• Mix all dry ingredients along with the wet mixture.
• Bake at 200 c for 30 minutes

10. SOFT HOT CHOCOLATE CAKE SERVED WITH VANILLA ICECREAM –

Portions: 10

Ingredients:

• Semi-Sweet Chocolate – 400 gm
• Butter – 390 gm
• Fresh Eggs - 8 ea
• Sugar – 160 gm
• Flour – 116 gm

Preparation –

• Melt Chocolate & Butter.
• Mix half eggs & Sugar and whisk for few minutes & add flour. Then add the balance eggs.
• Add egg mixture to the melted chocolate mixture.
• Pour the mixture into ramekin cups.
• Bake directly in an oven at 200 C for 15 to 20 minutes.
• Serve with Vanilla Ice Cream in 2 oz. Ramekin Cups.
• Garnish with Sweet Chocolate, Chocolate Run Out & Powder Sugar.