Spring Has Sprung and Now Is The Time for Chocolate

I don't know where you live, but I hope your weather is better than the weather in Ohio. We are growing webs on our feet from the rain.

Rain plays H___ when you are trying to make gourmet desserts out of meringue. Royal Icing doesn't like the humidity either, so I gave up and went back to my favorite ingredient CHOCOLATE.

They say it is fun to experiment so I decided to have a little fun.

I took my favorite chocolate chocolate chip cookie mix (by Dove Chocolate Discoveries, of course) and added some bacon that I crisped in the oven.

I made sure to dab all the excess bacon grease off of it, chopped it into pieces and folded it into the batter. You can't believe the unique and delicious taste of these cookies. The real secret is to be sure your bacon is almost dry so the flavor doesn't bleed into the cookie dough

Well since these were so good I decided to jump in and try something else. I made my dark chocolate cupcakes (with DCD Dove Chocolate Baking Mix), it has Black Panther cocoa in it.....frosted them with a Chocolate Butter Cream made with 2 bars of Dove Dark Chocolate bars melted and beat into the basic recipe. THEN...I took some more of the bacon, drizzled more dark chocolate over it, broke it into pieces and topped the cupcakes with the "pig candy" (that is what they call it in the South).

I don't think there is a better combination that chocolate and bacon. I have found out that dark chocolate is a better match, the milk chocolate is a bit too sweet.

Be daring and try your own combinations. I know you will love them and if not....well you lived a little dangerously for a little while.

Hope your Mother's Day is awesome and have a great spring.