{"id":1445,"date":"2011-10-18T01:16:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T08:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2011-10-18T01:16:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T08:16:54","slug":"fudge-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/?p=1445","title":{"rendered":"Fudge II"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Chocolate<\/a>

Chocolate Dipped Pretzels<\/p><\/div>\n

Total time:\u00a0 4 hours.
\nMakes about 2 cups of smooth chocolate sauce.<\/p>\n

1 cup cocoa powder
\n6 Tbsp butter
\n1\/2 cup water
\n2 Tbsp flour
\n1 cup powdered sugar
\n1\/3 cup milk<\/p>\n

In a large mixing bowl, combine flour and sugar, set aside.<\/p>\n

In a separate large mixing bowl, cream together cocoa powder and butter until a smooth paste forms.<\/p>\n

In a saucepan on medium heat, combine water and cocoa paste until hot, but not boiling.\u00a0 Add this mixture to flour and sugar.\u00a0 Add milk, and mix well.\u00a0 Remove all lumps, and you should have a nice chocolate sauce.<\/p>\n

At this stage, it’s great for fondue, really. It might need a little more sugar (you’ll have to taste it, to see). I was hoping for something a little more solid, though. Even after chilling in the refrigerator, it didn’t become hard. Well, maybe it would have, if I hadn’t immediately dipped my pretzels into it. The pretzels became soggy, and the chocolate stayed soft. These tasted better dipped in candy sprinkles or powdered sugar. They’re slightly bitter by themselves.<\/p>\n

When chilled, this chocolate is just like Fudge I<\/a> in consistency, and while it’s unique and rich, it’s not what I wanted. Solid, it’d be good for chocolate chunk cookies or *inside* something else.<\/p>\n

There’s always next year, I guess.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dark, slightly bitter, soft chocolate good for inside truffles or baked goodies. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,69,36],"tags":[33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions\/1449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}