- Lower Blood Pressure: Studies have shown that consuming a small bar of dark chocolate everyday can reduce blood pressure in individuals with high blood pressure.
- Lower Cholesterol: Dark chocolate has also been shown to reduce LDL cholesterol (the bad cholesterol) by up to 10 percent.
by Richard
You’re really going to love this one, especially with Valentine’s Day coming up in a week. (Hint. Hint. HINT!) We all know the most clichéd gift for Valentine’s Day is chocolate and we still go out and buy it every year.
This year, however, why not do something a little different? Why not make your own chocolate confection creation? Oh, yeah. And it’s really quite easy.
When I first found this recipe, it was called Chocolate Balls and that’s what I called it when I made it. Well, I called it that once. Only once. At that point, the little dudes started laughing and laughing and laughing. “Chocolate. . . BALLS!” Apparently, the little dudes thought it was funny as all get out. I’ll leave it to you to decided whether it was juvenile garbage or the height of humor. Anyway, they’re now called Chocolate Delight. By me, at least. The little dudes still chortle Chocolate Balls.
So.
The great thing about this recipe is just how easy it is to make. Yeah, it does take a while, but it’s not hard at all. Even if you’re a novice cook, you’ll be able to do this quickly. Here’s what you need.
1 pkg Oreo cookies
1 8-oz package cream cheese (softened. Do this by letting it stand outside in the room for a couple of hours)
2 pkgs of semi-sweet baker’s chocolate. You’ll find this in the baking aisle. Normally it’ll be in the red package.
That’s it. Once you’ve got all the ingredients assembled, go get out a large food processor. Break up the Oreos into the food processor and grind them to a fine powder, or as close as you can get. Once that’s done, spoon the cream cheese into the cookie crumbles. Mix them all up until you’ve got a bit of a gooey mess inside the food processor.
Get out a large plate and cover it with wax paper. Using your fingers, take the Oreo mixture out of the food processor and mold it into little, um, balls. Put the balls of chocolate on the wax paper and then put the plate in the fridge for an hour or so. Just before your hour is up, get a large microwave-safe bowl and dump the baker’s chocolate into it. Microwave until melted. Get out a pair of tongs.
Use the tongs to dip the Oreo mix into the melted baker’s chocolate. Put the resultant mess back onto the wax paper. When all the chocolate is used and all the Oreo mix is covered, put them back in the fridge for several hours or, for best results, overnight.
Once you get those out of the fridge, stand back. You’ll be overwhelmed by folks wanting to eat them all up. Just be careful to keep them in the fridge until they’re eaten (as well as what’s left after the first attack) as the baker’s chocolate does best in cold temps.
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