Chocolate Cups Can Be Healthy
Health care professionals are finally confirming what chocolate lovers have always known. Chocolate is good for you.
Studies show that a small serving of dark chocolate each day is beneficial to heart health. An excellent way to get this pleasant health benefit is to keep chocolate cups handy.
These tasty tidbits are very easy to make at home, and can be made with a variety of fillings. The culinary possibilities for chocolate cups are limited only by the imagination of the cook.
Chocolate cups can be created quite easily by melting chocolate chips, or chocolate candy bark in the microwave or on top of the stove over very low heat.
Once melted, using a food brush, spread the chocolate around on the insides of miniature paper muffin cups, or on the the inside of the cups of miniature muffin pans. As each layer cools and hardens, additional layers may be applied to increase the thickness of the chocolate cups.
Once you have made your chocolate cups, you can create any number of mouth watering middles for them.
If you are a true chocolate connoisseur, you can always just eat your chocoate cups right by themselves with no filling. If you desire a filling, or if you just want to get a little fancy, you can whip up something quite easily.
Tasty fillings for your chocolate cups may be made by mixing 2 parts peanut butter, creamy or crunchy to your liking, with 1 part confectioners sugar.
Another easy, but delicious, idea would be a mixture of shredded coconut, cream cheese and whipped topping beaten together to the appropriate consistency for filling the cups.
To further enhance the health benefits of the chocolate, you might fill your cup with a mixture of low-fat cream cheese and fat free whipped topping, adorned with a small piece of your favorite fresh fruit.
These are only a few of the delicious concoctions with which you might stuff your chocolate cups. Enjoy these delicious healthy snacks!
