Chocolate for Breakfast

by Michele Cheplic | More from this Blogger

17 Jan 2009 08:06 AM

Students in our city have been home for three days straight due to school administrators cancelling class because of severely cold winter temperatures. For most of my friends cabin fever set in by day two and they are now going stir crazy with cooped up kids who are a bored senseless. Which is why I was shocked when one of my pals admitted to doing the unthinkable the other day: Feed her children chocolate for breakfast.

You'd think she want to cut out sugar entirely from her children's diet while they were home during the snow days, but being the softie that she is, she gave in to their begging and whipped up the following recipes in an effort to keep her lovable monsters busy for a couple hours:

CHOCOLATE STUFFED FRENCH TOAST

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons butter

3 eggs

1 tablespoon sugar

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/4 milk

1-pound of strawberries, sliced

One bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips

Cream cheese, softened

Powdered sugar

Directions:

Melt butter in pan on stove.

Whip eggs, sugar, cinnamon and milk together in a mixing bowl.

Spread softened cream cheese on one side of one piece of bread.

Spread cut up strawberries on top of cream cheese.

Add chocolate chips on top of strawberries.

Place plain piece of bread on top. Hold together and dip each side into mixing bowl batter (do not drop the sandwich in). Place on hot pan for about 3 minutes on each side.

When finished, put on plate and garnish with sliced strawberries and powdered sugar.

PEANUT BUTTER AND CHOCOLATE COOKIE PIZZA

Ingredients:

1 Package (16 - 20 oz) refrigerated peanut butter cookie dough

All-purpose flour

1 cup (6 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips

1 tablespoon shortening

1/4 cup white chocolate chips

2 teaspoons shortening

Gum drops, chocolate covered peanuts, roasted nuts, raisins, jelly beans, other candies for pizza toppings.

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350.

Grease 12-inch pizza pan.

Remove dough from wrapper. Sprinkle dough with small amount of flour to minimize sticking. Press dough into bottom of pan leaving about 3/4 inch space between edge of dough and pan.

Bake 15 to 25 minutes or until golden brown and set in center. Cool completely on pan, running spatula between cookie and pan to loosen after 10 minutes of cooling.

Melt semisweet chocolate chips and 1 tablespoon shortening in microwave bowl about one minute. Stir. Repeat at 10 second intervals until smooth.

Spread melted semisweet chocolate over crust to within one inch of edge. Slice red gumdrops to look like pepperoni slices, chop green and white gumdrops to look like onion and peppers. Use chocolate covered peanuts for sausage and any other candies as desired. Decorate the pizza with the candies.

Melt white chocolate chips with 2 teaspoons shortening in microwave about 1 minute, stir, repeat process at 10 second intervals until smooth. Drizzle melted chocolate over toppings to resemble melted mozzarella cheese.

Makes 10 to 12 pizza slices.

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Michele Cheplic was born and raised in Hilo, Hawaii, but now lives in Wisconsin. Michele graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Journalism.

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