Tag Archives: Fondue

Chocolicious Treats for Valentine’s Day

Did you know that 58 million pounds of chocolate candy will be sold this week as lovebirds scramble to impress their sweethearts on Valentine’s Day? What’s more, the price of those chocolate treats is estimated to exceed $100 million. You won’t have to spend anywhere near that amount to make the following Valentine’s Day chocolate recipes. These simple and affordable desserts can be shared with a house full of sweeties or prepared as the finishing touch to a romantic dinner for two. TRIPLE CHOCOLATE SWEETIE CAKE Ingredients: 1 (18.25 ounce) package devil’s food cake mix 1 (5.9 ounce) package instant … Continue reading →

Hosting a Valentine’s Day Fondue Party

Despite them being up since the week after Christmas, I have purposely avoided the Valentine’s Day displays at Wal-Mart and Target. Now that we are only a couple weeks away from Love Day, I figure I’d better get motivated to spread some Valentine’s Day cheer. (Ho, ho, no!) While I am still in the planning stages for this year’s festivities, I did find recipes from a Valentine’s Day fondue party I helped host a few years ago. A fondue maker I won at an office Christmas party inspired the party. It broke shortly after the party, but not before we … Continue reading →

Ice Cream Ball Fondue

This is the ultimate in special desserts for your family. You will have earned your accolades though. . .this is not an easy or quick recipe. Adapted from something I found from the food network, this display has three different sauce and then you dip the ice cream balls into the sauce of your choice. My suggestion for doing three sauces is to use a condiment dish that sets on a wire rack and use tealights or a small candle underneath. On the other hand, if your family is like mine, they will eat this so quickly that keeping the … Continue reading →

Fondue for Valentine’s Day

Who doesn’t love cooking dessert right at their table or fun of dipping stuff in chocolate? My kids think it’s just about the best thing in the world to not only get dessert but then to dip in chocolate to boot. Of course, you may well want to enjoy these treats without the kids! Here are a few recipes for dessert fondue for your Valentine’s Day dinner. While I’m quite partial to toasted angel food cake, you can really dip just about anything your heart desires: long stem strawberries, pound cake, cookies (short bread works particularly well). Chocolate Fondue (The … Continue reading →

Do you Fondue?

I have a soft spot in my heart for fondue. When my husband proposed to me many, many years ago, he had a small engagement party waiting for me at his best friend’s house. I guess he must have been pretty certain of himself! Anyway, it was a fondue party. I hadn’t had fondue since I was a kid, and I loved it. I loved that the pieces were bite-sized, and I loved that care had gone into setting it up, and I loved that he would do something so out of the ordinary. There’s a fondue restaurant in our … Continue reading →

Fondue Kits

When is the last time you and your family had fondue for dinner? I know fondue was a big thing of the past, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t still enjoy fondue today. Fondue can make a very relaxing meal. Your family can sit around the dining table, cooking their own meats and veggies, then later dip luscious fruits into melted chocolate. Doesn’t that just make you want to get out your grocery shopping list and start writing down ingredients for making fondue? Well, don’t! You can buy already-assembled fondue kits. At least you can at Whole Foods Market. … Continue reading →

Fondue Fun

Make dinner tonight a Fondue Feast for the whole family! Start with melted cheese served with apples slices, crispy bread cubes and celery and conclude with molten chocolate along side strawberries, brownie bits and cookies. In between, serve a traditional meal or go all the way with cook-your-own meats, poultry and veggies and cooking oils. What kid, big or small, doesn’t love to dip food into sauces, dressings or creams? Fondue presents an opportunity to dip EVERYTHING without the sideways glances or comments you might get otherwise. Personally, I do not care for the “upscale” fondue restaurants. The high prices … Continue reading →

Two New Fondue Recipes

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When we first got married, we received a fondue pot as a wedding gift. However, it remained in the box for about three years until I finally decided to pull it out. The fondue pot is a wonderful appliance and I cannot believe I had been ignoring it for all those years! If you have a fondue pot you have been ignoring, here are a couple of delicious recipes to get you started: Hot Cheese Fondue For this recipe, you will need flour, chili powder, shredded Monterey Jack cheese, shredded sharp cheddar cheese, one can of beer (non-alcoholic will work … Continue reading →

Fun Fondue II

Since I have my new fondue pot from my sister for Christmas, I thought I’d give it a real workout. In addition to the chocolate fondues from my previous post, I thought I’d try a main dish fondue. The kids thought fondue was a lot of fun, and I aim to please, but I couldn’t justify chocolate fondue as a staple food. My first thought was classic cheese fondue, but my sister, who is an excellent cook and knows everything about food (she hand-dips chocolates at Christmas!) said she’s never gotten a cheese fondue to work properly, so I didn’t … Continue reading →

Fun Fondue Recipes

In one of Shauna’s recent posts, “Crazy Fun Fruit Dessert” she gave a great idea for getting your kids to try new and different fruits. It’s not only crazy fun, but crazy healthy. I thought I’d add my take on getting my kids to eat fruit, but fair warning, adding chocolate to the mix is not quite as healthy. But it does get them to eat fruit when normally they are reluctant. (My lectures on the benefits of fiber apparently aren’t nearly as motivating as chocolate.) You can make chocolate fondue in a fondue pot, but it’s not necessary. If … Continue reading →