Over Christmas break I watched the Food Network for hours and hours since I had nothing better to do during my time off from school. I watched my favorites: Giada at Home and the Barefoot Contessa. I also watched a new program called “$10 Dollar Meals.” This show is hosted by Melissa d’Arabian. In the program she cooks a protein, vegetable, carbohydrate and a dessert for under $10.
When I watch cooking shows I often feel compelled to print off the recipe and try making it myself, so I printed off the dessert that Melissa made when I was watching her show, and put it aside to make it sometime in the future when my sweet-tooth decided to flare up.
When I came up with the concept for this blog, I knew exactly what recipe I was going to do first because it is the cornerstone of easy, inexpensive and nearly effortless recipes. Chocolate-cinnamon nachos only takes six ingredients to make and under ten minutes to construct.
Ingredients you will need for this recipe:
- · 4 small flour tortillas
- · 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- · ¼ cup plus 1 tablespoon cinnamon sugar
- · ½ cup chocolate chips
- · ¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons heavy cream
How to prepare this recipe
First preheat your oven to 450 degrees F. Then take your four tortillas and brush both sides of the tortillas with butter and sprinkle with the ¼ cup of cinnamon sugar. Cut each tortilla into eight wedges. Place the tortilla chips on a foil-covered baking sheet. Bake in oven until golden, turning halfway through, 4 to 5 minutes per side.
Meanwhile, heat the chocolate chips with two tablespoons heavy cream in microwave until smooth and melted, stirring every 15 seconds. It should take about 45 seconds’ total. To learn how to melt chocolate, watch this short video at http://http://www.buzzle.com/articles/melting-chocolate-chips.html.
If you would like to make homemade whipping cream, in a small bowl, beat the remaining ¼ cup heavy cream to soft peaks. Soft peaks means there looks like there are little mountains of whip cream in the bowl.
If you don’t want to make your own whip cream, you can just buy a can of it.
Once the chips are done, place them on a platter. Drizzle the chocolate sauce, and top with small spoonfuls of the whipped cream. Sprinkle with remaining tablespoon of cinnamon sugar and serve immediately.
Tips from the Blogger
- When baking the tortillas, bake them for less than the time says. I baked mine for four minutes per side and they came out burnt.
- Make sure you don’t put too much cream in your chocolate because if you do it will turn into hot chocolate not chocolate sauce.
- Don’t put the whip cream on the top while the chocolate is really hot because it will melt.
- This recipe only serves four people, so if you want to make it for a large crowd you might want to double or triple the recipe.
This recipe is the perfect recipe to fit the college lifestyle. It tastes good and it’s really easy. You will be able to fit preparing this recipe into your schedule, and still have plenty of time to do your homework. Plus this recipe is easy to clean up because you don’t have to clean a baking dish.
Hope you enjoy.
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