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Red Dawn
...So, waking up sober but in need of culinary childhood reversion, I put some cocoa powder and a bit of chocolate syrup into some pancake batter with several drops of red food coloring, and gave that a thorough stirring. I poured small ladlefuls of batter into a buttered and preheated large skillet, and cooked as I would regular pancakes.... [cont.
Cocoa Box
...As I brought a box back to the restaurant of my other employ and shared a powdered sugar-dusted champagne truffle, a milk chocolate-covered almond marzipan, a dark chocolate-covered banana mousse, and a nut-covered truffle ganache (or something like that) with my friends Ali and Gina, who quickly, and with squeals of great glee, devoured them.... [cont.]
Chocolate Is The New Breakfast
...As the child in you can probably imagine, this was crazy yummers! Nice airy pancakes with just a little crisp to the edges were heightened by little bursts of chocolate rice cereal with plenty of rich cocoa flavor and still retaining a lot of their crunch. The syrup, sweet with sugar, tempered by butter, gave some sweet moistness to the bits of pancakes and the peanuts.... [cont.]