Recipe: Chocolate Leaves with ginger

Dessert recipes with spices and herbs
July 21, 2009
Believe me, this spiced dessert is so tasty, but also quick and easy it will become your favourite dessert too!

Chocolate Leaves with spices

Chocolate Leaves with spices


Ingredients
Serves two:
100g dark chocolate
200g ricotta cheese
20g sugar
1 tsp honey
1 pinch of minced ginger
1 pinch of cinnamon, ground
1 tbsp cognac

Directions
Draw six circles 10 cm in diameter on a baking paper sheet.
Melt chocolate using a bain-marie, and pour it into the drawed circles, using a spoon.
Set aside some spoonful of chocolate.
Put the chocolate leaves in the refrigerator 10 minutes.
Meanwhile divide the ricotta into two parts.
Mix one with the remaining melted chocolate, and mix the other with sugar, honey, ginger, cinnamon and cognac.
Put two chocolate leaves on a serving plate. Spoon the chocolate ricotta on the leaves, and cover with two chocolate leaves.
In the same way, create a new layer with the spiced ricotta, and cover with the last chocolate leaves.



Coconut and chocolate cheesecakes with cinnamonA similar recipe:

Coconut and chocolate cheesecakes with cinnamon


This is my contribution for Sugar High Fridays, a monthly event handled by The Domestic Goddess, this month hosted by Sweet Tooth.

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