Culinary Adventures with Camilla

This month Random Recipes (hosted by Belleau Kitchen ) meets We Should Cocoa (hosted by Chocolate Log Blog ). I'm in! All three of my boys helped me pick the recipe. Click for that post: here . This was my random recipe: Chocolate Truffle Tart from Chocolate: Cooking with the World's Best Ingredient by Christine McFadden and Christine France. See... And here's the recipe, slightly adapted. I did goof when I forgot to put the cocoa powder in the tart crust. Whoops. It was still delicious! For the Crust 2 C flour 1/2 C softened butter 1/2 C organic, coconut sugar 1/4 C olive oil 1 T cold water For the Truffle Filling 1-1/2 C organic heavy cream 12 ounces of bittersweet chocolate, chipped 1/4 C butter, cut into cubes 2 T Liquore Strega (the original recipe called for 'brandy or liqueur' I went with a saffron liqueur) Mix the flour, sugar and salt; rub in the butter with olive oil until the mixture resembles coa...

We Should Cocoa meets Random Recipes. Those are two different monthly cooking challenges. And they are colliding for the month of February. Since I never pass up the chance to challenge myself in the kitchen, I'm in!  Click to read the full details:  here   and  here .   If you want to join the fun, you have till February 26th to pick and cook your random chocolate recipe. Step One:  collect the cookbooks. I have an embarrassingly large number of cookbooks whose covers have never been cracked. In this case, I only put chocolate and cake cookbooks in the running. Step Two:  pick the recipe. The Kitchen Elves - and my Love - helped. They love games...and especially delight in anything that unnerves me. 'Let's find something Mommy would never usually make!' First, they each picked a cookbook from the stack and randomly opened to a page.     Then, I let them hash it out. They voted. They cajoled. They swayed th...