The ultimate day for chocolate lovers, International Chocolate Day, took place on September 13th this year. You may have missed the big day, but that doesn’t mean you still can’t celebrate your love of chocolate. You can still set aside an entire day to give in to your cravings and eat as much chocolate as possible. Follow this list of five incredible ways that you can incorporate chocolate into your day.
- Chocolate For Breakfast
Start your morning off with chocolate by making yourself a decadent breakfast parfait. Fill the bottom of a bowl with plain, vanilla or coconut flavored yogurt. Add homemade granola, almonds, unsweetened coconut flakes and dried cherries, then top off the entire bowl with shavings of semisweet or dark chocolate.
- Chocolate For Lunch
Instead of having a sandwich with cold cuts, add some chocolate to your lunchtime with a strawberry Nutella panini. Slather Nutella or any other kind of chocolate spread onto two slices of fresh white bread. Add a bit of mascarpone cheese and strawberry jam, and then place the sandwich onto the panini press. Remember to lightly butter the outside of the bread so that it doesn’t stick to the surface of the panini press. Only leave the sandwich on the press for a minute, so that you can be rewarded with a messy, warm and chocolatey meal.
- Chocolate For A Snack
In the hours between lunch and dinner, you might be thinking of a mid-afternoon snack. Get your hands on some mochi ice cream for a quick and cool treat that will tide you over until the evening. Mochi ice cream is a sphere of velvety ice cream coated in melt-in-your-mouth mochi, which is a mixture made of sweetened rice dough. The spheres are small enough to finish in a few bites, so you won’t spoil your dinner. You will be pleased to know that there are many flavors of mochi ice cream that will satisfy your chocolate craving, including double chocolate and mint chocolate chip.
- Chocolate For Dinner
For dinner, you can make a big pot of Mexican chili — many traditional recipes include chocolate or cocoa in their list of ingredients. When you sprinkle dark or milk chocolate into a simmering pot of chili, you will add another layer of flavor. Eat your chili in a bowl with a side of warm bread, or you can add it on top of rice, vegetables or baked potatoes.
- Chocolate For Dessert
End your day with a dessert that really celebrates the possibilities of chocolate, like black and white brownies. Black and white brownies use cocoa powder and dark unsweetened chocolate for the actual brownie, then white chocolate for its coating. For a third form of chocolate, you can always add milk chocolate shavings, curls or chips on top of the icing.
There is no limit to how you can satisfy your appetite for chocolate: you can have it for breakfast, lunch and even for dinner. You can treat yourself to a fun chocolate snack in the middle of your day, and you can indulge in a decadent dessert at night. Hopefully, this list inspires you to appease your strongest chocolate cravings as soon as possible.