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Beauty and the Beast Molten Chocolate Souffles and Strawberry Roses

Jen — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 06:31:21 +0000

Beauty and the Beast Molten Chocolate Souffles with Strawberry Roses

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is one of our favorite stories. We are counting down the days to see the new live-action Beauty and the Beast movie! And here’s something you may not know — there is also a wonderful NEW Beauty and the Beast spin-off novel from Disney Books: Lost in a Book . We are reading it now and were thrilled to be asked by Disney Press to create an idea based on this new book. Find out more about Lost in a Book below!

One of the most iconic images from Beauty and the Beast is the red rose. We loved the idea of creating a recipe with roses which remind us of the Beauty and the Beast story.

We made french-inspired Molten Chocolate soufflés with Beauty and the Beast Strawberry Roses. These desserts are something that Mrs. Potts would have whipped up at the castle for a fancy dinner!! And the amazing thing is that they are very easy to make (your guests will never know) LOL!! These desserts are technically what are typically called lava cakes.

You can serve these chocolate soufflés either in ramekins or you can pop them upside down onto plates. If you want to serve them this way, just be sure to butter and flour them well beforehand. Another tip is you can cut a circle of parchment paper and put that on the bottom of the ramekin and that helps the top from sticking to the dish (because the top is actually cooked on the bottom).

Here’s the recipe for Molten Chocolate Soufflés

Beauty and the Beast Molten Chocolate Souffles and Strawberry Roses

Recipe Type: dessert

Cuisine: french

Author: Jennifer Hadfield

Prep time: 5 mins

Cook time: 10 mins

Total time: 15 mins

Serves: 6

Celebrate any special occasion with Molten Chocolate Soufflés and Strawberry Roses. Inspired by the movie Beauty and the Beast, your guests will love the warm, liquid chocolate centers, surrounded by decadent chocolate cake.

Ingredients

6 Tablespoons butter
8 ounces bittersweet chocolate
4 large eggs
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 white sugar
3 Tablespoons flour
also – 2 tablespoons melted butter and flour to butter and flour the ramekins

Instructions

Heat oven to 450-degrees.
Put the chocolate and butter in a microwave safe bowl and heat on low setting until melted. I cooked mine for 3 minutes on 50% heat and stirred it every minute until it was melted. Set aside to cool down.
Mix the flour, sugar and eggs together until they are a light yellow color. About 5 minutes stirring.
Fold the melted chocolate into the egg mixture until combined.
You can refrigerate the mixture for up to a day and use it. If you do refrigerate it, be sure to let it come to room temperature before you bake.
Pour the mixture into your buttered and floured ramekins. I used four large ramekins but the recipe gives you enough batter for 6 small ramekins.
Put ramekins in the oven and cook until they start to rise on the edges. You still want the centers to be liquid. I cooked mine 10 minutes but I used large ramekins. You will have to see how your soufflés look. They will not rise as high as typical soufflés because you want them to have liquid centers.
Take them out of the oven and garnish them with strawberry roses or whipped cream, then serve immediately if serving in ramekins. If you are inverting your soufflés, Let them cool for about 5 minutes, then run a knife around the edge of each dish and invert onto a plate. Garnish and serve.

A note – you can refrigerate the batter overnight and up to 24 hours. So this is a dessert that is great to make ahead of time, then just let the batter come to room temperature before baking. It only takes 10 minutes to bake!

Beauty and the Beast Molten Chocolate Souffles with Strawberry Roses

My kids love to read and Belle does too!

Here is a little bit about BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: LOST IN A BOOK

Smart, bookish Belle, a captive in the Beast’s castle, has become accustomed to her new home and has befriended its inhabitants. When she comes upon Nevermore, an enchanted book unlike anything else she has seen in the castle, Belle finds herself pulled into its pages and transported to a world of glamour and intrigue. The adventures Belle has always imagined, the dreams she was forced to give up when she became a prisoner, seem within reach again.

The charming and mysterious characters Belle meets within the pages of Nevermore offer her glamorous conversation, a life of dazzling Parisian luxury, and even a reunion she never thought possible. Here Belle can have everything she ever wished for. But what about her friends in the Beast’s castle? Can Belle trust her new companions inside the pages of Nevermore? Is Nevermore‘s world even real? Belle must uncover the truth about the book, before she loses herself in it forever.

The author, Jennifer Donnelly, has written other amazing, award-winning books for young adults and adults, including the Waterfire Saga: Deep Blue, Rogue Wave, Dark Tide, and Sea Spell. Her other young adult novels include These Shallow Graves, Revolution, and A Northern Light, winner of Britain’s prestigious Carnegie Medal, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature, and a Michael L. Printz Honor. She has also written Humble Pie, a picture book, and the adult novels The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose, and The Wild Rose. She lives in New York’s Hudson Valley. You can visit her at www.jenniferdonnelly.com, or on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @jenwritesbooks.

You can find out more about BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: LOST IN A BOOK:

Visit the Official Site

Follow @DisneyHyperion on Twitter

Follow @DisneyBooks on Instagram

Follow @JenWritesBooks on Twitter and Instagram

Hashtag #LostInABook

And there is another book – Belle’s Library, which has inspiring quotes from some of Belle’s favorite books, as well as her insightful notes and colorful drawings. Includes a forward by noted Disney screenwriter Linda Woolverton.

In store January 31, 2017

Visit the Official Site

It’s also SO easy to make the strawberry roses. You can make one in less than a minute. Here’s how:

Make a small cut at the base of the strawberry to make a “leaf”.
Use you knife to gently pry the leaf open.
Do this four times around the bottom of the strawberry.
Then do the same thing at the top of the strawberry, making smaller cuts above the bottom “leaves”.
Cut the bottom of the strawberry flat so it can stay upright.

Be sure to pick up a copy of Lost in a Book for your kids.

They will love reading about Belle’s new adventures!!

Have a Beautiful Day!

xoxo

Thanks Disney Press for inspiring this delicious dessert and giving us a wonderful new book to read! We are also excited to see the new Beauty and the Beast movie. All opinions are our own.

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Weekend Wrap Up Party — Amy Atlas Sweet Designs Book Giveaway!!

Jen — Fri, 04 May 2012 22:55:00 +0000

Welcome to the Weekend Wrap UP Party!!!

Happy Friday!!

I am excited to spotlight an amazing person… Amy Atlas!

Amy Atlas, also known as “The Sweets Stylist,” is a coveted entertaining expert, baking and crafting stylist, and is internationally recognized for creating the stylized dessert bar trend.

UPDATE — Giveaway is Closed.

The winner is Jennifer of Always In Wonder.

Winner chosen via Random.org

Amy’s work has appeared multiple times in O Magazine, People Magazine, InStyle Magazine, Parents Magazine, Better Homes & Gardens, The New York Times, Every Day with Rachael Ray, The Los Angeles Times, Real Simple, Food and Wine Magazine, Life & Style, Gotham, New York Magazine, Martha Stewart Weddings, Brides, and many more. She has appeared on a variety of shows, including The Today Show, Martha Stewart, WPIX, Better TV, and The Knot Live. Her work has appeared on thousands of US and international entertaining and lifestyle blogs. Amy writes her own daily blog, Sweet Designs, where she shares styling tips, recipes, do-it-yourself crafting tricks, and behind-the-scenes of her work. InStyle Magazine has named Sweet Designs one of the best entertaining blogs. She is a contributing editor for NBC’s I Village.

I met Amy at the Michael’s Creative Crew weekend last year. And she is so sweet in real life!!!

Amy’s book is phenomenal. You can tell that it was a labor of love:

With over 175 recipes
75 amazing DIY craft projects
and 15 chapters. Each chapter features a different dessert table!
And absolutely beautiful photographs!!

And I am so excited that Amy is giving one of her GORGEOUS books to you!!

This book would also make an DELIGHFUL Mother’s Day Gift.

You can purchase the book at a local book store or through Amazon or Barnes & Noble

Make sure you stop by Amy Atlas Events on Facebook and follow along and/or leave a comment with a big TT&J hello. You will love following along with her there and all of the party ideas and recipes!!

Here’s how YOU can win the GIVEAWAY:

Visit Amy’s Sweet Designs site and let me know what your dream party would be. Leave me a comment! one entry
Leave a comment on the Amy’s Sweet Designs Blog – a great place to keep up with fabulous party ideas! Leave a comment letting me know you did: one entry
Share this giveaway — let me know how you shared it. one entry per way shared; leave me a comment for each.

Please link up the Wrap Up button– the code is above, or a text link is great if you would rather do that – Tatertots & Jello. So everyone can join in the fun!
Please comment on TWO posts above you and TWO posts below you — in addition to any others that you want to visit. {we all love comments!}
Have fun!!!

I’ll start going through the links tonight.

I can’t wait to see what YOU have been doing!

xoxo

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Do you do this? {Book Advent Calendar}

Jen — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:12:00 +0000

We started our Book Advent Calendar on the first.

I saw the idea last year. Sorry – I can’t remember where and loved the idea!

After the Holidays last year I gathered up all of our Christmas books and put them away so I could keep track of them. I got them out this year and discovered that I only needed 8 more to reach 25!!

And guess what??

I found the ones I needed to reach my goal this year at The Dollar Store!!

And they were pretty cute too!

My girls were so excited to open the first book. I made sure it was Elf On A Shelf. We discovered that last year too. Do you have one? We named ours Zoom!

Look what Ella lost over Thanksgiving! And speaking of Ella, I am running around like a madwoman getting her birthday party together for tomorrow. I am throwing a Vintage Tea Party — she’s so excited!!

And I also wanted to tell you about something else exciting that’s happening tomorrow —

A really fun crafting twitter chat @ 4 PM EST/1 PM PST.

Our topic for this week is “Craft Blogging 101” and we are going to be sharing our top tips for beginning craft bloggers.

If you don’t have a twitter account you can still spy in on us. If you go to tweetchat.com and follow the #crafterminds you can follow along in real time (you just won’t be able to give your two cents).

Click here for all of the info on the chat.

The Craftermind Girls are:

Come join us as we kick off our weekly #crafterminds chat tomorrow!

We’d love to see you there!!!

Have a great night!!

xoxo

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