Orange-flavoured cocoa - ideas for what I can do with it?

blueberrypie

I need ideas for what I can do with tubs of "Luxury Hot Chocolate, Orange Flavour".

Whittard sell this (or used to, anyway) - and when they were having a clearance, I bought about four tubs of this, thinking it sounded good. But unlike Terry's Chocolate Oranges, this stuff is really not very good at all, at least not for drinking...so I have loads of it to use up.

Ingredients are cocoa, dextrose, flavouring, salt, and it's 40% cocoa solids.

I made a chocolate cake with it, using it instead of cocoa powder and reducing the sugar called for in the recipe, and that was good - but I don't make many cakes, and I think we'd all be very sick of them before we used all this up!

Any other ideas of what I could use it for?

tessie_bear

give it away as gifts ?

Frugalista

Use it in Twinks Hobnobs - I regularly make chocolate/orange ones with cocoa and orange essence - lovely with chocolate chips in too!!

Butterfly_Brain

Choc orange custard, or maybe make some cakes and freeze them

marrowgirl

choc/orange cheesecake?

base of crushed digestives & butter (I add chopped hazlenuts too). creamy bit either choc/orange stuff plus marscapone, sour cream & gelatine or an unset/low cal version of quark &choc stuff. Add mandarin segments and choc curls on the top. Fabulous!

now i'm hungry again.

Frugalista

blueberrypie wrote: »

I don't make many cakes, and I think we'd all be very sick of them before we used all this up!

Why do you feel you need to use it all up quickly? Forget the best before date - it will keep for ages (years?) after that.

blueberrypie

Thanks for all the replies :-)

I like the idea of using it in Twink's hobnobs, and I suppose I could use it in any kind of chocolate cookie recipe too. I don't like custard, but the kids might - actually, I wonder if I could use it to make some sort of Angel's Delight type dessert? Cheesecake sounds good too.

I might offer some of it to friends who would bake with it - it's just not good enough as a drink to give it anyone as a gift (not anyone I like anyway LOL)

Frugalista - I'm not bothered about the best-before dates - I just want it to stop taking up space in the cupboard :-D