After-Dinner Chocolate

Title: After-Dinner Chocolate
Yield: 4 Servings
Categories: Beverages, Chocolate, Holiday, Liqueurs 

Ingredients: 

      2 c  Water
      4 oz Bittersweet chocolate or
           -semisweet; chopped
      3 tb Grand Marnier
    1/4 c  Whipping cream
           Orange peel; finely grated


  1. Combine water and chocolate in a small saucepan; cook and stir just till
  boiling. Remove from heat; stir in liqueur or vanilla. Beat cream in a
  small chilled mixing bowl with an electric mixer on low to medium speed
  till soft peaks form. Top each serving with whipped cream; sprinkle with
  orange peel, if desired.
  
  2. The orange peel is optional. You can use Amaretto or vanilla extract in
  place of the Grand Marnier if desired
  
  NOTES : Bittersweet chocolate usually has a more pronounced chocolate
  flavor than semi-sweet.
  Recipe by: Better Homes Christmas Cookies 1997
  
  Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 534 by "Marie Smith"
   on Jan 15, 1998