You probably know by now that the antioxidants in dark chocolate are great for your health, but had you heard that chocolate is good for your skin? Products made with cocoa butter, cocoa beans, and cocoa powder can hydrate, rejuvenate, and protect skin.
Here is one of my favorite cocoa treats for your skin & your taste buds.
I picked up the Chocolate & honey yogurt mask and Chocolate Vanilla Marble Cake as my two beauty & food experiments. I had every single ingredient for both of these in my kitchen already, which was nice, & they whipped up pretty quickly & easily, so far so good.
Applying the chocolate masque is quiet relaxing in itself. It’s cool, creamy, smooth & smells like dessert. Use a basting brush to apply a thick layer all over, just that process will make you relax.
And the results?
Your skin would feel so much softer & tighter after the mask. In fact, it would feel very soft.
Chocolate, Honey & Yogurt Face Mask
Ingredients:
1 tsp cocoa powder
1 tsp yogurt
1 tsp honey
Directions:
1. Blend cocoa powder with honey and yogurt. Cocoa powder can be difficult to blend, so be patient with this step. Keep mixing until mixture looks like melted chocolate.
2. Clean your face with lukewarm water. Dab dry and then apply the mask evenly all over your face except the eye and lip areas. Relax for 15-20 minutes and let the mask do it’s magic.
3. Wash off with lukewarm water and dab dry.
Apply moisturizer.
The following masque can increase hydration, support skin's defense against UV damage, decrease roughness, and actually improves blood flow. Do give it a try.Do
There have been a few times in the past when I thought I had found The Perfect Marble chocolate cake recipe, but every time I thought I had found my go-to, I started to get consistently bad results. Weird textures and sunken tops and what-not. And that it was easy to boot! Can one recipe really deliver all that? It turns out that the answer is a resounding Yes! This is really the best Marble chocolate cake recipe and it produces a cake that is moist and rich and perfectly springy. My husband and children gave it perhaps the best compliment a cake can receive when, with eyes as wide as saucers, he stared at me quite dumb-founded and said, "What?! You made this ?!" High praise indeed.
My Best Chocolate Vanilla Marble Cake Ever
250 gms butter
250gms Sugar
1tsp Vanilla Essence
4 eggs
2tsp rum
Sift
250 gms flour
3tsp baking powder
3/4 cup milk
3 tbsp Cocoa
1tbsp Sugar
3tbsp milk
Cream butter and Sugar. Add essence, eggs, rum and beat well. Mix in dry ingredients, alternately with milk,so that the mixture should be fairly thick. Put two - thirds of this batter in a well greased and crumbled baking pan. to the rest of the batter add cocoa, sugar and milk , mix them well. Pour on top of first batter and using a fork lightly mix both. Bake in a moderate oven at 180c for 1 hour.
Now it’s time for the fun part! I’m so excited!! In the comments below please share your tried & true at home beauty treatments and chocolate cake recipes!
This should be a gold mine people. I’m SO SO excited to hear all your favorites!
Here is one of my favorite cocoa treats for your skin & your taste buds.
Applying the chocolate masque is quiet relaxing in itself. It’s cool, creamy, smooth & smells like dessert. Use a basting brush to apply a thick layer all over, just that process will make you relax.
And the results?
Your skin would feel so much softer & tighter after the mask. In fact, it would feel very soft.
Chocolate, Honey & Yogurt Face Mask
Ingredients:
1 tsp cocoa powder
1 tsp yogurt
1 tsp honey
Directions:
1. Blend cocoa powder with honey and yogurt. Cocoa powder can be difficult to blend, so be patient with this step. Keep mixing until mixture looks like melted chocolate.
2. Clean your face with lukewarm water. Dab dry and then apply the mask evenly all over your face except the eye and lip areas. Relax for 15-20 minutes and let the mask do it’s magic.
3. Wash off with lukewarm water and dab dry.
Apply moisturizer.
The following masque can increase hydration, support skin's defense against UV damage, decrease roughness, and actually improves blood flow. Do give it a try.Do
There have been a few times in the past when I thought I had found The Perfect Marble chocolate cake recipe, but every time I thought I had found my go-to, I started to get consistently bad results. Weird textures and sunken tops and what-not. And that it was easy to boot! Can one recipe really deliver all that? It turns out that the answer is a resounding Yes! This is really the best Marble chocolate cake recipe and it produces a cake that is moist and rich and perfectly springy. My husband and children gave it perhaps the best compliment a cake can receive when, with eyes as wide as saucers, he stared at me quite dumb-founded and said, "What?! You made this ?!" High praise indeed.
My Best Chocolate Vanilla Marble Cake Ever
250 gms butter
250gms Sugar
1tsp Vanilla Essence
4 eggs
2tsp rum
Sift
250 gms flour
3tsp baking powder
3/4 cup milk
3 tbsp Cocoa
1tbsp Sugar
3tbsp milk
Cream butter and Sugar. Add essence, eggs, rum and beat well. Mix in dry ingredients, alternately with milk,so that the mixture should be fairly thick. Put two - thirds of this batter in a well greased and crumbled baking pan. to the rest of the batter add cocoa, sugar and milk , mix them well. Pour on top of first batter and using a fork lightly mix both. Bake in a moderate oven at 180c for 1 hour.
Now it’s time for the fun part! I’m so excited!! In the comments below please share your tried & true at home beauty treatments and chocolate cake recipes!
This should be a gold mine people. I’m SO SO excited to hear all your favorites!
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