February 28

How I Celebrated

So, never having chocolate souffle before, I would have to say this recipe I made up seems to be like a 3 out of 5 stars. It has some of the characteristics of what other photos look like and describe besides a couple of things. It does have that crisp brownie-like topping. It is light and very chocolate-y. It rose up out of the sides of the pan without sticking, and it tastes really good. Obviously I did not cook it in a ramekin (though, I did see some others that were cooked in large cake pans as well). Also, If I wanted a more moist lava cake texture I probably could have taken it out a bit sooner/ made more chocolate sauce to fold in.
Some of the recipes that I saw did separate their chocolate sauce, but I used an orange funfetti cake mix and I wanted the cake to be uniformly chocolate and at the very least brown instead of orange. So, yeah. I used the Pillsbury orange funfetti mix (a smaller mix than the boxes) that I folded into 6 egg whites that I whipped. Oh, another thing that may have made my texture EVEN better was if I put either lemon juice or cream of tartar in there ( I didn't. I was trying to make this on the fly and whipping those eggs by hand made me impatient already). I melted 1/2cup of unsalted butter on the stove and melted in 2 whole bars of 70% dark chocolate bars. Then I added about 1/3 cup of whole milk. After the cake mix was mixed into the whipped eggs (that seemed to deflate as I mixed in the cake mix, kind of frustrating), Then I mixed in the chocolate sauce. (This is where I should have separated it). I didn't mix it up too much, but I put it in my greased/sugared glass pan. It went into the oven for 40 min. Voila! Delicious.

Diet Helpers 

• Sugar Free

  Check out this recipe for sugar free chocolate souffle, or this one for cake, or this one for buns

• Gluten Free

  Flourless chocolate souffle is much lighter than regular souffle, Gluten free cake mixes are easier to find now and there are plenty of bakeries that serve gluten free pastries.

• Vegetarian

  Yes

Recipes

• Food Network has a fancy souffle for you to try
• Or try the one from Eating Well
• How about a molten chocolate souffle?
• Here is an easy souffle recipe, but it doesn't look like it involves beating egg whites.
• Since there are so many different cake and bun recipes, why not put them together and make a honey bun cake?

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History

 How did people figure out you could whip egg whites? Maybe this time I'll try whipping duck egg whites.

Merchandise

You know you wanna watch Adventure Time for the puncha yo buns son. Oh and remekins.
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Restaurants

• This dessert from Bistro Bleu is said to be priced well and once of the best desserts of 2012
• Wicked Spoon Buffet at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas has this Amazing looking Melting Hot Chocolate Souffle
• It looks like Roy's has a following for his chocolate souffle

Other Things to Celebrate Today

• National Cherry Month
• Celebration of Chocolate Month
• National Hot Breakfast Month
• National Snack Food Month
• Potato Lover's Month
• Berry Fresh Month
• Canned Food Month
• Great American Pies Month
• Fiber Focus Month
• National Grapefruit Month
• Sweet Potato Month
• National Fondue Month
• National Heart Healthy Month
• Return Carts to the Supermarket Month
• Bake for Family Fun Month
• Jewish Book Week
• Lent
• Make Mine Chocolate
• National Girl Scout Cookie Weekend
• Telecommuter Appreciation Week
• US Snow Shoe Days
• Floral Design Day
• National Public Sleeping Day
• National Tooth Fairy Day