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NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
The Greek chocolate company ION is renowned for its chocolate bars, including the delicious ION Amygdalou, featuring milk chocolate and almonds, created in 1947, but perhaps less well-known is their line of products for baking and for creating your own confections.
ION Cocoa with its aroma and light texture that set it apart from all others is found in kitchen cabinets throughout Greece. For years, ION’s 100% natural cocoa, with nothing added, has graced all pastries – or beverages – with the genuine taste of ION.
Also among the ION products are various kinds of couverture chocolate which is a type of chocolate used to make pastries, bonbons, truffles, and other confections. ION Patisserie Dark Chocolate, Milk Chocolate, and White Chocolate can be used for any homemade sweet or pastry.
Try the following recipes that feature ION products.
Hot Cocoa
4 cups whole milk or unsweetened almond milk
4 tablespoons ION cocoa powder
3 ounces ION dark chocolate bar, chopped
2 teaspoons sugar per mug
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Heat the milk in a saucepan over medium heat. When the milk is warm, add cocoa powder, chopped chocolate, and sugar, and whisk to combine. Continue cooking on stovetop until completely combined and cocoa has reached your preferred temperature. Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla extract. Taste and add sugar, if preferred.
Cupcakes with ION Chocolate Surprise
1 cup unbleached, all-purpose flour
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup unsweetened ION cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon Greek sea salt
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup Greek extra virgin olive oil
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
12 ION Noisetta chocolates, or ION pralines, unwrapped
Frosting of your choice, optional
ION chocolate bar, chopped for garnish, optional
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper baking cups and set aside. In a mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Make a well in the center and add the milk, oil, egg, and vanilla. Beat until just combined. Fill the prepared muffin cups halfway with the cake batter and place one of the ION chocolates in the center of each, spoon a bit more of the batter on top to cover the candy. Bake in the preheated oven for 25-35 minutes and the tops are firm. Cool the cupcakes for 10 minutes in the pan on a wire rack. Remove them from the pan and allow them to cool completely. Frost, if preferred, and top with chopped ION chocolate bar to garnish.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.