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Ingredients

• ✓ bitter chocolate
• banana
• white sugar
• butter
• vegetable shortening
• egg
• orange zest
• orange peel
• nutmeg
• vanilla extract
• all-purpose flour
• baking powder
• lavender flower
• sugar

Instructions

1. 1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 5x9-inch loaf pan and line with parchment paper.
2. 2 Beat banana, sugar, butter, and shortening together until smooth; mix in eggs. Stir fresh orange zest, dried orange peel, nutmeg, and vanilla extract into mixture. Gradually stir flour into moist ingredients. Fold chocolate and lavender into batter. Spoon batter into prepared loaf pan. Sprinkle coarse sugar crystals over batter.
3. 3 Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean, about 1 hour.

By Lynn A Jaskowiak

Ingredients

• ✓ bitter chocolate
• butter
• white sugar
• cornstarch
• salt
• milk
• vanilla extract

Instructions

1. 1 Combine chocolate and butter in the top of a saucepan placed over a pot of simmering water; simmer over medium heat until melted, about 5 minutes.
2. 2 Combine sugar, cornstarch, and salt in a bowl; stir in about 1/4 cup milk. Add mixture to melted chocolate and blend thoroughly. Add remaining milk. Place saucepan over direct heat and cook, stirring constantly, until mixture boils and thickens, about 1 minute more. Return the saucepan to the pot of boiling water, cover, and cook 15 minutes longer, stirring occasionally.
3. 3 Remove the saucepan from heat and stir in vanilla. Cool in the refrigerator, about 3 hours to overnight before serving.

By mark b