Cocoa Tin
Cocoa Tin
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 EX RARE IMPERIAL RUSSIA GEORGE BORMAN COCOA TIN BOX  US $1,825.00
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 Huge Dutch Boon Winter Sledge Shop Cocoa Tin 1910s US $495.00
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 VINTAGE DROSTES COCOA CACAO HAARLEM HOLLAND TIN BOX US $375.00
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 1910s BULGARIAN CHOCOLATE FACTORY COCOA CANDY ADVERTISING LITHO BOY TIN SIGN 26 US $370.50
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 VINTAGE BENSDORP COCOA AMSTERDAM TIN BOX SEALED US $325.00
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 LARG ART NOUVEAU ANTIQUE 1905 COCOA CACAO CHOCOLATE CANDY LITHO TIN CAN BOX TUBE US $311.22
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 ANTIQUE COCOA CACAO TIN BOX CUBAN MOTIVE US $263.00
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 Belgium Victoria Cocoa Candy Free Sample Tin 1920s US $245.00
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 ANTIQUE DROSTE COCOA CACAO TIN BOX HAARLEM 226 GRAM US $219.00
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 ANTIQUE DROSTE COCOA CACAO HAARLEM 226 GRAM TIN US $210.00
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 Superb Art Deco Matina Rooster Chicken Cocoa Tea Coffee Canister Set Tin 1930 US $199.00
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 RARE ANTIQUE BULGARIAN BALAKCHIEV COCOA CACAO TIN US $195.00
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 VINTAGE EMPTY TIN BOX DROSTE COCOA HAARLEM HOLLAND x US $194.00
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 VINTAGE RARE CHINESE TIN COCOA CONTAINER SEA GULL US $133.00
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 OLD TINY DROSTE COCOA ADVERTISING SAMPLE SIZE TIN NURSE US $125.00
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 RARE ANTIQUE BLUE RIBBON BREAKFAST COCOA TIN US $125.00
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 CACAO COCOA SUCHARD ANTIQUE ERALY TIN LITHO BIG BOX US $120.00
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 1910s Holland WESSANENS CACAO HUGE Cocoa Tin Box SUPER US $115.00
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 Vintage Hershey Hersheys Cocoa Trial Size Tin Lancaster PA US $102.99
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 Empty Antique Rademaker Fenix Cocoa tin box from Holland about 1920s s3000 US $100.00
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 ANTIQUE COCOA CACAO LITHO TIN CADDY BOX MOTIF GEISHA US $99.99
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 ANTIQUE FREE SAMPLE 1 4 OZ DROSTES COCOA TIN HAARLEM HOLLAND US $99.99
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 ANTIQUE DROSTE COCOA CACAO TIN BOX HAARLEM 100 GRAM US $93.00
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 VINTAGE COCOA COFFE TIN LITHO BOX PORCELAIN HANDLE US $90.00
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 VINTAGE COCOA OR COFFE TIN LITHO BOX PORCELAIN HANDLE US $90.00
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 Dutch Kwatta Cocoa Chocolate Everly Brothers Tin 1950s US $89.00
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An Unusual Cake Recipe Using Chocolate and Zucchini (Courgette)
This is a delicious and strange recipe for a cake, that the whole family will enjoy.
A Cake Recipe Using Chocolate and Zucchini
Ingredients:
1/2 C. to 1 C. choccie chips
3 zucchini, approximately 6" long, shredded (approx. 2 cps)
1 t. cinnamon
two half a cup cake flour
3 fresh eggs
0.5 Cup real butter
One t. vanilla flavouring
Half C. refined sugar
One Cup brown sugar
half a cup sunflower oil
0.5 Cup buttermilk
4 Tbs cocoa
One t. table salt
Two t. baking soda
Instructions:
In advance, preheat your oven to to 325 degrees F / 160 degrees C.
Grease a 9" x 13" cake pan and put to one side.
In mixing bowlcombine sugars, the oil and the butter.
Add eggs, the buttermilk and the vanilla and stir well until well mixed.
With a sifter or sieve, sift the cinnamon , flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt to make one.
Combine the two mixtures
Stir in courgette and stir well.
Transfer the whole mix into the cake tin and spinkle the choccie chips over the top.
Transfer to the pre-heated oven and cook for three quarters of an hour.
Allow it to cool a little, Let it stand on a wire rack until cool enough to serve..
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