DAY 69

Before I start this week I would just like to make my second PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Before going anyfurther, please get a tissue to catch any future drool. Now back to today. Today was mostly just starting some reciepes that are coming later in the week and then two reciepes for today. We started out day with a little lesson in chocolate tempering 101 and then went back into the kitchen to start our day. We got out some saucepans and put in all different kinds of chocolate, and I'm not refering to white, milk, bittersweet, and dark. I'm talking about équatorial, jivara, guanaja, caribbean, ivory, etc.... These types are what the chocolates are really named and the previous names are more like catagories rather than names. So the two reciepes that were doing today is the Fruit and Nut Chocolates and the Almond Rock. Both are relativley simple and not that much time, but that's why were doing them today, because the other chocolates that we have to get ready for the rest of the week will take up the rest of the time. While this was on the stove we got cracking on all the fruit, nuts, etc... that we had to cut for both reciepes. Once the chocolate, for the first reciepe, was ready we poured some of the chocolate into a pastry bag and then on parchment paper made little circles of chocolate, the circumfrance and height of a quarter. Then before the chocolate cooled placed the the white almonds, pistachios, cut candied orange peels, hazelnuts, raisins and walnuts. Popped them into the fridge and then got out the almond slivers, chopped candied orange, and rice crispies (and yes I'm talking about the whole "Snap, Crackle, Pop" one). After mixing in the butter to the tempered chocolate we then added the aformentioned. Then putting them into little balls and putting them into the fridge to harden. We then had an extremely late tea and coffee break, afterwards put all the chocolate that we were working with during class away. We cleaned up the kitchen, put our two goody yumness into bags and then talked about chocolate for the last couple minutes of class. Afterwards I went home and went back to studying the reciepes.

Fruit & Nut Chocolate


Almond Rocks