Wine & Chocolate Tasting
Wine is exceptional per s, I know that perfectly well. However, people these days take pleasure in pairing it with different kinds of foods since wine is known to intensify the taste.
It pairs splendidly with an array of foods, even chocolate! When done right, it can give a flavorful and interesting blast in the mouth.
The main thing you must do is to get your hands on a good kind of chocolate, and an appropriate one. Ordinary chocolate bars that you have in your fridge aren’t good enough, given that they don’t contain distinctive flavors. The best choice are gourmet chocolates, be it dark, milk, or white chocolate.
Interesting, eh? Watch this video and watch people who are huge fans of this pairing.
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How do you make chocolate candy without milk?
Question by Charlie: How do you make chocolate candy without milk?
My daughter and some of my relatives are allergic (not lactose intolerant but fully allergic) to milk. There are chocolate candies from specialty shops that don’t use milk in their chocolate but the cost an arm and a leg. I was hoping to make some “safe” chocolate candies for them for Christmas as they love chocolate but can’t eat anything with milk in it. I’d love to find a way to make candy bars, etc. WITHOUT the use of milk (soy, rice milk, margarine, etc would be okay). Thanks!
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Answer by mellieh
Rocky Road Candy
INGREDIENTS (Nutrition)
* 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
* 1 (1 ounce) square unsweetened baking chocolate
* 1 tablespoon butter
* 2 eggs
* 1 1/4 cups confectioners’ sugar
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1 teaspoon vanilla
* 2 cups salted peanuts
* 2 cups miniature marshmallows
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DIRECTIONS
1. In a small saucepan over medium-low heat, melt chocolate chips, unsweetened chocolate and butter, stirring until smooth. Remove from heat.
2. In a large bowl, beat eggs until foamy. Beat in sugar, salt and vanilla until smooth and thick. Beat in chocolate mixture. Fold in peanuts and marshmallows.
3. Drop by spoonfuls onto waxed paper lined trays. Chill in refrigerator 2 hours, until firm. Keep refrigerated until serving.
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Fudge Crackles
INGREDIENTS (Nutrition)
* 7 (1 ounce) squares semisweet chocolate
* 2 (1 ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate
* 3 tablespoons butter, softened
* 1 cup white sugar
* 3 eggs
* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
* 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
* 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
* 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
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1. Chop chocolate and melt with 3 tablespoons butter or margarine in the top of a double boiler over simmering water. Stir until melted. Remove from hot water and cool slightly.
2. Mix together flour, baking powder and salt and set aside.
3. Beat together sugar and eggs until thick and creamy. Mix in vanilla and melted chocolate. Add flour mixture until well blended. Add chocolate chips and nuts.
4. Drop by teaspoonfuls about 1-1/2 inches apart on greased cookie sheet. Bake in a 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) oven for 8 minutes or until tops are cracked and shiny. Cool on sheet 3-5 minutes. Remove to racks to cool completely.
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Chocolate Passion: Recipes and Inspiration from the Kitchens of Chocolatier Magazine
Chocolate Passion: Recipes and Inspiration from the Kitchens of Chocolatier Magazine
Chocolatier magazine editors share their passion for chocolate, with recipes and techniques for creating spectacular chocolate desserts.
Blending passion with expertise, this book will become a chocolate lover’s instant favorite. Fifty-four luscious new recipes developed and tested by editors at Chocolatier magazine celebrate chocolate at its best, including the whimsical Tahitian Vanilla Swirls, the elegant Milk Chocolate Mousse Roulade, and the smooth, sophisticated Black Satin Chocolate Raspberry Cake. With separate sections on white, milk, and dark chocolate, and gorgeous full-color photographs of techniques and finished desserts, Chocolate Passion makes it easy to learn and master the secrets of working with every type of chocolate.
Tish Boyle (New York, NY) is Food Editor and Timothy Moriarty (New York, NY) is Features Editor of Chocolatier and Pastry Art and Design magazines. They are the authors of Grand Finales: The Art of the Plated Dessert and A Modernist View of Plated Desserts.To the growing cadre of books about chocolate, add Tish Boyle and Tim Moriarty’s Chocolate Passion. For it, the authors, both editors at Chocolatier and Pastry Arts and Designmagazines, have collected more than 50 recipes celebrating chocolate–the world’s favorite flavor, as they dub it. These include formulas for cakes, cookies, mousses, tarts, and candies. If most of the recipes involve multiple preparations, a sufficient number are simple enough to appeal to everyday cooks, and readers with any interest in the subject should enjoy the book’s exploration of chocolate history and lore.
Beginning with this investigation, the book then presents information on chocolate making; ingredient, equipment, and technique definitions; tempering instructions; and other chocolate working material. The recipes, organized by chocolate type–white, milk, and dark–follow, most illustrated with color photos; included also are comprehensive notes on chocolate and other suppliers. If the recipe organization is puzzling (few would choose a chocolate recipe based on the type of chocolate it contains) and the writing often infelicitous (“Milk chocolate, America’s favorite chocolate delivery system…” is an instance), the recipes are tempting and clearly presented. Among these, Chocolate Hazelnut Brownies with Milk Chocolate Frosting and Black Satin Chocolate Raspberry Cake, for example, have instant appeal. White-chocolate lovers will be happy to explore an extensive chapter devoted to the likes of White Chocolate Strawberry Mousse Cake; ambitious cooks will want to try their hand at the Gianduja Marjolaine, a chewy meringue and chocolate mousse cake layered with mocha buttercream and topped with ganache, among other full-dress recipes. In the end, the power of chocolate is such that, once under its spell, nothing will do but to have some. The book provides numerous delightful ways to make that happen. –Arthur Boehm
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Making Chocolate
Ever wonder how chocolate is made? The short story is that these are made from bitter cacao beans and then molded into chocolate bars. If you were a chocolate company like Hershey’s, you would need a lot of them and to give you an idea how it is made, here is a guide in the production process.
The first thing that needs to be done is to harvest the cacao beans. Large companies buy these from farmers or buy the farm and harvest these themselves. They then put these in an oven at a temperature between 120 to 163 degrees Celsius that is about 250 to 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 5 to 35 minutes.
Naturally, you will gradually lower the temperature and stop roasting them when the beans start to crack.
There are two reasons why cacao beans stay in an oven at varying times.
First is to prevent them from burning. Naturally, you will gradually lower the temperature and stop roasting them when the beans start to crack. Naturally, you will gradually lower the temperature and stop roasting them when the beans start to crack.
Second, the cooking time of cacao beans varies depending on the type of bean that is being used.
Since companies produce chocolates in vast quantities, the cacao beans are stored in drums and then rotated over a gas grill. After they are roasted, the beans must be cracked into small bits better known as nibs while those that can’t are removed.
The next step is to grind the nibs into a cacao liqueur. For that, you will need a machine to liquefy this and at the same time separate the remaining husks that were not removed after roasting.
You then conch and refine the chocolate so you are able to give the chocolate its distinct taste. This is what makes Hershey’s chocolates different than for example M&M which can be achieved by using a powerful wet grinder.
You first have to melt the chocolate and the cocoa butter in the over at about 120 degrees Fahrenheit. You should then mix non fat dry milk powder, sugar, lecithin and a vanilla pod for about an hour. This mixture is then poured into a grinder together with some heat to keep the chocolate in liquid form. This should be refined for at least 10 hours but not more than 36 hours.
When it is ready, you then temper the chocolate so it looks shiny and soft enough to easily melt in your hand.
The second to the last part in making chocolate is to mold this into whatever shape or form that you would like. To produce these in vast quantities, chocolate companies but custom made molds. The chocolate is then poured there and after this is cooled, this is then packaged and ready for delivery to stores.
Some companies even sell these in the form of blocks so people can buy them, melt it and mold this to whatever shape they desire.
Making chocolate is easy as long as you have the equipment and all the ingredients needed. It doesn’t matter if this is produced in large volumes or in small quantities because the principle behind it is the same. If you want to learn more about making chocolate, sign up for some classes.
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How to Make Chocolate Ice Cream
Do you love eating ice cream? Are you a chocolate lover? Do you want to have a chocolate ice cream without visiting any store at all? The video you are about to see is all about making ice cream!
Yes, you’ve read right. Now you can have all the ice cream you want even if you don’t go out to buy some. You will be guided with the steps on how you can do it. The video will have all the information you need to know.
A demonstration with our expert on how to do it will be shown to you in this very detailed video. You will enjoy this wonderful learning experience on how to make your own chocolate ice cream.
After watching this video, you can eat your creamy chocolate ice cream anytime!
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The Great Book of Chocolate
The Great Book of Chocolate
The Great book every chocophile has been waiting for, pastry chef David Lebovitz’s guide is a jam-packed snapshot of the global chocolate picture. In this compact volume, he gives a succinct cacao botany lesson, explains the process of chocolate making, runs through chocolate terminology and types, presents information on health benefits, offers an evaluating and buying primer, profiles the world’s top chocolate makers and chocolatiers (with a whole chapter dedicated to Paris alone!), and shares dozens of little-known factoids in sidebars throughout the book. More than 30 of his favorite chocolate recipes‚Äîfrom Black-Bottom Cupcakes to Homemade Rocky Road Candy, Orange and Rum Chocolate Mousse Cake to Double Chocolate Chip Espresso Cookies‚Äîare icing on the cake. His extensive resource section (with websites for international ordering) can bring the world’s best chocolate to every door. A self-avowed chocoholic, Lebovitz nibbles chocolate every day‚Äîand with THE GREAT BOOK OF CHOCOLATE in hand, he figures the rest of us will too.
- A compact connoisseur’s guide, with recipes, to today’s cutting-edge array of chocolates and chocolate makers from former Chez Panisse pastry chef David Lebovitz.
- Includes more than 50 location and food photographs.
- Chocolate—like its predecessors coffee, wine, and bread—is the latest darling of the food scene.
- The New York Times on Lebovitz’s first book: ‚ÄúInstructions are clear and simple, and the recipes are so good that it becomes clear what a master baker he is.‚Äù
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Tea and Chocolate Tasting with Charles Chocolates’ Chuck Siegal
Watch the Tea and Truffles Pairing with Samovar and Bay Area chocolatier Charles Chocolates. Jesse and Chuck discuss entrepreneurship, what a food or beverage company unique, and the worlds of premium chocolate and teas.
After seeing creamy ganaches paired with honey-like, tropical Phoenix Oolong, or matcha truffles specially made for the event, it will make you reach for your teacup–and the chocolate stash!
Have fun watching this video on Tea and chocolate tasting with charles chocolates Chuck Siegal.
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