I finally dipped the marshmallows I made the other day in some Valhrona 66%. They came out quite tasty. Short on time these days and rather busy. So that’s it for now.
Chocolate dipped marshmallows
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Chocolate dipped Marshmallows
Posted in chocolates with tags Chocolate, marshmallow on September 30, 2010 by thebrokenganache
A horrible recipe from O and a amazing Peanut butter bar from Baked
Posted in candy, chocolates, confections with tags marshmallow, Peanut Butter on September 26, 2010 by thebrokenganacheMy friend Cheryl gave me a bunch of candy recipes from O Magazine October issue. There is a feature called Sweet Dreams and the recipes and photos looked great so I decided to try one. It was a Honeycomb candy recipe, now I think I am very good at following directions for a recipe, well let me tell you about this one. Apparently your supposed to cook sugar, corn syrup, water and honey to 325F over a medium high heat which I attempted to do, but around 290F it turned into a black, smoking, bubbling mess! Since I had never made it before I through suspicions aside and continued with the steps. I added the dissolved gelatin and baking soda, stirred it around and poured it into a pan as directed. This was the most disgusting thing I have ever made. I really have to question if this was tested before ending up in print in the magazine.
After that I returned to my new favorite book Baked and made their Peanut butter crisp bars, which came out absolutely heavenly. It has a caramel and rice crispy bottom, the middle layer is milk chocolate and peanut butter and its topped with a dark chocolate ganache. I don’t even know if they will make it to work tomorrow for people to taste as I keep nibbling on them. I cant wait to try some more recipes from this book. Anyone who likes baking I highly recommend this book its wonderful!
Then it was on to chocolate marshmallows. I have made them before with no issues so I am letting them dry out overnight and tomorrow I will dip them in dark chocolate.
Thats it for now.
Peanut butter crisp bar
Another Moist Cupcake
Posted in buttercream, cupcakes with tags buttercream, cupcakes, marshmallow on August 28, 2010 by thebrokenganacheThe morning started off with me doing research on different chocolatiers for school. Then I thought that I should make some cupcakes to go along with the butercream I made yesterday. So I tried out Gregg’s suggestion of using the recipe on the back of the Hershy’s cocoa box (Hershy’s Chocolate Cake Recipe). I just made one substitution; instead of Hershy’s cocoa powder I used Cacoa di Pernigotti cocoa powder. I also undercooked it slightly only cooking it for 16 min. It came out amazing! A very moist cupcake indeed. Thanks Gregg!
Since I had the leftover egg whites from the buttercream I decided to try Martha Stewart’s Marshmallow Frosting recipe. It was nice although a little too sweet for me. If I do make it again I would add either orange zest or vanilla bean to give it a little extra kick. Still working on the video since we had to include scenes of using the buttercream with the cupcakes from today!
Thats it for now!
Chocolate cupcake with marshmallow frosting
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Day 1 / Citrus Confit, Soft Caramels and Chocolate Marshmallows
Posted in candy, chocolates, confections, how to videos with tags marshmallow, video on July 18, 2010 by thebrokenganacheWell today was my first day exploring confections. It went pretty good. I started making a citrus confit out of lemon and orange rings and are for my chocolate truffles which I will make tomorrow. Still not sure which truffles I will make but at least one of them will use the confit, for all the time it took to make them (since the 1st batch got ruined when the A/C went out).
I also started making my soft caramels when I realized that I was getting different readings from 3 different thermometers! I am still not sure which one to use but I went with the red one and I should have gone with the white one as they came out a little soft. The flavor was great I love using fresh vanilla with all the little flecks – it’s so fragrant and makes the caramels look so special. Andy cut them into squres so tomorrow they can be dipped into tempured chocolate. I hope they come out well.
Finally I decided to make chocolate marshmallows, they came out quite good I just love the roughed hune texture and flavor. Even though the recipe called for 1.5 ounce or a 1/4 cup cocoa powder – but when I measured a 1/4 cup of cocoa powder it didnt equla 1.5oz. so I just added somewhere in-between. Nect time I will add the full 1.5oz instewad of using a meassuing cup – I think it will give it a richer more chocoloate flavor. The recipe called for honey and you can taste it in the marshmallow which I didnt care for too much so I wont use it next time.
Thats all for today!
Chocolate Marshmallows
Soft Vanilla Caramels
