Spent a good four hours yesterday (in between making another three batches of fudge) trying to get my silkscreened chocolate transfer sheets to work. I discovered that it’s really really hard to pull off. Cocoa butter has a very sharp melting point (which is one of the things that makes it so appetizing), and the [...]
Well, I made a second batch of chocolate fudge using roughly the same recipe (minus the butter), and discovered that I’d made an error in the first batch! I misread it as 1000g of sugar where it should have been 2000g of sugar. So I had halved the sugar in the recipe by accident – [...]
I have just finished my first batch of fudge, an incredibly rich chocolate macadamia nut fudge. It’s so rich it’s actually a little shiny/oozy on top, which means I added a little too much butterfat. I’ll cut it down in the next batch. But it TASTES incredible, largely because of the tinkering I’ve done with [...]
I am indubitably running behind at this juncture, having spent a mere 4 hours on chocolates yesterday (admittedly, with help from a friend). Between setup and cleanup and having promised to see a movie (Quantum of Solace) with Mike, not a whole lot got done. I dipped the remaining apricots, the candied ginger, the vanilla [...]
I’ve been debating over the last several months over what I should name my AVL Workshop Dobby Loom. Leaving it unnamed is simply not an option; I’m the sort who names anything that seems significant, especially if it’s complex enough that I’m likely to be negotiating, arguing, shouting at, etc. it. (Though I rarely shout [...]
