Confections! What did we make? (2017 – )

[curls]

6 hours ago, Rajala said:

Strawberries and matcha. Accidentally made the world's thinnest bottom on the one pictured.

 

Thank you for sharing your recipes and methods on Instagram! So, how did you like the flavor combination of strawberries and matcha? I’m not a fan of every matcha dessert but I do enjoy some of them.

[Rajala]

No chocolate during summer? It's very quite here.

 

Made a lemon / salty licorice bonbon this week. Finally some weather suited for chocolate

 

[Rajala]

On 6/11/2024 at 4:18 PM, curls said:

Thank you for sharing your recipes and methods on Instagram! So, how did you like the flavor combination of strawberries and matcha? I’m not a fan of every matcha dessert but I do enjoy some of them.

 

Sorry, missed your question. I really did like it. I didn't go crazy on the matcha though.

[Jim D.]

On 12/17/2023 at 5:31 PM, Kerry Beal said:

I put together a recipe for Rodney for a competition a couple of years ago sponsored by Amarula - it wasn't for a chocolate filling - it was a tart riffing off Cape Breton 'Pork Pies'.  What I learned from that - dates and amarula go well together.  

 

I came across this post and realized that I had not updated the idea from @Kerry Beal of pairing Amarula cream liqueur with dates.  It has become a hit with customers (not to mention with the chocolatier).  I use lemon to counteract some of the dates' sweetness and also add some nutmeg, which seems to have an affinity for Amarula.  Amarula has an almost magical relation with Aw--I can add what seem huge quantities of the liqueur, and the water activity reading is 0.72.   I had to test it several times before I believed the reading.

[Rajala]

Apricot, almond, and browned butter