Category: A Day in the Life
A Chocolatier’s Blog, or A Series of semi-random events in an ongoing quest for happiness and chocolate.
Heady Topper. Soon to be in bonbons near you!
Breaking into the Heady Topper (thanks Jase!), which I’m cooking with blackberries and sugar. Makin’ bonbons for Momma’s day. #dlcbonbons #chocolatier #chocolateasart […]
Tropicale Bars crystallizing in the coolroom. Tempering Liona for 12 bars of Blues (get the pun?)
The 12 bar blues. Here, see Wikipedia.
Maranon Canyon 100%
WHAT DOES ONE do with a 10 kilogram (22 pound) bucket of rare chocolate? First, one figures out how to break it […]
Big Walter Horton on the blues harp this morning–the guy could blow a harmonica. Tasting Heirloom chocolate from Nicaragua–the bold round notes go well with the music.
The chocolate is Heirloom Cacao #8–Ingemann Cacao Fino from Municipios de La Dalia, El Cua, Nicaragua. Learn more about the Heirloom Cacao […]
Chocolate for Breakfast.
We prepared BREAKFAST for 12 visiting European tour leaders this morning. Quiche with ham, and Local Cheese, wild forged mushrooms, Alanna’s own […]
Strawberries. Chocolate.
I’m making a small number of chocolate-dipped strawberries, just for today. Stop in for a taste of early Summer! What shall I […]
Tempering some of my precious stock of FInca Los Ujuxtes white chocolate from Guatemala. Then, I’x Jaguar bars (equally precious).
Dealing with cacao and chocolate isn’t necessarily trivial. I just received the following email from my friend Carlos of Danta Chocolate in […]