One of our many recent life changes has been a move to rural Iowa. We’ve been anticipating this change for a few years now and so far, I am loving it! We are renting a home temporarily while our new home is being built. We can see our build site from the back patio of …
Category Archives: Chocolate Techniques
Chocolate Covered Caramel Apples
Caramel apples are delicious. Chocolate covered caramel apples are divine. The first time I tried to make caramel apples I got frustrated. And burned. Nothing burns like sticky, hot caramel. I now have an aversion to and a healthy fear of working with hot caramel, so I figured out how to make caramel apples without …
Flavored Ganache
The soft ganache centers are simply mixtures of cream, butter, fine chocolate, and a flavoring. I’m making three flavors: triple chocolate vanilla bean, peanut butter, and cheesecake. These three flavors each use a different method of adding the flavoring. The vanilla flavor uses an opened vanilla bean heated in the cream and butter mixture (in …
It’s Chocolate Season!
I usually begin thinking about making chocolate in mid-September, once the evenings begin to cool down and the early semester activities evolve into routine semester activities. Sometimes I find myself in October – the time for caramel apples – and I have to hustle to get the chocolate ordered and my equipment set up. But …
Yarn and Chocolate 