Coldest Day

Here in the midwest we are having a cold spell. For the last two days the schools have been closed because of severe temperatures and weather warnings.  Last night it reached –22 degrees.  So, when I was trying to decide what I should experiment with, a recipe for a dipped confection called “hot chocolates” caught my eye.  This confection has a cinnamon marshmallow atop a dark chocolate ganache.  It required curing overnight so I made it the other day and today I dipped them.

I am still having some difficulty in getting dipped chocolates to look neat and beautiful.  However, I tried dipping some round chocolates and some square chocolates.  I ran out of tempered semisweet chocolate and when I began to temper some more semisweet, I got thinking that I might prefer these dipped in milk chocolate instead.  In the end, I think the milk chocolate ones taste the best.  The milk chocolate also seemed to dip better too and I’m not sure if I need to adjust the temperature on my machine or what.  I will have to do some more experimenting and reading on that.

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