Monday, February 18, 2008

To Stuff or Not To Stuff

All year round we dip strawberries in chocolate. Mostly just on the weekends, and anytime for special orders. Milk chocolate and dark chocolate. Somtimes in the white stuff. The real fun begins when they get drizzled with a contrasting chocolate or dipped in tasty things like coconut or chopped nuts. They look so very nice. Remember, we tend to eat with our eyes first. But Suzanne also likes to stuff the strawberries. She has concocted a special cream cheese filling. We hull the bigger berries, hollow them out just enough with a paring knife, then cram the filling in. Off they go to the tempering machine to get a chocolate bath. They are really delicious. But this year we tried a new filling. We called them double chocolate strawberries. They sold like hotcakes. We used a special secret ganache that our chef Allan created for the "Valentine Love Truffle". I vote for stuffing every time.

2 comments:

docreport said...

Chocolate covered strawberries! With fancy white chocolate drizzle stuff!
My achilles heal (And I don't care of I didn't spell that right!)

(Alright, so maybe I did)
Cheers,

~d

Chocchick said...

Hi, just wanted to say how good those strawberries sound! I noticed that you offer fairtrade chocolate and wondered if you'd had used Rainforest Alliance chocolate as you are based in New York? I'm a big fan of the RA and have just launched a new bar in the UK.