I made these, and I think they are oh so pretty. Yesterday I was looking for ideas for a valentine themed dessert because we were invited over to a Sunday dinner, and I just HAD to make something cute and special. Somewhere along the way I discovered ganache. Ganache is chocolate pieces melted into heavy whipping cream and can be used for frosting, truffling filling, or eclair type stuff, and DAMN is it good!
Whipping up the sugar cookies was the easy part. Ganache is pretty quick to make, but kind of temperamental- I made white chocolate ganache which was a little runny, and dark dark chocolate ganache which was too thick to spread. In the end I just combined the two and made a very yummy milk chocolate ganache.
I think my mistake with the chocolate was that I followed the note that said "a good way to find out if your chocolate will make good ganache, is to determine if it is good to eat out of hand." I would probably eat pure cocoa beans out of hand, if you gave them to me. I picked 60% cocao chocolate chips which turned out to be heavenly for me, but way too rich for anyone else.
If I could just bake all day, and have someone else do all my dishes, I would be in heaven. I am trying to convince Jay to open a bakery with me. I could all the baking, he could do the business end, and James could wash all the dishes and sweep the floors. Nothing better than cheap child labor!
6 comments:
Those do look very good, but 60% cocoa is WAY too much for me. I prefer milk chocolate!
YUMMY!!! So, if I move there tomorrow will you still have the cookies to give to me?! ;-) You could always ship them to me...hehe
Those look very good and pretty!
ok so where are mine you know it isn't nice to tease preg women with sweet treats .
Oh, yeah, where is it you live now? I'm drooling, no lie.
Interesting side note here: All my cookies are now gone, and this picture has begun to torture me too!!
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