Here is where I nervously helped pull the door off its hinges in order to get the display case in. Here is where I dripped too much paint in the corner because Nina Simone’s “Strange Fruit” gave me goosebumps, all alone at 10 pm in the quiet soft shop-to-be. Posted in Chocolate of the Month notes, theobroma cacao, my dark love: chocolate | 1 Reply the things I think about when packing. This amazing mixture is then encased in bittersweet chocolate shells with a branch design and packed in a box ready for your autumn dessert table. The kabocha squash purée is then combined with chestnuts that have been ground to a powder award-winning, world-famous Tuthilltown Whiskey made just down the road the other direction (I’m not kidding–within five miles of us are some amazing foodie gems!) maple cream made weekly by Oliverea Schoolhouse Maple, deep in the Catskills just north of us and a touch of Hawaiian vanilla (hey–it’s as local as you can get for a tropical product!).
I use it in my “pumpkin” pies instead of pumpkin, which can be flavorless compared with the deep, rich, desserty flavor of kabocha. Pretty much everywhere I went I carried a little box of bonbons and forced (OK, it wasn’t that difficult) people to tell me if there was too little maple, too much squash, and can you taste the chestnut? before I even said a proper hello.īut it was worth it: kabocha squash, grown by one of my favorite farmers, Bart Colucci from Meadowview Farm right down the road from me, is the sweetest, most vibrantly orange squash you’ve ever seen. I wanted to capture the essence of fall in Upstate New York in a bonbon, so I gathered up all the fall flavors I loved, then kept messing around until my testers agreed that it was great. Here’s October, a chocolate I particularly adored.įirst of all, the Facebook photo album with glorious photos of this month’s chocolate is here, check it out!Īutumn Bonbon: maple cream + chestnut + kabocha squash + Hudson Baby Bourbon whiskey For posterity and record keeping, I’m making a blog post with each Chocolate of the Month as the month ends.
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