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So first we bloom the cocoa. This is a trick I adapted from Indian cooking and it's the keep to deep chocolate flavor. Heat the cocoa in batches so that you get the broadest spectrum flavor profile. What? Remember, chocolate contains sugars. Sugars can be carmelized. Carmelization = flavor. We like this. By blooming in batches some of the chocolate is very carmelized, some a little, and then some not at all.


I put the pan on the back of the dishwasher door before spraying it down so that the mess will be in the dishwasher. It'll clean itself up when I run it next. Less cleaning for me, yay! The parchment paper is to help with removal after cooling.


Roasting the coconut and pecans for the German topping.
 
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coffeegeek wrote :

So first we bloom the cocoa. This is a trick I adapted from Indian cooking and it's the keep to deep chocolate flavor. Heat the cocoa in batches so that you get the broadest spectrum flavor profile. What? Remember, chocolate contains sugars. Sugars can be carmelized. Carmelization = flavor. We like this. By blooming in batches some of the chocolate is very carmelized, some a little, and then some not at all.


I put the pan on the back of the dishwasher door before spraying it down so that the mess will be in the dishwasher. It'll clean itself up when I run it next. Less cleaning for me, yay! The parchment paper is to help with removal after cooling.


Roasting the coconut and pecans for the German topping.
OMG, I think I just had a foodgasm. He cooks AND cleans the mess up? *THUD*
 
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coffeegeek wrote :
Who's ready for brownies?

Jeez, VicJ and Mermaid told me my stove is like yours, but I didn't believe them. That is my stove. Almost. Mine's a little less sparkly clean.
Good luck with the German Chocolate brownies -- they sound yummy!
 
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Biostatistics! Whose idea was this anyway?

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Can I lick the bowl please?
 
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swooooooon..... THUD!
 
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redevil999 is offline redevil999 Post #66  July 30,2009, 7:42pm
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coffeegeek wrote :

I put the pan on the back of the dishwasher door before spraying it down so that the mess will be in the dishwasher. It'll clean itself up when I run it next.

Oh, that's a good idea. I usually just hold it over the sink... but then I have to clean up the mess.


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Roasting the coconut and pecans for the German topping.
 
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redevil999 is offline redevil999 Post #67  July 30,2009, 7:44pm
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lacedwithhope wrote :
Jeez, VicJ and Mermaid told me my stove is like yours, but I didn't believe them. That is my stove. Almost. Mine's a little less sparkly clean.
Good luck with the German Chocolate brownies -- they sound yummy!
Actually, that looks a lot like my stove too!
 
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Apparently only red and kibbie want brownies
 
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Apparently only red and kibbie want brownies
I want them. I just can't have them.

... continuing with this particular train of thought would lead to threads on the main boards ...

meh.
Last edited by clearlyoblique; July 30,2009 at 8:05pm. Reason: correction: I could have them but they would be bad for me ... so I do the hard thing. And it 5uck5.
 
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clearlyoblique wrote :
I want them. I just can't have them.

... continuing with this particular train of thought would lead to threads on the main boards ...

meh.
que? Why not?
 
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