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How to Survive Your Own Cooking, Tuesday [Apr 15]
"Hello, everyone," Lulu said, smiling. "Today, we're talking about desserts -- or, more specifically, chocolate." Her smile widened. "Which I am certain you will all appreciate.
"There are many ways that one can prepare chocolate; one popular method is to purchase ready-made chocolate, whether as a bar, as chocolate chips, or some other form, and, crumbling it if required, sprinkling it over some other dessert, such as ice cream. It's also used in cocoa or hot chocolate. What we're doing today, however, is to make our own filled chocolates."
She gestured to the workstations. "At each station, you will find two trays of pre-hardened chocolate shells. The chocolate in these came from small chocolate wafers that you can purchase for the express purpose of melting down to make molded chocolates. Your job today is to create three fillings each -- this will give you four chocolates of each type per tray, with one tray per person per station. There are many different kinds of filling you can make; we're going to use an uncooked fondant."
At the front of the room were a wide variety of flavour extracts, everything from the basic vanilla to almost anything you could possibly imagine; a number of them likely weren't even available outside of Fandom -- at least, not on Earth. "When you make your fondant, you can, in fact, add the flavour at the end as you would food colouring; this allows you to make all three flavours from the same batch of fondant, instead of having to make one batch per flavour. After you fill the chocolate shells with your finished fondant, melt down some of the couverture chocolate, then cover the filling with it. After the chocolate hardens, you can lightly drop the tray onto a sheet of wax paper so that the chocolates come out onto it.
"My personal favourite chocolates are lavender-flavoured and chili-flavoured, but you can try any that you like. Hazelnut is popular, as are a variety of citrus- and berry-flavoured chocolates, such as orange or strawberry."
[Plz to wait for OCD is up! ... Now I want chocolate.]
"There are many ways that one can prepare chocolate; one popular method is to purchase ready-made chocolate, whether as a bar, as chocolate chips, or some other form, and, crumbling it if required, sprinkling it over some other dessert, such as ice cream. It's also used in cocoa or hot chocolate. What we're doing today, however, is to make our own filled chocolates."
She gestured to the workstations. "At each station, you will find two trays of pre-hardened chocolate shells. The chocolate in these came from small chocolate wafers that you can purchase for the express purpose of melting down to make molded chocolates. Your job today is to create three fillings each -- this will give you four chocolates of each type per tray, with one tray per person per station. There are many different kinds of filling you can make; we're going to use an uncooked fondant."
At the front of the room were a wide variety of flavour extracts, everything from the basic vanilla to almost anything you could possibly imagine; a number of them likely weren't even available outside of Fandom -- at least, not on Earth. "When you make your fondant, you can, in fact, add the flavour at the end as you would food colouring; this allows you to make all three flavours from the same batch of fondant, instead of having to make one batch per flavour. After you fill the chocolate shells with your finished fondant, melt down some of the couverture chocolate, then cover the filling with it. After the chocolate hardens, you can lightly drop the tray onto a sheet of wax paper so that the chocolates come out onto it.
"My personal favourite chocolates are lavender-flavoured and chili-flavoured, but you can try any that you like. Hazelnut is popular, as are a variety of citrus- and berry-flavoured chocolates, such as orange or strawberry."
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Listen to the Lecture/Chat, etc.
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Pair Up and Make Chocolates!
As long as you share.
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Well, that or the fact that she was examining a bottle of extract of durian.
Poke the TA!
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Speak to Lulu
... She is not responsible for the consequences if you do.
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OOC
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