The Holidays Are Upon Us - What Are YOU Making Special This Year?

Halloween, Thanksgiving, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Christmas - the holidays are fast approaching. What special items are you making for the 2009 Holiday season? New molds, flavors, packaging concepts?

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:: Clay

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Permalink Reply by Melanie Boudar on October 8, 2009 at 1:25pm

I was hoping Jeff and his crew would post some gory stuff...this is your time to shine! with the gore!
I made bloody finger pops with purple , black and green fingernails. Also dipped dried bananas and we call them skeleton fingers, packaged in a little cauldron or pumpkin. Sorry no pics yet.

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Permalink Reply by Duffy Sheardown on October 8, 2009 at 1:50pm

Get your camera out - sounds great fun

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Permalink Reply by Robert Shea on October 8, 2009 at 5:31pm

A bar of creme brulee (molecularly gastronomized to be workable), sprayed with a little caramelized white chocolate, topped with sugar toffee, and then dipped in dark chocolate.

French macarons made from popcorn instead of almonds with a saffron-brown butter white chocolate ganache and salted caramel inside.

In a play off of an El Bulli dish, apple ice wine pate de fruits, each served on a "spoon" made of isomalt with one of six different embedded herbs.

I've been doing a lot of play with cups lately... they are fun and resolve a lot of traditional issues with sealing... caramelized white chocolate cups, filled with apple (richart style) coulis, a spray of cinnamon-dark chocolate, a layer of calvados caviar sealed with a layer of transparent white chocolate film.

Finally, I've been doing terrines... caramel infused pear with cognac terrine with points of caramelized white chocolate and cocoa nib brownies.

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Permalink Reply by Ruth Atkinson Kendrick on October 8, 2009 at 10:14pm

Here are my eyeballs.

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Permalink Reply by Clay Gordon on October 9, 2009 at 5:00am

Now I really do hope that these are white chocolate shells that are filled with a gooey runny caramel center (colored red) so that when you bite into them ... well, you get the idea.

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Permalink Reply by Ruth Atkinson Kendrick on October 9, 2009 at 10:11pm

Actually, it is gooey caramel colored an icky gray so that it looks like eyeball goo:-)

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Permalink Reply by Melanie Boudar on October 9, 2009 at 12:07am

Wow, Robert...never mind dessert, whats for dinner at your place?

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Permalink Reply by Robert Shea on October 9, 2009 at 2:19am

Since about 98% of my money, after paying for basic living, goes to R&D... I'm left with a food budget of about... $15-20 a week. :) Needless to say that dinner isn't often exciting.