Chocolate Bacon at the California Midstate Fair CLICK on the picture for a fun recipe using Nestle Toll house morsels
I love to use bacon in many of my recipes and if I don’t use bacon I will use bacon fat and butter. Naturally when I saw this chocolate covered bacon at the California MidState Fair, it was very tempting. Searching the internet, I found a recipe that seemed the most fun, this included bacon (of course), Nestle Toll house Morsels and white chocolate. Obviously, if you wanted to take it up a notch or two you could use Lindt or Peters Chocolate!
white and semis sweet chocolate on bacon!
Surprisingly yummy… but then some folks were surprised with how well the combination of peanut butter and chocolate were!
My bride of nearly 39 years loves white chocolate and who can blame her? The best is made – in my humble opinion- by Peters Chocolate Company and when you want the best… this is the go-to chocolate for me!
Nothing very fancy in my cheesecake unless you call ‘richness’ something unexpected… but we have amarula liquor and white chocolate in both the filling and the cap. Delicious!
Here is the basic recipe that I tweaked to make this one happen.
It’s hard not to enjoy a good Tiramisu, but finding one that you really like always takes a bit of effort and experimentation. Believe it or not there are actually Tiramisu police that go around ranking every effort of this lady finger inspired dessert… but I am here to tell you now that lady fingers really don’t work too well.
Tiramisu police will tell that this dessert has certain qualities and it has the right to be boring.
I love the concept of soaking the fingers in various liquors: chocolate, honey and coffee. What I don’t love is a bunch of soggy mush, so I went out to design something that would hold together long enough to be placed in the container and be uniform in texture and consistency. Secondly, most recipes do not make a meringue properly and with insufficient egg whites to add some solidity to the dessert. I don’t want something hard, but runny is not acceptable.
Using the same number of egg whites as egg yolks not only simplifies the dessert, but it also aids in making a more solid dessert. My meringue recipe ( check my Key Lime or Lemon Meringue for hints) woks perfectly in this dessert.
Oh yes, I lost 2 more pounds on Jenny Craig… sooooo
