Sweets for the Sweet

[dolorous_ett]

My parents are members of one of those luxurious-chocolate-by-post clubs - the ones where every single creamy or crunchy delicious nugget is soaked in the finest liqueurs, made out of special cocoa beans, whipped to the texture of a rosy cloud at sunset, or sprinkled with something amazing. Or all of them at once.

As a result, every time I come home for Christmas I'm always in the mood for inventing chocolates. But for some reason I'm a bit short of inspiration this year.

This is where you come in. Reply to this post, and I'll invent a chocolate dedicated to you. (let me know if there's something you don't like, so I don't put it in by mistake. Or tell me if there's something you particularly like.)

This is all virtual - I won't be able to present you with any actual chocs. But I suppose it's the thought that counts?

Comments

[agatha-s.livejournal.com]

I'd like a virtual chocolate dedicated to me, please! :) (The only things I dislike in combination with chocolate are the very weird ones, like garlic or ants.)

[ignipes.livejournal.com]

Speaking of chocolate and garlic, The Stinking Rose, a garlic-centric restaurant in San Francisco, serves garlic ice cream with chocolate sauce. And it's good. *g*

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

I'm really intrigued now! Does it actually taste of both chocolate and garlic? Or something quite different?

[ignipes.livejournal.com]

The garlic flavour is very subtle, and mostly overpowered by the chocolate sauce, but you can still tell that it's garlic.

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Agatha S: a nugget of exquisite white chocolate, studded with tiny chips of coffee bean and bitter, dark chocolate.

[agatha-s.livejournal.com]

Mmm... sounds delicious! Thank you! :)

[dolabellae.livejournal.com]

What a great idea! I would love a virtual chocolate. I'm always interested to try slightly strange additions, like tea and spices - but garlic and ants are, yes, just too weird!

(and I'm listening to Let Love In at the moment - another Christmas present...)

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

In that case, have my all-time favourite, which I've never ceased to regret not entering in a competition, as I'm convinced I'd have won (my parents talked me into entering a more boring dried-fruit confection - with predictable, but depressing results).

Snow in the Bamboo Garden: A florentine of crystallised whole green tea leaves (preferably Longjing) and flakes of white almond, set in a base of smooth milk chocolate.

Let Love In's one of my favourites. In a suitably gloomy and twisted way, of course.

[dolabellae.livejournal.com]

That sounds so beautiful I don't know if I'd be able to bring myself to eat it - but I'd probably have to, just to see what it tasted like. Thank you so much. I'm sure you'd win a competition with it - next time, eh? And all the others sound fantastic. Are you sure you're not missing out on a great career????

Oh, and I read the tea type as Longing for an instant, which seemed strangely appropriate...

My mother can't cope with Nick Cave, so I only started listening to Let Love In after the parents went on holiday yesterday - but I love it. Everyone needs a bit of gloomy twistedness in their life and he supplies it so well!

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Have you had tea sweets, ever? They can be surprisingly nice - a sort of furry tang (though a lot of people can't stand them - definitely one of those things you either love or hate!)

I'm sure my parents couldn't cope with Nick Cave either. That sort of music is strictly confined to headphones with me when at home - so I can angst and fume to my heart's content in private.

[dolabellae.livejournal.com]

I've had a few chocolates flavoured with tea - Earl Grey, which was very delicate, and also I think jasmine. Never one with whole tea leaves though. I'd really like to try a Lapsang one. Smokiness and dark chocolate could be a good combination, what do you think?

[captainjames.livejournal.com]

Virtual chocolate! I like everything except virtual raisins and virtual mint :).

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

How about this one?

Treasure Chest: A chest-shaped milk chocolate casing. Inside is found a mix of dried apricots, nuggets of white chocolate and wisps of dried mango, all swimming in the finest Jamaica rum.

[captainjames.livejournal.com]

Mmm... I'm looking forward to the day where they invent something so send more than 0s and 1s over the internet!

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Chocolates by teleport? Or zapped direct to your holodeck at home?

An intriguing thought...

[captainjames.livejournal.com]

Dunno if it'd taste the same after being teleported, though. It might not even be edible anymore. Not that that would stop me from eating it, anyway. Maybe I'd turn into some human Godzilla or something.

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

... or your molecules might get scrambled and turn into... THE CHOC! Half man, half confectionary and the terror of our age.

[dharmavati.livejournal.com]

Ah yes! Virtual chocolates! I would love to have one. Anything with lemon or orange creme inside would be scrumptious. :D

Hope you enjoy the choclates!

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Adastreia: A fluffy, tender lemon creme, studded with dried cranberries and encased in dark chocolate.

[swythyv.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I've had a craving for chocolate covered marshmallow. Though that is likely so dreadfully plebeian a thing to put in contact with good chocolate that you'll be driven to the garlic and ants option. :D

Enjoy!

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Jewel in the Lotus: A smooth milk chocolate cup containing three pink and white marshmallows which have been lightly caramelised with a blowtorch on the top. In its heart lurks a tiny globe of pure milk chocolate.

[swythyv.livejournal.com]

Virtual mmmmyumyumyum. Thanks! ;D

[ignipes.livejournal.com]

Oooh, virtual chocolate! I'm not fond of virtual raisins -- actually, that's not true, I am, just not when they're combined with virtual chocolate -- but everything else is fair game.

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Gorillas in the Mist: Light, frothy nougat, interspersed with threads of Kaluha, the whole enrobed in thick, bitter, dark chocolate.

[hannahmarder.livejournal.com]

Pick me, pick me! I love chocolate, and given the amount of junk food I've eaten over the last few days, the virtual variety is probably the best for me! Hope you had a good Christmas!

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

This one's based on your icon -

Hannah Marder: A white, creamy truffle, encased in white chocolate. At its heart lies a single blueberry, soaked in Finnish blueberry liqueur.

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, virtual chocolate. I'm such a chocolate addict, I'll take what I can get. ::grin:: Just nothing involving coconut.

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

La Reine Noire: A milk chocolate truffle, scented with rosewater and cinamon, in a thin shell of dark chocolate, dusted with ground, crystalised rose petals.

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

I have but one reaction to that -- ::swoon::

[mafdet.livejournal.com]

Mmmm chocolate! I don't like caramel or chocolate cherries (or ants!) but I like just about everything else.

*ponders Remus J. Lupin chocolates*

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

The Whole of the Moon: A core of rich milk chocolate truffle, studded with chopped almonds and coated in a thick layer of pale marzipan.

[mafdet.livejournal.com]

Oooh yummy!

[aerama.livejournal.com]

Oooh Ooh yes yes me me too!
I like: dark chocolate (up to 70% cocoa).
But milk chocolate just as well. My eyes are glazed because of the sheer beauty of your first paragraph. Unfair.

I should just say 'everything,' except the aforementioned ants 'n' garlic.

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Aerama: A truffle of dark chocolate and armagnac, containing shreds of crystalised Seville oranges, enrobed in a thick shell of bitter dark chocolate.

[aerama.livejournal.com]

Wow. Okay, I just spent all night eating - well, perhaps not literally, and I never felt full so I guess I didn't overdo it(and it's New Year's Eve, so it's okay) - but you just made me CRAVE what you concocted. Nice touch with the oranges. Thanks for the creation!