This Is How Evil I Am: Chocolate-Cheese-Filled Doughnut Kebabs with Salt & Pepper Chocolate Sauce
Posted by Greg Bulmash in Cooking & Recipes, tags: foodI'm not sure how the idea came to me, but it did.
I make a neat little homemade chocolate cheese from scratch (heat the milk and cream, add lemon juice to curdle, strain, drain, and mix in cocoa and sugar... that easy). I was trying to think of a dessert I could make from it and came up with the following idea.
Make the cheese (possibly with some ground chocolate chips mixed in to make it a little more gooey when hot). Form the cheese into balls and then chill. Take a chilled ball, dip it in drop doughnut or funnel cake batter, and deep fry. Let drain, then skewer three or four balls together to make a kebab. Drizzle the kebab with a chocolate sauce that's been kicked up a notch with a little salt and some fresh ground pink peppercorn.
So, who dares me to actually make this (as my wife shakes her head and begs me to just say "no")?
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I did an experiment toward making this on Superbowl Sunday. I mixed the cheese into the batter, doing Gale Gand's ricotta fritters recipe, but adapting it to make it eggless. Didn't have time for the chocolate sauce and made the fritters too big to kebab them. Despite that, the fritters were a huge hit at the Superbowl party I went to. Crispy on the outside, fluffy on the inside, and survived a half-hour drive without getting soggy.
In the future, I'm going to try smaller fritters and wrap up one or two dark chocolate chips in the middle. Then I can kebab them and make the salt & pepper chocolate sauce.