Dark Chocolate Shavings - How To

21st November 2008

Dark Chocolate Shavings - How To

posted in Recipes, Tutorials, Food, How-To |

This is the simplest thing ever, but it’s very impressive looking. I’m right, right?

I made some dark chocolate shavings to go on the hot chocolate at my open house tonight. Firstly, they are DELICIOUS over hot chocolate + marshmallows. Secondly, they’re SO EASY.
Hershey’s Special Dark, meet OXO Veggie peeler.

See the perforations on the chocolate bar that let you eat just a tiny rectangle? This process would be easier if you didn’t have those on your chocolate bar… if the bar were just solid, so it wouldn’t break as you held it. Anyway…

First contact.

Look at those little curling slivers.

Keep going until you have a pile like this… and a few broken pieces of chocolate bar you couldn’t curl without also curling your fingertips. Give the excess to the husband, and save these chestnut-colored treasures.

I served them in a ramekin with a tiny dessert spoon, ready to sprinkle over the hot cocoa. Mmm….

I’ll write about the open house tomorrow, I promise. For now, I’m sleepy!

I bet you can’t wait to break out the veggie peeler on your leftover Halloween candy, can you?

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1 On November 22nd, 2008, Marija said:

Awesome!

posted on November 22nd, 2008 at 2:35 am

2 On November 22nd, 2008, Victoria said:

SOOO clever! MISS U!

posted on November 22nd, 2008 at 9:29 am

3 On November 22nd, 2008, Jen said:

What a great tip! I need to make some for a tiramisu this week.

posted on November 22nd, 2008 at 9:59 am

4 On November 22nd, 2008, Ashley said:

Great tip. Those would look so cute on top of brownies. I’m going to have to try that.

posted on November 22nd, 2008 at 12:00 pm

5 On November 22nd, 2008, Joyful Abode Open House » Joyful Abode said:

[…] 4-9pm and very chilly!)… applesauce spice cake to eat and hot water/cocoa mix/marshmallows/dark chocolate shavings to drink. I was tempted to do more, but had to remind myself that it’s not about the […]

posted on November 22nd, 2008 at 9:10 pm