Anybody have any suggestions for creative uses for white chocolate?
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OK, let's try that again.
Anybody have any creative suggestions for gifts that involve or are made of white chocolate? I'm thinking Christmas present for my friend. I could just get a box of the stuff at the store, but then I could also make a box of various small fruit dipped in the stuff. Any other ideas?
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
This thread started me off on a search through a number of candy e-tailers, but all I found was hunger.
Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
i can think of lots of naughty things to do with which chocolate (and women), but i doubt you want to hear about them.
Posted by Solommagnus de Pym (Member # 239) on :
Haha! Like stick chocolate in their vagina! Or something with sex! I am naughty!
Woo.
Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
no, see, you melt 100 gallons of chocolate and drown/cook alive the women in the chocolate. then you have sex with the corpses. that is true naughtiness.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Gee, and I was only thinking of sexual enhancing toys with which to pleasure the body, then share while basking in a pleasent after glow....
How lame of me....
Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
yes. lame.
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
This entire forum is really beginning to sound sexually frustrated...
Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
i don't know why. i personally get plenty. with chocolate covered corpses.
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Well, I could give you my wife's recipe for white chocolate and cookie ice cream, but it'd melt before you could give it to her. The ice cream, I meant, not, you know, giving it to her. Because you're actively not wanting to lust.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
A White Chocolate Mousse?
Posted by Nimpim (Member # 205) on :
A white chocolate moose sculpture, to place on her front porch. Then hide in the bushes, waiting for her grandma to answer the doorbell.
Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :
Strawberries dipped in white choc... mmmm.... yummy.....
Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :
You know, thats a really good idea. Now I'm hungry. Great.
Posted by StarFire (Member # 748) on :
I'd have to go with LOA..
Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
So would we all. er.. *ahem*
White chocolate is the only kind that doesn't give my gf migraines. I, also, like it better.
There's a kind of honey-crisp thing surrounded by white choc. I can get at the local candy store that's pretty good. Also a kind with rasins.
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
Hmm... I'm liking the chocolate-dipped fruit idea. Strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, banana, and maybe apple and raisins... sound good?
Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
quote:Originally posted by First of Two: There's a kind of honey-crisp thing surrounded by white choc. I can get at the local candy store that's pretty good. Also a kind with rasins.
is the honey-crips thing triangular and called Toblerone?
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Eh. I'm. . . not a big fan of white chocolate, really. I just don't see the point, it doesn't even taste like chocolate. And it's not helping that everyone has heard about the white chocolate and cookie ice cream, and anyone who comes to dinner has to have it. So far, having it with hot fudge sauce is working wonders.
But there's one thing about chocolate that you might be able to avoid using the white variant: it doesn't always go with other things. You think "chocolate is nice, spare ribs are nice, chocolate-coated spare ribs should be terrific!" Doesn't work. But maybe, since white chocolate doesn't taste like chocolate, it just might work. . .
*checks*
No, I'm not allowed to try it. Someone else is going to have to take that baton and run with it. 8)
I've actually had white chocolate-coated raisins (or sultanas). They were all right. Couldn't tell you how to make them, they came from the food court at Harrods.
If you want to try the fruit-dipping idea, it's not something you can do in advance. You're going to have to probably have the hot sauce there, dip the fruit, and pass it to her. You'll need skewers. If she lets you place a morsel directly between her teeth, you've pulled.
Now, the sauce. Where are you planning to do this, because if at all possible you'll need to keep the sauce hot. A fondue set perhaps, or one of those candle-heater thingies you get in Indian restaurants. You could find plain melted white chocolate to be too watery, and might want to consider making some sort of white chocolate fudge sauce; I tried it once without much success, I have to admit.
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
I had two options in mind: either do it the night before I give it to her, so it has time to dry; or do it right in front of her. In front of her would be a slight problem, becuase there may not be any place at the uni where there's a stove, at least that I can access. I suppose I could borrow a hot-plate. Or a fondue set, as Lee suggested.
Then again, there's also this place called The Melting Pot. One of the more expensive places in town, but if you like fondue, they're the place to go. And I THINK they have white chocolate sauce. I could just take her there for dessert, I suppose...
*checks menu*
Hmm... $14 for enough chocolate to feed two people, with various fresh fruit and confections besides. Might make a worthy gift, if I can come up with enough of an excuse to take her downtown to keep it a surprise...
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Nights in white chocolate, never reaching the end....
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
I think the restaurant will have to be the way to go.
Here's why: pieces of fruit, cut anything up to 24 hours before (even longer if you stick to the original Christmas-present intention), then dipped in hot sauce and left to cool? Without even going into the health aspects, what state will the fruit be in by then? Those preservatives aren't there just to annoy organic-food nuts.
On the other hand, it depends what sort of message you're trying to send here. If you can work out a way to do it all yourself, you should. In going to a restaurant, you're going to a restaurant, that's a whole different message in itself. While if you do this the way you want to, the food is the message. If that makes sense. You don't take someone to a restaurant for the food.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
...fruits I've dipped, never meaning to send....
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
Yeah, I'd prefer to do it myself. As I say, I'd probably buy everything immediately before making the stuff, and do it within eighteen hours of handing it to her, tops. Fruit can't go bad THAT fast, especially when it's not exposed to air.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
They shouldn't, some people I know keep them around for awhile, although they usually last no more than a week....
18 hours the fruit should still be crisp...
Posted by Tora Ziyal (Member # 53) on :
Advice from someone who cooks: any time you try something new, PRACTICE beforehand. Things don't always come out the way you picture it.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
True. My cabbage motorbike gets terrible miles to the litre
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
True. My cabbage motorbike gets terrible miles to the litre.
Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :
Wouldn't that be horrible miles to the bushel or some other non-liquid measurement? Unless you cook cabbage really horribly...
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
I've actually done the whole dipping thing before. Made coconut bars once. Wasn't that bad, though the skewer idea would have made it way simpler...
Posted by Solommagnus de Pym (Member # 239) on :
True. My cabbage motorbike gets terrible miles to the litre.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
What about a white Cadbury Creme Egg? Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
false. my carrot ricksha gets great mileage to the chinaman.
Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :
Mmmmm..... Cadbury Creme Egg...... the best part of Easter........
Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
i thought the best part of easter was the jesus. live and learn, i guess.
Posted by StarFire (Member # 748) on :
Where are the guys wanting to make me all these kinds of sweet litttle thoguhtful presents?
Oh wait. They don't exist here. Posted by CaptainMike XXIII (Member # 709) on :
One time i really really really liked a girl and i took her to dinner, we went shopping and then played on the computer. i bought her some really nifty, thoughtful presents.
the next day i realized she robbed my apartment.
Posted by Vice-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
Well, this adult shop in Los Angeles makes chocolate dildos in white or dark chocolate... but I think the fruit dipped idea works better.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Sweet, thoughtful (I guess), and useful (I think)...
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
quote:Originally posted by Vice-Admiral Michael T. Colorge: Well, this adult shop in Los Angeles makes chocolate dildos in white or dark chocolate... but I think the fruit dipped idea works better.
Melts in an orofice of choice; not in your hand Posted by Woodside Kid (Member # 699) on :
White chocolate cheesecake is good; I've got recipes for several types of that. I've also got a recipe for a white chocolate cake with white chocolate cream cheese frosting; you make that one with a cake mix.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
White chocolate custard and apricots?
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I like the covered fruit suggestion. I'm not a big fan of white chocolate, but I think white chocolate covered cherries are great (I prefer them over milk or dark chocolate covered cherries). I've never tried the strawberries, so I don't know about that. However, white chocolate and bananas do not taste that great to me.
If she isn't allergic to nuts (and by nuts I mean peanuts, almonds, cashews, etc.) you could do nut clusters. If you want to get messy by dealing with caramel, you could manage white chocolate turtles. And there's always white chocolate covered pretzels. A few of those could make a nice bedding for the fruit and/or nuts and/or turtles to sit atop. Makes the presentation a bit nicer.
You could also try a white chocolate cake from scratch, but I don't know if you have the tools or equipment to manage that in the dorms.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Yes, give her a white chocolate scrotum from which to nibble....
The idea was alright, till I let my thoughts wonder to far from home... Coming home drunk afterwards...
Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :
I LOVE white chocolate covered pretzels...........
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
What about white-chocolate chip cookies!?!
Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :
only with macadamia nuts in them....
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