I’m a food Geek

Some people are able to just put a recipe together.  Some are able to follow a recipe word by word and achieve the desired results.  I do research on an idea I may have.  Every time I try to leap into something it fails = misadventures.  Instead I do a lot of research.  I’m a geek in that way.  I look up multiple recipes, I read up on techniques, and I even go to different places to see how they do a similar recipe.  That is what I did when I did the Daring Baker’s Chocolate Challenge.  I “researched”, which really means I ate a lot of different types of chocolate.  The day before I actually made the chocolate, I had the opportunity to be a taste taker for a hot chocolate line that a local company called Chocolatine had.  I have seen multiple versions of a hot chocolate on a stick, even my friend Anna made me one, but this one was different.  It had a marshmallow in the middle and the chocolate surrounded it.

Instead of adding the marshmallow after the chocolate melting, it was already incorporated into the drink.  Unfortunately, I can’t share the flavors since they are still testing but I did take home a few of their other flavors for my own pleasure.  I choose two favors to try:  a white chocolate and green tea version which was smooth and not too strong as some green tea products could become and a Mexican hot chocolate. I gave the Mexican chocolate one to one of my friends who I knew would appreciate the heat. 
I also wanted to test my styling with these beauties and some new props I got.  What do you think of the pictures?
My chocolate did not compare to theirs but it is a goal I would love to achieve one day.  Next step in my research is a “few” like 3 chocolate classes I was planning on taking.  If I’m focused on a topic, I try as much as possible to get the desired result.  See I told you I’m a food geek.

These pictures are not as good because my computer yet again ate my pictures.  For some reason it was not edible once I found them.