January 7th
2008
Food photography is usually about good timing and taking photos of ice cream can be a tricky thing. If you believe that there can hardly be anything more challenging to shoot than an already runny sorbet, these little homemade lollies will proof you wrong…
Any ideas what they consist of?
Thanks for playing along!
Frank and Maike got it right, these lollies in fact did consist of dark chocolate and olive oil. Ever since I fell in love with this rather unusual combo a few weeks ago, I couldn’t help but give this quite simple recipe [from Molekularküche] a go.
Cover a thin plastic chopping board with cling film, you might want to fixate it with some scotch tape. Arrange bamboo skewers on it and leave enough room inbetween for the lollies’ heads.
Heat the chopped dark chocolate slowly in a bain-marie. You can temper the chocolate, but since it will be frozen afterwards, there is really no need to. Fill the melted chocolate in a parchment cone and – using light pressure – pipe the outline of the lolly. If the outline is very thin, draw two or three circles. Once done with all your bamboo skewers, carefully transfer the chopping board to the freezer. The chocolate should become solid within 10 to 15 minutes (do not lift lollies from the cling film).
Remove the almost-lollies from the freezer and carefully fill the inner rings with olive oil, an espresso spoon works just fine. Don’t overfill. Transfer to the freezer again (very carefully) and let solidify. This should take a few hours.
Gently detach the lollies from the cling film and eat or serve immediately. Be prepared for an extravagant and absolutely delicious flavor experience, melting olive oil meets frozen chocolate. Don’t even try to take photos, unless you want to have oil dripping everywhere… ;)
Chocolate-olive oil lollies
Recipe source: adapted from Molekularküche, Thomas Vilgis, p.27
Required time: preparation ~10 min. plus a few hours of chilling
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Ingredients (amounts by guess and by gosh):
high quality dark chocolate
fruity olive oil
bamboo skewers
starting-to-thaw lemon curd surrounded by what I hope is some sort of dark chocolate rim?
I'm going to say Mango center and hot chili pepper chocolate surrounding it?? Or maybe that's just what I wish it was!
Olive oil and chocolate?
chocolate and key lime?
lemon sorbet covered with chocolate ?
Could it be a lemon curd center? In any case, I'd like to try it!
Looks like kiwi to me...
Absolutely no idea...I can see what looks like a bamboo skewer, and I think the dark outer rim might involve chocolate, but that's about as far as I can go...
Hmm...looks like frozen chocolate with a lemon ice or something inside...
chocolate & lemon?
Olive oil and chocolate? tim mälzer did something like that at Kerner once, didn't he?
The rim kind of looks like a raspberry roll-up candy. But that may just be sweat on the chocolate. I have no experience in this arena, so just guessing!
I had something like this in Japan, and the paste in the middle was made of green tea. Odd.
chocolate ganache surrounding what seems to me like a jelly layer?
I read the question, 'any idea what they consist of?' and then immediately I read the snippet below the comments section that said, 'little pieces of your mind'. Most unsettling I can tell you!
I don't have a clue but love the fact, that you made lollies in your kitchen. Dark chocolate and ???
Green tea surrounded by adzuki bean past!
What about likerish on the outside (the black thing) and a lemon-sugar-honey mass in the centre
chocolate fondat and citrus gummy-type center. Hurry and spill the beans!
Oh deliciousness!!!!
*Mouth watering*
Well that's about the coolest thing I've ever seen. I wonder how a couple of crystals of sea salt would taste on there . . . and maybe a few specks of piment d'espalette?
Your pictures look great!
Wow! Really amazing. I wonder if it tastes as great as it looks like :) But I think the compo isn't a bad idea at all.
If this recipe/idea is any indication of what 2008 will bring from d:d, we are sure to be nothing short of delighted! I love the "purist" approach in this recipe...olive oil + dark chocolate= best of both worlds (sweet and savory). Cheers to you both and a great year ahead!
Quince & Chocolate?...Mango & Chocolate?
first time i see such a thing with olive oil. Seems good and pictures are great
chocolate and a meyer lemon olive oil??? I've got to try this!
would have never guessed about the olive oil portion. What a curious little lollie- sounds interesting, great combination of flavor- I love to try new things.
Chocolate and olive oil, I never would have thunk it. Certainly makes for a fantastic photograph, very nicely done.
Olive oil?
the color combination is very attractive, pretty to watch, but with olive oil...hmmm.
This definitely a New year Food Resolution!
Wow, these are such a good idea! I never would have thought. Def. going to have to try!
Wow! So pretty, regardless of the taste :-)
stunning! i am definitely trying these -- hope they aren't too too messy!
I loved your chocolate mousse made with olive oil. I must promptly try these lollipops!
I made these Lollies and they were divine. I didn't want to invest much money so I used bittersweet chocolate chips that I had in the pantry. Perfect. I purchased a new bottle of fruity olive oil just for this project. I piped a ring about the size of a US quarter and made it 3 lines of chocolate deep to hold the puddle of incoming oil. I tested the finished Lollies on my husband and son and got positive feedback. I wished I would have made more. The next time I make them I'll hold one on my tongue until the oil melts, then close my mouth around the chocolate. I think I'll make them larger, with a better ratio of chocolate to oil. The first attempt was too chocolatey. I'm in love...
i must try!!!! but i'm no where near a kitchen right now.
wishing I had a portable kitchen that travelled with me.
hmmm...a steamy kitchen 'roach coach'???
i don't know if you're familiar with that term, but it's one of those lunch trucks with the kitchen inside and the side opens up to service customers. what do you call them in slang?
We call those roach coachs roach coaches. Or hot trucks, I guess thats a nicer term :)
Wow, these are so adorable and fun! And the flavor combo is *right* up my alley! Thanks!
incredible and extravagant experience that I WILL taste !
I have to try this! Maybe some additional salt crystals would add a nice touch, too?
hmmm... Chocolate, a stick, and something in the center? :) Looks lemony. Or maybe it's custard?