Remember THESE turtles?
They were delicious, they were beautiful, they photographed so well.....
But that's not the whole story...
Some of them looked like this.
After assembling them, allowing them to cool completely, and tasting them, we thought that the chocolate should be a bit thicker. The ratio of nuts to caramel to chocolate was slightly off. So we decided it would be a good idea to dip them into chocolate one more time. That would solve the problem and then they would be just how we wanted them.
Maybe by now you've figured out that coating them with chocolate a second time wasn't such a hot idea. Thankfully, we didn't have enough chocolate to coat them all twice. Because all of the double coated turtles were spotty and ugly. I will add that the thicker chocolate was a nice addition, but they're just so darn ugly and it didn't make a big enough difference for it to be worth it.
Lesson learned - I suppose double dipping doesn't work? Maybe air pockets? Any other ideas or advice so this doesn't happen again?
So I'm not totally sure what went wrong here. But the point is that not everything that comes out of my kitchen looks good, or even appetizing at all.
I make mistakes too.
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