Saturday, October 31, 2009

Happy Halloween!

Chocolate Chip Cookies...with a finishing salt (fleur du sel)

...what's not to like?


I was asked to bake a few cakes for a Halloween Party of approximately 20 kids and parents.

To bring it up a knotch, (like Emeril Lagasse would say) I placed the cakes in a decoration of sorts.

I bought a plastic caldron and put the cake in the caldron. Added black tissue paper and creature features. Voila! A decoration for a cake presentation.



I baked this for Trick or Treaters.

Really delicious! You've got to try these!


Sprinkled on these cookies is a finishing salt...Fleur du Sel.
What's so great about adding the salt?
You experience the sweet, then the salty.
It's a YIN/YANG experience for your tastebuds.




His recipe calls for Valrhona chocolate. I used Ghiradelli. I also added walnuts.

Happy Halloween! Be Safe!

Peace in baking,
Carmen

2 comments:

The Cooking Photographer said...

Your bags of cookies are so cute! Happy Halloween Carmen!

Baking is my Zen...sweet nibbles for the soul said...

Thanks Laura. Have a fun Halloween!

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