Candy Cane Shot

Thanksgiving has come and gone.  December has arrived and brought the Christmas season with it.  So this week I will be posting the first of four Christmas themed Shotibles I have planned.

My original plan for the Candy Cane Shotible was to make the glasses with traditional peppermint bark.  But I learned from the Candy Bar Shotible that making glasses out of pure chocolate could be a nightmare for the teeth.  So I experimented with making a sort of white chocolate fudge with candy cane bits.  While they tasted good, the texture just didn’t work.  First off, I couldn’t really get them out of the molds.  And, even if I could, they wouldn’t have held up well.

I decided to go in a slightly different direction.  I wanted to keep the core premise of the peppermint bark, but I needed to make it more functional.  I combined two proven recipes.  I used my vanilla wafer pie crust and combined it with melted white chocolate.  I knew, because of the vanilla wafer and butter, it wouldn’t turn out to be the pristine white of peppermint bark, so I used white chocolate that was already colored red, and I added more red food coloring.  I also blended up candy canes to mix in.  The resulting glasses tasted like peppermint bark, but had a consistency much more conducive to eating without resulting in a dental emergency.

For the filling, I made a peppermint mousse.  I melted down marshmallows in milk and allowed it to cool.  I then whipped some heavy cream and peppermint schnapps and folded it into the marshmallow mixture.  I filled each glass and topped them off with red and white peppermint sugar sprinkles.