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.

Peach Cobbler Shot

Jeff’s aunt Connie turns 50 this week, and her family threw her a surprise birthday party.  This was my first real opportunity to bring Shotibles to a party.  People have been suggesting I try out peach cobbler for a while now, so I went with it.

It’s kind of funny to me that peach cobbler can mean a lot of different things to different people.  I wanted to be sure that I didn’t make it too much like a peach pie, so rather than baking a pie crust "glass", I made one out of vanilla wafer cookies.  I found a recipe similar to the graham cracker crust used for the S’more and Key Lime Pie Shotibles.

Jeff was a huge help this week.  He peeled and diced eight peaches.  We cooked it up in a sauce pan with some bourbon, sugar, corn starch and cinnamon.  We cooked it on medium to low heat for about 20 minutes; until the peaches were tender.

After the peaches cooled, I filled the glasses and topped it with a little cookie crumb.   I’m thrilled to say Shotibles gained a few more fans at the party.  The Peach Cobbler Shotibles were a huge success.