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.
