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So here I am on a cold, wet and miserable Friday thinking about 'dainty' for Jeane's Sugar High Friday. Instead of creating great slabs of chocolate cake or man-sized portions of Pavlova she picks petits fours ... bloody petits fours.
After filling the tins for the Sunken Chocolate Muffins the remainder of the mix went into a shallow dish and was baked alongside the muffins. Once cooled this was cut into small rounds using a screw-cap from a wine bottle. Nothing if not resourceful.
Using raspberry jam a few of these were formed into sandwiches. Four 'sandwiches' were rolled in the jam and then in crushed hazelnuts. I ate all of those before I remembered I was supposed to be taking pictures. The three pictured here were drizzled with a little icing (as you can see I can't do icing either as it has a rather translucent quality!) and topped with shavings of chocolate. You can't really tell the size from the pic, but they are about an inch tall if stood upright. Not sure if they count as petits fours and they can't really be described as dainty... but they tasted damn fine.
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Much better than my poor effort! They look lovely!
Scribbled down by: Bonnie on October 27, 2006 4:44 PM
Oh wow - these look so good. I hear ya on the dainty thing - I am always trying and failing to pull off the ethereal effect. But who cares - these look like substantial little logs of chocolate excellence.
Scribbled down by: faith on October 28, 2006 1:59 AM
and they look damn fine!
It's obvious you don't give yourself much credit. Which you really should.
These looks great. Perfect small food. Or shall i say dainty?
Scribbled down by: Mae on October 28, 2006 8:54 PM
Oh, thanks people.. they tasted fine.. but certainly not dainty fine ;-)
Scribbled down by: Andrew on October 28, 2006 10:54 PM
Aaaah, first you liked my manly canapes, and now non-dainty, manly petit fours :o) You're such a *boy*!!!
LOL - these look great, as do the muffins from whence they came. Thanks for playign along!
Scribbled down by: Jeanne on October 29, 2006 11:45 PM
they look absolutely delightful... what a great idea!
Scribbled down by: johanna on October 30, 2006 2:28 PM
They may not be manly, but they sure do look tasty, nice job.
Scribbled down by: Brilynn on October 30, 2006 6:41 PM
They look pretty good to me,
besides I'm thinking they wouldn't be around very long to have much of a look!
Scribbled down by: Bron on October 30, 2006 9:15 PM
Hilarious AND innovative! The Thinking Man's petit four :)
Scribbled down by: Y on October 30, 2006 11:02 PM
dainty or not i'm all for anything with chocolate in/on it! and i like how you used a wine bottle cap to cut it. great idea considering you don't 'do' dainty :)
Scribbled down by: ilingc on November 2, 2006 11:52 AM