toblerone sundaes
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Back when I was a youth I got a job busing tables at a Swiss restaurant in CT. They had one of those giant riccola TV ad horns on the wall and all these alarmingly large cow bells. They rang them for people’s birthdays and celebrations. Famous people who had houses in CT came for dinner. This is where I dropped a spoon on Henry Kissinger’s foot and had to crumb the table when Mia Farrow and Woody Allen where having a quiet argument. There was a game show host who used to come in, but I can’t remember which one.
The owner and chef was from Geneva. I was a vegetarian (as I was for most of my first 30 years on the planet) so I couldn’t eat anything on the menu. On Sundays we all worked a double shift and they fed the staff prime rib or whatever, but I’d get a Toblerone sundae. They had ginormous toblerones in the kitchen. Like blunt force trauma Toblerones. Not the sort of largish novelty kind you can get in airports–but enormous ones that were kilos and kilos of Toblerone. They were longer than a human arm and the triangles were huge.
They made a simple ganache kind of sauce with it–literally melt the chocolate with some cream. You got a gravy boat full of it if you ordered it off the menu. It was a delight. Sometimes I make them at home and it only takes maybe a minute or two. Break up a normal size Toblerone bar into the little triangle pieces. Melt along with 2-3 TBS of heavy cream in a microwave or on the stove. You can add more cream to get the pouring consistency you want, but you can’t take the cream out. nb: if you add cold cream to the sauce it may stir right in or you may need to return it to heat for 10 seconds. You can do it on the stove on low or in a microwave safe bowl or measuring cup (but stir every 20 - 30 seconds. It’ll melt fast either way.) If you want to go completely over the top? Make or acquire some crisp French meringue bowls. Fill with ice cream. Dump warm Toblerone sauce on it. Add whipped cream if you like. Achieve Nirvana.
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imaginarycircus:
Back when I was a youth I got a job busing tables at a Swiss restaurant in CT. They had one of those giant riccola TV ad horns on the wall and all these alarmingly large cow bells. They rang them for people’s birthdays and celebrations. Famous people who had houses in CT came for dinner. This is where I dropped a spoon on Henry Kissinger’s foot and had to crumb the table when Mia Farrow and Woody Allen where having a quiet argument. There was a game show host who used to come in, but I can’t remember which one.
The owner and chef was from Geneva. I was a vegetarian (as I was for most of my first 30 years on the planet) so I couldn’t eat anything on the menu. On Sundays we all worked a double shift and they fed the staff prime rib or whatever, but I’d get a Toblerone sundae. They had ginormous toblerones in the kitchen. Like blunt force trauma Toblerones. Not the sort of largish novelty kind you can get in airports–but enormous ones that were kilos and kilos of Toblerone. They were longer than a human arm and the triangles were huge.
They made a simple ganache kind of sauce with it–literally melt the chocolate with some cream. You got a gravy boat full of it if you ordered it off the menu. It was a delight. Sometimes I make them at home and it only takes maybe a minute or two. Break up a normal size Toblerone bar into the little triangle pieces. Melt along with 2-3 TBS of heavy cream in a microwave or on the stove. You can add more cream to get the pouring consistency you want, but you can’t take the cream out. nb: if you add cold cream to the sauce it may stir right in or you may need to return it to heat for 10 seconds. You can do it on the stove on low or in a microwave safe bowl or measuring cup (but stir every 20 - 30 seconds. It’ll melt fast either way.) If you want to go completely over the top? Make or acquire some crisp French meringue bowls. Fill with ice cream. Dump warm Toblerone sauce on it. Add whipped cream if you like. Achieve Nirvana.
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