Timely and Easy-As-This dessert, or snack, using salted or unsalted Matzo Crackers, good dark bittersweet or semi-sweet chocolate and whatever else you might have in your “quarantine” pantry to add some bling to finish them off.
Rummaging through my pantry I found pistachios, pepitas, candied ginger, dried edible rose petals, some coffee-sea salt, edible glitter, and chunky sanding sugar. There was was an orange crying out to be zested on my counter. It can be baffling what I find whenever I begin digging into my little closet pantry. It is not palatial in any sense..smaller than a wee half bath…but with a lot of constant organization it resembles a “clown car” when I start rummaging around. Most of these ingredients were little bits left in packages that I can’t toss and seem to always find a use for.
Chocolate melted and smeared….
….studded with ingredients while still melted.
After a little while chocolate will be set and matzos are ready to be broken into smaller pieces for sharing or gifting. A great combination of sweet and salty and crunch and bling! It’s so easy-as-this.
Be safe, be sweet and be kind.
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Dark Chocolate Smeared Matzos with Bling
Ingredients:
- 6 whole matzo crackers, salted or unsalted ( I used unsalted as I added lots of salts to embellish)
- 8 ounces semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate (you can combine the two)
- 1/3 cup chopped pistachios
- 1/3 cup pepitas
- 1 orange zested (I used a veg peeler and then chopped the peel rather than a zester to keep the peel dry.)
- 1/4 cup candied ginger, chopped
- 1/4 cup dried edible flowers (Rose petals are pretty, but any edible dried flower you like will work.)
- Various sea salts…I used a coffee-sea salt and a finely ground red-pepper-salt, but there are so many to choose from..whatever you might have..kosher salt.
- 1 extra matzo for breaking up onto small pieces and adding as “bling”
Note: This is really just more of an idea than a “recipe”…use your imagination and your own collection of kitchen goodies to come up with any combos you or your family will enjoy. There are endless possibilities for sure.
Directions:
- Spread 6 matzo crackers out on a flat work surface.
- Gather all your “bling” ingredients together in little bowls.
- Melt the chocolate over low heat until totally melted and smooth.
- Working with one cracker at a time, spread with some of the chocolate from edge to edge all around and while chocolate is melted sprinkle with ingredients. Repeat until all crackers are smeared and embellished.
- Allow the chocolate to harden. Then break crackers up into pieces to eat or gift in little bags or boxes. Store in airtight container. Edible Bling for dessert or a snack with hot tea or a cup of coffee. Enjoy.
Teresa Blackburn. http://www.teresablackburnfoodstyling.com
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Well all of these are gone, but I’ll make some special for you sweet friend😷
You’re so lucky to have all those exotic ingredients in your quarantine pantry! We’re having trouble just finding basic things like, flour, pasta, yeast..not even to speak of tp and hand sanitizer. Chocolate? That was eaten up a long time ago! 🙂
And absolutely no sharing or gifting of anything if we could…you must live in a state that still doesn’t have the stay at home mandate?
Here’s to better days ahead for everyone! Stay well!
Hi Chris…yes we do have a stay at home going on and I don’t have hand sanitizer but I do have a stash of chocolate and goodies in my little pantry all the time. I get lots of leftover goodies from photo shoots (back when we still did them😂)
We are pretty good about “not peaking too soon” with our goodies. I do share with friends and family but I know what you mean as who knows how long this will continue? Needs must. Hope you are well and making the best of all this madness. Best. T