STUMPTOWN COFFEEN BEAN CHOCOLATE BARK

It was mentioned on one site that the grounds got caught in their teeth. I have this problem with the chocolate covered coffee beans, so *shrugs*



STUMPTOWN COFFEEN BEAN CHOCOLATE BARK
http://thefoodpoet.com/2012/10/30/stumptown-coffee-bean-chocolate-bark/
This is a two-ingredient recipe. Use high quality chocolate to pair with the high quality beans. See note below recipe for other alternatives. Also, keep refrigerated.

YIELD: Enough to share with officemates, spouses, neighbors, the nice checker at the local mini-mart, friends you haven’t seen in a gazillion years, fellow San Francisco Giants fans grabbing their square of pavement for the parade on Wednesday or teachers. Especially teachers.

Ingredients
2 cups Extra Dark Chocolate Chips

2 cups Semisweet Chocolate Chips

¼ cup Stumptown Whole Coffee Beans

4 cups water

Directions
– Pour coffee beans into a grinder and grind until almost fine. This allows for a bit more coarseness in the coffee beans for textural interest.

– Pour water into a heavy pot and set over medium heat. In a double boiler, pour in chocolate chips. Set double boiler over heavy pot.

– Ready a roasting pan with a sheet of parchment paper.

– Stir the chocolate chips as they begin melting and continuing stirring them until smooth. Remove from heat.

– Stir ground coffee beans into the smooth chocolate until well integrated. Spoon the chocolate coffee mixture onto the parchment paper, taking care to work it into the corners and try to maintain level surface.

– Place in the refrigerator for 3 hours or longer. Then break into chunks or chop with a heavy knife into the size pieces of your choice.

Espresso Brittle

Espresso Brittle
http://www.finecooking.com/recipes/espresso_brittle.aspx Yield- about 1 C

Ingredients
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup water
2 Tbs. espresso beans, crushed with a rolling pin or chopped in a food processor to medium-fine crumbs
1 oz. (2 Tbs.) butter
Pinch salt

Directions
Line a baking sheet with kitchen parchment and spray the parchment with nonstick cooking spray or grease it lightly.

In a medium heavy-based saucepan, combine the sugar and water. Heat over high heat, swirling the pot occasionally (don't stir it) for even color, until it turns light amber.

Add the crushed espresso beans (don't worry if the sugar seems to foam), swirl them around in the caramel, and continue to cook until the caramel turns brown.

Remove the pan from the heat. Carefully whisk in the butter and salt (the butter will sputter).

Immediately pour the brittle onto the prepared baking sheet, quickly tilting the baking sheet to get the brittle to flow into a thin layer (be careful—the brittle is very hot).

As it cools and slows down, use a metal spatula to spread it into an even thinner layer.
Let cool.

Chop two-thirds of the cooled brittle into small pieces by sealing it in a plastic bag and smashing it with a mallet or rolling pin. Sift the crumbs in a strainer if you don't want the powder.

Break the remaining brittle into shards and use them to garnish bowls of the ice cream.

nutrition information (per serving):
Size : per 1 Tbs., Calories (kcal): 60, Fat (kcal): 1.5, Fat Calories (g): 15, Saturated Fat (g): 1, Protein (g): 0, Monounsaturated Fat (g): 0.5, Carbohydrates (mg): 13, Polyunsaturated Fat (mg): 0, Sodium (g): 35, Cholesterol (g): 5, Fiber (g): 0,

Chocolate-covered Coffee Bean Brittle

Chocolate-covered Coffee Bean Brittle by artfulann
http://www.instructables.com/id/Chocolate-covered-Coffee-Bean-Brittle/


Today I thought I'd try out making chocolate covered coffee beans-- the perfect combination of two flavors: coffee and chocolate. Yum!

Upon searching on the internet, it appeared this is easy to do-- just chocolate chips and roasted coffee beans. Most of the directions went like this: melt chocolate, dunk the beans and drain through a slotted spoon onto waxed paper. Cool. Eat.

There were several variations of recipes-- but commonly I found:
Step 1: Ingredients/supplies
1/3 c. coffee beans
1/2 c. Chocolate chips
1/2 t shortening
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Title: Herb Shop Part 4
Stray Stories/ On the Streets Story arc
Author: charisstoma
Word count:323


Poof hadn’t shown up for classes the last couple of days. Arath had a good idea why. His parents had stayed over a few days longer, realizing that their son was having an important first in his life.

Malakishel especially was sympathetic. A possible lover’s rejection was a part of growing up for a demon, or not, how else would a young demon learn the tactics and ins and outs of courtship. But a future consort’s rejection… Arath had always seemed to lean more towards the wizard side of the gene pool but he had enough demon in him to severely screw up his life.

Demons once they’d marked their future consort tended to go in for the sealing of the deal by whatever means possible, no matter how sneakily manipulative, to win the love of their very long lives. Some of those means, in times long past weren’t condoned even in the demon plane, and on this plane even some of the ones, that were currently condoned on the demon plane, would cause major diplomatic repercussions.

Arath was still very inexperienced, something Malakishel and Kish had had some heated words about before allowing their child to transfer to his new school.

Still one couldn’t take a young demon-wizard or wizard-demon and throw him in the pool of sex starved upper class students, studying demon mating techniques, as Kish had repeatedly told him with their first child. There’d been a stoat short stick brought into that discussion, if he remembered correctly, and binding spells. A smile stretched his mouth, oh yes he loved when Kish got riled enough to take the strict dominant lead occasionally. He’d had morning sickness for 54 days and a resulting son called, for a while, Farcy, now Fariciel, his demon genes expressing sooner perhaps because of the deliciously creative begetting of him. Malakishel sighed.

Begetting younglings was fun. Making the right decisions raising them was the difficult part.

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