Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet M&M's | Gourmet Makes | Bon Appétit

perfect, soft and shiny coat. well as far as the shape and size goes, I pretty much made it, thanks.happy that's why I used peanut M&Ms to

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molds to touch more bitter, okay, I appreciate it mm-hmm Cristina has a bad expression on her face no, I think we are very good thank you, but I know I was surprised, you can say I'm surprised that you're surprised I like the way she likes it to crumble very gently Annie, can you see how your tongue will do it well? I'll

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it ready 1 2 3 if you want, put on a glove. to handle that, I don't understand, your mouth is going to die too, you know, I haven't done the side by side, wait, that cut very well, are they using food grade shellac or something?

I don't know what they're using. What are they? What is it? The peanut flavor is great, thank you, it's very well developed, it's there, it's a president, ha ha, texture, aha, the chocolate is nice. The only thing I think I miss is like in M&M's, it's like you understand that. like the clear coat French, honestly, I like it, so the visual is not that there, yeah, yeah, I have like a well roasted peanut in the center in the center in the center uh-huh okay uh-huh I also forgot this and would I would like to add that it is a month old and still tastes good.

Oh, because I faced it a lot. You'll see this one really got me in the end. The last few days were frustrating, but if I had to do it again, I would make a couple of changes, but in the end I'm happy with the taste, the shape and all that, so it was a qualified success, a resounding success. This is how to make

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peanut M&Ms. Use food-safe silicone caulk to create a two-sided mold that encases about a dozen. Peanut M&Ms with cute shapes, let the mold dry, separate the two sides and take out the M&Ms, roast the whole peanuts without skin on a rimmed baking sheet in a 350 degree oven until golden and fragrant, sprinkle Heat the peanuts generously with kosher salt and set aside to cool the filling. half of the mold with tempered 50/50 milk and bitter chocolate and press a whole salted roasted peanut halfway into the chocolate.

Fill the other half of the mold with the chocolate and join the halves making sure they are lined and pressing hard put a weight on top from the mold and cool until the chocolate is set, remove the chocolate covered peanuts from the molds, remove excess chocolate and smooth the seams by rolling the pieces between the palms of your hands with a little more melted chocolate, set the pieces aside and cool six or seven holes. At the top of the salad spinner, make a supersaturated sugar solution and let it cool completely. Place the well-coated peanuts in a bowl that fits inside the salad spinner and cover with cooled sugar syrup.

Stir and shake the pieces together constantly inside the bowl in front of a fan until the piece is no longer stuck, then place the bowl inside the spinner, turn the spinner on its side at a ninety-degree angle, and pull the handle. to rotate the container slowly so that the pieces fall into each other and rotate continuously until the pieces are dry to the touch and there is a whitish layer all over repeat the process of drying and spinning the coating four more times dip each of the coated pieces dry in fine royal icing and allow any excess to drain completely Suspend the submerged pieces on a rack made of fine fishing line and allow to dry completely using fans to speed up the process Roll the dried pieces between the palms of your hands to Cover them with a light coating of powdered sugar, then use an airbrush machine to cover the dipped pieces in an even layer of white food coloring and let them dry. completely again with the fans, airbrush all the M&Ms with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and brown food coloring to make equal amounts of each color. mm.

Let dry completely using a stencil, paint a small M logo on some or all of the M&Ms with royal icing and let dry. I keep feeling like I think there was an easier way all along. What do you think about that? Nobody said anything.