Put 'em in your mouth and suck 'em

[mayhap]

Today I participated in a time-honored tradition kept alive by two male acolytes who faithfully and literally perform the instructions given in what is clearly a fallible holy document.

That is to say, I made Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls from an episode of South Park with satyadasa

Now, this recipe is clearly dodgy in the extreme. Two tablespoons of cinnamon? I find it highly unlikely that you have ever eaten anything with two tablespoons of cinnamon unless it was a fantastically large batch of something. Allow me to assure you that the quarter cup of unsweetened chocolate and even the brandy are secondary to the overpowering flavor of cinnamon, at least in the final product, when the brandy has been cooked out a bit. Also, you will note that there is no salt.

Then, of course, there's the matter of having "a bag or two of sugar," but merely "one cup of flour." Even Mike and his South Park-loving friend (also named Mike for your confusion convenience) seem to have figured that this was untenable. We seem to put in somewhere between 2/3 and 1 cup sugar, sometimes first placed in a bag in a stab at authenticity.

Apparently Chef's balls are kind of ... flat. The final product, at least since I introduced such refinements as mixing the wet and dry ingredients separately and mixing the whole affair adequately so as not to have veins of flour, takes the form of flat, spongy, brown discs, which, depending on how long they have been cooked, reek of alcohol. Apparently, according to Chocolate Salty Ball lore, it was this property which caused them to be "confiscated" by Mr. Hammer of Liberty High School, who has had batches presented to him since the Mikes graduated. satyadasa knows this lore better than I, since most of the interesting events in it occurred just shortly before I met him. Which is coming on four years ago now. My, my.

Comments

[mark356.livejournal.com]

Actually, that seems to be a ganache cookie, which is one of my very favorite kinds of cookies, although much less understandable than chocolate chip cookies. It calls for a cup of unsweetened chocolate as well as the cocoa, brandy, and cinnamon, which would be half a pound, which should be enough to compete with the cinnamon and brandy. A cup of flour is on the high side for this kind of recipe; most chocolate ganache cookies are almsot entirely melted chocolate, with only a few eggs stirred in, only a few tablespoons of flour, and maybe some chocolate chips, macadamia nuts, toffee chips, dried cranberries, or something else stirred in.

Making a recipe like this is just the kind of thing I would do, so good for you for pulling it off, and flat spongy cinnamon disks don't sound bad at all!

[mayhap]

Huh, wow. I can't say LJ never taught me anything! Now we'll have to make some ganache cookies, and compare. Darn. I hate it when I have to make cookies.

[satyadasa.livejournal.com]

There should be enough brandy left for a small batch of these.