Comments on: The Coconut Bar May Have Just Gotten Even Cuter http://www.sweetnapa.com/2007/10/17/the-coconut-bar-may-have-just-gotten-even-cuter.html In LA, but Still Exploring Desserts Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:57:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Nina http://www.sweetnapa.com/2007/10/17/the-coconut-bar-may-have-just-gotten-even-cuter.html#comment-19991 Nina Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:51:50 +0000 http://www.sweetnapa.com/2007/10/17/the-coconut-bar-may-have-just-gotten-even-cuter.html#comment-19991 Wow, at least no one would think that it looks like a bowling ball, too, anymore. :) It would look pretty cool, but might be hard to eat... and even harder to put a wrapper on! Wow, at least no one would think that it looks like a bowling ball, too, anymore. :) It would look pretty cool, but might be hard to eat… and even harder to put a wrapper on!

]]> By: Brian http://www.sweetnapa.com/2007/10/17/the-coconut-bar-may-have-just-gotten-even-cuter.html#comment-19990 Brian Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:23:23 +0000 http://www.sweetnapa.com/2007/10/17/the-coconut-bar-may-have-just-gotten-even-cuter.html#comment-19990 Ooh! You should totally try this: http://www.movable-feast.com/2007/07/post.html In her gallery of photos from Alinea, check out the third page, second photo, of the Licorice Cake with the Muscovado Sugar -- that spun sugar hair would look PERFECT on the outside of these guys to mimic the hairy coconut outside! It'd be hard to get on without ruining the temper of the chocolate, but maybe it wouldn't matter with the fuzz on there. I haven't tried making that sugar strand stuff. I assume you just make a super-thick syrup of the stuff maybe at the top end of soft crack and then drizzle it from a very great height onto either a big sheet of plastic on the ground or into ice water? They'd be like the most time consuming candies ever, but still... so cool! Ooh! You should totally try this:

http://www.movable-feast.com/2007/07/post.html

In her gallery of photos from Alinea, check out the third page, second photo, of the Licorice Cake with the Muscovado Sugar — that spun sugar hair would look PERFECT on the outside of these guys to mimic the hairy coconut outside! It’d be hard to get on without ruining the temper of the chocolate, but maybe it wouldn’t matter with the fuzz on there.

I haven’t tried making that sugar strand stuff. I assume you just make a super-thick syrup of the stuff maybe at the top end of soft crack and then drizzle it from a very great height onto either a big sheet of plastic on the ground or into ice water?

They’d be like the most time consuming candies ever, but still… so cool!

]]> By: Nina http://www.sweetnapa.com/2007/10/17/the-coconut-bar-may-have-just-gotten-even-cuter.html#comment-19988 Nina Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:55:36 +0000 http://www.sweetnapa.com/2007/10/17/the-coconut-bar-may-have-just-gotten-even-cuter.html#comment-19988 JenR - Yeah, I think that the passionfruit-coconut combination is way more interesting than a pineapple-coconut combination. Though, in all fairness, I'm not crazy about pineapple much, either. :) Brian - Haha, no low-fat coconut milk bath for you. :) And omg, passion fruit rules! There's nothing as good as freshly strained passion fruit pulp, although Perfect Puree makes a great puree, too. So sour, a touch sweet, tons of flavor. I don't like it when it's cut with other ingredients to make a generic tropical flavor, though. Not to bag on pineapple too much, but when it's mixed with passion fruit, it totally drains the life out of the pf. And wow, coconut mania at your place. I made a coconut sorbet last week from a fresh coconut (my first time I cracked one open, and it was a blast... until it got a little tedious :) ) and it was fantastic. fattypr - Aw, thanks! :) So, wait, do you just crack open a coconut and start nibbling? JenR - Yeah, I think that the passionfruit-coconut combination is way more interesting than a pineapple-coconut combination. Though, in all fairness, I’m not crazy about pineapple much, either. :)

Brian - Haha, no low-fat coconut milk bath for you. :) And omg, passion fruit rules! There’s nothing as good as freshly strained passion fruit pulp, although Perfect Puree makes a great puree, too. So sour, a touch sweet, tons of flavor. I don’t like it when it’s cut with other ingredients to make a generic tropical flavor, though. Not to bag on pineapple too much, but when it’s mixed with passion fruit, it totally drains the life out of the pf.

And wow, coconut mania at your place. I made a coconut sorbet last week from a fresh coconut (my first time I cracked one open, and it was a blast… until it got a little tedious :) ) and it was fantastic.

fattypr - Aw, thanks! :) So, wait, do you just crack open a coconut and start nibbling?

]]> By: fattypr http://www.sweetnapa.com/2007/10/17/the-coconut-bar-may-have-just-gotten-even-cuter.html#comment-19987 fattypr Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:20:43 +0000 http://www.sweetnapa.com/2007/10/17/the-coconut-bar-may-have-just-gotten-even-cuter.html#comment-19987 i hate anything coconut except for the actual fruit, so i in no way want to try this. that said it is i think the best looking candy/bonbon i've ever seen!!! i hate anything coconut except for the actual fruit, so i in no way want to try this. that said it is i think the best looking candy/bonbon i’ve ever seen!!!

]]> By: Brian http://www.sweetnapa.com/2007/10/17/the-coconut-bar-may-have-just-gotten-even-cuter.html#comment-19986 Brian Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:14:55 +0000 http://www.sweetnapa.com/2007/10/17/the-coconut-bar-may-have-just-gotten-even-cuter.html#comment-19986 I can't believe you're lukewarm about coconut. I have friends coming into town this weekend and think I'm making a kaffir lime ice cream with chunks of coconut and a lychee jam swirl. I had coconut gelato just last night! I use coconut milk in impromptu faux-Southeast-Asian curries all the time. If I could, I would only bathe in full-fat coconut milk. I'm not totally sold on passionfruit, though, I have to admit. Maybe it's just that it tastes too much like artificial "tropical fruit" flavors I had as a kid growing up. But I had Tartine's passionfruit bavarian, which is coated in coconut flakes, and didn't really care for it. I can’t believe you’re lukewarm about coconut. I have friends coming into town this weekend and think I’m making a kaffir lime ice cream with chunks of coconut and a lychee jam swirl. I had coconut gelato just last night! I use coconut milk in impromptu faux-Southeast-Asian curries all the time.

If I could, I would only bathe in full-fat coconut milk.

I’m not totally sold on passionfruit, though, I have to admit. Maybe it’s just that it tastes too much like artificial “tropical fruit” flavors I had as a kid growing up. But I had Tartine’s passionfruit bavarian, which is coated in coconut flakes, and didn’t really care for it.

]]> By: JenR in SF http://www.sweetnapa.com/2007/10/17/the-coconut-bar-may-have-just-gotten-even-cuter.html#comment-19984 JenR in SF Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:11:08 +0000 http://www.sweetnapa.com/2007/10/17/the-coconut-bar-may-have-just-gotten-even-cuter.html#comment-19984 Great post - I'm loving the development process. I have to say, I'm sort of partial to the coconut passionfruit combo as that was the flavor combo I did for an entremet in school. Great post - I’m loving the development process. I have to say, I’m sort of partial to the coconut passionfruit combo as that was the flavor combo I did for an entremet in school.

]]> By: Nina http://www.sweetnapa.com/2007/10/17/the-coconut-bar-may-have-just-gotten-even-cuter.html#comment-19977 Nina Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:18:04 +0000 http://www.sweetnapa.com/2007/10/17/the-coconut-bar-may-have-just-gotten-even-cuter.html#comment-19977 Jamie - Hopefully tomorrow.... :) Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm using unsweetened dried coconut for flavor for now... though there's a chance that I'll use fresh coconuts b/c the flavor really is so nice. I'm just totally neurotic about my ingredients, so I'm trying to use whatever is as close to the fresh original is. It infuses into the cream, so it winds up pretty similar to coconut cream. Tania - Thank you. :) Jamie - Hopefully tomorrow…. :)

Thanks for the suggestion, but I’m using unsweetened dried coconut for flavor for now… though there’s a chance that I’ll use fresh coconuts b/c the flavor really is so nice. I’m just totally neurotic about my ingredients, so I’m trying to use whatever is as close to the fresh original is. It infuses into the cream, so it winds up pretty similar to coconut cream.

Tania - Thank you. :)

]]> By: Tania http://www.sweetnapa.com/2007/10/17/the-coconut-bar-may-have-just-gotten-even-cuter.html#comment-19973 Tania Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:44:42 +0000 http://www.sweetnapa.com/2007/10/17/the-coconut-bar-may-have-just-gotten-even-cuter.html#comment-19973 Scrumptious, in every sense of the word (visually, alimentary, etc...) Scrumptious, in every sense of the word (visually, alimentary, etc…)

]]> By: jamie http://www.sweetnapa.com/2007/10/17/the-coconut-bar-may-have-just-gotten-even-cuter.html#comment-19969 jamie Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:31:32 +0000 http://www.sweetnapa.com/2007/10/17/the-coconut-bar-may-have-just-gotten-even-cuter.html#comment-19969 oh hey, what are you using for the coconut flavor? what works really well (if you're not already doing this) is to use coconut cream or coconut cream powder (you can make this even more concentrated). surfas will likely have it, if not surfas just try an asian supermarket. mitsuwa probably wont have it but marukai or ranch 99 should have it. and yes. those are ridiculously cute. i cant wait to eat them alllllllllllllllll. oh hey, what are you using for the coconut flavor? what works really well (if you’re not already doing this) is to use coconut cream or coconut cream powder (you can make this even more concentrated). surfas will likely have it, if not surfas just try an asian supermarket. mitsuwa probably wont have it but marukai or ranch 99 should have it.

and yes. those are ridiculously cute. i cant wait to eat them alllllllllllllllll.

]]> By: jamie http://www.sweetnapa.com/2007/10/17/the-coconut-bar-may-have-just-gotten-even-cuter.html#comment-19968 jamie Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:26:04 +0000 http://www.sweetnapa.com/2007/10/17/the-coconut-bar-may-have-just-gotten-even-cuter.html#comment-19968 omg can i please have some!!! omg can i please have some!!!

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