Course Category: Chocolate Treats

Beurre noisette (brown butter) is French for “hazelnut butter.” In this On-Demand Candy Bar recipe, Chef Melissa takes this as her cue to create a decadent, nutty brown butter and hazelnut chewy caramel. She tops it off with a nostalgic crisp made with one of our favorite cereals: Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Each bar is then covered in chocolate, creating a delicious eating experience full of warm flavors, complementary textures, and our love of traditional candy bars!

In this Online Live Class, Chef Melissa Coppel turns chocolate bars into a conduit for flavor exploration! Using intriguing combinations reminiscent of childhood favorites, popular recipes, and even savory classics, Chef Melissa creates recipes that inspire you to transform your favorite flavors into bold products. 

The class will cover 3 recipes, starting with “Hazelnut Almond Praliné followed by  Brownie, and Coffee Ganache and Marshmallow “Tarts”. It will also explore more complex flavor profiles, such as an Italian-inspired “Strawberry Parmesan and Balsamic Bar” and an American-German-inspired “Pretzel Praliné and Beer Caramel Bar”. Whether it’s alcoholic beverages, snacks, cheeses, or more “traditional” sweets, this class takes quirky ingredients and reimagines the flavors we traditionally associate with chocolate products to create delicious results.

In this class, Chef Melissa Coppel brings you her crunchy, peanut-rich, and slightly tangy Peanut Butter and Jelly Tarts. These milk chocolate-based treats layer a raspberry compote instead of the traditional grape PB&J jam, a rich peanut butter ganache, and crunchy pillows of Rice Krispies Peanut Butter Crisp.

The best part? No leftovers! The class will provide a quick, delicious, and waste-free Peanut Butter Crisp Rocher recipe that you can wrap, sell, or share to brighten anyone’s day. A sophisticated and fun pair of treats with the nostalgic touch of all the recipes that make us feel warm and comforted! And if you’re still perfecting your chocolate shells, Chef Melissa gives you a rundown of all the steps and tricks to consider when making this essential piece of any chocolate confection.

 

A great recipe can go a long way. Nothing beats taking our favorite confections and seeing how many new products we can make with them. In this Smart Production class, Chef Melissa Coppel mixes and matches three of her favorite preparations –ganaches, marshmallows, and caramels– and rearranges them into 5 distinctive and flavorful recipes. Expect to learn how to create a wonderful spread of “Twix” chocolate bars, a caramel macchiato tart, a caramel tart, a tea caramel and cookie chocolate bar, and an Oreo whoopie pie with just these three components. A few base recipes, a thousand possibilities!

 

Rice Krispies Treats meets chocolate “mendiants” in this fun, crunchy, long-shelf life recipe created by Chef Andres Lara. By merging one of America’s favorite cereals and the traditional French bite-sized chocolate coins (traditionally topped with nuts), the recipe achieves a phenomenal contrast between the delicate airiness of caramelized puffed rice grains and the richness of hazelnut praliné and milk chocolate. Combined, these simple ingredients create a rustic, well-rounded, and fun confection which can serve as inspiration for many other creations like “arroz con leche” ice cream and so much more!