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The (now) not-so-secret story behind Signature
Everyone always asks me how I got my start making chocolate.
Well, honestly, years ago I watched a show about chocolate on Food Network. The chocolatier on the program was tempering chocolate and making truffles… he made the whole process look so easy! I thought to myself, “hey I can do that!” And so it began…
I initially started teaching myself how to make chocolate confections, believe it or not, by watching videos on youtube and reading material on the internet. As for results? Lets just say tempering chocolate and making a well-balanced ganache turned out to be much more difficult than that Food Network show led me to believe. I attempted over and over again to make a decent bonbon to no avail.
One of my first experiments in making chocolate, however, yielded a result that has stuck with me to this day. At the time, I didn’t even have the right equipment… instead of a polycarbonate mold, I used an ice cube tray. Into this ice cube tray went a white chocolate shell, which I filled with a dark chocolate ganache that I had flavored with vanilla and some butterscotch chips I found laying around my kitchen. Because I tempered the chocolate improperly, I was lucky to have a solitary bonbon pop out of the tray.
I took that one bonbon, garnished it with melted butterscotch and showed it off to my family. That white chocolate ice cube was the first confection I ever made.
Later, I learned the proper technique and began making other delicious confections, but I always found myself wanting to perfect the recipe for that first bonbon born out of an ice cube tray.
That first bonbon I made turned into the first bonbon in the Happy Ending Chocolate collection.
That first bonbon started the Happy Ending tradition. That’s why it’s called Signature.
The perfected version of Signature seen above was one of the chocolates Happy Ending shared with the attendees of the 2010 Screen Actors Guild Awards.
