Ground ivy in chocolate

jowitt.europe

Ground ivy in chocolate

Something for fun. When I run my workshops, I try to include some recipes for fun. And this time is my ground ivy (glechoma hederacea ) leaves and apple mint shoots in dark chocolate.

it was a success and I feel like sharing with you.

It is very simple. Collect the leaves with a longer stem. If you need to wash them, dry them on a towel. 

Melt the dark chocolate in a bain marie. (I hope it is a correct term. It took me some time to find a translation from German Wasserbad. It is when one melts something in a pot or a bowl immersed in a pot filled with water).

Dip the leaves one by one into the melted chocolate and place them on baking paper until the chocolate is firm. I dipped only the tops of the mint shoots. 

One can also place leaves on a baking paper and cover them with melted chocolate using a brush. 

These chocolate leafs can be used as a decoration or one can simply eat them. A pleasant spicy or minty taste. We just ate them. And loved them!

Torey

This is brilliant @jowitt.europe! I will be making these as soon as I have something come up in the garden. I have orange mint and strawberry mint to try (as well as others but I think these two will work best).

I wouldn't have thought of using ground ivy. Thanks for the suggestion.

Yes, its a bain marie. :)

Marjory Wildcraft

Looks delicous! Although I'm a sucker for anything in chocolate...

LaurieLovesLearning

@jowitt.europe I have used chocolate leaves from edible plants to decorate cakes & such. I painted the chocolate on one side of the leaf, then carefully peeled off the leaf to reveal the impression.

jowitt.europe

@LaurieLovesLearning that is a creative approach to decoration. Would you then eat the leaves which you peel off? It would be such a waste to throw them away.

i use leaves and flowers to decorate Easter eggs. I wrap them round an egg and then boil eggs in onion peels. The eggs turn brown and the places where the leaves were fixed remain pale.

LaurieLovesLearning

@jowitt.europe I've only done it with rose leaves, so I never ate them. Shiny and/thicker leaves work best.

I've seen eggs done that way before. How do you get the leaves & flowers to stay in place?

jowitt.europe

https://community.thegrownetwork.com/discussion/comment/921440#Comment_921440

I Place the herbs and then wrap the eggs in a piece of gauze and tighten the gauze and herbs with a thread. They look like this before I put them into the onion peels to boil.