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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Anyone else a Top Chef fan? Yummmmmy!


I keep looking for an excuse to make these -- but my hips keep telling me NO! :)

Pretzel & Potato Chip Shortbread Cookie with Salted Caramel Chocolate Ganache


Prep Time: 45 Minutes
Total Time: Under 1 Hour
Skill Level: Moderate
Cost: Inexpensive

From: Chef Dale Talde
Top Chef, Season 8, Episode 10, Quickfire Challenge, Winner

Ingredients
Cookies:

* 2 bags potato chips
* 2 bags pretzels
* 3 ounces flour
* 2 pounds butter, melted
* 10 ounces sugar

Chocolate Ganache:

* 1 pound chocolate, chopped
* 10 ounces sugar
* 2 quarts cream

Directions

Cookies:

1. In a food processor, crush potato chips and pretzels.

2. In a mixing bowl, add chips and pretzels with flour, butter, and sugar.

3. In a sheet tray, add the mixture and bake in 350 degree oven for 10 minutes.

Chocolate Ganache:

1. Add sugar to pot and caramelize. Add cream and bring to a boil.

2. Whisk in chocolate.

Assembly:

1. Cool potato chip and pretzel mixture than brush with ganache. Cut out with ring mold

5 comments:

  1. Oh my...Potato Chips, Pretzels and Chocolate all in the same cookie, what a wonderful treat. I can't wait to make these cookies. Thank you so much for bringing them to Full Plate Thursday and please come back!

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  2. I know! I saw these when watching Top Chef and it was everything I love in one fabulous cookie. I am enthralled with the whole "sweet & salty" mix-up... I remember being a teenager and pouring a mixture of melted butter and sugar over top of saltine crackers and baking it, then snapping them apart for a sweet, salty, crispy YUM-fest! LOL

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  3. Your recipe is dangerously yummy looking! I've never thought of potato chips and chocolate together...

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  4. Oh my gosh, those look amazing! Chips, pretzels, AND chocolate? That sounds like the perfect dessert! I wish I had some right now, haha.

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  5. I LOVE Top Chef! I can't believe he won that challenge....it wasn't really even a cookie! But they look really good!

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