- Just cause it got chickpeas,
don't mean it's hummus.
Just saying.
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- Hi, my name is Michael.
Hi my name is George, I'm Michael's brother.
- Hi, I'm Nancy.
I am Michael's mom and I am an Arab.
- Today, I and my family are trying dessert hummus.
For me a good hummus has a slight pull.
It's not too watery.
You know, a little bit of lemon, a little bit of garlic.
- The tahini, the sesame paste,
good quality chickpeas.
- I have always scoffed the dessert hummus.
I see it in the stores.
- It seems alien to me.
- I mean, I do like chocolate,
so the strawberry one.
- I never thought of mixing any kind
of chocolate with hummus.
- Personally, I think it's an abomination,
but I'm also very intrigued.
So we're going to try this today.
So today we have dark chocolate.
We have strawberry hummus
and then we have chocolate cherry cheesecake hummus.
First I'm going to try the dark chocolate hummus.
- Well it definitely looks like frosting
or like a moose, almost
like a chocolate mousse.
- It kind of looks like a frosting.
- It's not moving.
And usually hummus moves even if it's refrigerated.
So that's a little bit odd to me.
- It's very thick,
thicker than I thought it would be.
(clock ticking)
- Oh.
- I mean, (laughing)
texture's kind of funny.
- Better than I thought it was going to be.
- I'm not mad at it, to be honest.
I definitely was expecting more chickpea flavor.
I thought that it was not going to strike a good balance.
- The initial taste, just like regular hummus.
You get like an aftertaste of chocolate.
- I think I taste the chickpeas,
they come through more than the chocolate does.
I guess you could use it with like fruits,
maybe.
- I feel like it's almost there.
I just need it to be a little bit more
moveable
but I don't think I would serve it.
Well, that's a lie.
If I were making a charcuterie board
I would probably put this on there.
I feel like it's good because it's not too sweet.
It has a je ne sais quoi.
- [Producer] Would you actually serve that to guests?
- No, I won't. (laughing)
I will not serve it to my guests, I'm sorry.
(laughing)
- The next flavor we're going to try is
chocolate cherry cheesecake hummus.
When I saw this in the supermarket.
One, I was baffled.
Two, I was intrigued
because I was like, "Oh, okay."
And actually this is the hummus that kind of
inspired this video
because this is so
out of the blue that it just felt like,
yeah I need to try this.
- I love cheesecake factory.
I like their raspberry chocolate cheesecake.
So I'm hoping this will kind of give me that taste
and that feel.
- This one definitely smells like a dessert.
Like smells like a pudding.
- Oh, that smells really good.
- This one you can smell the chocolate more in it,
than you could in the dark one actually.
(drum roll)
- Oh my God.
I'm rocking with that.
That's really good.
- I like that one that.
- That actually really surprises me.
This one tastes more of a dessert
than a dark chocolate.
- It tastes like a moose.
Like you don't really taste the chickpeas.
You can taste the chocolate.
You can taste the cherry.
The description of it is right.
The name of it is right.
- Wow.
(dog barking)
Even my dog likes it.
That's how good it is.
- Its not as thick as the original one,
the dark chocolate one,
or it's still dippable.
- This is really good hummus.
Can I get another cookie, please?
(laughing)
This is really good.
- Yeah, like if you put that in a cake form,
put the crumbles on the bottom
and just dump this,
put it in the freezer to solidify it a little bit
and served it as cheesecake.
I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
- Here we have Michael's famous strawberry hummus.
- This is my son's creation, Michael.
So I'm curious what it's going to taste like.
- I have not tried this.
I did not try it while I was making it.
But basically you use a regular hummus recipe
chickpeas, garlic, olive oil, and tahini.
And then I added a pound of strawberries into it.
So we're going to see how it tastes.
- I'm hoping that the strawberry flavor
actually comes through in it.
Doesn't look as thick as the chocolate one.
- It smells refreshing.
It smells like something that I would eat
if I was hanging out outside.
- It is, you can also scoop it
and it's easy to dip in there.
So this one, actually, this one's got a pretty nice texture
not obviously a hummus texture.
(drum roll)
- Oh my God.
(laughing)
- Okay.
Not bad at all.
- This is really not good.
I'm sorry.
I flopped on the texture.
- Actually it's good.
It's not bad.
And I'm not just saying that.
You can taste a Tahini coming
through in that too.
Chickpeas not as much as the dark chocolate one.
Has almost like a yogurt taste to it actually.
- It kind of tastes like a smoothie almost
which I was not expecting.
Yeah, I would serve this to my friends.
They'd be a little confused.
I wouldn't tell them it was hummus.
I'd just say, "Hey, try this",
and then let them ask, "Oh what is this?"
"Oh, it's hummus."
I would serve this like on a picnic.
Maybe, ooh, okay.
Let me set the scene.
Maybe I'm like going on a date.
I'm like, "Oh, Hey, I made the strawberry hummus for you."
(laughing)
- I might serve it to guests
but not tell them that it's strawberry hummus.
Let them think it's just some type
of strawberry dip to go with their fruits.
- [Producer] Would you tell him that Michael made it?
- Oh yeah.
I'm not going to tell them I did.
(laughing)
- [Producer] Damn!
- Would I consider these hummuses?
No, I guess the chickpea factor technically
makes them a hummus,
but no.
- My opinion has changed on dessert hummus.
I really didn't think I would enjoy any of them.
If I'm being honest.
- [Producer] Would you consider this a hummus?
- No,
I would not consider any of these a humus.
Just because it got chickpeas,
don't mean it's hummus.
Just saying.
(laughing)
- [Producer] And what makes you an expert?
- Considering I'm Arab
and I make it all the time
and I learned from the best.
I think I'm good on this.
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