Welcome to HOW TO COOK THAT I'm Ann Reardon
And today we are making a giant Hershey's Kiss
We started this Giant Series a couple of years now and I make giant candy bars and give them
to people who are doing giant things.
We've done a Snickers, Kit Kat, Ferrero Rocher, Mars bar and a Twix.
I'll link to that playlist with all of those videos at the end...
You're are going to love who we give this one to today.
To make your giant Cookies and Cream Hershey's Kiss you will need loads of cookies of course
... and heaps of white chocolate, more than this, I am just going to melt it in batches.
I'll put all the recipe quantities on the howtocookthat.net website for you.
Melt and temper your white chocolate.
If you don't temper it it won't set firm at room temperature.
I have a video called chocolate secrets that shows you how to temper chocolate so you can
watch that one and make sure you get it right.
Now for the shape of a Hershey's Kiss we are going to need a mold.
The closest thing I could find is a huge funnel.
I got this at a car supply store.
It's got a few bumps that we don't want because the kiss is more rounded shape but what we'll
do is just shave some chocolate off once it's set to make it match.
And we obviously we're going to need to block the end.
So take some blue tak and place it over the end and press it on firmly.
Then put the whole thing upside down into a container to hold it upright.
Ladle some of your tempered chocolate into the funnel and along the sides.
You want to make sure you are using real chocolate that contains cocoa butter.
Compound chocolate just doesn't taste as good and if you're giving someone a giant gift
you want it to taste amazing not just look good.
Add in your Oreos.
Pressing some onto the sides so that you can see them on the outside of the kiss.
Add heaps of cookies and then more chocolate.
The more cookies you add, the less chocolate you will need because it's going to displace
some of that chocolate there.
Add more chocolate and more cookies.
Temper another big bowl of chocolate and pour it in - this is going to be a huge Hershey's
Kiss.
If you need to add in some support to make it stand up straight.
Then add more cookies to the top and push them into the chocolate.
Leave that at room temperature overnight so the chocolate can set up properly all the
way through.
Then take your heavy chocolate filled funnel and tip it upside down.
Give a little shake and it should just fall out, the weight of it there is helping it
come out of the funnel.
Now to make it the right shape.
Use a knife and gently shave off some of the chocolate round the outside edge there.
Try not to touch the chocolate with you fingers just hold it with some of the baking paper.
We also need to get rid of this ridge at the top.
And I am going to use a potato peeler to shave off a layer at a time and make it smooth.
Now we need the top to be rounded too, it's a bit taller than we need so just carve into
it and use your peeler to make it round.
The funnel is also quite flat and the Kisses are more rounded or dip down, so if you want
to you can use a knife to shave off a layer all the way around.
I'm using the knife to shave it off and then using the peeler smooth it out.
Now you can use all these shavings down the bottom on top of ice cream or a dessert or
on top of a cake.
To make the wrapper take some foil and place another sheet over the top, make sure they're
nice and long.
Fold it down once and flatten it out, then fold it over again, this will make our join.
Once you've got that flattened, open it up and squash it down.
Add a strip of Kisses to the middle I'll put a PDF of this on the website so you can print
your own.
And position your Kiss right in the middle.
Pull the foil up and then push onto the Kiss and smooth it around the shape.
Then move around pulling the next section up and smoothing it on.
Keep going like that, pulling it up and smooth it around the shape, leaving the paper sticking
out on one side.
If you have too much foil at the top you can just trim it off and then bend it around over
the top.
Continue all the away around lifting and smoothing.
Then trim the paper a bit shorter.
And there you have a giant Hersheys Kiss, let's go give it to someone amazing.
Today I have with me Lamont O'Neil from the Nubian Gents.
Lamont was a Spanish teacher in New York when he noticed that some of his students were
struggling with low self-esteem and had a lack of direction in their lives, so he thought
he'd do something about it.
He started a step dance group and 70 students signed up and now they danced all around the
world.
Can you say welcome to How To Cook That in Spanish?
Bienvenido a cómo al cocinero que
Apart from actually teaching them how to dance, which they do amazingly well, what are the
other priorities - what are you trying to teach?
Basically how to be men.
Men of valour, men of integrity, how to make productive decisions that are going to contribute
to the communities within which they live.
And that discipline, those things that you are teaching them are going to put them in
good stead no matter what they are doing in life?
Definitely.
We'd like to think that because they are so young that they haven't begun to experience
things, negative experiences that are battering their self-esteem and self-image and their
confidence, but it's real.
I mean they can be as young as 10, 11, 12 or 13 and dealing with some really strong
things that are just constantly telling them they are not worth it, that they have nothing
of value to offer ... and I wanted to turn that around.
If you could say one thing to people who are sitting there saying that's how I feel, what
would you say to them?
I would say to them never allow a negative experience to define you or to dictate the
outcome of your lives.
Choice is a powerful thing and you can choose to become imprisoned by circumstance or you
can choose to make life work for you.
I tell my students all the time, make it a good day, make it a great day.
Because you have the power of choice, always have the power of choice.
I love that - make it a great day.
Make it a great day!
That's awesome.
On How To Cook That we have a special way of saying thankyou to people who have gone
above and beyond and are doing amazing things.
And so we have a gift for you, there's some vouchers in there and a Hershey's Kiss, do
you like Hershey's Kisses?
I love Hershey's Kisses!
Great.
And then we also have another gift so if you just undo the ribbon you should be able to
just lift the box off the top.
Gosh I feel like it's Christmas.
And then it should just lift off.
So this is a giant Hershey's Kiss!
It's a little bit bigger than the other one.
I want to see it!
Wow!
Awesome, that is so awesome.
Oh man, oh man!
It has Oreos in it.
I know right.
This is so cool.
That's the touch right there - Oreos.
This is amazing, tastes amazing.
You can find out more about the Nubian Gents on their website and I'll add a link to that
below.
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Make it a great week and I'll see you all on Friday.