To Your Heart’s Content

Also known as “An excuse to have lemon curd in my home.”  Seeing it on the shelf at the store sparked inspiration for this one, especially knowing there were already crispy ginger cookies in the cart.

Ingredients

• Luscious Lemony Meringue Plush Puffs and Chocolate Chipetta Plush Puffs
• Ginger cookies, such as Trader Joe’s Triple Ginger Cookie Thins
• Lemon curd

Spread a liberal amount of lemon curd on one ginger cookie.  Toast up a Luscious Lemony Meringue and a Chocolate Chipetta marshmallow until soft and melty.  Top with another ginger cookie.

The combination of lemon and chocolate is very sophisticated.  The crispy ginger cookie ads a nice bite that sends you to make another s’more.  And another.

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S’mores bars at weddings, birthday parties and celebrations of all kinds are starting to catch on.  They add whimsy and fun to an elegant event and taste good to boot.  Using Plush Puffs Gourmet Marshmallows keep the elegance and sophistication of the event going even when all your guests revert back to childhood days of toasting ‘mallows over a campfire.

And it couldn’t be easier to create an eye catching s’mores bar that will have your guests raving for years.

Set up a table that matches your linens and decor for your event, with an extra vase of flowers or just a few of your flowers sprinkled around.  And here’s all the other things you’ll need to make a memorable s’mores bar!

• 2 pounds of Plush Puffs Gourmet Marshmallows per 75 guests (we recommend 1 pound each of 2 flavors)
• A fun selection of cookies.  About 300 cookies/crackers for 75 guests to have 2 s’mores each.  We love using Petit Ecoliers, snickerdoodles, graham crackers, Trader Joe’s Meyer Lemon or Ginger Cookie Thins or Pepperidge Farm Chessmen, Brussels, or Geneva for example.
• About 150 chocolate squares per 75 guests.  We often use a mix of individually wrapped Ghirardelli squares.  You may want some extra for general chocolate munching
• 2 “toasters” per 75 guests
  • 2 white dinner sized plates
  • 8 Sterno 2-hour gel chafing fuel cans.  This will be enough for 2 toasters for 4 hours, plus some extras.  Someone will have to replace the cans after 2 hours.  They are inexpensive and can be found at party supply stores or Smart-n-Final and similar stores
  • 2 ramekins just big enough to hold the Sterno cans
  • A long stick lighter to light the Sternos
• About 300 wooden skewers (4 per 75 guests).  They come in packs of 100 at Smart-n-Final
• 2 to 4 vases to hold the skewers, point side down
• 4 jars to hold the marshmallows, 2 for each flavor
• 4-6 plates to hold cookies/graham crackers and chocolate.  You can also spread the chocolate squares around the table if they are individually wrapped.
• Napkins and/or small plates on the table for guests to assemble their s’mores on and de-stick with.

It’s as easy as that.  Have your caterer set it up or as a friend or family member to help out.  The only maintenance is to make sure the Sterno is replaced when the fire is running out and replenishing any ingredients or skewers if they are running low.

Have fun!

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I was seriously craving chocolate this week.  Maybe it was withdrawal from the massive amounts of delish offerings from the Winter Fancy Food show in January.  So the solution was this perennial favorite of Plush Puffs.

Ingredients:

• A good, buttery cookie with chocolate.  We like the Petit Ecoliers in the picture
• Chocolate Chipetta Plush Puffs

Toast up 2 Chocolate Chipetta marshmallows and sandwich them between 2 cookies.  Indulge.

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Especially giant green ones.  Pre-order a green Vanilla Bean “Big One” (2-pound cake-shaped) Plush Puff for your St. Patrick’s Day celebration now!  Better than a pot of gold and goes great with green beer.

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Strawberries. Marshmallows. Purty, fancy cookies.  Sounds like romance to me!!!

Ingredients

• Florentine cookies with chocolate such as Trader Joe’s Lacey’s
• Thinly sliced strawberries
• Chocolate Chipetta Plush Puffs

Arrange a layer of Florentines on a plate, chocolate side up.  Toast Chocolate Chipetta Plush Puffs and put 2 on top of each Florentine.  Top the Plush Puffs with enough sliced strawberries to cover all all the marshmallow.  Top the strawberries with another Florentine, chocolate side down.

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Plush Puffs’ President and Head Chef Ann was inspired this week to create this caramel-y delicacy.  Now, how do I get her to make it for me……..

Ingredients:

• 2 slices of Granny Smith apples (cut about 1/2″ thick)
• 6-10 Vanilla Caramels
• Caramel Swirl Plush Puffs (about 2)
• Toasted Pine Nuts (optional)

Arrange the sliced apples on a plate.  Melt the caramels in the microwave for about 10-15 seconds.  Drizzle the caramel over the apples and top with the Caramel Swirl Plush Puffs.  Using a chef’s torch or a small broiler, brown the marshmallows until just gooey (do not over brown as they will turn into a puddle), sprinkle with toasted pine nuts and enjoy!!

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Even here in sunny California it gets chilly at night (it got all the way down to 55 degrees F Thursday night! Oh my!).  There is no better way to warm up than a good hot chocolate.  Here’s a recipe for an indulgent, creamy hot chocolate that comes from the book Hot Chocolate by Michael Turback.  We’ve added a few accoutrements of our own to transform it into a drinkable S’more.

Double Chocolate Hot Chocolate

• 1 1/3 Cups Heavy Cream
• 1 1/2 Cups of Whole Milk
• 11 oz. Dark Chocolate finely chopped
• 5 oz. Mile Chocolate finely chopped
• 3 Tbs. Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
• pinch of salt
• Graham crackers, crumbled
• Big bowl of Vanilla Bean Plush Puffs

In a heavy saucepan, heat the cream and milk together until bubbly around the edges.  Remove the pan from the heat and add the chocolates, the cocoa powder and the salt.  Let sit for 15 seconds, then whisk until smooth.  Top mugs of the chocolate milk with the Plush Puffs and sprinkle with crumbled graham crackers.

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It’s been a loooooooong week for Plush Puffs.  The NASFT Fancy Food Show, torrential rain, and more.  So we’re just too tired to come up with an original S’more of the Week and we’re copping out.  But I promise you won’t be disappointed with the taste and fun of this one – and it couldn’t be easier!

Easiest S’more Evah

Ingredients

Simply S’mores Plush Puffs

Directions

Toast a Simply S’more Plush Puff.  Eat it.

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This week we announced the first of our new Special Limited Edition Plush Puff flavors – Sydney’s Cinnamon. This fabulous flavor is usually only available in bulk, but for a short time, we’re packaging it in our retail boxes. These taste fantastic in hot chocolate making them a great pairing with some mugs as a Valentine’s Day gift. But they also make for some fabulous s’mores. This week’s s’more recipe uses some very special chocolate from our friends at Poco Dolce, Aztec Chile chocolate “tiles” that are made of bittersweet chocolate with cinnamon, ground chiles, roasted pumpkin seeds and topped with grey sea salt. These highlight the sweet cinnamon of our Sydney’s Cinnamon Plush Puffs and make a great s’more.

4 servings

Ingredients:
8 Cinnamon graham crackers halves or 8 snickerdoodle cookies
8 Sydney’s Cinnamon Plush Puffs
4 Poco Dolce Aztec Chile tiles

Place 4 graham cracker halves or 4 snickerdoodles on a plate. Top each with an Aztec Chile tile. Toast up the Plush Puffs over an outdoor fire or over a gas stove (reminder of our recommended toasting techniques here). Put two toasted Plush Puffs on top of the chocolate tiles. Top the s’mores with another graham cracker half or another snickerdoodle cookie.

Hope you enjoy!

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Valentine’s Day? Already? It’s sooner than you think! Don’t wait to the last minute to get something sweet for your sweetie. A selection of gourmet marshmallows, a couple colorful mugs and some good hot chocolate make an exceptional and unique gift for anyone. We suggest our Peppi-Mint Plush Puffs and this romantic recipe:

Naughty Hot Chocolate
Heat 3/4 cup whole milk
Add 2 Tbs. Dark Chocolate Chips
Whisk until melted

Pour 2 Tbs. of Vanilla Vodka in a coffee or cocoa mug
Pour the milk mixture over the Vodka
Top with Peppi-Mint Plush Puffs

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