Mendients

Mendients are a really simple, delicious, and fun way to introduce yourself to the world of confections. They are  tiny chocolate confections that essentially are a small quarter sized disk with nuts and dried or candied fruits placed in a random but eye pleasing way.

MOP:
Pipe a dime sized disk of tempered chocolate onto a silpat.
Knock the silpat on your table top to flatten the disk, this also will increase the size to a quarter size.
Place fruits and nuts on top of the disk.

Variations can include using two different chocolate, using spices, and dipping it in chocolate. Below are a lot of different representations of how I decided to play with this size using the ingredients that I had. Ingredients included in the pictures are: pistachios, toasted hazelnuts, toasted almond slivers, tart dried cherries, figs, golden raisins, dried apricots, paprika, sea salt, cocoa nibs, and pralines.

  

 

 


I only half heartedly apologize for having some fun with these pictures in photoshop.