My daughter, Amber, has decided that chocolate fondue is the height of sophistication.
She is interested in anything from the 1960s. I think it is funny when she asks
me questions about the 1960s, like I would know. I wasn’t born until 1969. My
parents didn’t
have chic fondue parties with friends.
Amber found a website that had different recipes for chocolate fondue. She
and her friends talked me into letting them try a new one every Friday until
they had tried them all. They were going to try to rate each one and decide
which one was their favourite. I thought that it sounded like a lot of fun.
I can think of worse things for a Friday night than chocolate
fondue with friends.
I almost re-thought my original excitement when I saw which recipe for chocolate
fondue that Amber had picked to try the first night. She picked dairy-free
organic chocolate sauce. This did not sound very delicious to me. The ingredients
were low-fat organic vanilla soy milk, sucanet sugar, organic unsweetened cocoa
powder and arrowroot.
I asked Amber why she had chosen this dairy-free recipe for chocolate fondue
and she said that one of her friends had a visiting cousin that was a vegan.
She had decided, with her friends, that they wanted to include this cousin
and they didn’t mind tasting and reviewing the recipe. She said it would be
fun if it was good, but it would be hilarious if it was inedible.
I didn’t taste the non-dairy chocolate fondue. I waited until the next Friday
night when Amber and her friends made Chocolate Fondue a la Chalet Suisse.
The recipe sounded luxurious and the ingredients looked decadent. The recipe
called for Toblerone chocolate bars, heavy cream and Cointreau. I could hardly
wait to try this fondue.
The a la Chalet Suisse Chocolate Fondue was wonderful. I helped the girls
get all of the dipping items ready in the kitchen. We cut two angel food cakes
into chunks, we sectioned tangerines and we sliced strawberries. The food looked
so pretty before we all started eating. I wish that someone had been taking
pictures.
There have been so many chocolate fondue parties this year at our house.
I have enjoyed every one of them. My favourite one has to be the first one,
though. It was just so nice to see Amber and all of her friends laughing and
having so much fun cooking together. I don’t think I’d had a kitchen full of
girls cooking since Amber was ten. It was nice.
