Chocolate has always been a pretty good foundation on which to build a knockout dish. And to the chefs at Chocomelt, the old adage of having too much of a good thing doesn’t seem to hold any sway.
The Kuwait-founded dessert experience, Chocomelt, is all over the GCC, with four branches in its home country, three in Saudi, four in the UAE, and posts in Bahrain and Qatar. Chocomelt’s chef Jemson Jose says: “We create our own recipes and we think out of the box. Everyone knows about Chocomelt due to our uniqueness and our hard work.”
One dish firmly outside the box is the Baby Dynamite, which is a mountain of cocoa with different treatments. “We wanted to give customers a special experience, not just serving the dessert to their table, so we came up with the idea of having it melting in front of them”
Salivating yet? Here’s the lowdown.
The meticulous process
“Each dessert is prepared and layered in the central kitchen, and then transported using special thermo cases. More than 1,000 servings of Baby Dynamite are ordered every week in some stores.”
The secret ingredient
Well, according to Chef Jemson, that would be team work. And with results like Baby Dynamite, who are we to argue?
The chocolate sauce
Chef Jemson would only go as far as saying the milk chocolate sauce that tops the baby Dynamite comes from Belgium. The brand, cocoa percentage and treatment remain under lock and key.
The biscuit base
Not a foundation per say, but Baby Dynamite is trimmed by a peanut sauce and – crucially – crushed biscuit that serves as some sort of edible mass so all that sauce can be mopped up a little bit easier.
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