People always find something they love, whether its alcohol, coffee or fruit, he says. Of all of the options out there, Torres recommends grabbing a box of assorted chocolates because the team at Jacques Torres puts a lot of work into those flavors. He’s incorporated things like passionfruit, and alcohol like a mojito flavor in the past. Torres admits it’s difficult to keep Valentine’s Day treats novel and exciting year after year, but with experimentation of flavors, toppings, colors and presentations, he finds a way. “I have a lot of friends but I have the most friends around Valentine’s Day,” His shops in NYC are chock-full of gorgeous assorted bonbon boxes, heart-shaped containers full of foiled heart sweets, and bundles of dainty confections. This one-off was before the chocolate’s major holiday, Valentine’s Day, in which Jacques Torres shines. One of my favorite features was when everything was melted, flat on the table.”Įvery day, Torres and his team use a heat gun or a small blow torch to melt chocolate off tables to clean them …”but not as much as today!” he exclaims. It was the first time we’d done something like that, and I love to see everything melting. “Do you believe that? They made me melt my creation!” he says. By the end, it was a beautiful, tye-dye mess of chocolate dripping down and down and down. The chocolate began melting and the hearts and apple fell one by one. Then, in an act akin to the Buddhist spiritual practice of creating a beautiful, sandy mandala and dismantling it, he melted the sculpture with a blowtorch that was more than half his size. It was a chocolate wonder to behold and a centerpiece you might see at an ornate gala. Behind all of this, he added white chocolate flames his team painted in orange, yellow and white. He affixed a massive chocolate apple behind them and decorated the entire thing with sweet decals, from taxis to the Empire State Building, and the Statue of Liberty to V-day-themed icons. Using heat and flame, he molded about a dozen chocolate hearts of different sizes and attached them to the base. Chocolate, invited us into his Brooklyn Army Terminal kitchen to watch the construction and destruction of his creation.įirst, he started with a large, circular chocolate base upon which he built the sculpture. RECOMMENDED: NYC’s top flaming food and drinks to heat up this Valentine’s Day and beyond The pastry chef and Nailed It! judge bravely accepted and crafted one of the most beautiful, ambitious and creative designs in chocolate that we have certainly ever seen…and then completely destroyed it with a giant blowtorch. For Valentine’s Day and Time Out New York’s “Fire Week” theme, we challenged famous chocolatier Jacques Torres to create (and completely destroy) a chocolate sculpture themed after love, New York City and, of course, flames!
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