Chocolate Kiss and Tell

By Curtis Stone - 2008 Fabulous Food Show

Introduction:

Ingredients:

17.5 oz. high-quality dark chocolate (semisweet or bittersweet), chopped

13.5 oz. cream

1/2 bunch mint, finely chopped

1 chili pepper, finely chopped

Double shot espresso

Instructions:

Divide the cream into three individual pans.  Add mint into one pan, chili into the second pan and espresso into the third.  Slowly warm each pan to a near simmer and remove from heat for 15 minutes.  Place the dark chocolate in a small bowl and set the bowl over a small saucepan of barely simmering water.  Stir constantly until the chocolate melts.  Remove the pan from the heat.  Divide chocolate into three small pots.  Return the pans of cream to heat and once hot strain each pan of cream into one chocolate pot, creating three separate flavored chocolate body paints.  Using a small brush and your imagination, paint away.