- Brad you gotta, you gotta spend
more time on Gourmet Makes with me.
- Yeah.
- It's just so much more fun.
- Yeah.
On to the next mission.
- Always.
- Of education and suffering.
[laughs]
Also known as Gourmet Makes.
[upbeat music]
[pots falling]
- Sorry [laughs] sorry.
Hey everyone I'm Claire
we're in the BA test kitchen
and today I'm making gourmet,
Butterfingers.
[upbeat music]
Butterfinger has been on my wish list
for Gourmet Makes for
a very very long time,
almost since the beginning.
It's one of my favorite candies
and it has always been
one of my favorites.
As a kid it was the thing that
I would trade other people for
you know after Halloween
we're all looking at our candy.
I just love the peanut flavor.
I love that it has that unique texture
with all of the really thin layers
of this kind of caramel-y
honeycomb type airy
but still hard and crunchy center.
With just a thin, super super
thin layer of chocolate.
So this one of those candies where
it's a total mystery to
me how they make them
and how during the process of
all of those thin layers of
what's kind of like a peanut
brittle-y substance is formed.
So I think it'll be a
cool learning opportunity
and just excited to eat the
candy cause I love butterfinger.
This is really the only
butterfinger I'm familiar with.
I mean there is this one,
there's the crisp bar.
I remember Butterfinger
BB's when I was a kid
but that's not a thing
anymore apparently, right?
They don't? Oh, there's bites?
Is this what Butterfinger
BB's were turned into?
- Nobody lay a, nobody lay
a finger on my Butterfinger.
- The crispity crunchity peanut-buttery.
- Crispy and with Bart Simpson.
- Yeah, good commercials.
- Great commer, great candy bar Claire
I am stoked for this one.
- Me too.
- One of the best.
- I agree.
- Have you eaten one?
- No no no.
- First of all they almost, like fiber-y.
- Yeah.
- It's almost like, like um,
- Like threads.
- Like um um,
- Like halwa.
- Yes.
- Mm, how do they do this?
It is so good.
- I can see why Bart was so fired up.
- Four grams of protein.
- Ah, it's good for ya.
[laughs]
Calcium, potassium, .6 milligrams of iron.
- Great.
- Good for the kids.
- Uh.
- Peanut soy milk.
Did you do this already?
- We don't really do this part.
Oh no, no, no, we don't
read the [stammers].
- We're not there yet?
- We're not there yet.
- All right.
- See ya brad, sorry. [laughs]
I feel like I just [beeps]
the show up all the time.
- That's all right.
[laughs]
They'll edit it out.
- I keep watching these
episodes and I'm like,
I thought I was in that.
[laughs]
Boy, they just cut it all out.
- Yeah.
[somber music]
It's all right, just don't feel bad.
They cut out a lot of stuff of me too.
[noises]
Thank you.
Maybe the reason why I think
it tastes so incredible
and better than I remember is because
it says that they made an improved recipe.
I'm very interested in reading more about
how they improved it.
It's interesting, like,
it doesn't say what it is.
It just says Butterfinger,
crispity, cunchity,
peanut buttery, but like,
peanut buttery what?
You know how it'd be like
cream filled whatever.
It's like, what is it?
If you were to say what Butterfinger is,
because they say, Butterfinger,
crispity, crunchity,
peanut buttery, but then
it's like dot, dot, dot.
What is it?
- Bar, it's a bar.
- It's like layers of what, like, brittle,
and something more flakey?
It's really unique.
- It is, there's nothing like this.
But now I want to clear all of this off,
and take a closer look and try to really
get in there to like really take a look.
It's like five and a
half centimeters long,
by three centimeters wide,
and about one and a half tall.
It's not perfectly rectangular.
It fans out a bit on either
end and widens slightly.
And now I'm gonna break it open.
This one is hard.
Oh my god, how is it that hard
to break open a Butterfinger?
I'm flaking off the chocolate coating
cause I wanna, very closely, examine.
Okay, ah-hah.
So this gives me a good indication
of how these are created.
If I had to guess, this filling is worked
into long ropes that are then cut in
different lengths to
make the different sizes
of Butterfinger bars.
The two ends are really pinched together
and compressed to make this sloped,
kind of pleasant pillow shape and with
the totally flat bottom.
It is an, just such an
interesting texture in there.
I can't crumble anything or flake it
into any layers just by pressing on it.
But as soon as I break it open, you know,
there is pieces that
kinda want to flake off.
Like that.
This definitely seems to me
like the hard crack caramel,
it just shatters into
these very fine layers.
Now it's time for my favorite part,
reading the ingredients.
Corn Syrup, Sugar, Peanuts, Vegetable Oil
[Palm Kernel Oil and Palm Oil],
Peanut Flour, Nonfat Milk,
Less Than Two% Cocoa,
Milk, Salt, Yellow Corn
Flour, Soy Lecithin,
Natural Flavor, Annatto Color.
Okay, lots of interesting stuff here.
Even though there's not
that many ingredients.
The yellow corn flour, I
think is really strange.
So I'd like to go over to the computer
and start to take a look
online, see what we can find.
Yeah, let's read about
this improved formula.
Wow, in January 2019, Ferrara
reformulated the Butterfinger.
The new bar also uses a higher
percentage of cocoa and milk
in the chocolate coating
and cuts ingredients such
as the preservative TBHQ
and hydrogenated oils.
Okay, so they made it
a little more natural.
They are using peanuts
they're roasting themselves.
That's cool.
What?
In order to get that rich, flakiness,
the recipe calls for the
addition of cornflakes.
So the, the cornmeal is
cause it said cornflakes?
Or something?
I don't know if I believe this.
- [Male] Poured in 100,000
pounds of peanut butter,
mixed in giant vats, along
with another ingredient
that just might surprise you.
- People may not realize
that one of the ingredients
we use in Butterfinger is cornflakes.
- Ah.
- [Male] You heard right.
- The research phase was
helpful and it did give me,
actual pretty good sense of
how the whole thing is made.
So one surprising thing was
the presence of cornflakes.
Not cornflakes the
cereal like we think of,
but a sort of, very fine,
puffed, puffed corn flake,
I guess.
And then it is this, folding technique,
and then it gets kind of flattened,
and formed into these bar
shapes and cut and that,
that is the Butterfinger filling.
And I get that.
Sohla when you have a
minute you wanna talk sugar?
- I failed, so I don't know
how much help I can offer.
- Talk to us about when
you tried to make this.
- Okay, it was a really long time ago.
But it was like, a, a toffee,
and then while it was still hot,
ground peanuts and feuilletine
- Mhm.
- On top, and like, I
tried to fold and roll--
- Uh-huh.
- and fold and roll.
- Uh-huh.
- I think I got two turns.
- And then it just hardened and then
you couldn't do anything with it?
- It wasn't good, I mean, I
sold them to people anyways.
- I think 90% of this, if
not, 95% of this episode
will be trying to devise
a method for the filling.
I'm actually not that
worried about flavor.
It's gonna be all about
the texture and shape.
My plan is to make a toffee,
smear peanut butter over it.
I'm not going to do anything
with cornflakes yet.
I want to just get a sense of the method
and then go from there.
[upbeat music]
- Rhoda found me some of
the good peanut butter.
So my idea is to actually
spread the peanut butter
onto a a greased silpat.
And then basically put it,
peanut butter side down,
over a slab of the toffee
and peel the silpat off.
Also this is a really salty peanut butter.
[sighs]
Oh!
Jeez, ugh.
This is going into the refrigerator
because all of those oils and
the peanut butter will set up.
While that chills I'm starting the toffee.
Toffee is like a mixture
of brown sugar, butter,
and you're cooking it to
the point where the sugar
is at hard crack, but it's
different than a true caramel
where you're taking sugar well
beyond that hard crack stage.
In, you know, above 300 Fahrenheit.
So this is lookin' pretty ready.
[sighs]
Let's do a final temp.
Yeah, we're at 300, okay, great.
I mean, I want it kind of in
the same slab shape as
the peanut butter-ish.
Oh, see, this is gonna be so tough.
It's already hardening.
Ay-ay-ay.
Well this is a mess.
Hold on, okay so here was my plan.
Peanut butter that I can't peel off
onto this slab that is now hardened.
So I have to try again.
This is not gonna work.
[breaking]
[laughing]
What did I cook the sugar to in Mentos?
- Oh, Krispy Kreme, Takis,
[Claire laughs]
Jelly Belly.
- No that was pizza rolls.
Milky way.
- Taki dough.
[laughs]
We lost Mentos!
[laughs]
- But I, but that episode came out.
I wrote it down somewhere.
- Oh, this is it. This is it.
- That's it?
- Yeah, cook to hard crack.
- Oh damn it.
- Does that help you?
- I take terrible notes.
Oh yeah.
- Was that 270?
- Okay.
- Is this the final? Yeah.
- On the second version,
where I'm doing just--
[glass breaks]
[all exclaiming]
- Damn it. Everything's fine.
- Version two is going
to be a mixture of just
corn syrup, a little
water, and brown sugar.
I'm gonna cook it to a lower temperature
and I think I'm gonna quickly
like, pipe the peanut butter
over top and then try to work
with it very, very quickly
and see what I can make happen.
[upbeat music]
I'll cook it to like 270 this time.
I'm piping rows of the
peanut butter over top.
[upbeat music]
It's actually starting
to set up quite a bit.
So I think at this point
I wanna try to cut it.
All right, so these aren't exactly
the nicest, prettiest bars,
but I'm happy that cooking that mixture
to a lower temperature
still let me work with it.
But also allowed it to harden.
[tapping]
It definitely formed lots of layers.
I mean maybe not the most even layers,
but it certainly has
that laminated quality,
which is kinda cool,
I really didn't even think
you could do that with sugar.
The layers are there, and the
flavor's actually pretty good,
It's peanut-y but it's
too sticky, dense, hard,
stick in your teeth.
I have a lot of good thoughts for picking
this up on day two.
Kind of a cool test,
kind of excited about it.
At least I have some, direction, you know?
- [Dan] You feel okay about chocolate
or is that a whole other conversation?
- Oh, I'm not worried about chocolate.
Sohla said she wants to temper with me,
which I am excited about,
so I'm not worried about that at all.
[upbeat music]
Over the weekend I went to a
very special store in New York
that sells a special
product called, feuilletine.
Which has that kind of cornflake-y,
really light crispy texture,
which I'm really excited
to experiment with today.
Because the problem that I
had on day one with the test
was even though I got the
layers and I got good flavor
it was too hard, like, it
was too firm of a crunch
and it didn't have, sort
of, that airy, crispy
separation that a Butterfinger has.
I think in this one, I just want to start
doing a bunch of tests and
seeing how much I can improve it.
Last time I used all dark brown sugar
and I think the flavor was
a little molasses heavy,
so now I'm using a mix
of dark brown and white,
in one to one.
[upbeat music]
I knew it was you, I can just
tell from your footsteps.
- My foot, I have very iconic footsteps.
- Very distinctive, well,
I just, we hear them a lot.
- Yeah.
This is, uh, your favorite
peanut butter of all time.
- I know, it's so good.
- It's the best.
- [Dan] You were a strong advocate in the
Reese's episode for Claire
making her own peanut butter.
Has something changed?
- I was?
I think you have to make
your own peanut butter.
[sighs]
- And I think--
- That's not,
that's the wrong answer.
- I want a deeper
toasty-ness to the peanuts.
- When the only components are
peanut butter and chocolate,
I see--
- Yes.
- the point in making
your own peanut butter.
- Yes, correct.
- But like, this is, this is--
- This is just, another,
you know condiment cheating,
- Yeah, right.
- We don't need to waste our time on this,
we have a very good product.
- I'm not, I'm not trying to go insane.
- I mean it seems like you kinda have been
ever since you started doing the show.
- I know, it's just, I know.
[laughs]
[crashing]
- Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, uh oh.
The flakes are a little bit large,
I wanna break them up so they're finer
because I don't want there
to, them to be so distinctive.
I want them to blend and
disappear into the filling.
But I think the whole thing
could use another hit of salt.
[upbeat music]
So, now I'm applying thin
stripes of peanut butter,
now I'm just folding it onto itself.
Oh [bleeps] I forgot this, damn.
I meant to put that in.
[upbeat music]
Before it fully set, I
want to try to cut it.
[crunches]
Actually, the flavor is very,
very close to Butterfinger.
It's just too many layers of the sugar
that are still too thick.
But it's definitely doing that, like,
shattering, Butterfinger
layers kind of thing.
You can see where there's
like, a thicker layer
of sugar in there, that
didn't really, really stretch.
This has a very, very uniform
interior, as compared to this,
which is a little bit, little bit coarse.
But, but the texture's kind of the same,
it's that kind of shattering,
crumbly, break apart,
I'm kinda into this.
I feel like this version is a little bit
more successful than the last one.
And now what I want to try
to do is the following,
I want to cook another sugar mixture,
and I think the best thing to do is,
before I add the peanut
butter, and the feuilletine,
I should try to start stretching it.
And also, I think I want
to add a splash of vanilla.
[upbeat music]
I want to start immediately
trying to work with it.
Ow, it's really hot.
[upbeat music] All right,
I feel like this is already
maybe working a little bit better.
It's more turning into
threads, rather than sheets.
I made spaghetti Butterfinger.
[snipping]
Ooh.
It's better, the texture is better.
So sticky though.
Flavor's great.
[laughs]
But it still has parts of
it that are really hard,
and gets super stuck in your teeth.
It looks pretty close.
Color is certainly better.
So one idea is to stir the feuilletine
into the sugar while it's still hot,
right off the stove and then pour it out
and start to stretch it that way.
And then working the peanut butter in.
[upbeat music]
- [Dan] Do you think it's gonna work.
- I don't know, Dan.
Inconvenient questions at the moment.
[upbeat music] So one thing
I didn't do before was like,
really enclose the peanut butter
well, and then flatten it.
So this time we're trying
to make more flat layers,
rather than threads.
[snipping]
Ah! Okay.
Oh, yeah, oh yeah.
It's not, that's not gonna happen.
Yeah, well these are
the densest version yet,
sort of the opposite of what I was hoping.
[snaps]
I don't know what to do with this.
[smacking]
Hmm.
I had one other idea to lighten it,
which is to aerate it using
like, a brittle method,
which means stirring a
little bit of baking soda
into the sugar mixture.
And that causes a chemical
reaction where it produces gas,
I don't know.
I just want to try it.
[upbeat music]
[snipping]
The way that it's cutting,
it feels like there's more air in there.
Ooh.
Definitely best version yet.
It feels much less prone
to sticking in my teeth.
You can see, obviously
that this is much thicker
than the thickness of a Butterfinger.
This has chocolate on it already,
but it really does wanna
easily break apart.
- Whoa, it's soft.
- Oh, here.
[laughs]
- I'm saving it for later.
That's very good.
- Yeah?
I wanna just think more
carefully about dimensions,
and shape, and size.
My strategy for forming
the filling into a shape
that will be appropriate for Butterfinger
is to create guides on
the silpat with a Sharpie
and then it's gonna
maybe be a little rough,
but I think it'll be fine.
This time I'm going to
measure the feuilletine,
and I'm gonna mix them
in a bowl with this time,
three eights teaspoon of baking soda.
Which is 50% more than I was using before.
Actually since I know
I'm gonna be adding salt.
[upbeat music]
[chopping]
Phew. I feel really good about that.
They're maybe not perfectly even,
but each one looks similar to the other.
Like, they all look pretty close in size.
Maybe a little tall. But we'll see.
But overall, at least
it has that effect where
there's a flat bottom and
a kind of rounded top.
[crunching]
Mm.
Wow, I think the extra bit
of salt really, really helps.
The flavor is great.
I think it's a little sticky still.
And that's because I
overcooked it a little bit.
But overall, this is still progress
because I was able to form it, and cut it,
and I like this shape a lot better.
I think on day three, I'm gonna come in,
and do one final version of,
it's never a good thing to say,
I'm gonna try [stammers] one
more time to make the filling,
cooking it a little more carefully,
not letting it get away from me.
Today, I got really far,
and actually feel great
about the flavor and the texture.
And I think we'll wrap it up on day three.
Not, no curse.
There's no day two curse,
there's no day three curse.
Mercury's out of retrograde, right?
It has been for a while, I think.
[upbeat music]
What's this?
I just got like a little package in
this drawer [laughs] sent to me.
What is it?
What is this?
Oh, it's playing cards.
Oh my god, these are so good.
Oh my god, I don't know if
it really looks like me,
also look what the back says.
Oh, my god, that's a good sign.
All right.
Put these away.
One thing I'm going to do is,
[laughs] I'm going to
actually put it into this
kind of weird shaped loaf pan as a mold,
and I think that will help
with more separated layers.
[upbeat music]
Some well mixed peanut
butter, tell you that,
so this is the mixture of feuilletine,
salt, and baking soda.
[upbeat music]
The cut had a article that was like,
are sweatsuits appropriate
to wear out of the house.
Obviously I feel that it is.
But I don't, but not all the time.
I just had a really late night.
And I just wanted to be comfortable.
Oh, my god.
[beeps]
I was not paying attention Dan.
[laughs]
[beeps] All right, well
that may be a little hot.
So I'm going to now
transfer it into this pan.
Is this what I did the
last time? Are we sure?
Oh [beeps] I did not, damn
it, [groans] I messed it up.
I forgot to pour that in.
[sighs] Well that was a
trial, it was a test run,
I forgot to put in the feuilletine
in all that whole mixture.
That's why it did seem a
lot different in texture,
is that I hadn't really aerated it.
All right, well that was a good test run.
Let's try one more time.
[upbeat music]
268, 269, all right.
Not gonna forget this time.
I can see that it's aerated,
there's lots of tiny little bubbles.
See how it just generally
looks lighter in color.
This is a different pan, it's smaller.
[upbeat music]
[chopping]
They feel pretty good.
This has, oop, ooh, it's hardened.
And [tapping] it's a good
sign that it broke so easily.
All right, I feel very good
about those flakey layers.
It's a very promising looking texture.
Ooh!
[crunching]
That's it, I'm done.
I don't have to make this part anymore.
Mm, this filling tastes great.
[crunching]
It's very, kind of, shattering.
In the way that the
Butterfinger filling is.
Great peanut butter flavor,
I think it actually could
use a bit more salt.
So I might top with a
little bit of flakey salt.
Cause I think that
could really enhance it.
Sticks in your teeth a little bit,
but overall the flavor is really good,
not too sweet, mm, really does
taste like a Butterfinger.
I'm kinda proud of this.
[crunching]
All right, I'm gonna stop eating this.
I'm gonna move on to
tempering the chocolate,
I'm gonna set up my,
well let me ask Sohla,
cause Sohla likes to
temper chocolate by hand
and maybe she wants to do it together.
Sohla looks really busy,
she's with three people already
watching what she's doing.
I'm gonna wait.
I'm gonna wait, I don't
want to bother her.
What's happening over here?
- Queso.
- Ooh, it smells so good Sohla.
- Do you want to try it?
- I came over here to ask
about tempered chocolate
but now we're having a queso tasting.
- A little taste.
- Yeah.
Mm, I love the flavor, also great heat.
I came over to ask if you had time
to temper chocolate at some point.
[gasps]
And how do you feel about
milk chocolate versus dark?
I mean, I like milk chocolate.
- Both.
- But it's maybe kind of sweet.
- Why don't we do both?
- I know, I've done a mix
before, should we do a mix?
It's just a little harder to temper.
- Or like, one of each.
- Ooh, take your pick?
- Take your pick.
- Okay, I have a great idea,
how about I do milk, you do
dark, and we do it side by side.
- That sounds fun.
- Okay.
- Have a temper off.
[laughs]
- Yeah, but mostly I'm just
gonna do what you do. [laughs]
Um.
Do you mind explaining
what tempered chocolate is?
- When you melt chocolate,
there's like five or six
different crystal structures that--
- Oh, is that right?
- Yeah, it can like reset at
different crystal configurations.
- Uh huh.
- And you're aiming for
this one particular one
and the only way to nail it is by like,
doing this temperature thing.
- So the idea is to get
something that has a snap and
that looks shiny, and doesn't
start to immediately melt
when you handle it.
- We're gonna do the seed method today.
You start by melting a bunch of chocolate,
you want to take it up to at least 95,
it really easily gets
to 95 so don't go crazy.
- Mm-hm.
[laughs]
and then you add back
some tempered chocolate
and then that's got those seed crystals,
to help you get to the, the
right structure you want.
- Okay, we'll get started.
[upbeat music]
Ah, spilling the water.
So Sohla is doing her regular work,
actual job, and I'm going to
take the lead on this stuff.
I got dark chocolate on my
right, that'll be Sohla's
and milk chocolate on my left.
Sohla weighed out 30% of all
the chocolate of both kinds,
and this, I'm, we're gonna
chop, and this'll be the seed.
The milk is almost completely melted,
the dark chocolate needs a little more.
I'm gonna turn up the heat on
that one. Should I temp this?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
Oh, Sohla.
- Is it? Oh let's turn that off.
- Oh, it's off.
[laughs]
I'll take it off.
- But I mean, I think it'll be fine.
- Did I ruin it?
- It's just slightly inconvenient.
- Well, that's pretty much
how this show works, so.
[laughs]
- All right, let's go.
- Okay.
- Seed.
[upbeat music]
- Oh, you're like, really stirring.
- I heard, like, vigorous
stirring is supposed
to help with crystal formation.
- Okay.
[upbeat music]
- Yeah, we're just stirring
until our seed chocolate melts.
If we want to speed it up, um,
I like to do it in the walk in.
[upbeat music]
When we're close, it's gonna start,
like, clinging to the bowl.
It's gonna feel really thick
and like it's gonna set on you.
- Okay, I'm at 74, no 5.
- You should go back over the water.
- Everybody outside.
[laughing]
It's all right, I got it.
Too, too cold.
Ay, ay, ay.
Now I'm making a huge mess.
Sorta miss the sous vide method.
Sohla, I'm set.
- Oh god [laughs] it
tempered into the bowl.
- I mean, it just cooled it.
It didn't temper, it just set.
- Okay.
[upbeat music]
- So annoying and hard.
So now I'm doing a
little test on parchment
to see if it's tempered.
I want it to be streak free, shiny,
and it should snap rather than bend.
- Claire, listen to the snap.
[snaps]
[laughing]
I think we should go on this
guy while it's still good.
- Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Look at the texture of that versus this.
- Well, let's just go dark.
- Like I said, I didn't want
to do milk chocolate anyway.
- Yeah, this is gonna be tastier.
- We're gonna use the
dark chocolate, okay.
So, I'm just gonna dip and then place.
- Cool.
[upbeat music]
- So, I'm just keeping this moving so
it's nice and fluid for us.
We're gonna get Willy Wonka on this.
[tapping]
[sighs]
That was uh, thrilling.
- That was so fast.
[laughing]
That was the fastest I've ever covered
anything in tempered chocolate.
It's so much easier with two people.
- Yeah, I don't know how you do it alone.
- [Claire] They look so shiny!
- They look so shiny, they're totally set,
we're just surrounded by
[laughs]
so much tempered chocolate right now.
This can't be anything but a win.
- There you go.
Oh, you know what I forgot?
This is just flakey salt.
So cool, we're gonna let
these completely set,
and then we'll come back and taste.
I can't believe how fast that happened.
[upbeat music]
You hear about the squall?
- Oh yeah.
- Everyone's talking about the squall.
It's supposed to be here in three minutes.
Oh, warning till 5:30 PM.
- You skipped like, the best part, though.
- What is--
- Sudden whiteouts.
Icy roads.
- [Claire] Wait, view.
- [Delaney] Slow down.
- Um you wanna taste some of these?
- Yeah.
- Can you tell which are homemade?
- I would say these are homemade.
- Yeah, correct.
Sohla tempered the chocolate
and she did such a good job.
It was fast and furious,
but it worked and I learned some stuff.
- Best thing about Claire Saffitz,
she lives her life a
quarter mile at a time.
- Uh, what does that mean?
- The fast and the furious?
- Oh.
- You just said fast [sighs].
- Like the movie?
- Vin Diesel, Paul,
it's all right, it's all right.
You can definitely see the layers.
- All right, ready?
- Yeah, go for it.
- Let's try it.
[crunching]
- Oh!
Claire, that is good.
It's surprisingly flakey.
- Yeah.
- And like crumbly.
In a good way.
- Yeah.
- You know what,
I'm glad it's dark chocolate
cause it's pretty sweet.
- Ah, success.
- Thank you, admit it,
you're a little surprised.
- Definitely surprised. I
thought you were gonna get close,
I didn't think you we're
gonna get that close.
- Oh, love hearing that.
Is it happening, oh it is happening.
- Yeah you don't believe me.
- No, of course I believe you.
- You want to try Butterfinger?
- Sure, I thought a
snack would never come.
- Chocolate tempered by Sohla.
- Mm, it's really good.
- Thanks.
- Oh, wow.
- Look at it now.
- The squall of 2019.
- 15 minutes ago was totally white outside
and now look at it.
- If you're a tourist
and you have a no idea,
you're like what the [beeps].
[chewing]
- I think it, this, you crushed,
I feel like this is one
if your best ones yet.
- Aw, thanks.
- Yeah.
- I couldn't have done it without you.
- Mm.
- Thanks Sohla.
- Thank you.
- It only took me two years to [crunching]
get a little tempered chocolate demo.
- You want a Butterfinger?
- Nobody lay a, better lay
a finger on my Butterfinger.
- Here, I made you one.
- Oh.
Right off the bat.
I do see you achieved some nice layers.
- Mm.
- Color, little off.
- Well I didn't put annatto,
I didn't put any coloring in it.
I kind of forgot.
- Oh, okay.
Oh, you kind of forgot?
- Yeah.
- Is it tacky?
- Not tacky, but it's just
eh, could be a little sticky.
- I mean, not bad though Claire.
- Thank you.
- Actually great layers Claire.
- Thank you.
- Tastes like a god dang Butterfinger.
God dang.
[laughs]
Oh, that was a good bite Claire.
- Good.
I'm proud of you. You
did a great job on this.
[clapping]
- Thanks Brad.
- Look at that, like a goddamn croissant.
- Flakes on flakes.
- You did a great job Claire.
- Aw thanks Brad.
- That was a tricky one.
I was a little worried.
- That actually makes me feel good.
Thank you, here.
- That's why I'm here Claire.
- Aw, thanks Brad.
- Look the white squall ended,
- I know.
- Skies are opening up,
nothin' but blue skies,
sunshine from now on Claire.
All right, go home.
That's a wrap for the day.
- Yeah, oh yeah.
- You worked hard today.
Five o'clock, shut it down.
- Another one in the books.
Surprisingly fun.
I thought this one was going
to be much more frustrating.
But I learned a lot
and it wasn't that bad.
So, kind of, uh, best case scenario for
what could've been a really
challenging Gourmet Makes.
You get one that you think is
gonna be easy and it's hard.
And then you get one that you
think is gonna be hard and
it's easy, it doesn't matter.
Said another way, have
zero expectations always,
and you'll never be disappointed.
It's kind of a philosophy
I've been adopting lately.
[upbeat music]
Here's how you make Gourmet Butterfinger.
For the filling, in a small
sauce pan combing 50 grams
dark brown sugar and 50
grams granulated sugar,
100 grams light corn
syrup, 20 grams water,
a pinch of salt, and a
drop of vanilla paste.
Cook over medium heat,
stirring to dissolve the sugar,
then bring to a boil and cook until
the mixture registers
270 degrees Fahrenheit
on an instant read thermometer.
Remove from the hear and
stir in a quarter cup
feuilletine tossed with three
eights teaspoon baking soda.
Pour the mixture on a silpat,
use the silpat and greased,
gloved hands to fold
the mixture onto itself
several times to aerate it.
Transfer to a loaf pan lined
with greased parchment,
then pipe a layer of
natural peanut butter across
the center of the sugar mixture,
then fold the longer ends
of the sugar mixture over
the peanut butter to enclose it.
Stretch and fold the mixture as many times
as you can before it starts to harden.
When you feel it setting,
pull it into a long strip,
about one and a quarter inches wide.
Use a knife to cut the candy crosswise,
into two inch lengths.
Let cool completely.
For the chocolate
coating, in a metal bowl,
set over a large saucepan
of gently simmering water,
melt 343 grams of dark chocolate to
113 degrees Fahrenheit
stirring continuously.
Remove from the heat and add 147 grams of
finely chopped dark chocolate,
then stir continuously
until the temperature falls
to 78 degrees Fahrenheit.
Reheat the mixture over the saucepan until
it reaches 86 Fahrenheit,
dip the bottoms of the candies
in the chocolate first,
then set them on a cold,
silpat lined baking sheet,
trim around the candies.
Set the candies on a wired rack set in a
rimmed baking sheet and
pour more tempered chocolate
over the tops, tapping
vigorously on the counter
to enrobe the entire
surface of the candies.
Let them set completely.
To 300.
- Wait, can I read this note?
[laughs]
- Yeah, what's it say?
- It's day two, I went home and realized
I could've had a better
attitude yesterday.
[laughs]
- Did I write that down?
That's not my handwriting!
- Someone wrote it.
- Who wrote that down?
It's Dan, I'm sure Dan wrote it.
- Maybe he was quoting you.
- Rude.
- That is so good.
- Was this Mentos day two?
I went home and realized I could've had
a better attitude yesterday.
- I feel like I'm being
trolled by Dan on his vacation.
[laughing]
