I'll start off with the failures first.
I enjoy popcorn a lot, I like eating all different kinds of popcorn. One day I was at the store and I saw a package of pop rocks. I bought a package because I hadn't had any in a long time. When I got home there was a basket of plain popcorn sitting on the counter. That is when I got the idea to try and make pop rocks popcorn. I started out by making a marshmallow syrup like what you would use to make popcorn balls, then I dumped all of the pop rocks into the syrup and coated the popcorn and baked it for an hour. The result was a fail. The pop rocks melted in the oven and no longer had the popping to them.
After a while I decided to try to make the popcorn again but change when I added the pop rocks. I made the syrup, baked the popcorn, and after the popcorn was done, I sprinkled the pop rocks onto the popcorn. I was hoping for a better result this time but the pop rocks wouldn't stick to the popcorn. It tasted really good if you could get some of the pop rocks with the popcorn. It was sweet, fruity, crunchy, and had the popping from the pop rocks. If only I could find a way to get the pop rocks to stick without ruining them.
Oh well, on with the next failure.
It's been a few years ago, but I tried making brownies with a peach frosting. It may sound strange but I had to try it anyway. I made a quick pan of homemade brownies then I started with the frosting. We had some ripe peaches laying around so I cut them up and cooked them with a little bit of sugar. The peaches released a lot of syrup so I removed the peaches from the syrup. I made a simple butter cream frosting and added some of the peach syrup to the frosting for flavor. I frosted the brownies and then topped it with the cooked peaches. Unfortunately the peaches still released some liquid and it made the frosting separate. While I thought that the brownies tasted good, it sure didn't look good.
Ok, enough with my mistakes. I'll tell you about two simple but successful experiments.
I got this idea from +Dairy Queen ice cream cakes. In the middle of the cakes there is a crunchy chocolate layer, not exactly sure what it is. I love anything with mint and chocolate so I decided to try to make something similar to the DQ crunch by using thin mints from the girl scouts (or you could use grasshoppers made by keebler) and Smuckers magic shell ice cream topper. I crushed up the thin mints by putting them in a large ziplock bag and used a rolling pin. After the cookies were all crushed, I put them in a bowl and pour the magic shell onto the cookies and mix up till the cookie crumbs were all coated. I then got a scoop of vanilla ice cream and sprinkled some of the cookie mix on top. The result was delicious. The magic shell hardened when it got onto the ice cream so it was a nice, minty, crunchy, ice cream topper.
My next experiment was messy but fun and easy. I found a grocery bag in our pantry with bags of white chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips, and a jar of peanut butter. I laid everything on the counter then looked in my refrigerator, I found some heavy whipping cream and Reddi Wip. "Perfect", I thought. I knew exactly what I was going to make. I started making a triple mousse dessert.
I started off by making a quick peanut butter mousse by just mixing the Reddi Wip with some peanut butter until it was light a fluffy. Next, I made a double boiler and melted the milk chocolate chips, then I added more Reddi Wip to the melted chocolate until that was fluffy also. Finally I took the heavy whipping cream and microwaved it until it was hot, then put in some powered gelatin that I had softened with a little water. After I whisked the cream and gelatin until it was smooth, I added the white chocolate chips and stirred it until the chocolate melted. I let the white chocolate mix cool then I mixed it with Reddi Wip until it was fluffy.
After I had all my mousse made, I began to layer it in a pan. I put the peanut butter mousse on the bottom, then the chocolate mousse, and finally the white chocolate mousse on top and I let it chill over night in the refrigerator. When I woke up in the morning, I had a very yummy, light, creamy, smooth dessert (yet not so nutritional) for breakfast.
So, after all the things that I have experimented with, a few things managed to turn out.
I hope that you try creating your own desserts. You never know, they might actually turn out to become something genius.
Have a nice night!
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