BadNick

Come to our next bbq event Well we don't sell them but we made a few batches and gave them out at bbq competitions/shows. One of the smoker gadgets we make can be used to make jerky, or for smoking anything you put inside, like habanero peppers. After a couple tries we got the smoke/dry process right, then ground up the smoked peppers ( don't inhale or breath this stuff!) and added them to chocolate. We didn't even get into making our own chocolate yet, though we now have an engineering project to design a "chocolate fountain" ...why? because we can. Anyway, since we had a 5 lb slab of Ghirardelli's that is shipped to us every year for our U.S. Thanksgiving holiday by our California distributor, we mixed the peppers into that melted chocolate; eventually we ended up adding some powdered confectionary sugar to the peppers first and then heating/carmelizing it before adding to the chocolate since that let us cut the heat to our preference. I'm not trying to squeeze in a cheap plug, but if you go to our website there are some interesting bbq related recipes, though not habanero chocolate ...one I like that hits my sweet tooth is "Smokey Mesquite Chipotle Glazed Pecans" which as you might expect, are excellent when mixed into melted chocolate and allowed to reharden; here's the link to our recipe page where you'll see that about 2/3 page down http://www.thebbqguru.com/bbqDisplay...=BBQ%20Recipes

ps: one of our bbq gurus just advised me that you can get habanero chocolates from places such as http://www.fiery-foods.com/dave/chilechoc.asp and http://www.katoproductions.com/