Chocolate Cures

Hey, y'all

Come on in this kitchen. I am in here with my friend, Max Brenner

He is the king of chocolate. Oh, out of this world. Y'all, he has got the neatest shop in New York City

Chocolate by the Bald Man. Almost like how we go. Today, he's going to show us how to make his

We Need to Talk chocolate pizza. This is almost a healthy pizza, isn't it

And then it's Sweet Dreams Chocolate Fudge. I bet she never had a bad dream again

I'm making a delicious chocolate pecan pie just for Matt. Wow. I can't wait. I have to tell you

And it's a workaholic's hot chocolate for the go-getter in your life

You got whipped cream on your nose. I really do like this guy

The first dish that we're making is a chocolate pizza

Yeah, it's a special chocolate pizza. We call it We Need to Talk chocolate pizza

And this recipe I learned from my girlfriend who, you know this very famous phrase that only girls know

and when boys see it, they run away from the door. It's called We Need to Talk

She decided to create this chocolate pizza for me that when I make it, it's going to be like my dough handcuffs

that I'm totally inside this now. You can't run out of a house with this all over your hands, right

I love it, Max. Well, we made my pizza dough from one of my cookbooks

It's very simple. So we're going to put it in a bowl. Look at me

I can't move. You have got the prettiest bowl of dough. Now we're going to spray our bowl

and then just transfer our dough into our bowl. And we're going to cover it up, aren't we

Yeah, absolutely. And let it rise for about 45 minutes. So. So we cover it with this

Yes, we're dis. Don't y'all like that foreign accent, girls? Dis, it's very romantic

Really? All right, so I'll just carry this over here and sit it down in a warm place somewhere near here

the stove where the pilot lights. Yes. And I've got us one that's already been sitting

for about 45 minutes. And you can see how beautiful this dough is

So all we need to do now is take it out and we're going to knead it just a few times

And then we can cut it in half so that you can make your pizza and I'll make me a pizza. How's that

It sounds great. Look at that. Unbelievable. I'm fixing to punch it

Oh, that's so much fun. This is the perfect dish for that

All right. Can we cut it in half? Yes, cut it in half. So we can both work on it

Yes. Okay. That is beautiful dough. Look at that. Let's go ahead and Max sprinkle a little cornmeal on our pizza stone

Okay, so Paula, you're going to roll it and prepare for us a 12-inches pizza

Well, I'm going to make another very beautiful recipe of chocolate. It's called Sweet Dreams Chocolate Fudge Candy

Sweet Dreams Chocolate Fudge Candy. Okay. You're with me, aren't you, girls

You know why? Why? This was because a little girl came to me once

and she said she has always bitter dreams when she goes to, yeah, like very bad..

dreams. But she said, I have bitter dreams. Bitter dreams. And I told

her, let's create for you a little sweet candy that inside the candy we're going to write a little

tale. And then before you go to sleep, you open the tale, you read the tale

you eat the little sweet dream fudge, and then you have an amazing sweet

dream candy. That is the sweetest story. Okay. Now who is this

little girl? This little girl, her name was Emma. So we were taking this

marshmallow cream. Okay. I called it puff clouds marshmallow cream. Puff clouds

I'm taking seven ounces of marshmallow clouds and put them inside my pan

Okay. Then I'm going to add two-third cup of snow mountain milk, evaporated milk

Oh, I was going to say, what do you call it? For Emma, it was snow mountain milk, so we're going to add this

Now, was Emma in the kitchen with you when you were... Of course Emma was in the kitchen

Emma was always standing on a little stool like this and looking at all this legendary stuff that we were making in this concoction

Then Paula we were taking one and a half cup of what I call Princess Diamond sugar Princess Diamond sugar

Which is regular white sugar. Which is not just regular white sugar

but this was a very good stuff for her dreams. So we put one and a half cup of this Princess Diamond's sugar

I bet she never had a bad dream again. And then we take a quarter of a teaspoon of the lost sea salt

and we add also inside. And that's just regular salt, right? Just regular salt

And we take half a stick of butter and add inside. What did you call the butter

Well, the butter was just butter. Just butter. And then we are cooking this after we boil it

for about five minutes until it really gets thick. You stir or not stir

You have to stir it, otherwise it can totally get burned. Okay, well, I've got my pizza dough all rolled out nicely

So I'm going to go ahead and transfer this one to our stone

While you're waiting for that to boil, we're going to stick this in the oven, Max

and I'm going to put it in a 450-degree preheated oven, and I'm going to let this bake for about 16 to 18 minutes

Exactly. And when we come back, Max, you're doing some more magical things, aren't you

Just because I don't want you to get bored, here is a little chocolate for both of us

I really do like this guy. Coming up, y'all, we're making our Sweet Dreams chocolate fudge

I love it. And later, it's chocolate pecan pie. Moms and dads, if your children are not near the TV, come get them because I am here with the candy man

He's making sweet, wonderful things happen in our kitchen today that the children are going to love

So we're going to continue with our Sweet Dreams chocolate fudge candy

Sweet Dreams chocolate fudge candy. And we're making a chocolate pizza. We need to talk chocolate pizza. Exactly

And we already have the fudge base here. Yes, we cook this for five minutes with the marshmallow fluff and the sugar and the salt

Exactly. So now we're going to add this Milky Way chocolate. I've been eating on this chocolate, y'all, and it's fabulous

And you know why it's so good? Because it's from the Milky Way. The Milky Way

You went way out there and got it. Absolutely. So put three cups of this into the fudge

and you don't have to do much because it's going to melt from the heat of the fudge. And just continue to stir it

Oh, it's already getting chocolatey. Looks fabulous. So you can add another cup

Okay, two cups. And the last cup, and I heard you like to hide your chocolate from other people

but I like to share it. Who told you that I had candy

Yes, I can't tell you. Oh, I do have problems. So we're going to add to this quudge that we are making

It's not just nuts. It's nuts from the hidden forest, okay? From the hidden forest

And we can add actually whatever we want. We can add peanut butter chips

We can add some walnuts. We can add pecan. Just whatever you like. We can add whatever we like

And then... A little vanilla? A little vanilla from Caribbean Secret Island

Caribbean secret island vanilla flavoring. And our sweet dream fudge after five minutes of boiling it and adding the chocolate is ready

So what we have to do now is just pour it here into this pan, eight by eight

And we're going to line it with aluminum foil like this. You totally forgot me, huh

I am so over you. And on to this fudge. It's better to kiss the fudge than to kiss me, I think

So let's pour the fudge here. Yummy fudge. Into there. Now go to our North Pole fridge and put this fudge for..

I love you. All right. Am I putting this away? I can put it

Yeah, you put it, and I'll get the pizza. I hope I'm going to come back from the North Pole fridge

You live in a fantasy world, don't you, man? We're going to put it for two hours there to cool down

and meanwhile, we're going to finish our... We need to talk? We need to talk pizza

We need to talk chocolate pizza. So... You guide me. What we have to do now is cut some chocolate

milk and white chocolate Okay now just need to move this down here Okay Or you gonna cut it there No you cut here the milk chocolate but I gonna cut the white chocolate Okay now how do you want it cut

How big of pieces? You just cut it like small chunks here

Chop it like this. Just like you're cutting an onion or a bell pepper? Yeah, exactly

Take these chocolate chunks, and we're gonna put some white chocolate. That almost looks like cheese on our pizza, doesn't it

Exactly. This is our mozzarella white chocolate cheese. I love mozzarella. Bring your milk chocolate and spread it all over

And now we're going to have... I like the milk chocolate, I think, better than the mozzarella. Okay

Is that enough? This is enough because we're going to have some fun stuff on top of it

and we're going to divide it to a few quarters, little marshmallows

Marshmallows. We're going to do, like, different slices. Exactly. M&M's that are going to crack in the oven

Caramels. And chop them a little here. Melted peanut butter. I'm going to have some bananas here

And then put it inside the oven for another, let's say, three to four minutes

And it's all going to melt down. Oh, my goodness. So open the oven for me

Wait. I cannot wait. I've never seen anything like this pizza, y'all

Don't go anywhere, because when we come back, we're going to taste that wonderful pizza, aren't we

Absolutely okay. Coming up, we're going to taste the most amazing chocolate pizza

We need to talk. Oh! And later, our sweet dreams chocolate candy

Hey, y'all, welcome back. I'm just gathering up all the ingredients that I'm going to need for this dish

that I want to teach Max how to make. Before you teach me, I just finished baking the pizza

Oh, gosh. And we're going to slice it. Look at this pizza, y'all

So after we had so much talking, you tell me what is your favorite

the banana, the peanut butter, the marshmallows, or the covered candy chocolate

You know, I like it all. All right, so... I like it all

Let me give you a little bite of this. The best in the world

No need to talk after this. Believe me. No talking after this

Only love. I have to say something. Yeah. We need to talk

See, I told you, girls, that's how you get them out of your hair

Okay, so instead of talking, teach me how to make this little secret that you promised me before

I knew I could get him away from that pizza. I'm still dreaming from the last time I came to your restaurant

I had a piece of pie of this pecan pie. Pecan pie

Pecan pie. And from that day on, the only sweet dream that I have is about this pecan pie

So you promised you'd teach me this, so teach me. I'm going to teach you how to make this pie. It's so easy

All right. I'm going to get us out a bowl. And what I want you to do is beat up these three eggs for me, okay

No problem. This I know how to do. And just beat them up for me. Okay. Now, we're starting with a refrigerated pie shell

that we have just put and pressed and fluted into our pie plate

Now I'm gonna start by adding about two cups of pecans Now some people like their pecan halves whole

Some people like them chopped up They say that the pie pieces cut better

I want to make the same pie that you make in your restaurant Okay, I'm using halves here today Okay

Alright, so I'm gonna put about two cups Now this is the way we do it at the restaurant

And this way, we know that we've got just the right amount of pecans

You see how I've covered the bottom of that shell? I've got some melted butter over there

If you would pass me that butter, please, Max. And should I pour it inside

Yes, just pour it on in. You cannot mess up this pie. A pecan pie, I promise, you cannot mess it up

All right, now I've got my measuring cup because we're going to measure out a dark corn syrup

And that syrup is going to make almost like a custard. Do you remember when you cut into that pie

and it was kind of like a dark, almost custardy-like? This is exactly the thing I dream of every night

Yes. How much should I pour? So half a cup of dark syrup

Wow, this is so beautiful. Now, the reason we sprayed our cup is because

you know how sticky syrup is. And look, it's good. Yeah, pour it on in

So see the way that syrup just slips away from our dish

And it's so beautiful. Yes, it's so beautiful. And we not gonna lose a drop of it All right now we gonna add one cup of sugar And you can just be whisking all this together for us We don even need a mixer for this pie

And lots of times down here in the South, we love adding chocolate to our pecan pies

So in your honor today, yes, in your honor, we're going to add about four ounces of chocolate

All right, well, let's get some of our chocolate And like I said, we're going to use about four ounces

And you can just kind of chop that up for me. Now, we're going to add one other ingredient that folks in the South have a kind of taste for

The secret ingredient. Yeah, which is a little bourbon. So I'm going to do like two tablespoons of bourbon

Everything in the world tastes so much better if you add some chocolate into it, no

Absolutely. I don't know anything that chocolate can't help. Now, all we're going to do at this point is pour our pie filling over those nuts

Wow. Oh, my God. Those pecans are going to rise to the top

and we're going to see every one of them in there. All right

So we're going to bake this, y'all. We're going to put it in a preheated oven. that's been heated to 375 degrees

We're going to bake it for 10 minutes. Then we're going to lower the temperature to 350

and we're going to bake it for another 25 minutes. I can't wait. I have to tell you

Up next, hot chocolate donut. Get no better than this. I am finally getting to our little sweet dream chocolate candy

Now we took our fudge out and it has hardened perfectly. Now I'm cutting it into little squares and you're getting ready, Max, to make us a hot chocolate, aren't you

It's not just the hot chocolate, it's a workaholic's hot chocolate. Workaholic chocolate

Because when they eat this, when they drink this, they're totally going to get relaxed like a baby

And the secret in this thing will be to make a kind of a vanilla custard because this is what's going to make it really thick

So let's just finish. Yeah, let's finish this. I really want everybody to see these sweet little things

Now, you can buy these little squares of fall, y'all, at like a hobby shop or a craft shop

And all we did was write a little story. We took a permanent marker

Yeah, each one can write whatever story he wants. You can just write a little note and simply say

I love you, kid. Absolutely. Just very, very simple. And we are wrapping our little sweet dream inside here

Isn't that the sweetest thing? So now we are making our custard that is going to be the basic for our hot chocolate

We boil the milk. We take the egg yolks and the cornstarch, and we mix everything together to create a custard like this

Now we take a chocolate. Your milk chocolate. Each one can put as much chocolate as it wants

It depends how strong you want it. Now, I think the best thing with hot chocolate is we can create whatever flavor that we want inside

So we brought some extract here, and you should choose the one that you really like

Gosh, and you've given me lots of choices. You've got a peppermint, which would probably be good

Peppermint, I think, will make the workaholics run a little. You've got an orange extract, which is probably very good

Orange is amazing. And chocolate together. And then you've got the ever-so-popular almond

Okay, so I'll tell you what we do. We take these two little bowls

Now, put a little bit of orange here and a little bit of almond here

and I'm going to pour our hot chocolate on it. All right, now how much? How much, Max

Just a little bit. This is enough, yeah. I'm going to pour our hot chocolate on top of this

Some whipped cream. Mm-hmm. Marshmallows. All right, let's make a toast. Oh, to my favorite ball-headed chocolate man

Oh, my God. What do you say? This is some good stuff

I agree. This is like out of this world. The only thing that really can make it better is with your pecan pie, I think

Honey, this ain't gonna make that no better. This is like the best stuff I have ever tasted, y'all

That's not your pecan pie. Let's cut a... I'm taking my chocolate with me. Yeah, you eat my pie and I'm gonna drink your hot chocolate

Mmm. Mmm. This is the best thing in the world. I can't thank you enough for coming down here

And if y'all are in New York, please look up. Chocolate by the ball, man

Yep. Max, you wanna tell everybody goodbye? Do you know what I say at the end of the show

Sending love and best dishes from Paula's kitchen. To yours. To yours