A MacGyver Chef Thanksgiving: Making Choco-Cranberry Mousse With a Hair Dryer

To respect this most culinary vacation , I found a afters recipe that , in true MacGyver mode , can be made with equipment get hold in a hotel room . Here , ahair dryerprovides high temperature — but could n’t economise this disasterpiece .

This formula is for an ultra - simple chocolate - cranberry hair gel , chosen for its simple mindedness ( only a few well - getable element and no advance skills needed ) . It ’s also appropriate for Thanksgiving , being a gluey - odorous dessert with cranberries , and does n’t require any baking ( only shivery , and this time of year , that means “ put it alfresco ” ) . It does , however , ask some modest heat to create both the cocoa alkali and the hair mousse itself — and instead of using something boring like a microwave or saucepan , you could actually utilise an ordinary hairsbreadth drier .

Equipment :

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• Handheld hair dryer

• Mixing pipe bowl ( anything metal whole caboodle — an ice bucketful , atomic number 13 can the pie incrustation came in , whatever )

• Whisk ( or fork )

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• measurement cup

component :

• Pre - made pie crust

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• 1 loving cup semisweet chocolate chips

• 1 cup vanilla extract - flavored white cocoa chips

• 1.75 cups heavy trouncing emollient , plus 2 tbsp

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• Orange zest

• Whole - berry cranberry sauce

promissory note : formula adapted fromthis one — the original is a traditional recipe , using traditional tools , but “ dispirited heat ” is just so ambiguous that I started looking around for an unexpected source of heat . I find it in a hair dryer . Also , I cheated and used a whisk to whip the cream , but a branching will do the job — it’ll take for a while and it ’s a bit of a forearm workout , but it ’ll work out .

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Step 1 : Get your Proto-Indo European incrustation ready . In the interestingness of forming a recipe that could be made in a hotel room , I first tried one of those cookie freshness that does n’t take baking — vast mistake . As soon as I tried to spread out the chocolate basis on it , the crust collapse like my ego - self-assurance , becoming a mass of gooey disgusting chocolate cookie ( pictured above ) . I ended up going with a frozen pie crust , which unfortunately require to be pre - baked — not very MacGyvery .

Step 2 : desegregate your gross vanilla - flavored chips with a half loving cup of the heavy cream in a medium - sized metal mixing bowling ball . reverse your hair drier on high and hold it against the bottom of the bowl , and with your other handwriting put forward the Saratoga chip - pick mixture easy until smooth . Once it ’s unruffled ( should n’t take more than a few minutes ) , pass over and chill .

I found the right way to perform this balancing act was to point the hair dryer straight up , put the bowl on the nozzle , and press the whole unstable contraption into a table for some kind of stability . This is , of course , highly severe . Hopefully your hair dryer , like mine , is categorical on the bottom side , but if worse come to worst ( or if you ’re some kind of wuss ) , have somebody else hold the hair drier .

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Take another mixing arena , or the first one if you ’ve moved the results of Step 2 to a different vessel , and mix the semisweet umber chip with 2 Tbsp of the cream . reprise the hairsbreadth dryer drinking chocolate - melt proficiency and conjure until smooth . Spread this chocolate mixture on the bottom of the pie crust and quiver .

Step 3 : Beat the relaxation of the cream , 1.25 cups worth , until it ’s stiff whip pick . This is kind of a nuisance in the ass if you do n’t have an electric beater , which if you ’re using this recipe you for certain do n’t , but it does n’t take that long with a whisk . As much as I ’d wish to use aerosol whipped cream here , it wo n’t cultivate ; you ’ve got to shut down some material into the whip emollient and the aerosol eccentric would puncture .

whole tone 4 : Fold the vanilla coffee chip concoction into the whipped cream , along with about a third of a little orangeness ’s worth of piquancy . That ’s about a teaspoon , if you’re able to image out a way to really measure tang . Here I ran into my most damning trouble : My whipped cream was n’t quite whipped enough . It seemed fine as I set down the whisk , but I infer it was n’t crocked enough because it sort of lost its stiffness and turned into gusty emollient rather than rack up emollient once I folded the vanilla extract and orange zest into it . test not to cry directly into this mixture : You ’ll want to , because it ’s the most depressing thing you ’ve ever cook , but it will sum undesirable saltiness .

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footstep 5 : Get out your Proto-Indo European crust and stratum about a third of a can of repulsive cranberry gelatin product on top of the drinking chocolate that ’s already there . Then layer the waver mass of closely - whipped ointment , ugly artificially flavored vanilla extract burnt umber flake , and orange zest on top of the cranberry . The formula I used vociferation for you to race a tongue through the ruined Proto-Indo European to marble the white top with Marxist from the cranberry , but I used that jello cranberry stuff , which is too solid to really spread colouration around . I halfheartedly ran the knife through anyway but it just looks like somebody really weak endeavor to slice the Proto-Indo European and barely made it through the mop up cream stratum . Anyway , chill this lusus naturae for about 6 hours while it sets .

gradation 6 : usually this last footmark would be something upbeat like “ feed ! ” or “ delight ! ” or “ Dig in ! ” but for God ’s sake please do not do any of those thing . Yeah , I may have extra - ruined it with my un - whipped cream and my can - mold cranberry jello piston chamber of sadness , but in my defense , I think this Proto-Indo European had zero Leslie Townes Hope to begin with . What I can say is that the hair dryer was not at fault — it ’s actually not a terrible elbow room to melt drinking chocolate . Usually I ’d apply a double steam boiler but that ’s kind of a pain in the neck to set up and frankly I imagine the hair drier did passably much as unspoiled a caper .

How did it taste ? It try out ugly enough that I actually considered not send it because I thought it might damage the external reputation of American culinary art . It ’s atrocious enough that I would n’t eat it while stone , intoxicated , or literally starving . The bottom layer of chocolate was way too stocky and hard ( since it ’s just melted chocolate with a diminutive bit of cream , it ’s middling much a confect bar , not a mousse ) , the naturally vomitous look of the cranberry jelly remained woefully unaltered , and the whipped cream tasted like an orangish - creamsicle - flavored medicament you might get at the dentist .