Chocolate Burrata

So this is something new I have been working on.... So I love a good burrata... beautiful smooth mascarpone/ricotta filled mozzarella.... The textures of a burrata are amazing and delicious so why not not try to replicate those textures with chocolate.... So this is my chocolate burrata. It is a dark chocolate "curd" filled with a smooth cashew-milk chocolate ganache. It is served with cashew and coconut. I am trying to develop a new dish using the more italian flavors of chocolate, vanilla, pistachio, and amarenna cherry. I noticed our amarenna cherries look a lot like olives which I think will be fitting.. Keep posted!

inspiration: bananas

For your viewing pleasure....

 Fried Brioche / thyme / acacia honey / fromage blanc

 truffles

 truffles

 staff meal dessert

fennel sorbet / apples compressed with absinthe / celery / meyer "lemon heads"

Tres Leches

This is the "Tres Leches" we have on the menu. It is pretty straightforward yet tastes great. It is a Coconut Cake soaked in the three milks.... It is served with roasted white chocolate, a roasted cashew crumble, coconut puree, and cilantro. I couldn't find an ice cream or sorbet flavor that I would add to the dish so I went quenelle-less with this one. But hey it just doesn't need one.

Roasted Banana Mousse

StarChefs!

Congrats to Tyler Anderson and all our staff at The Copper Beech Inn for making it onto Starchefs.com!

http://www.starchefs.com/cook/photos/chef-tyler-anderson-pips-copper-beach-inn-ivoryton-ct

The last two dishes are my desserts!!

Mascarpone

New Dessert:  Mascarpone Cremeux, milk chocolate, espresso, lemon stracciatella sorbet

This dessert showcases some of my favorite italian flavors. I find that chocolate and lemon is a surprisingly great combination. The sorbet is similar to an italian ice and has subtle notes of limoncello. It is a stracciatella in that when the sorbet is churning, I slowly pour in tempered dark chocolate. It sets instantly and makes tiny shards of chocolate dispersed in the ice cream. It is a refined chocolate chip ice cream except that it is actually sorbet. The puffs are meringues made with pure espresso. They are packed full of intense espresso flavor in a little puff that dissolves in your mouth.

My favorite part of this is dessert though, is that it is totally gluten free. It has a flourless cake, flourless cocoa crumbs, and gluten free puffs. Gluten free diners don't even believe that it is when they look at it but it is sans gluten!