What chocolate dishes have you made?

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answer:A fellow Fluther user told me about a thing called “frozen bananas”. I had never heard of them, much less tried them, all I knew was it was a frozen banana on a stick that was dipped in chocolate, maybe with some sprinkles of some kind. I decided to make some, so I went out and got several kinds of chocolate and some bananas. The first try was quite bad. I had never worked with chocolate, and putting my melted chocolate over frozen bananas was a bad move, the texture was like brittle sand, not really any good. I went away, and learned how to work with chocolate, how to melt it, how to temper it, and all that. I came back and tried again, this time better, but inconsistent. After playing with my temperatures and mixes and things, I finally got it looking and tasting quite good, with a nice even coat of chocolate. The only down side really, was that the bananas lost some flavor in the process.

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