{"id":2074,"date":"2009-12-16T17:53:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T22:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/?p=2074"},"modified":"2018-11-06T20:54:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T20:54:18","slug":"my-1-favorite-holiday-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/my-1-favorite-holiday-sweet\/","title":{"rendered":"My #1 Favorite Holiday Sweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Right out with it &#8211; it\u2019s chocolate souffl\u00e9<\/strong>. My favorite holiday sweet is chocolate souffl\u00e9. Usually when people do these \u201ccountdown\u201d type blogs, they really stretch it out. It\u2019s not a holiday cake, it\u2019s not cookies for Christmas, it\u2019s chocolate souffl\u00e9, my favorite sweet Christmas dish.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sam6Of4uLpI\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Over the past few days, <strong>I\u2019ve brought to mind many holiday treats<\/strong>, some traditional, some that might be new to you, but all distinctly holiday dessert ideas like croquembouche, bouche noel, spritz cookies, and linzer tart cookies.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nSo why is chocolate souffl\u00e9 my favorite holiday sweet<\/strong> when it\u2019s not directly associated as a Christmas dessert? It\u2019s the texture, plain and simple. On a cold winter\u2019s night, this warm, airy, dessert feels like holiday cake meets chocolate pudding, a mini hearth in a ramekin cup.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nThe soft, warm texture of a souffl\u00e9 is unique<\/strong> because of the two-part mixing method that incorporates a tremendous amount of air. The souffl\u00e9 has no yeast, it has no baking powder. It is leavened by the steam created in the oven. Like a velvet balloon, it rises under heat, and falls delicately back down in the absence of it. I create a momentary snow flurry with powdered sugar, and then burst it with one stroke of the spoon, continuing until I\u2019m desperately scraping the browned-on chocolate from the side of the dish.<\/p>\n<p>Chocolate souffl\u00e9 is another sweet Christmas dish that is much easier to prepare than its French name would have you think, and worthy of your consideration as a holiday dessert. It\u2019s my number one favorite holiday sweet, next to Heather.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/events.genndi.com\/register\/169105139238437402\/afc0f3bfe5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail aligncenter\" title=\"Holiday468x60\" src=\"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/HolidaySuccess250x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"\u201c400\u201d\" height=\"\u201c400\u201d\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Turn Holiday Cooking Stress into <a href=\"https:\/\/events.genndi.com\/register\/169105139238437402\/afc0f3bfe5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holiday Cooking Success<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chocolate souffle is Chef Todd Mohr&#8217;s favorite holiday sweet, more than Christmas Cookies, more than holiday cakes, it&#8217;s chocolate souffle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":24081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[45,46,54],"tags":[229],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}