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Claire, a pastry chef, attempts to make a gourmet version of KitKat, a chocolate-covered wafer bar. She struggles with making the wafer, tempering the chocolate, and shaping the bars. She gets help from her colleagues Brad and Carla, who offer suggestions and feedback. She finally succeeds in creating her own KitKat after five days of trial and error. She shares her recipe and reflects on her experience.
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- The text is a transcript of a video where Claire, a pastry chef, tries to make a gourmet version of KitKat, a chocolate-covered wafer bar.
- Claire experiments with different ingredients and methods to make the wafer, such as stroopwafel batter, rice krispies, cake flour, cornstarch, and a waffle cone iron.
- Claire also attempts to temper chocolate, which is a process of heating and cooling it to achieve a shiny and snappy texture. She uses the seed method, which involves adding chopped chocolate to melted chocolate and stirring until smooth.
- Claire succeeds in making her homemade KitKats after several trials and errors. She uses a combination of milk and dark chocolate, cake flour, cornstarch, powdered sugar, baking powder, salt, butter, water, vanilla extract, and rice krispies. She also uses chocolate molds, a propane torch, and a thin bladed knife to shape and cut the bars.
- Claire is happy with the final product but questions whether it was worth spending five days on it.