Pastry Chef Attempts To Make Gourmet Skittles | Gourmet Makes | Bon Appétit - Summary

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Claire, a chef in the Test Kitchen, attempts to make gourmet skittles from scratch using natural ingredients and flavors. She goes through several trials and errors to create the chewy filling, the thin shell, and the vibrant colors of the candy. She enlists the help of her colleagues to pull, shape, and taste the skittles. She finally succeeds in making a batch of lemon, lime, orange, and strawberry skittles that look and taste similar to the original ones. She also shares the recipe and the steps involved in making the skittles.

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1. The text is a transcript of a video where Claire attempts to make gourmet skittles.
2. Skittles are small candies with a hard shell and a chewy center, and they come in five flavors: grape, strawberry, green apple, lemon and orange.
3. Claire tries different methods to make the center and the shell of the skittles, such as taffy, royal icing, hard candy and pastillage.
4. Claire gets help from her colleagues in the Test Kitchen, such as Brad, Molly and Chris.
5. Claire uses natural ingredients to flavor the centers, such as citrus zest, freeze-dried strawberries and citric acid.
6. Claire uses an airbrush kit to spray food coloring on the skittles after they are shaped and dried.