Welcome to How To Cook That: Giant Series

We started this Giant Series a couple of years ago, and I make giant candy bars and give them to people who are doing giant things. We've done a Snickers, Kit Kat, Ferrero Rocher, Mars bar, and a Twix. Today, we're going to make a giant Cookies and Cream Hershey's Kiss. You'll need loads of cookies, of course, and heaps of white chocolate. I'll put all the recipe quantities on the website for you.

To begin, melt and temper your white chocolate. If you don't temper it, it won't set firm at room temperature. I have a video called "Chocolate Secrets" that shows you how to temper chocolate, so make sure to watch that one if you want to get it right.

For the shape of a Hershey's Kiss, we're going to need a mold. The closest thing I could find is a huge funnel. I got this at a car supply store. It's got a few bumps that we don't want because the kiss is more rounded in shape. What we'll do is just shave some chocolate off once it's set to make it match. We obviously need to block the end, so take some blue tape and place it over the end and press it on firmly. Then, put the whole thing upside down into a container to hold it upright.

Ladle some of your tempered chocolate into the funnel and along the sides. You want to make sure you're using real chocolate that contains cocoa butter. Compound chocolate just doesn't taste as good, and we want our Hershey's Kiss to be rich and decadent. Now, let's talk about what makes a great dessert: ingredients.

While our white chocolate is cooling, let's think about the priorities of teaching young men how to become strong, confident individuals. We'd like to teach them the importance of self-esteem, discipline, and making productive decisions that will contribute to their communities. That's exactly what our guest today, Mr. Thompson, is doing with his step dance group, The Nubian Gents.

Mr. Thompson started a step dance group for 70 students who were struggling with low self-esteem and a lack of direction in their lives. But it wasn't just about teaching them how to dance; it was about instilling values like masculinity, integrity, and the importance of making good choices. His approach has been incredibly successful, and his students are now dancing all around the world.

So, what would Mr. Thompson say to young people who are feeling stuck or unsure about their place in the world? "Never allow a negative experience to define you or dictate the outcome of your lives," he would say. "Choice is a powerful thing, and you can choose to become imprisoned by circumstance or make life work for you." He encourages his students to "make it a great day" every single day.

Now that we've learned about Mr. Thompson's inspiring work with The Nubian Gents, let's get back to our giant Cookies and Cream Hershey's Kiss. Once the chocolate has cooled and set, we can break it apart and add some Oreos for an extra-special touch. And what a treat it is! With its creamy white chocolate and crunchy Oreo bits, this giant Hershey's Kiss is sure to be a hit.

If you're as excited about our giant Cookies and Cream Hershey's Kiss as we are, you'll want to subscribe to How To Cook That for more cake, chocolate, and dessert recipes. Click here to find the recipe, and don't forget to check out last week's Magic Moving Cake video, all the giant chocolate bar videos, and my YouTube channel. Until next time, make it a great week, and I'll see you all on Friday!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enWelcome to HOW TO COOK THAT I'm Ann ReardonAnd today we are making a giant Hershey'sKissWe started this Giant Series a couple of yearsnow and I make giant candy bars and give themto people who are doing giant things.We've done a Snickers, Kit Kat, Ferrero Rocher,Mars bar and a Twix.I'll link to that playlist with all of thosevideos at the end...You're are going to love who we give thisone to today.To make your giant Cookies and Cream Hershey'sKiss you will need loads of cookies of course... and heaps of white chocolate, more thanthis, I am just going to melt it in batches.I'll put all the recipe quantities on thehowtocookthat.net website for you.Melt and temper your white chocolate.If you don't temper it it won't set firm atroom temperature.I have a video called chocolate secrets thatshows you how to temper chocolate so you canwatch that one and make sure you get it right.Now for the shape of a Hershey's Kiss we aregoing to need a mold.The closest thing I could find is a huge funnel.I got this at a car supply store.It's got a few bumps that we don't want becausethe kiss is more rounded shape but what we'lldo is just shave some chocolate off once it'sset to make it match.And we obviously we're going to need to blockthe end.So take some blue tak and place it over theend and press it on firmly.Then put the whole thing upside down intoa container to hold it upright.Ladle some of your tempered chocolate intothe funnel and along the sides.You want to make sure you are using real chocolatethat contains cocoa butter.Compound chocolate just doesn't taste as goodand if you're giving someone a giant giftyou want it to taste amazing not just lookgood.Add in your Oreos.Pressing some onto the sides so that you cansee them on the outside of the kiss.Add heaps of cookies and then more chocolate.The more cookies you add, the less chocolateyou will need because it's going to displacesome of that chocolate there.Add more chocolate and more cookies.Temper another big bowl of chocolate and pourit in - this is going to be a huge Hershey'sKiss.If you need to add in some support to makeit stand up straight.Then add more cookies to the top and pushthem into the chocolate.Leave that at room temperature overnight sothe chocolate can set up properly all theway through.Then take your heavy chocolate filled funneland tip it upside down.Give a little shake and it should just fallout, the weight of it there is helping itcome out of the funnel.Now to make it the right shape.Use a knife and gently shave off some of thechocolate round the outside edge there.Try not to touch the chocolate with you fingersjust hold it with some of the baking paper.We also need to get rid of this ridge at thetop.And I am going to use a potato peeler to shaveoff a layer at a time and make it smooth.Now we need the top to be rounded too, it'sa bit taller than we need so just carve intoit and use your peeler to make it round.The funnel is also quite flat and the Kissesare more rounded or dip down, so if you wantto you can use a knife to shave off a layerall the way around.I'm using the knife to shave it off and thenusing the peeler smooth it out.Now you can use all these shavings down thebottom on top of ice cream or a dessert oron top of a cake.To make the wrapper take some foil and placeanother sheet over the top, make sure they'renice and long.Fold it down once and flatten it out, thenfold it over again, this will make our join.Once you've got that flattened, open it upand squash it down.Add a strip of Kisses to the middle I'll puta PDF of this on the website so you can printyour own.And position your Kiss right in the middle.Pull the foil up and then push onto the Kissand smooth it around the shape.Then move around pulling the next sectionup and smoothing it on.Keep going like that, pulling it up and smoothit around the shape, leaving the paper stickingout on one side.If you have too much foil at the top you canjust trim it off and then bend it around overthe top.Continue all the away around lifting and smoothing.Then trim the paper a bit shorter.And there you have a giant Hersheys Kiss,let's go give it to someone amazing.Today I have with me Lamont O'Neil from theNubian Gents.Lamont was a Spanish teacher in New York whenhe noticed that some of his students werestruggling with low self-esteem and had alack of direction in their lives, so he thoughthe'd do something about it.He started a step dance group and 70 studentssigned up and now they danced all around theworld.Can you say welcome to How To Cook That inSpanish?Bienvenido a cómo al cocinero queApart from actually teaching them how to dance,which they do amazingly well, what are theother priorities - what are you trying toteach?Basically how to be men.Men of valour, men of integrity, how to makeproductive decisions that are going to contributeto the communities within which they live.And that discipline, those things that youare teaching them are going to put them ingood stead no matter what they are doing inlife?Definitely.We'd like to think that because they are soyoung that they haven't begun to experiencethings, negative experiences that are batteringtheir self-esteem and self-image and theirconfidence, but it's real.I mean they can be as young as 10, 11, 12or 13 and dealing with some really strongthings that are just constantly telling themthey are not worth it, that they have nothingof value to offer ... and I wanted to turnthat around.If you could say one thing to people who aresitting there saying that's how I feel, whatwould you say to them?I would say to them never allow a negativeexperience to define you or to dictate theoutcome of your lives.Choice is a powerful thing and you can chooseto become imprisoned by circumstance or youcan choose to make life work for you.I tell my students all the time, make it agood day, make it a great day.Because you have the power of choice, alwayshave the power of choice.I love that - make it a great day.Make it a great day!That's awesome.On How To Cook That we have a special wayof saying thankyou to people who have goneabove and beyond and are doing amazing things.And so we have a gift for you, there's somevouchers in there and a Hershey's Kiss, doyou like Hershey's Kisses?I love Hershey's Kisses!Great.And then we also have another gift so if youjust undo the ribbon you should be able tojust lift the box off the top.Gosh I feel like it's Christmas.And then it should just lift off.So this is a giant Hershey's Kiss!It's a little bit bigger than the other one.I want to see it!Wow!Awesome, that is so awesome.Oh man, oh man!It has Oreos in it.I know right.This is so cool.That's the touch right there - Oreos.This is amazing, tastes amazing.You can find out more about the Nubian Gentson their website and I'll add a link to thatbelow.Subscribe to How To Cook That for more cakeschocolates and desserts, click here for therecipe, here to go to last week's Magic MovingCake, here for all the giant chocolate barvideos and here for my YouTube channel.Make it a great week and I'll see you allon Friday.\n"