Fondue ideas?!
Fondue ideas?
I got a chocolate fondue fountain for christmas and the directions say we can put other things in it such as cheese. Any ideas about what to put in the foundue fountain or what to dip in it?
Answers:
Try chocolate and dip marshmallows and then roll the marshmallows in gram cracker crumbs to make a kind of smore. You could dip bananas in the chocolate then roll them in nuts. Maybe you could devise a dipping device that would dip different nuts into the chocolate...or raisins. It would have to be a wire type thing with a loop on the end to balance the nuts...like an Easter egg dipper wire except smaller loop. How about bananas into melted peanut butter or celery into melted cheese or peanut butter. The possibilities are endless. Sounds like fun!
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Cheese fountain? Eww.
For chocolate, dip strawberries, marshmallows, pineapples, cheesecake, brownies, graham crackers, cookies, and anything else that would be good with melted chocolate.
Marshmallows, strawberries, pineapple, banana, orange slices, cookies, and yes I'm sure you're going to say HUH? but pieces of ham or chicken.
I don't know how is your fondue fountain or if it could take this suggestions, but the original fondue recipes were made with cheese. A friend of mine likes to fry a couple of cloves of garlic, slivered, in olive oil until they start changing color. She adds Gruyere cheese and cooks on a low heat until the cheese melts, sometimes she adds a tiny glass of kirsch. She pours this into her fondue pot and takes it to the table. We all just dip bread and it tastes heavenly.
She has treated us also to diced fillet or sirloin steak using hot oil as cooking liquid -again, she heats the oil in a pan and pour it hot into the pot- and having a selection of sauces to dip the cooked meat: horseradish sauce, mustard, etc. Apparently you can also cook fish this way, but the time she served fish, she used some kind of stock as cooking base.
We have also had a vegetable fondue using stock as cooking liquid. She used carrots, zucchini and such cut into thick sticks. A selection of sauces to dip the cooked food makes it more interesting.
I hope you can try lots of different combinations.
I think that you would have to have a very large party to have that much cheese fondue. But if you do - different types of breads and vegetables are wonderful.
For chocolate fondue you can use any fruit (oranges, bananas, apples), berry (strawberries, freeze raspberries on a skewer), pieces of cake, pretzels, cookies. etc.
you can also use bbq sauce. Just cook up bite sized pieces of chicken, pork and beef and some bread cubes and you can have a little snack this is a little bit hardier.
cheese to dip freshly baked pretzels, white chocolate to dip strawberries or animal crackers or cookie wafers.
As far as chocolate fondue goes, I love buying the chocolate and peanut butter chips. Melt them down with a bit of milk or cream, and dip bananas, strawberries, marshmellows, dried apricots, cheesecake, brownies, or pineapples in it. As far as cheese fondue, I like a swiss blend of cheeses and believe it or not, my favorite thing to dip in cheese fondue is apples. It's sooo good. Bread and chips are good as well. But a nice sour apple in yummy cheese is the best....
Caramel fondue is a dream...
Chocolate along with strawberries!
I bought one of these too. It's a little messy and difficult to clean, especially after a few drinks. But, you can put just about anything with a low melting temperature in it... cheese or caramel are probably the two most common.