This Valentines’s day is all about chocolate and fresh raspberries, both rather rare in this household. Never been much into chocolate, with the exception maybe of a good Polish milk and whole hazelnuts chocolate from Wedel. Also, I never buy fruit out of season, raspberries usually make appearance in mid July, we stuff  ourselves with them for a couple of weeks and then we say goodbye for a year, except for the pick-your-own leftovers in the freezer.  But this year, since I ruthlessly pulled Marie Kondo on my home studio and that includes books, I was left with a handful of only favorites, and that included Sweet Paul’s Eat and Make, and that brought me joy as Marie would say.

This is  the first time I used a real melted chocolate in addition to unsweetened cocoa, and the result was …stunning. The most creamy on the inside and slightly crispier on the edges ganache. The raspberries kept their shape but softened gorgeously, and all that was left to do was to clean some space in the freezer, because if you start eating this for breakfast you are in trouble, it is so rich! Happy Valentine’s Day!