Black Forest Cake & Olive Caramel
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Black Forest: Dark Chocolate Cake with Black Cherry Sorbet & Cured Black Olive Caramel
Buddha's 'evil' dessert built around his forbidden ingredient, cured black olives.
Buddha: "Doing a black forest inspired evil dessert with some black olives. Chris gives me cured black olives. They're quite salty. I soak them in water. I rinse them out about five times to get all that salt out. I'm just candying my olives — similar to, like, a praline."
On presentation: "Right in front of you is the evil dessert: black cherry dark chocolate cake, black cherry sorbet. It's inspired by walking into a black forest. The butterfly is going into that evil, but as you go into it gets very dark, very rich — like it swallows you into the swamp. The forbidden ingredient is black olives to go on the side: a black olive filled with black olive caramel."
Michael Cimarusti: "You delivered a great flavor of oil-cured olive without it being too strong. I liked it very much."
Nina Métayer (guest): "I really love these olives. The only thing — I would like a little bit more freshness inside, maybe a little bit more sorbet."
Wylie Dufresne: "I almost wish you had just given me this, because this was fantastic." Padma Lakshmi: "You didn't even need all this. That one little bite was sublime."
