Written and filmed by Chef Samantha Buyskes of Simply Red Events and Culinary Adventures, FLX, NY Ingredients you’ll need for the Charcuterie Chalet: As long as your chalet is built entirely of food items and kept at food-safe temperatures while stored, there’s no reason not to eat it when you’re done! Chef Samantha Buyskes of Simply Red Events and Culinary Adventures put together a great recipe and instructional video so you can make (and eat!) your very own Charcuterie Chalet at home! The trend of building Charcuterie Chalets for the holiday season seems new, and we are here for it. Now imagine it’s made out of ham, salami, mustard, and pickles! Anything edible that you would normally find on a charcuterie board is fair game: crackers, pretzels, honey, nuts, pickled vegetables, and of course cured meats. Imagine a small, cozy ski lodge with a crackling fireplace inside. Candy cane columns, gumdrop pathways, and walls of gingerbread and frosting.īut some genius out there saw the gingerbread house trend and said: “why not a savory, holiday-themed edible house?” At that moment the Charcuterie Chalet was born! Instead of using cookies, frosting, chocolate kisses, and other candies and sweets, a Charcuterie Chalet is made of cured meats, mustard, and other salty and savory accouterments.Ī chalet (pronounced: shall-AY) is a wooden house or cottage, typically associated with the Swiss Alps. Glue to the front.There is a new form of edible architecture that has a lot of people talking, so we wanted to know: what is a Charcuterie Chalet and can I eat one? You have probably heard of the holiday tradition of building gingerbread houses. Using a small piece of graham cracker, glue 2 cut pretzel sticks around it.Use the gaps to glue more pretzel sticks. Finish glueing the rest of the cereal on the top of the awning.Prop up with a piece of cinnamon stick that has been cut to fit the height. Glue over the base of one side of the bottom of the roof. Break 1 graham cracker in half, length wise.Take the 2 remainder graham cracker squares and gently cut into an angle to fit along the sides of the roof.Spread more sugar paste over each side of the roof and coat evenly with gluten free cereal.Using the paste create a sealing within the 2 graham crackers at the top. Place 2 more graham crackers on top to create a roof. Add paste to the tops of only the long parts of the rectangle.Make sure to keep the other halves as you will need to carefully cut at the tops to create an angle for the roof. “Glue” with the powdered sugar paste along the sides to connect with 2 graham crackers (that have been broken in half to create 4 squares). Take those same 2 graham crackers that have the pretzels on them and turn on the longer side and place parallel to each.Place the pretzel sticks even over the cracker. Take 2 graham crackers and coat with the sugar paste.Place into a plastic baggie with a small slit cut out of the corner or a piping bag.If too runny, add 1 tablespoon of sugar until a consistency of paste has been reached. Combine the powdered sugar and water and mix until a thick paste has been formed.Memorialize this summer by making your own Edible Pretzel Log Cabin, created with pretzels and cereal! Don’t look behind you as if you don’t think I’m talking to you… Need some visualization with how to make this Pretzel Log Cabin of your own? I knew you would ask! It’s why I made this video tutorial just for you. The sun is shining, the trees are green and healthy, and this Pretzel Log Cabin is invoking you inside for summer fun and relaxation. No reefs hung on the door, this is a 4th of July celebration so we are hanging the American flag. I love the idea of taking holiday traditions, creating a twist, and placing them at a different month in the calendar and call it a new tradition. So there I was, staring at these pretzels, trying to think of what they resemble and how they could be used and it hit me like a load of logs: A Pretzel Log Cabin. Definitely not glamorous but I get asked that question a lot and now you know. If I am not standing in the middle of a grocery store aisle staring off into space, trying to think of how many ways I could use (inset product here), I’m at my home staring off into a blank piece of paper jotting down ideas and sketching it out after deep thought. Just so you know, this is how 95% of my ideas arrive. I had a bag of gluten free pretzel sticks I bought for the TeePee Cookies that needed to be used up so I sat there staring at the bag, wondering what other uses could be used. Who says that you have to create gingerbread houses only for winter? I say we start a new tradition over here that summer is for the edible house building.
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