Chocolate Coated Espresso Beans... With a Dood Man Twist...

Alright guys... it has been a long time since I have posted much of anything... so I figured I would post something super awesome!!! Freaking Chocolate Coated Espresso Beans... With a Dood man kind of twist... We shall get to the twist shortly... But first of course we should get started with the basic part... In the bowl pictured above I have weighed out 30 grams of Espresso beans use your favorite brand of course... for best results use a Fair Trade brand or any other organic variety... it is just better for the environment...

Next go ahead and measure out 75 grams of high grade semi-sweet chocolate... I used the bulk chocolate chips from our local health foods store... Now on a side note if you can't measure out in grams just keep in mind you want a 2 part bean to 5 part chocolate ratio... and 1/3 cup coffee beans to 1 cup chocolate ratio...

Now to melt the chocolate you need to use a double boiler... now you could possible own an actual double boiler or you can make one by using a sauce pan with some water and putting a stainless steel bowl or a glass bowl and placing it over the sauce pan...

The bowl should be have the bottom fit snugly inside the sauce pan and have a rim at least twice as wide as that of the sauce pan... 

Now that you have your double boiler set up you can now turn the heat on to about medium and start melting your chocolate...

Stir occasionally until it is silky smooth... look at that sexy chocolate... 

Pour in your coffee beans... also make sure your pets are well fed...

Once you have poured your coffee beans it should all look like this...

Then go ahead and stir those suckers in all nice like...

Until they are all nice and coated like... 

Once you have them all coated pour them out of your bowl onto a wax paper lined cookie sheet...

Spread them out very well until the beans are one layer thin... and space the beans out at least a centimeter apart... 

Just a really pretty picture... or uh awesome... yeah awesome... not pretty... 

and another awesome picture... and of course you could always stop here... which I did with some of them for my veggie friends... sorry... "vegetarians" TeHe... But...

BACON!!! Yes that is right my friends... Freaking Bacon... Why not... Bacon with chocolate is of course... well established junk food... but why not take it to a more refined confection... Fry that beautiful Home Smoked... Extra Thick Cut... Nummeh Num Bacon to an extra crisp finish... I know crispy Bacon is a taboo... but in order to put it on your beans you need it CRRRUUNNCHY!!!

Pat your bacon dry to remove all excess grease... I know, I know... but the grease will prevent it from settling into the chocolate...

Chop it up... Put it into a food processor... pulverize it with whatever ever you have on hand...

Until it is a fine powder... or the closes you can get to powderyish....

Sprinkle your Awesome Dust over your next batch... or batches...  Sprinkle to your hearts content... Make more bacon if you need to... Whatever it takes... Don't let yourself down!!!

And WhaBam!!!!!! BACON DUSTED, CHOCOLATE COATED ESPRESSO BEANS!!!!!!!!!