Celebrating five years: A delightful date night dessert fondue

Hi Bold Bakers, I'm really excited for this episode, as you can see I've got my husband Kevin here. Hi everybody. And we are celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary. And we're going to show you how to make an incredible date night dessert fondue. And I'm going to tell you a story that I never told you before. I am going to tell you the story of how myself and Kevin met. So you guys know that we created Bigger Bolder Baking together online, but what you didn't know is we actually met online on Match.com. So six years ago I was living in San Francisco. Dates were thin on the ground for me, guys weren't beating down my door. So a friend suggested that I try Match.com. So I set up a profile, I went on a few dates, met some nice guys, and then soon after I met Kevin. And what Gem didn't mention is she actually reached out to me and I'm all the luckier for it. But why not? I'm a girl who knows what she likes. So we even found some of our original messages on Match.com back and forth and made this picture out of it as well. I remember that picture actually, it was Ireland, wasn't it? Yeah, absolutely. So here's the great news, Match.com have offered all of you a 7-day free trial and I strongly suggest that you try it out if you're dating. All you have to do is go to Match.com forward slash Gemma and you'll get your 7-day free trial and just so you know, this is worldwide so you can use it anywhere. We're happy to be a success story from Match and we think you guys can have a lot of success with it too. Yeah, so go online, check it out, I know you won't be disappointed. Should we get started on our fondue? Yeah, we're gonna start out by making our butterscotch sauce. In a heavy bottom saucepan, add in your butter, brown sugar, and cream. Then turn the heat on and let all these ingredients melt. Once it comes to a simmer, let it bubble away for around three to four minutes. So while that's bubbling away, we have some lovely, delicious accoutrement to go with our fondue. So here I have some pound cake, and all I'm gonna do is just slice it nice and thick, You want to make sure there's nice big pieces so they stick on the skewer, and then go ahead and cut it the opposite way into nice big chunks. Now Kevin, while I'm doing this, what have you got going on over there? Alright, so I have a wide array of things to dip in our fondue as well. The cool thing is, is that you can really use anything that you want. These are some of my favorite things, like fruit, just a wide variety of just beautiful, colorful, fresh amazing fruit here. We have some marshmallows. Marshmallows are pretty amazing. Oh, look at these guys. I voted for these. Oh, remember, no eating the props. My show. And then all you do is you take one of your skewers and again, you can use toothpicks. You can use kind of one, you know, some of those longer skewers and then you put your fruit on them. So you guys get to enjoy Gemma's recipes through Bigger Bolder Baking, but I get to actually enjoy them every single day. Sorry about that. I know. So I don't think it's going to be any shock to anybody out there that I am a feeder. I love to feed people. I love to make them stuff, love to watch them eat. I used to carry gingerbread in my handbag when I first met Kevin and I have a little Ziploc bag and everywhere we went, I used to take out a little Ziploc bag and feed them until one day he said to me, you have to stop. You have to stop. Okay, so you just want to keep building your skewers here again, mix and match with a variety of your different fruit, again just make it as colorful and as beautiful as you can because you know it's date night. Nice, I'm gonna check on the butterscotch sauce, so this is bubbling away I'm just gonna whisk it to bring it together, it's a lovely golden brown this is exactly what I want. So into this I'm going to add in a pinch of salt, and if you have it a little bit of vanilla extract for extra flavor, and then just whisk it all together. That smells amazing. This is gonna be so yummy. Okay so we have all of our accoutrements, we have our sauce, now let's bring in our platter and start to build our dessert. So now here's our dish, and as you'll notice, you don't actually need a traditional fondue set to make this dessert. You can use any kind of bowl, or like a little ramekin, anything you have to put in your sauce. Make it easy, it's supposed to be date night, it's supposed to be fun. So what we're going to do is just go ahead and start to bring together our platter. So Jen, we had a lot of great dates that first year. Yeah. Well, we got engaged after our first year, so it was a little bit of a whirlwind, wasn't it? It was. We did actually a few months only into dating. Myself and Kevin. Kevin took me to Hawaii, to Maui, which was awesome. That was a lot of fun. It was actually only after three months. That was pretty fast, wasn't it? You must have really liked me. I sure did. And then we went to Disneyland. You took me on a surprise trip to Disneyland, do you remember that? Yeah, funny enough, I think that I made a first year video of all of our adventures from that year. And I think that actually might have been my first video. maybe we'll show a little bit of that video yeah maybe yeah yeah i remember that that was very sweet um on our one year anniversary uh kevin proposed to me that's right it was in Mill Valley which is north of San Francisco and that's where we ended up getting married in Mill Valley it was pretty fun we had karaoke actually at the event so we didn't want to just do a band we didn't want to just do dancing so we had karaoke for people to perform myself and kevin love karaoke and we've never seen anybody or heard of anybody do it at a wedding before but people still talk about our karaoke wedding yeah for sure it was one of the best they ever went to exactly and of course the food was great too gemma originally was going to cater the entire day but i'm glad i talked you out of that one so one of the most common questions we get asked is how do we have both a successful marriage and a business together that's a great question and i think doing what we do. Kevin brings his expertise and I bring mine and they're two very different skill sets so we make it work really well together. Alright this is all laid out so let's bring in the sauce. This is the star of the show Kevin and also just in case you're wondering, this makes awesome ice cream sauce. Exactly and it's way better than just traditional chocolate fondue. So different. What's your accoutrement of choice? I would say a marshmallow. I'm gonna go with a donut. Right on, go big and bold. I'm glad you didn't go with the fruit first, Kevin. For sure. Cheers. Cheers. Get a good dunk in there while it's still nice and warm. You can taste the vanilla and the salt and everything in there. Oh, a little bit of salt. That is such a good sauce. Oh, yummy. Mmm. Let me do a happy dance, Kevin. That's what we do on Bigger Bolder Baby. I'm going to leave all the dancing to you. So I want you to head over to Match.com forward slash Gemma and take advantage of your seven-day free trial. You've got nothing to lose. And you have the opportunity to find your perfect match like I did with Gemma. Thank you so much for watching, head over to match.com right now and I'll see you back here really soon for more Bigger Bolder Baking. Bye guys. Bye. That was fun Kevin. We should do this more often. For sure. We are happy. Happy.