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What Do You Believe About Science? It Doesn't Matter…Until It Does
A few days ago, a friend of mine sent me a note saying, "I would be interested to read your take on vaccinating children being (or not being) a Jewish issue." My response was one word: "Vaccinate!!"
I sent her to the excellent pieces by Rabbi Jason Miller and Jamie Rubin explaining why vaccinating children is a Jewish value, yet I was trying to get into the mindset of why people might not vaccinate their children. To be honest, I still can't do it entirely, but I now think it comes down to beliefs.
Now, some of these beliefs are erroneous, like that vaccinations lead to autism, or that immunity can be developed "naturally" without vaccinations. Other beliefs, though, are more subtle.
Rand Paul and Chris Christie have recently said that they believe that parents should have some level of choice over whether they should vaccinate their children. That belief isn't so much about the science as it is a belief about the role of government. And as the father of a 16-month-old who now cries when she sees her doctor, I can understand the belief that parents don't want their kids to feel pain when they get poked at a lot. (By the way, having her be uncomfortable for a few seconds is a price I am certainly willing to pay to keep her and her friends healthy and safe!)
But here's the thing—beliefs guide our actions. And while we can privately believe whatever we'd like, when those beliefs manifest themselves in our choices, there are consequences. And what we can't choose is what happens as a result of our decisions.
Adam Frank, an astrophysicist and founder of NPR's blog 13.7: Cosmos and Culture, makes it very clear that in many ways, nature doesn't care what we believe:
Infections spread with well-understood mathematical patterns. Planets respond to changes in atmospheric composition via the laws of physics and chemistry. They do this in spite of who we vote for. They do this in spite of our political or social beliefs about right and wrong, good and bad.
The world, in other words, has its own ways. Denial can't change that. But what the Disneyland outbreak makes clear is that science denial has consequences. That is the real news here. The anti-vax and climate "skeptic" strains of science denial have been with us for more than a decade. Until now, however, it's all seemed a bit theoretical, like just another forum for Internet hate-festing (which we shall all see soon in the comment sections of this post). But now along comes an outbreak of a once-beaten disease and—surprise—we suddenly see that science denial has actual real-world consequences, because it's about the actual real world (the one we humans invented science to describe).
People often say that "everyone has a right to their beliefs." But one of the wonderful things about Judaism is that in general, it doesn't really care what we believe per se. Instead, what Judaism cares about is how those beliefs play themselves out in our lives, in our relationships, and in our world.
So yes, while everyone has a right to their beliefs, Judaism's emphasis is not on our rights but on our responsibilities, and especially our obligation to care for ourselves and for others. Otherwise, we'd live in the world described by the recent piece in The Onion, "I Don't Vaccinate My Child Because It's My Right to Decide What Eliminated Diseases Come Roaring Back."
Neil de Grasse Tyson once said that what's good about science is that "It's true whether or not you believe in it." But there is an addendum to that statement: our beliefs influence our actions, and our actions create consequences—not just for ourselves, but for others.
After all, science doesn't care what we believe…until those beliefs lead to measles outbreaks and rising sea levels.
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Do You Accept Science, Or Judaism? Yes.
During my seven years in the congregational rabbinate, I had so many people say to me, "I don't believe in God, and I don't feel connected to my Judaism. Instead, I believe in science." Or they would approach me and explain that they saw Judaism and science as separate realms, with no connection between the two.
The way this was framed saddened me, but I could understand where it came from. Since the media portrays religion as anti-science, many Jews would say, "I don't want my science and my Judaism mixed. And if religion is opposed to science, then I don't want any part of Judaism."
Yet are those statements representative of the Jewish community as a whole? How do Jews perceive the relationship between Judaism and science?
Recently, my organization Sinai and Synapses partnered with the Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion (DoSER), a part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), to run a workshop exploring those questions. DoSER had joined with Rice University to create the Perceptions Project, an initiative to increase understanding between religious and scientific communities. They ran a comprehensive survey of 10,000 Americans — Jews, Evangelical Christians, Catholics and more — to provide a snapshot of religious communities' views on science, and how we can create a healthier relationship between the two.
Last month, DoSER and Sinai and Synapses ran a workshop for the Jewish community, bringing together rabbis and scientists to delve into the data, so that we could uncover both the challenges and opportunities surrounding Jewish responses to science.
The first finding that surprised me is that I had always thought that Jews didn't feel the same conflict between religion and science that, say, the evangelical Christian community feels. But in fact, about 25% of Jews do see religion and science as being in opposition — about the same number as the American population as a whole.
Yet while most of the Christians who see religion and science as being in opposition view themselves as on the side of religion, those Jews who see science and religion in conflict come down on the side of science — and by a huge, huge margin. For those "conflicted Christians," about 3 out of 4 opt for religion, and about 1 out of 4 choose science. But for that 25% of conflicted Jews, 15 out of 16(!) would see themselves on the side of science — and therefore, anti-religion.
Now, on one level, that number is a real positive. Jews are clearly deeply in favor of science. But just as religious fervor and opposition to science can thwart scientific research, scientific fervor and opposition to religion can hinder religious living.
So that's the first challenge for the Jewish community when it comes to science — while the Christian community grapples with how to embrace science, the Jewish community has to figure out how to relate to Judaism.
But there's a second, more subtle, challenge for the Jewish community. Besides "conflict," the Perceptions Project also offered respondents two other frameworks to describe the relationship between science and religion. People also had the option to say that these two realms were "independent (referring to different aspects of reality)" or "collaborative (they can help support each other)."
And that led to the second finding that surprised me — among all religious groups, Jews were both most likely to pick "independent" and least likely to pick "collaborative" to describe the relationship between religion and science.
In other words, every other religious group was more likely to find that science could enhance their religious outlook than the Jewish community. Instead, Jews were much more likely to separate their religious and their scientific outlooks and keep them siloed off.
Here, then, is a great opportunity — after all, if Jews tend to have a positive outlook on science, why not use science to help people enhance their connection to Judaism?
That's the inspiration for Sinai and Synapses, and how we are striving to bridge the religious and scientific worlds. We want to look at questions using the best of science and the best of Judaism in the service of making people's lives more meaningful and our world more just.
We want people to understand how memory actually works in our brains, and what that means for how we observe Passover. We want to study the role of online activism in effecting real social justice change. We want to use science to teach us about how to act more compassionately.
And so that's why, when people ask me, "Do you accept science, or Judaism?" my answer is, "Yes." Because not only can science and Judaism co-exist, they can help us bring out the best in each other — and in ourselves.
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3 Cognitive Science Books That Teach Jewish Ideas
Why is it often so hard to do the right thing? Why doesn't everyone share our same beliefs? And why is it so hard to be happy?
These are questions that are integral to the field of cognitive science—the study of how and why we think, feel and act the way we do. But what's interesting is that so many of these questions have links to Jewish thought and practice.
As someone whose shelves are overflowing with books about cognitive science, and who often integrates these findings with Jewish teachings, I want to share three books that teach Jewish ideas.
The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone—Especially Ourselves by Dan Ariely
Let's be honest, behavioral economist Dan Ariely tells us. We all cheat. You cheat. I cheat. But we don't do it because we are bad people. Instead, we tend to view ourselves as good people, so we tend to "fudge" things just enough so that we can keep that self-perception. So not only do we cheat, we also lie to ourselves about our own cheating!
But of course, lying and cheating are antithetical to Judaism. We are taught: "Do not defraud or rob your neighbor," and "You shall have honest scales and measures." (Lev. 19:13 and 19:36) Since Judaism tries to teach us how to honest and ethical people, it's crucial to understand how and why we end up missing the mark. Ariely's work gives an insight into what encourages—and even more importantly, discourages—cheating, in the hopes of building a more just society.
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
There's a reason politics and religion are generally taboo topics for polite conversation—if you feel strongly about your political or religious beliefs, you just can't seem to understand how people on the other side can be so stupid. Psychologist Jonathan Haidt explains that a large part of the problem is that we think of religion and politics as being about "right" versus "wrong," and when we phrase the question that way, it actually becomes "us" versus "them." As he says, "Morality binds and blinds"—morality creates a more cohesive group of "us," but it also keeps us from seeing other perspectives and the needs of "them."
That creates a real challenge edge for the Jewish community. Judaism is not just a religion, but a people. There definitely is an "us" when we think about the Jewish people. But a sense of universalism is central to Judaism, as well—when we think about Jewish ethics, we tend to think about at the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable members of society, regardless of whether they are Jewish or not. Haidt's book helps us to understand where morality comes from, and how we can grow the sense of who we consider to be "one of us."
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
Which would you rather have happen: win the lottery, or become a quadriplegic? Most of us, without even a thought, would pick the first, because we think that winning the lottery would make us happy, and becoming a quadriplegic would devastate us. But how many wealthy people do you know who are actually miserable? And how many people who have suffered a tragedy are actually fulfilled in their lives? Psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues that we are very, very bad at predicting what will make us happy, and that's because we have a "now-self" and a "future-self"—and they are not always the same self.
Judaism, too, lives with this tension of the present and the future. We both envision a time when the world will be at peace, but we have to do the actions here and now that will make that happen. Or at the High Holy Days, we dream about the kind of person we will become, but recognize that it's our day-to-day actions that will make us that person. Gilbert reminds us that our "future-self" soon becomes our "now-self," so we have act in ways that help us bridge that divide.
Ultimately, the reason I love cognitive science is that is helps us better understand who we are and why we act the way we do. And so I believe that if we use the best of science and the best of religion, we can make our own individual lives more fulfilled, and our world a little better.
These three books have been instrumental for me—what books have had a surprising influence on your Judaism?
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"Start working on this great work of art, called your own existence"- AJ Heschel
A Life well lived is an art: with guides on perspective, scale, composition, ect.
The great artists know when to break the very rules they follow, it's the breaking of pattern and expectation that creates interest, wonder, and awe.
Such is life.
So what is religion? Specifically, what is Judaism? What is Halacha, Jewish law, "THE way," "THE path?" To be sure, there is more than one set of rules to follow in order to make great art, just as there is truth to be found in more than one religion. Great art borrows from other great art. Similarly, 'no religion is an island' (again Heschel); we borrow and share, and are deeply influenced by the religion and culture that surrounds us. Halacha then, is "a set of rules" that gives life structure and meaning.
But we have to remember that rules, patterns, are appreciated more when disrupted, challenged. It is the disruption of pattern that makes us take note of both the new and the expected. Fundamentally, our psyche is trained to take for granted the expected and to pay attention to the unique, the surprising, the break in a pattern. Such is the excitement of new love (as described in a New York Times piece on marriage, "New Love: A Short Shelf Life." The summary: exciting for 2 years, boring and expected for about 20, with a renewed excitement at empty nest. –I'll simply disagree for now – there is so much more to blissful married life).
In any artform, including Life, including specifically Jewish life, the better you know the rules, the more masterful the impact in breaking them. An analogy: Consider the power of a well placed single word paragraph.
English teachers can't teach you that.
Consider Spielberg's girl in the red dress at the end of Shindler's List. The color adds meaning both to the innocence preserved and to the ominous nature of the otherwise black-and-white film.
In the Bible, the law of primogeniture, the rule that says that the oldest inherits, is constantly overturned: Abraham is not the oldest, Isaac is not the oldest, Jacob is younger than his twin Esau and has to trick and steal to inherit. Even King David, the rightful king of Israel, is the youngest. Why does the Bible so often highlight the breaking of this rule? Because rules gain meaning when the possibility of breaking them also exists.
It is said that there was once a very pious Jew who when he would read the verse, "…and do not be seduced by your heart or led astray by your eyes," he would start crying (Numbers 15:39, the third paragraph of the Shema prayer said twice daily).
"Why do you cry," he was asked?
"Because," the pious man replied, "my entire life I have done exactly what the letter of the law has required of me, and in so doing, I've never had the opportunity to fully understand this verse."
Years ago I chose not to wear my kippa (head covering). I wear it everyday, just about wherever I go. I wear it as a reminder of God, as a symbol of humility, that God is above me, and as an identification with the Jewish people. Driving a U-Haul across the country almost twenty years ago, I pulled into a truck stop in Oklahoma. I decided to put my kippa in my pocket. I wondered to myself why I was doing that? Am I not proud of being Jewish? So, I was wondering about this as I approach the register inside the station. The man in front of me was wearing jeans and a flannel shirt – just like me! I've always wanted to be a long-haul trucker. I had this great sense of authenticity. I fit in – until he turned around. His shirt was open and revealed a giant swastika that covered the entirety of his barrel chest. I became very conscious of the kippa in my pocket. All of its symbolism was somehow all the more powerful in my pocket than it is day-to-day in my life in Los Angeles, or New York, where I was headed.
"Profane one Shabbat so that one can keep many Shabbatot" -Yoma 85B
It seems that our religion, so often associated with the strictures of laws, might be better described as teaching the artful breaking of laws.
I content that there is an essential paradox at the heart of a meaningful life: Breaking with tradition and law, has the very real possibility of strengthening tradition and the power of the very rules being broken.
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How Should We Talk About Science and Religion?
As someone who loves both religion and science, I often struggle with how they interact.
Are they in opposition to each other? Do they need to be reconciled? What happens when new scientific knowledge challenges the tenets of my faith?
Part of the difficulty in talking about science and religion is that there are several different ways we can discuss their interaction. Dr. Jennifer Wiseman, the Director of the Dialogue for Science, Ethics and Religion at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, outlined several different models in an outstanding talk. Therefore, inspired by her, I want to share four different ways we can frame the discussion about how we talk about science and religion.
The Contrast model is probably the most common way people speak about the interaction of science and religion. Often, this view is boiled down to the idea that "science deals with 'how' and religion deals with 'why.'"
Stephen Jay Gould popularized it with the phrase "Non-Overlapping Masteria" (NOMA), which he describes as follows: "The magisterium of science covers the empirical realm: what the Universe is made of (fact) and why does it work in this way (theory). The magisterium of religion extends over questions of ultimate meaning and moral value. These two magisteria do not overlap."
But there are two problems with this paradigm. First, religion has theories about what the universe is made of — for example, Jewish tradition has statements about the way the world came into being and why the world is the way it is. And science is now talking about morality and even meaning, with books like Sam Harris' The Moral Landscape about the science of morality and The Brain and the Meaning of Life by Paul Thagard about neuroscience and meaning. Thus the magesteria, in fact, do overlap.
Second, and perhaps even more importantly, it's simply not true that science talks only (or even primarily) about "how" — there's a lot of "why" in there, asking questions like, "Why is there something instead of nothing? Why do our brains work in the way that they do?" Similarly, religion doesn't talk only (or even primarily) about "why" — there's a lot of "how" in there, asking questions like, "How do did humans come to be? How should we act in this world?"
So for people who view themselves as both scientific and religious, the Contrast model often makes them comfortable. But as science enters into the realm that has historically been the purview of religion, and especially if we look more deeply at religion and at science, this model stops working very well.
The Concert model is the opposite of the Contrast model, as people try to directly reconcile science and religion. It is another attractive outlook to those who are both dedicated to their faith and committed to reason, since it means they would not have to reject either. This model makes claims such as the concept of a "day" in Genesis may actually be billions of years, or that the crossing of the Red Sea was actually finding a swamp that could be crossed at low tide.
But here, too, there are problems with this view. After all, science is always changing, discovering new data and revising theories. If science and religion are in concert, what happens to religious faith when new scientific evidence arises? Indeed, not only physics and biology but also human sciences such as archaeology, political science and history are helping us understand who we are, why we do what we do, and our place in the universe. So if religious faith is based on science, what happens when science presents new evidence?
Indeed, this model makes it hard to do a critical analysis of Biblical texts, and that type of study frequently leads to a crisis of faith. In order for it to work, this model requires significant mental gymnastics, and forces people to maintain only a surface understanding of both science and religion.
So while this view may be appealing at first, it is actually quite fragile. All that needs to happen is for science to discover something that contradicts a deeply-held belief, and people will easily elect either atheism or fundamentalism.
The Conflict model is the paradigm that gets the most press, and it claims that religion and science are inherently incompatible. It's the idea that if you buy into one, you must reject the other. This worldview is exemplified by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens on one side, and people who deny evolution because it contradicts the Bible on the other.
But while this outlook generates the most passion from people on the extremes, there are a vast number of people who do not buy into it.
An article in the Huffington Post describes recent work by sociologist Elaine Ecklund, who
…interviewed 275 tenured and tenure-track faculty members from 21 research universities in the United States. Only 15 percent of respondents said religion and science were always in conflict, while 15 percent said the two were never in conflict. The majority, 70 percent, said religion and science are only sometimes in conflict.
Similarly, a study from Pew Research Forum showed that "a solid majority of Americans (61%) say that science does not conflict with their own religious beliefs. Even among those who attend worship services at least once a week, a slim majority (52%) sees no conflict between science and their faith."
Thus while zealous advocates on each side often dominate the discussion, there is a large silent majority who do not see science and religion as inherently in conflict.
The bigger problem is that while the Conflict model produces a lot of heat, it rarely creates light. It regularly devolves into unproductive arguments and ad hominem attacks, and causes both scientists and religious people to become either overly aggressive or feel themselves to be "victims" of the other side.
So even though for some people, this is an outlook they hold strongly to, it is much more likely to shut down conversations than to open them.
This is the outlook that I find most resonant. In this model, science and religion can remain in their own spheres, but when it is appropriate, they can also mutually inform each other, and provide us with a variety of ways to help us know what it means to be human. Indeed, its great value is that it reminds us that both religion and science have to be understood in the context of human experiences, because both religion and science are human endeavors.
The Contact model reminds us that science is not independent of the scientists who pursue their field of inquiry. After all, while the universe may be 13.7 billion years old, and humans may have evolved on the African savannah, it has only been since modern times that human beings have sought to undertake a rigorous understanding of fields like cosmology, paleontology, psychology, neuroscience and biochemistry. We have to remember that not only does scientific knowledge provide information, it is deeply influenced by the passions, the curiosity and the personal experiences of the scientists who pursue it.
Similarly, our own personal experiences influence our religious outlook. People's feelings about religion are naturally affected by how they were raised and what has happened in their own lives. In the words of Rabbi Laura Geller, "All theology is autobiography." And while religion is older than science, it is still a human creation, helping us structure our human experiences, and asks deeply human questions like, "How should I act? What should I value? Who should I choose to associate with?"
When we place science and religion in the context of human experiences, we recognize that both science and religion are driven by human needs and are victim to human foibles. The Contact model thus encourages humility in both science and religion, reminding both sides that there are things we do not know, and things we will never know.
So the other crucial piece to bear in mind for the Contact model is that "religion" and "God" are two separate things. "God" is bigger than any one human being or group of people; "religion" is our particular attempt to understand God, and is necessarily limited. As Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel taught: "[R]eligion for religion's sake is idolatry…The human side of religion, its creeds, its rituals and instructions is a way rather than the goal. The goal is 'to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.' (Micah 6:8)" (I Asked for Wonder, 40-41)
So for those of us who feel connected to God, when we forget that religion is not Divine, but human, we can easily fall into the trap of arrogance and narrow-mindedness. Micah thus reminds us that justice, mercy and humbleness are truly the most important values.
Indeed, our ultimate purpose in life is to strengthen ourselves, both as individuals and as a society. Science does that by giving us a fuller understanding of the world, by advancing knowledge, and by examining the relationship between theory and evidence. Religion does that by giving us a sense of purpose, by strengthening communities, and by giving us a potential glimpse of the Divine.
When we remember that both science and religion are human enterprises, we can remember that the most important question isn't whether they need to be viewed separately, or if they can be reconciled, or if they are inherently in conflict.
The most important question is: how are they being used?
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That question will be answered at Kings Park on Saturday
(kick-off 19:10) when they tackle the Sharks in "phase two" of their stiff three-match
start to Super Rugby 2013, which is also to feature the visit of champions the
Chiefs to Newlands before Allister Coetzee's charges pause for a deep breath
with a bye.
The Durban date is keenly awaited nationwide, as it pits
against each other the indisputably best-performing franchises in South Africa
from last season as a whole: not only did eventual finalists the Sharks and the
conference-topping Stormers go further than anyone else from these parts in
Super Rugby, but they also met again in their slightly different guises in the
Currie Cup final.
Sharks coach John Plumtree wasted no time this week in
pointing out that "our motivation in the off-season" was the slightly upset
25-18 loss in the latter final, against a weakened but grimly determined
Western Province outfit.
Some may interpret that as a deliberate, tactical move to
kick an already wounded animal, given the Stormers' rank incompetence, frankly,
in the deserved reverse to the Bulls last Friday.
But it is also impossible to escape the far from
insignificant thought that the Sharks, in holding off the Cheetahs in a
pulsating Bloemfontein clash, displayed strengths in all the areas where the
Stormers had earlier come up glaringly short on the Highveld.
So with home advantage in the unforgiving KwaZulu/Natal late
summer humidity just another handy ally, it is difficult to believe too many
tipsters will be leaning confidently toward the Capetonians.
First and foremost, perhaps, the Sharks scrum largely
delivered a compelling performance in that area that was in marked contrast to
the Stormers' failed quest to subdue a Bulls eight not especially renowned in
recent years for technical ability in the department.
Springbok prop stalwarts Jannie du Plessis and Tendai
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Cheetahs, with the "Beast" appearing to take special relish in turning the heat
on Coenie Oosthuizen when the admittedly undercooked behemoth entered the fray after
a long layoff as a substitute at tighthead.
Whether or not the Stormers tweak their front row (and tight
five more broadly) for Saturday, expect the home side to spiritedly seek
ascendancy once more at scrum-time.
Another phenomenon from the last round of matches was the
Sharks showing positive signs of rectifying their lineout game ... an Achilles'
heel for several years.
Franco van der Merwe has been a shrewd loan pick-up from the
Lions, with his influence evident as the Sharks put plenty of pressure on the
Cheetahs' throw-in, even if their own wasn't quite the finished article.
Again by contrast, the Stormers were unusually blundering at
the lineout against the Bulls; they could not even get the 2.08m trump card
Andries Bekker into the game in that facet much, although lock partner De Kock
Steenkamp – whilst still not the ideal No 4 in a broader sense -- mercifully
banked a few clean takes.
Bekker will come under scrutiny in Durban: the lanky Bok was
as patchy as the rest of his team-mates at Loftus, and if he sometimes loomed
up effectively with those long strides of his in wide positions during attacking
moves, he may well be expected to be more influential much nearer the coalface
this weekend.
Then how about the greatly differing fortunes of the
If Stormers debutant Elton Jantjies scored no more than a
hypothetical "four out of 10" at Loftus (his strangely wayward place-kicking
especially marking him down), Pat Lambie arguably registered an altogether more
glowing eight in Bloemfontein.
Not only did Test incumbent Lambie land his goals with
pleasing efficiency, his general play was assured and constructive, allowing
men outside him like Paul Jordaan and Lwazi Mvovo room for some thrilling
bursts of pace.
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Bulls' one in the defeat, still showed a tendency to be a little too lateral and
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All those things said, there will be plenty of astute Sharks
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"Tank" on Saturday.
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pretty forceful objective in the collective minds of their opponents --
something that could draw the combatants very, very close together.
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- Yield: Makes 64
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- 1 3/4 cups plus 4 teaspoons heavy cream
- 4 large egg yolks, room temperature
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons light corn syrup
- 2 tablespoons water
- 3 tablespoons hazelnut praline paste
- 7 ounces dark chocolate, melted
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- Pinch of salt
- 64 dark chocolate dessert cups
- 64 blanched hazelnuts, toasted and halved, for garnish
- Shaved dark chocolate, for garnish
With an electric mixer on medium-high speed, whisk cream until soft peaks form. Transfer to refrigerator; chill for 1 hour.
In a clean mixing bowl, and with a clean whisk, beat yolks on high speed until pale and frothy. Meanwhile, bring sugar, corn syrup, and water to a boil in a small, heavy saucepan over high heat, stirring to dissolve sugar. Continue boiling for about 1 minute. With mixer on medium-low speed, carefully pour hot syrup down side of bowl. Beat on medium-high speed until slightly thickened, about 5 minutes. Beat in hazelnut praline paste. Stir in chocolate, vanilla, and a pinch of salt with a flexible spatula.
Add one-third of the chocolate mixture to whipped cream; whisk to combine. Add remaining chocolate mixture, fold to completely combined. Pass through a coarse sieve into a large bowl; discard any solids.
Transfer mousse to a disposable pastry bag or large plastic bag. Using scissors, snip a small hole in bottom of the bag or from one of the corners of the plastic bag. Pipe mousse into chocolate cups to fill; serve garnished with hazelnuts and shaved chocolate.
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Reviews (8)
DoveChoc 12 Jun, 2010
Thanks Martha, because of this segment I signed up to be a chocolatier and love my career. May I suggest Martha that you try the Dove Chocolate Discoveries Mousse and hazelnut cocoa butter -- much easier and it tastes great.
DecadentChocolate 21 Dec, 2009
Martha, Thank you for showcasing DOVE Chocolate Discoveries! Being a DOVE Chocolatier, I appreciate your support. Also, I love the way you say Chocolatier!!!!
Mama2JTDCKF 21 Dec, 2009
Thank you Martha for introducing Dove Chocolate Discoveries to the masses.
If anyone would like to order the mousse mix, petite chocolate cups or any other DCD product, please visit www.dovechocolatediscoveries.com and ask for a Chocolatier in your area.
SeenaChocolatier7900 18 Dec, 2009
Beautifully done! Thank you Martha :)
DCD Mousse Mix is so easy to make! You can find the recipe at:
LibbyHKH 18 Dec, 2009
You can also make hazelnut mousse using the Dove Chocolate Discoveries mousse packets and flavoring discs- so easy
ChocolateDreamer 17 Dec, 2009
Thanks for sharing the delicious goodies from Dove Chocolate Discoveries. Being a chocolatier really is a SWEET life and the dessert cups used in this recipe are great for all sorts of desserts and other goodies.
kkowalczyk 16 Dec, 2009
I believe Martha said it was available at Whole Foods
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When I saw that a bunch of you were really into Cadbury Creme Eggs, I knew I had to share this pimped out Cadbury Creme Egg with you. The folks over at Pimp That Snack take everyday snacks and "pimp" them out. They've made giant Snickers bar, Kit Kats, Oreos and more.
The giant-sized creme egg used 1.5 kg (3.3 pounds) of chocolate and 3 pounds of sugar. If you want to try making your own, you're in luck, there are step by step instructions to help you out. Crack it open and dig in! And since regular Easter candy already has enough calories, I don't even want to know what this one contains...
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celebrity_soup 7 years
did anyone eat this? i sure would!
GeikoSera 7 years
I love that website! :) I often wonder if the creators actually EAT these monsters after making them.....
Schaianne 7 years
Ick, no thank you. Not only do I hate Cadbury Creme Eggs ... I can imagine getting sick trying to at least eat the filling so you could store the leftovers easier, LOL.
Neural 7 years
Ditto, chancleta!
chancleta 7 years
Yum. I could get happily sick on that.
JennaV 7 years
Oh, give me a few days and I would have NO problem finishing that. :drool:
tihea 7 years
Oh man... I can feel all that creme attaching itself velcro-like to my rear as I drool over those pictures, yum!
designergirl 7 years
That is amazing! Difficult to eat, but completely awesome.
colormesticky 7 years
My joy would be immeasurable if somebody turned me loose on that thing.
cravinsugar 7 years
I browsed in a bit and found a mcdonalds pizza...now...here is the link...i think i had a heart attack just reading the how to and looking athth ehow too pictures... http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/project.php?projectID=288 _________________________________________________________ Why don't you wear the face you have when I am not around?
misspoli 7 years
No, thanks!! ************************************************************* "To be or not to be: That is the question!" William Shakespeare
SU3 7 years
geez... that thing is on steroids! It's huge! 3 lbs. of sugar?! oh my... LOL
skinny-fat 7 years
MY FAVES!!!! peeps and cadbury creme eggs :woohoo: :jumpin: :pepino: though i must agree that eating a huge cadbury egg would probably cause extreme nausea. ************************************************ I will be your Dixie Chicken if you'll be my Tennessee Lamb and we can walk together down in Dixie Land...
calibabi 7 years
as much as i love these, i have a feeling trying to eat a huge one would make me sick to my stomach!! so why does it still look so yummy??
llendril 7 years
yes, please.
amandaaa 7 years
that is out of control! looks like a fun project for easter haha definitely a change from the usual egg painting!
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- A new study shows another health benefit of coffee — Grub Street
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- Scrumptious breakfast casseroles for brunch and beyond — Southern Living
- 37 absurd kitchen gadgets you definitely need — BuzzFeed Food
- Why you should drink hot water with lemon every morning — POPSUGAR Fitness


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