Dessert Reminds Me Of The Bomb Making Scene In “The Manhattan Project”

I was over at Sugar Mill in Denver the other day, watching the chef assemble the Noahsphere I was about to eat, and I noted to myself how much the preparation reminded me of the bomb making scene in The Manhattan Project (that 80s movie with John Lithgow where a genius kid finds out the government has a plutonium refinery in his town and builds a nuclear bomb as a protest).

Check out a trailer clip to remember the movie.

I’m serious. Just look at the thing:

As I watched, the chef took a hollow chocolate sphere. Not thin, the thing was obviously molded in two relatively thick halves and then melted together. He heated up a metal cone and used it to melt a hole in the sphere. Into the hole he shoved chocolcate cake bits and marshmallow. Then pastry cream was injected. He turned the sphere over on the plate and poured fresh hot caramel over it, melting some of the top of the sphere. More pastry cream was squirted around the sphere on the plate.

It was delicious. That being said, it was one of the more complicated and impressively presented desserts I’ve ever gotten to watch getting made. It was well worth the price, though even more so since I sat at the bar and got to watch the assembly.