Romantic leftovers

So what do you do if you have some strawberries that you left in the fridge over the weekend? The ones in the back were a little frozen, but the others were still good (or at least acceptable for a proof of concept recipe). Alright, so I've got some strawberries and I wanted to see if I could make a romantic little treat for Lupe when she got home from her class. What else is available? There is still some ganache left over from the puff pastry debacle. I also have a little caramel sauce and some white cake frosting....that's a dead end. Ganache it is.

I washed and cored the strawberries and then tossed them with some vanilla sugar and a healthy dash of Grand Marnier. After a short soak, I removed the strawberries from the Grand Marnier. I stuffed each strawberry with a nice little chunk of ganache. After all the strawberries were stuffed I splashed them with a little sweetened strawberry juice and Grand Marnier.

The verdict......MMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I'll have to make these for Valentine's Day. When I make these for a special occasion there are a few things that I will do.
1. Make fresh ganache. I will pipe soft ganache into the cored strawberries. That will be a lot easier and not nearly as messy as shoving chunks of ganache into the berries.
2. Dip berries in chocolate or drizzle with white or dark choclate
3. Make some green frosting and pipe onto the top to resemble the stem.

I think I'm onto something here. I'll take some pictures when I do this with fresh strawberries.