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I've always enjoyed the sweet smell you get in a cigar/tobacco room. Just earlier today I was thinking that it seemed as though I ought to be able to add those notes to a sweet. I believe I saw an Iron Chef episode wherein one or both of the chefs used tobacco, I think one was an ice cream (with vanilla I believe). I went out to get a cigar, and exploring my collection of flavorings, sniffing them next to the cigar, it seems as though it would work well. Particularly pleasant were vanilla, cinnamon, chocolate, and cumin. So tonight, I am going to try steeping some tobacco bits in some heavy cream with a vanilla bean, which will be used to make a salted sweet caramel which will be drizzled atop some dark chocolate brownies.

Needless to say, I bet a truffle would be very nice!