Milk chocolate and raspberry gold bar
Thank you pastry chef Sasaki for sharing one of your signature pastry recipes with us. This log-shaped pastry has put pastry shop Sasaki on the Belgian map. It's that timeless combo of milk chocolate, raspberry and the Japanese aim for perfection that turn it into a pastry no one can refuse.
Recipe
Puff pastry base
| Cut out long strips of puff pastry dough: 50 x 7 cm. Bake off for 15 min at 220°C. | 
Milk chocolate crème pâtissière
| ingredients | preparation | 
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 | Cook into a crème patissière. | 
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 | Mix. Pour the crème over the chocolate-praline mixture. Leave to cool and homogenise with the whisk. | 
Italian meringue
| ingredients | preparation | 
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 | Boil into syrup at 121°C. | 
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 | Beat up. Delicately pour on the egg whites during beating. Beat on until the meringue has cooled down. | 
Finishing and presentation
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 | Pipe a layer of milk chocolate crème pâtissière on the strip of puff pastry. Place raspberries on top and pipe drops of fine hazelnut praline Callebaut® PRA-CLAS in between. Optionally add a second layer of puff pastry and repeat. Leave to harden in the freezer. Apply the Italian meringue in the shape of a gold bar and smoothen the surface. Caramelise the meringue with the gas torch. Finish with raspberries, chocolate decoration and gold flakes. | 
 
  
               
                   
                   
                  