The Toucan

Recipe

Created by
  • Marijn Coertjens - Belgian finalist at the World Chocolate Masters 2015, works at The Peninsula in Hong Kong

Sea Salt Caramel

ingredients preparation
  • 137g
    sugar
  • 75g
    35% cream
  • 12g
    glucose
  • 53g
    butter
  • 2g
    sea salt
  • 1/4beans(s)
    Madagascar vanilla
  • 2g
    water
  • 20g
    CHD-S65INAY

Hydrate gelatine in water. Caramelise sugar and deglaze with heated mixture of cream, glucose, salt and vanilla.
Mix in gelatine and leave to cool to 50°C. Mix in butter and melted chocolate, and homogenise.

Yuzu Ganache

ingredients preparation
  • 65g
    35% cream
  • 25g
    butter
  • 19g
    sorbitol powder
  • 25g
    yuzu puree
  • 22g
    powdered glucose
  • 40g
    yuzu juice
  • 40g
    CHD-Q65MADINOP
  • 166g
    CHM-Q41ALUN

Melt chocolate and mix it together with sorbitol, glucose and yuzu powder in Thermomix.
Mix and heat cream and butter, and pour over chocolate mixture.
Add heated yuzu juice and mix into homogeneous ganache.

Yuzu-Sea Salt Crunch

ingredients preparation
  • 67g
    CHW-N34ZEPH
  • 5g
    oil
  • 10g
    yuzu puree
  • 10g
    BIG-PF-1BO
  • 10g
    amaranth
  • 0.4g
    sea salt
  • 0.4g
    sansho powder
  • 5g
    Pop Rocks

Melt chocolate and mix together with all other ingredients. 
Roll out until 2 mm thick and cut out shape of the crunch.

Finishing and assembly

ingredients preparation
  • Q.S.
    CHD-P64EBPU

Make chocolate shell with Cacao Barry® dark chocolate couverture Extra-Bitter Guayaquil 64% cocoa in 1829CW mould. 
Fill one side of mould (3 mm from edge) with salted caramel and place crunch on top.
Fill other side of mould with ganache and leave to set.
Stick mould together and leave to crystallise.

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