Le choucolat

Recipe

Created by
  • Nicolas Dutertre - Head of the Chocolate Academy™ Montreal

Hazelnut praline filling

ingredients preparation
  • 125g
    PRN-PIE502BY
  • 15g
    NPN-HA1BY
  • 20g
    NCB-HD703-BY
  • 20g
    CHM-P36ELYS-LN
  • 5g
    softened butter

Mix together the praline and pure hazelnut paste.
Add the cocoa butter and crystallized milk chocolate.
Lastly, add the softened butter.

Vanilla marshmallow

ingredients preparation
  • 110g
    sugar
  • 30g
    invert sugar
  • 70g
    water
  • 25g
    gelatin mass 200 Bloom
  • 45g
    invert sugar
  • 1/2pod(s)
    vanilla

Heat the sugar, water and inverted sugar (1) to 110 °C.
Add the gelatin mass.
Pour onto the inverted sugar (2) and the vanilla.
Whip with an electric beater to obtain a smooth consistency and then pipe the mixture into half of a Ø3cm spherical silicone mold.

Pure hazelnut rosette

ingredients preparation
  • 100g
    NPN-HA1BY
  • 100g
    CHM-P36ELYS-LN

Mix together the Pure Hazelnut Paste and crystallized milk chocolate and whisk until you obtain a homogeneous mixture.

Quinoa crisp

ingredients preparation
  • 150g
    CHM-P36ELYS-LN
  • 150g
    NPN-HA1BY
  • 50g
    puffed quinoa

Crystallize the milk chocolate, pour onto the Pure Hazelnut Paste and add the puffed quinoa.
Spread out on baking paper in a 3-mm thick sheet and cut out 3.5 cm discs.

Assembly

Create molds in the shape of (hollow) choux with the Passy™ Lenôtre 70% dark chocolate. 
Place 10 g of hazelnut praline filling inside and then add the crispy quinoa disc.
Add more (approximately 10 g) of the praline filling and let crystallize.
Seal with the crystallized Passy™ dark chocolate couverture.

Finishing

Put a half-sphere of vanilla marshmallow on top of the chou and pipe a pure hazelnut rosette (similarly to a chantilly cream puff). 
Decorate with small marshmallow cubes and caramelized hazelnuts.

 

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