COMPOSITION
Coloured Chocolate Shell
Lime Ganache
Matcha Tea Praliné
INGREDIENTS (COLOURED CHOCOLATE SHELL)
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95 g Cocoa Butter
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5 g green liposoluble food colouring
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5 g yellow liposoluble food colouring
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3 g silver powder
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60 g Cocoa Butter
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40 g Obsession 30 Belgian white chocolate
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SQ Temptation 64 Belgian dark couverture chocolate
METHOD
- Melt the first part of Cocoa Butter at 50°C and blend with the colourings,
then add the glitter. - Leave to cool to 28°C and spray into two 3 cm diameter half-sphere
chocolate moulds, creating an homogenic layer on the surface. - Then, heat the second part of Cocoa Butter to 60°C and pour onto
the white chocolate. - Mix and leave to cool to 28°C before again spraying an even layer onto
the coloured Cocoa Butter and leaving to crystalize. - Temper the dark chocolate and fill the moulds, creating a black shell,
then again leave to crystalize.
INGREDIENTS (LIME GANACHE)
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140 g lime juice
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80 g glucose syrup
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50 g Cocoa Butter
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4 g lime zest
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450 g Obsession 30 Belgian white chocolate
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100 g Intense 35 Belgian milk couverture chocolate
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182 g butter
METHOD
- Heat the lime juice, glucose and Cocoa Butter to 65°C. Pour onto the lime zest,
chocolates and butter, then blend to a nice emulsion. - Spray a thin layer of cocoa butter at 28°C into a 2 cm half-sphere chocolate
mould and leave to crystalize. - Fill the mould with the ganache at 30°C.
- Leave to crystalize for about 1 day before unmoulding the ganache.
INGREDIENTS (MATCHA TEA PRALINÉ)
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235 g white almond
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180 g icing sugar
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82 g Cocoa Butter
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30 g matcha tea powder
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50 g Crispy Crunchies
METHOD
- Blend the white almonds and the icing sugar until the mix has become completely
fluid and homogeneous. - Mix with the Cocoa Butter and add the matcha tea.
- When the praliné is at 30°C, add the Crispy Crunchies.
MONTAGE
- Half-fill the chocolate shells with the matcha tea praliné.
- Push the lime ganache into the praliné and leave to crystallize partially before
removing
the remaining praliné with a triangle knife. - Leave to crystalize completely, then use a heater to warm up both moulds just
enough to stick them together. - Leave to crystallize before unmoulding.
- Decorate the truffles with a modelling chocolate element brushed in gold.
