"Single Origins Ecuador" Milk chocolate Easter nest

This pastry has some classic flavours, such as chocolate mousse and caramel, but in a wonderful presentation for spring or Easter. You should definitely try making the chocolate mousse with Single Origin Ecuador Milk chocolate, because it yields a lovely light chocolate mousse with fresh and slightly acidic notes. Heads up: this recipe requires some advanced pastry making skills.

Level:: Medium

375 g

egg white
200 g

granulated sugar

Beat.

450 g

almond powder
225 g

icing sugar
50 g

flour
100 g

CP
50 g

Callebaut Nuts - Hazelnut Bresilienne - 1kg Vaccum Bag

Sift and carefully mix with the egg whites.

Spread on a 40 x 60 cm baking sheet and bake at 180°C for ± 20 min. Cut out ovals.

250 ml

milk
250 ml

cream

Heat. Possibly add a pinch of pepper, coriander powder or cardamom.

25 g

sugar
100 g

egg yolks

Beat and mix with the cream to bring to the consistency of a thin custard.

1000 g

Callebaut Milk Origin Chocolate - Ecuador - 2.5kg Callets

Melt and blend into the thin custard. Allow to cool to 35°C.

900 g

half whipped cream 35%

Carefully blend in.

Fill the Demarle Flexipan moulds (ref. 1054) with the chocolate mousse and freeze.

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Callebaut Chocolate - Callets Sensation Marbled - 2.5kg Callets
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Callebaut Deco&Textures - Feathers

Take the Ecuador Milk mousse out of the mould and place on the cocoa dacquoise. Spray with a mixture of cocoa butter and milk chocolate (50/50). Decorate with a pastry bag filled with milk chocolate and pipe on a frozen marble slab. Wind the chocolate strings around the pastry to form a nest. Fill in the cavity with slightly warmed Callebaut Caramel Fill and finish with a tiny egg (made of sugar), a few marbled Callebaut Callets™ sensation and feathers.