Rocky Road
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Difficult
Caramenl Gnache
Ingredients: Caramenl Gnache
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2.0 ozcaster sugar
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4.0 ozheavy cream
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0.3 ozglucose
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0.7 ozclarified butter
Preparation: Caramenl Gnache
- Use the sugar to make a caramel and deglaze with hot cream and glucose mixture.
- Once the temperature drops to 80°C, pour it over the chocolate and emulsify.
- Once the temperature of the chocolate caramel mixture drops to 45°C, add in the clarified butter and emulsify.
- Surface wrap and let crystallise for 6-8 hours.
Hazelnut Almond Praline
Ingredients: Hazelnut Almond Praline
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2.7 ozcaster sugar
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2.4 ozHazelnuts
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2.4 ozalmonds
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15.4 grVanilla beans
Preparation: Hazelnut Almond Praline
- Toast the hazelnuts at 150℃ for 8-10 minutes, or until golden brown and place them on a tray with silpat.
- Make a dry caramel in a heavy bottom pan and once you achieve a deep amber colour, add the vanilla bean and pour the caramel over the toasted nuts.
- Once it cools down, blitz the hazelnuts and caramel to a fine paste.
Chocolate Marshmallow
Ingredients: Chocolate Marshmallow
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4.4 ozsugar
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1.5 ozInverted sugar #1
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2.9 ozwater
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1.8 ozInverted sugar #2
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0.4 ozgelatin
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2.1 ozwater
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0.2 ozsea salt
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2.8 oz
Preparation: Chocolate Marshmallow
- Bloom your gelatin in cold water and set aside.
- Add in invert sugar #2, and the gelatin mass into a stand mixer bowl.
- Add sugar, invert sugar #1 and water in a stock pot and cook to 115℃.
- Pour this cooked sugar syrup into the stand mixer bowl and whip until light, doubled in size and thickened.
- Once the mix reaches around 50℃, add in the melted chocolate and sea salt and mix.
- Pour onto a frame lightly sprayed with oil.
- Cut into small squares to be decorated on the cookie.
Caramelised Hazelnuts
Ingredients: Caramelised Hazelnuts
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1.1 ozwater
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4.1 ozsugar
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5.4 ozHazelnuts
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0.4 ozCallebaut Cocoa Butter
Preparation: Caramelised Hazelnuts
- Add in the water and sugar in a stockpot and cook this syrup until it reaches 115℃.
- Add in the hazelnuts and allow the sugar to crystallise around the hazelnuts.
- Keep cooking on a medium high heat while constantly mixing the hazelnuts.
- The sugar around the hazelnuts will start to caramelise.
- Once caramelised, grate in some cocoa butter and allow it to coat the hazelnuts.
- Pour it onto a silicon mat and separate the hazelnuts while hot.
Dark Chocolate Mousse
Ingredients: Dark Chocolate Mousse
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1.8 ozmilk
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1.8 ozcream
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0.4 ozsugar
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0.7 ozegg yolks
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0.0 grVanilla
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6.3 ozheavy cream
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15.4 grgelatin
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7.4 oz
Preparation: Dark Chocolate Mousse
Make an Anglaise
- combine milk, cream and vanilla and bring it to a simmer.
- Combine egg yolks, and sugar in a bowl and temper this mixture using the warm milk mixture.
- Strain it back into the stockpot and cook until 82°C.
- Take it off the heat.
- Stir in soaked gelatine to dissolve.
- Strain over chocolate and whisk until smooth and set aside to cool.
- When the mixture has cooled to 30 °C, fold in whipped cream to soft peaks.
Aerated Chocolate
Ingredients: Aerated Chocolate
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1.6 ozCallebaut Cocoa Butter
Preparation: Aerated Chocolate
- Mix melted chocolate with melted cocoa butter and hazelnut paste.
- Charge the syphon gun with 3 nitro chargers and pipe into a deep box lined with parchment.
- Let it set.
- Chop the set chocolate into small chunks and store in the freezer until ready to garnish.
Assembly
- Pipe some caramel ganache using a small round nozzle (5mm) on a baked cookie.
- Load up the cookie with marshmallows and caramelised hazelnuts and some sea salt.
- Drizzle on the almond hazelnut praline.
- Let this freeze while you make your mousse.
- Once frozen, place the frozen cookie on a grill rack and pipe the mousse on the cookie, covering it entirely.
- Chop up your aerated chocolate into small pieces and cover the entire cookie with it.
- Freeze.
- Finish off your cookie with a light dusting of cocoa powder.
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