Original creation by
Aurélien TROTTIER
Chocolats & Pâtisseries Créatives
Artisan Passionné, France
Cointreau chocolate log
Recipe for 1 log for 6/8 people
A log recipe from pastry chef and chocolatier, Aurélien Trottier, specially dedicated to pastry enthusiasts
1. SOFT COCOA BISCUIT
3 fresh eggs
1 g salt
120 g sugar
45 g almond powder
80 g T45 flour
15 g 100% cocoa powder
5 g baking powder
75 g 33% liquid cream
45 g butter
15 g 70% dark chocolate
Mix eggs, salt, sugar and almond powder. Add sifted flour +
cocoa powder + baking powder. Stir in cold cream, then hot
mixture of butter and dark chocolate. Roll out into 33 cm
squares on baking paper. Bake at 170°C for 7 minutes.
2. COINTREAU® ORANGEN CONFIT
200 g fresh organis oranges
100 g water
5 g lemon juice
1 vanilla pod
40 g caster sugar (1)
3 g NH pectin
75 g caster sugar (2)
1 cork of Cointreau® 40%
Clean and cut the oranges into 8 segments, then blanch twice
in boiling water. Bring water, lemon juice and vanilla pod to
the boil. Add sugar (1) and pectin. Bring to the boil again. Add
sugar (2) and bring to the boil. Add oranges, remove vanilla pod
and blend. After cooling, weigh out 220 g of confit and add
Cointreau®. Keep excess for decoration.
3. MILK CHOCOLATE CREAM
500 g 33% liquid cream
375 g milk chocolate
Bring the cream to the boil in a saucepan. Pour over milk
chocolate and mix thoroughly. Blend in a blender. Filter on
contact and refrigerate for at least 8 hours.
4. ASSEMBLY
No ingredients.
Carefully peel the biscuit from the baking sheet.
Cut to size 30 x 30 cm.
Spread Cointreau® orange confit evenly.
Using a mixer or whisk, emulsify the milk chocolate cream.
Spread half the cream evenly over the orange confit.
Roll up tightly using baking paper.
Place the roll on a suitable dish.
Using a piping bag cut to a point, pipe the whipped cream along
the length of the log.
Sprinkle with grated dark chocolate, then arrange the confit in
the hollows of the whipped cream.