Originale creation by
Dimitri SALMON,
Best Chocolate maker of Belgium 2009
La Dacquoise, Thuin, Belgium
PRALINE : SEABUCKTHORN
1. SEABUCKTHORN COULIS
250 g Les vergers Boiron seabuckthorn purée
100 g sugar (1)
1 vanilla pod
10 g NH95 pectin
25 g sugar (2)
15 g vanilla vinegar
Bring the purée, sugar (1) and vanilla pod to a boil.
Then remove the vanilla pod before adding pectin and sugar (2)
and bring to a boil for 2 minutes.
Cool and soft with vinegar. Fill the moulds to a level of at onethird full.
2. SAO THOMÉ BLACK GANACHE WITH COINTREAU®
193 g Duo Debic cream
48 g glucose syrup
215 g Sao Thomé dark chocolate Callebaut®, 70% of cocoa
23 g Debic ‘Laiterie Constant’ butter
20 g Cointreau® 60% vol.
Heat cream and glucose syrup to 75/80°C. Pour half the mixture
over chocolate pebbles. Combine using a rubber spatula, add
the remaining cream and mix to emulsify.
When the temperature of the ganache reaches 35/40°C, add
the butter cooled at room temperature (about 18°C) in pieces
and the
Cointreau®, and mix again. Pour the ganache to a temperature
of 34/36°C into moulds. Leave to crystallize for 24-36 hours to
16/18°C and a hygrometry rate of 60%.
3. SPRAY MIXTURE
160 g Callebaut® cocoa butter
240 g Callebaut® Velvet white chocolate, 33,1% of cocoa
Mona Lisa® Flower Powers :
1 yellow Flower Power
7 red Flower Power
Melt the ingredients and mix with the colourings. Spray to 29°C.
4. ASSEMBLY
No ingredients.
Colour the moulds with the orange colouring, then white
colouring. Line each mould with Arriba chocolate and let harden.
Fill a third of the mould with the seabuckthorn coulis, let harden
and finish by adding the ganache. Sprinkle 3 g of Brazilian
chocolate chips in each praline. Let harden and close the moulds.