Original creation by
Joost ARIJS,
Best Chocolatier maker of Flanders 2020
Pâtisserie & Chocolaterie, Gand, Belgium
PRALINE : SMOKEY
Recipe for 4 moulds of 28 pieces
1. SMOKED CARAMEL
205 g sugar
187 g cream (35% fat)
18 g salted butter
1/4 vanilla pod
1,7 g smoked natural flavour
Caramelise the sugar. Heat cream with smoked natural flavour
and vanilla pod. Pour over the caramel, add the butter.
2. CARAMELIZED COCOA NIBS
80 g cocoa nibs
40 g sugar
10 g water
4 g smoked salt flower
5 g butter
Heat sugar with water to 118°C. Add cocoa nibs and stir mixture
constantly until the paste is friable and caramelized. Add
smoked salt flower and butter. Let cool on Silpat®.
3. PORT CHARLOTTE® GANACHE
380 g cream (35% fat)
115 g inverted sugar
700 g milk chocolate, 40% of cocoa
132 g butter
60 g Port Charlotte® whisky 50% vol.
Heat cream with inverted sugar. Pour onto the chocolate. Blend
and let cool to 35°C. Add butter and Port Charlotte® whisky.
Blend again.
4. ASSEMBLY
No ingredients.
Spray slivers of temperate cocoa butter in moulds, coloured in
red and gold. Fill with milk chocolate and let crystallize. Make
small spikes of caramel in moulds, then add a few caramelized
cocoa nibs. Fill with the Port Charlotte® ganache, let crystallize
and finish by adding the dark chocolate.