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PRALINE : SMOKEY

Chef :

Original creation by
Joost ARIJS,
Best Chocolatier maker of Flanders 2020
Pâtisserie & Chocolaterie, Gand, Belgium

Brand
Quantity :

Recipe for 4 moulds of 28 pieces

1. SMOKED CARAMEL

Ingredients

205 g sugar
187 g cream (35% fat)
18 g salted butter
1/4 vanilla pod
1,7 g smoked natural flavour

Step

Caramelise the sugar. Heat cream with smoked natural flavour
and vanilla pod. Pour over the caramel, add the butter.

2. CARAMELIZED COCOA NIBS

Ingredients

80 g cocoa nibs
40 g sugar
10 g water
4 g smoked salt flower
5 g butter

Step

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

Ingredients

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.

Step

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

Ingredients

No ingredients.

Step

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.