Thursday, December 17, 2015

Did you get your chocolate quota for the year?



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Get this! According to the HuffingtonPost the average American eats 9.5lbs of chocolate in a single year.


I don't know about you but I sure didn't get close to that amount, at least this is what I am saying to myself and believing it. So, since we are coming close to the end of this year I am going to do my best to catch up to my compatriots. And so I went on a search and in the process I found the most amazing place for all-thing-chocolate: http://www.cacao-barry.com/fr-FR .







 

Honestly, I cannot take my eyes away from these photos. Straddling the line between art and food, I wonder if presented with one of those delectable treasures I would ever be able to bring myself to the task of destroying it by consumption. But then again it is that nagging 9.5 lbs goal ahead ....





New packaging Origine chocolate Ghana
Ghana origin milk couverture chocolate

Powdered Chocolate
powdered chocolate

Lactée Supérieure
dark-colored milk couverture chocolate

Cacao Barry® is the organizer and host of the World Chocolate Masters competition for confection artisans from all over the globe and in essence helps create the superstars of the chocolate world. The premise of the competition is to challenge the chefs to make artistic pieces around a specific theme in an allotted time.







After virtual feasting on those amazing creations I settled on this Tanzanie & Cola Chocolate Tart as the thing for me:
 






Here is the recipe:

Tart Base 

 ingredients:

150 g 82% butter
1.5 g sea salt
95 g icing sugar
30 g almond flour
200 g A.P. flour
50 g egg(s)
40 g Extra Brute 
preparation:
1. Combine all ingredients in a food processor 
2. Chill dough overnight.
3. Roll to 2.5 mm thickness.
4. Form 5 cm diameter tart rings.
5. Freeze.
6. Bake at 320°F/160°C around 15 minutes.
7. Allow to cool and set aside.

Vanilla and cola caramel


ingredients:
2 g salt
20 g invert sugar
95 g glucose syrup DE 60
160 g 35% cream
24 g 82% butter
cola extract


preparation:
1. Cook the sugar and dextrose to caramel
2. Deglaze with salt, invert sugar, glucose and cream
3. Continue to cook to 235°F/113°C
4. Remove from heat

5. Add butter, Mycryo™ and cola extract
6. Mix well with immersion blender.
7. Cool to 86°F/30°C.
8. Pipe into tartlet shells (approx. 75 g).
9. Let set at room temperature.

Tanzanie Dark Chocolate Ganache



ingredients:
260 g 35% cream
17 g invert sugar
30 g 82% butter
150 g Tanzanie

preparation:
1. Warm the cream, invert sugar and butter to 140°F/60°C

2. Pour over melted chocolate 104°F/40°C
3. Create an emulsion with immersion blender.
4. Cast in a tart shell on top of the caramel.
5. Let set.

Chocolate Hazelnut Streusel



ingredients:
100 g 82% butter
100 g raw sugar
85 g A.P. flour
80 g hazelnut flour
2 g cinnamon powder
2 g baking powder

preparation:
1. Combine all ingredients in a food processor
2. Bake at 320°F/160°C for about 15 minutes

Final Assembly

Pipe the cola caramel into the tart shell.
Let set.
Cast the Tanzanie ganache in the tart shell and let set.
Sprinkle pieces of baked chocolate hazelnut streusel.
Decorate as desired.

Now, I will never be able to produce anything close to the beauty portrayed in the photo. That is a certainty! But, I figured, with all that goodness going in-- it is going to be amazing tasting even if I have to pour it into a glass or scraped it from the baking pan ...

Will update ...

Baking for the Holidays?




XOXO, Mimi

credits: all photos are from www.cacao-barry.com/

4 comments:

  1. Great!
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    1. Hi Anastasia,

      thank you for visiting. I really appreciate it. I visited your blog and it is fabulous. I followed you on GFC G+ and Instagram. Please follow back
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      XOXO, Mimi

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  2. Oh these pictures are beautiful and everything look so delicious!
    I'm addicted of chocolate:)
    Thanks for sharing this recipe, I have to try it:)

    jointyicroissanty

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    1. Thank you so much +jointyicroissanty. Happy Holidays sweetie. XOXO Mimi

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