Lotus Leaf

Lotus Leaf

Level:
Difficult

Pastry Gun Sparkly Green

Used products: Pastry Gun Sparkly Green

Preparation: Pastry Gun Sparkly Green

Melt together all ingredients at 45°C.
Leave to cool to 26°C and spray thinly into moulds.
Turn upside down to remove excess chocolate and leave to crystallize.

Hazelnut Praliné

Used products: Hazelnut Praliné

  • 25 g
    Piémont hazelnuts
  • 25 g
    sugar
  • 8 g
    water
  • 0.5 g
    salt

Preparation: Hazelnut Praliné

Roast hazelnuts at 150°C for 15 minutes.
Mix together sugar, salt and water, and heat up to 120°C.
Add hazelnuts and make into grainy mixture.
Caramelise and pour onto tray. Leave to cool and crush slightly.

Crunchy Hazelnut Praliné 100 g/tray

Used products: Crunchy Hazelnut Praliné 100 g/tray

  • 35 g
    NPN-HA1BY
  • 47 g
    hazelnut praliné
  • 20 g
    NCB-HD703-BY

Preparation: Crunchy Hazelnut Praliné 100 g/tray

Mix together hazelnut praliné and hazelnut paste.
Melt cocoa butter at 45°C and add.

Ganache Passion Fruit Banana Alunga™ 100 g/tray

Used products: Ganache Passion Fruit Banana Alunga™ 100 g/tray

Preparation: Ganache Passion Fruit Banana Alunga™ 100 g/tray

Boil together passion fruit puree, banana fruit puree, invert sugar and glucose.
Leave to cool to 70°C, pour over chocolate and emulsify.
Add dry butter at 35°C.

Assembly

Spray thin layer of green chocolate at 26°C into moulds.
Temper Cacao Barry® milk chocolate couverture Lactée Supérieure 38% cocoa and mould two praline trays.
Fill one praline tray with ganache passion fruit banana Alunga™, fill the other with crunchy hazelnut praliné and leave to crystallise at 6°C for 20 minutes.
Put on gloves and carefully assemble two halves together.