Recipe: Meringue and chocolate sphere
Summary: Meringue and chocolate sphere, here is a great idea to present a dessert, the meringue sphere will allow you to have a crunchy side for your dessert. I made an Italian meringue to make my shells, after having tested the French meringue and the Swiss meringue, a few days before finding the method, but the result is really nice. I also really liked the meringue and chocolate hemispheres filled with praline hazelnuts, just a little crunchy. And what about this dark chocolate ganache that melted on the tongue. No frankly here is a dessert with a lot of work, but everything can be prepared a day or even two days in advance. You can use silicone molds, but beware the release is more fragile, if you do not have a polycarbonate mold. Moreover they are not very expensive less than 20 € for 6 half spheres. 2015 souvenir recipe
Recipe ingredients:
- Recipe for 8 people:
- Italian meringue
- 128 gr of egg white approximately 3
- 380 gr of powdered sugar
- 175 gr of water
- Chocolate shell
- 150 gr of dark chocolate 72% cocoa from Venezuela
- 1.5 gr Mycryo butter
- Ganache
- 160 gr of dark chocolate
- 20 cl of liquid cream
- 20 gr of sugar
- 90 gr of butter
- 80 gr of Piedmont hazelnuts
- 1 gelatin sheet
- Decorating the plate to make the day before
- 100 gr of dark chocolate
Instruction:
- Decorating the plate to make the day before
- Melt the chocolate
- Pass the lukewarm chocolate in a bag or cone.
- Pour the fillets on the plate and make patterns.
- Leave to cool, you can put clothespins on each plate and stack them.
- Praline hazelnuts to make the day before
- Coarsely crush the hazelnuts with a knife.
- Roast the hazelnuts for 5 minutes in a hot but dry pan.
- Heat 40 g of water with the 60 g of sugar, in order to reach a temperature of 120 °.
- Out of the heat add the hazelnuts and stir, the sugar will crystallize and turn white.
- Return to the temperature in the saucepan, the white sugar will caramelize and let it brown.
- Mix well to coat the hazelnuts with a good caramel.
- Pour the caramelized hazelnuts on a sheet of food paper.
- Crush the caramelized hazelnuts as soon as they have cooled.
- Ganache to make the day before
- Soak the gelatin sheet in cold water.
- Bring the cream to a boil.
- Add the gelatin leaves.
- Pour the boiling cream over the chocolate, then smooth with a spatula.
- Gradually add the tempered butter and smooth the mixture by adding the 40 g of sugar.
- Smooth with the spatula the chocolate should be very smooth.
- Pour the ganache in a dish and let cool in the refrigerator overnight.
- Meringue sphere: to do the day before follow the meringue sphere recipe
- Chocolate sphere or shell: to do the day before follow the chocolate shell recipe
- The assembly of your dessert.
- Place a meringue shell on each plate, the flat part on the plate.
- Add a dab of ganache on each meringue sphere.
- Glue the chocolate hemisphere on the meringue sphere.
- Fill the sphere with the praline hazelnuts, be careful they must not go beyond the edges.
- Pour the ganache into the spheres and finish by hiding the hazelnuts.
- Here is your dessert is ready a lot of work, but then the result.
Preparation time: 40 minutes
Cooking time: 120 minutes
Number of people: 8
4 star rating: 1 review
What wine to drink with: Meringue and chocolate sphere
My favorite wine for this recipe: Late harvest Pinot gris Pinot gris grape
Temperature between 08 ° and 10 °
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