Q Chocolate

General Chocolate Interests

Category : Nougat

Easter, wester, souther and norther

Monday, march 29th 2010

The last days I have been experimenting with some new things.  First of all there is this wonderfull nougat granulate from Vital Nougat that can be used to pour into chocolate bars.  Makes me think a bit about the Toblerone bars, but they have more taste when you use the softer granulate instead of the hard pieces and they are easier to bite.

Second thing that I tested was the mould I got from IBC with decoration inside.  It is a bit more work to handle than the makrolon hard moulds but the result is funny.  This was the first time that I used these kind of mould. See for yourself.

Ofcourse with Easter it is necessary to have chocolate eggs, filled with different flavours.  I made some with pralineé filling, fondant sugar with cherries and with Vital’s nougat cream.  They are really delicious.  It is definately worth a try.  I only have a picture of some in a box since all the eggs I made have been delivered to people I know.

And last but not least, to use the rest of all the fillings I made, there are heart shaped pralines in white chocolate.  I don’t like to throw away food and re-use the leftovers into new pralines.  Maybe I find a new taste while doing that.

Soon there will be more news about my new project.  I deposited an idea at I-depot for developtment of a new product based on chocolate.

Enjoy chocolate !

Nougat, not from Montelimar !

Wednesday, november 26th 2008

Today I used nougat to fill pralines.  Nougat is not the same as Nougat de Montelimar.  Nougat de Montelimar is white nougat and soft but has another consistency as the nougat I mean.  Sometimes people call nougat also “Krokant”.  It is made from sugar and glucose with roasted almonds and some butter.

The pralines from this week have all nougat in it.  There are a lot of variations possible.  I show you a few underneath.

Nougat late : a hard nougat piece with praline buttermass and finished with milkchocolate

Duet : White chocolate buttermass with milkchocolate

Soft nougat : caramel with marzipan and roasted almonds covered with white chocolate

Chalet : Lemon ganache finished with dark chocolate

There was also another creation with Grand Marnier but I have no picture of it.  also you cannot see the Grand Marnier, you can only taste it.

Have a nice week

Alain