December 30th 2008 Posted at General
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Today I have a few completely off topic pictures.
Marcel and Julienne, my two chickens that survive the freezing temperatures.
Marcel and Julienne
Enjoy the end of year festivities
C U back next year for more chocolate creations
Alain
December 18th 2008 Posted at Experiments, General
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Wednesday, december 17th 2008
Darkness falls at 5 pm, it’s getting cold outside, it snows, it freezes. Time to make some Easter eggs. Easter eggs come in a lot of different flavours. You can let go your creativity. Now that things go smooth. Milk chocolate with white chocolate, dark chocolate with ganaches, alcohol eggs, the sky is the limit. Check out some pictures :
These are eggs filled with a glucose solution with strawberry compound and Kirsch
Standard eggs filled with hazelnut praliné
Easter egg with fondantchocolate ganache and prepared advocat
All kinds of seafood chocolate, different colours and praliné filling
These are 2 surprise pralines. One is filled with Kasteelbier-kriek ganache and the other one is filled with glucose-kirsch-cherries ganache. It’s up to you to choose what you like.
Enjoy the end of year festivities, I will do the same and produce some pralines for the friends.
Cheerz
Alain
December 6th 2008 Posted at Alcohol, Chocolate
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Wednesday, december 3rd 2008
The lessons for this year are slowly coming to an end, so time for something special.
Close your eyes. Imagine you bite in a praline with liquor in it (example : a Mon Cherie praline). First you taste chocolate, then you bite through a little layer of sugar and then the liquor comes out. To make these liquor pralines you need a good understanding of how the sugar is forming a crust around the liquor and a lot of discipline to work in the right conditions. The technique is a little bit secret, that is why I don’t explain in detail how they are made.
(picture source : Chocolaterie Carre )
I don’t have pictures of the result yet since it takes at least 18 hours to let the praline create itself, weird huh…
I promise that there will be more pictures next week from the liquor pralines result. I can’t wait.
Meanwhile, eat chocolate and be good.
Alain