Chocolate financier

Ingredients: Chocolate financier

  • 250 g
    beurre noisette
  • 500 g
    equal quantities of ground almonds and icing sugar

Preparation: Chocolate financier

Mix.

Ingredients: Chocolate financier

  • 3 piece(s)
    eggs
  • 30 g
    flour
  • 20 g
    CP
  • 50 g
    cornflour

Preparation: Chocolate financier

Add.

Ingredients: Chocolate financier

Preparation: Chocolate financier

Add.

Pipe into Flexipan® moulds and bake at 170°C for approximately 10 minutes. Leave to cool. Pipe Callebaut Dark Chocolate Mousse on top of the financier. Garnish with Grotine cherry.

Chocolate mousse

Ingredients: Chocolate mousse

  • 1 l
    semi-skimmed milk

Preparation: Chocolate mousse

Place in a kitchen aid bowl.

Ingredients: Chocolate mousse

Preparation: Chocolate mousse

Sprinkle on top of the milk.

Using a balloon attachment, whisk ingredients together for 30 seconds. Stop the kitchen aid – scrape down all ingredients. Whisk for a further 3 minutes.
Store in a 5°C fridge until ready to use.

Finishing and presentation

Tools: a bottle top and acetate sheet. 
Precrystallise a batch of Callebaut 811 Finest Belgian Dark Chocolate. Place the acetate sheet on a flat surface. Dip the top of the bottle top in the prepared chocolate. Press lightly onto the acetate sheet. Now remove the bottle top from the acetate sheet. A rough textured circle will have been created. Allow to set at 12’C for a least one hour before final decoration. After one hour dust each circle with creative powder. Store until ready to use.