Black Forest Snacking Bar

Inspired by the timeless Black Forest dessert, we’ve turned this British classic into a rich chocolate snacking bar — think tangy cherry, deep cocoa, and indulgence.
Level:
Medium

Cherry Jelly

Ingredients: Cherry Jelly

  • 380 g
    black cherry purée
  • 8 g
    yellow pectin
  • 180 g
    sugar

Preparation: Cherry Jelly

heat the puree to 40°C
Mix the sugar and pectin together and add into the puree.
Cook to 103°C

Black Cherry Ganache

Ingredients: Black Cherry Ganache

  • 50 g
    cream 35%
  • 155 g
    black cherry purée
  • 80 g
    glucose syrup
  • 20 g
    sorbitol powder
  • 20 g
    invert sugar

Preparation: Black Cherry Ganache

Heat the cream and puree and sugars to 80c

Ingredients: Black Cherry Ganache

Preparation: Black Cherry Ganache

Pour on to the Callebaut 811 dark chocolate and Callebaut 823 milk chocolate and emulsify

Vegan Sable

Ingredients: Vegan Sable

  • 115 g
    plain flour
  • 12 g
    Cacao powder 22-24% Extra Brute
  • 40 g
    icing sugar
  • 2 g
    salt
  • 150 g
    vegan butter

Preparation: Vegan Sable

Place the dry ingredients and butter into a food mixer. Mix until a bread crumb texture is achieved.

Ingredients: Vegan Sable

  • 20 g
    Oat milk

Preparation: Vegan Sable

Add the plant milk and bring the mix together to form a dough.
Wrap in cling film and rest in the fridge until needed
Roll out between two pieces of silicone paper to 5mm thick
Bake in a pre-heated oven for 8 minutes at 160c.

Vegan Crunch

Ingredients: Vegan Crunch

  • 150 g
    vegan sable

Preparation: Vegan Crunch

Break the vegan sable up into small pieces

Ingredients: Vegan Crunch

Preparation: Vegan Crunch

warm the chocolate and fold through the praline then fold through the sable
spread out between two sheets of silicon paper to 4mm thick
Allow to set cut in to 12cm by 2.5 cm stripes

Assembly

Shell a curved snacking bar mould with pre crystalised Callebaut 811 dark chocolate
Pipe the cherry gel into the base
Pipe the cherry ganache on top allow to set
Cap off the back of the mould with tempered Callebaut 811 dark chocolate
Allow to contract from the mould then turn out and place on the the crunchy base.
Once set demould the bars
Pipe a thin line of tempered chocolate on to the crunch layer and place onto the crunch layer