A skewer of delights to dip into a trio of chocolate sauces
If two is company, three is a proper dinner! Or a spectacular conclusion to dinner in this case. This recipe shows you how to create a variety of sweet treats, playfully threated onto a barbecue skewer and served with a trio of chocolate sauces; each one with a high gloss, an incredibly intense chocolate taste and an irresistible colour. It’s the ideal dessert to serve as an interactive and memorable epilogue to a delightful evening.
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Easy
Real chocolate sauces: dark, milk and white chocolate
Ingredients: Real chocolate sauces: dark, milk and white chocolate
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100 gwhipping cream
Preparation: Real chocolate sauces: dark, milk and white chocolate
Place the chosen chocolate and cream together in a plastic bowl. Heat in a microwave for 30 seconds. Stir well to create a smooth emulsion. If the chocolate has not melted, heat at 10 second intervals until melted.
Bun dough for doughnuts
Ingredients: Bun dough for doughnuts
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600 gpastry flour
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15 gpowdered milk
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5 gsalt
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75 gsugar
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60 gbutter
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30 gwhole egg(s)
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37 gyeast
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300 gwater
Preparation: Bun dough for doughnuts
Create a dough by combining all the ingredients.
Allow the dough to rest under cover for 1 hour.
When ready divide the dough into 15g portions.
Mould into balls.
Allow to prove on an oil tray.
Drop the proved pieces into hot fat 190°C.
The pieces will float when one half is sufficiently browned turn over to cook the other side.
Remove, drain off excess oil, roll immediately in caster sugar.
Marshmallow
Ingredients: Marshmallow
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300 gsugar
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105 ginvert sugar
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70 graspberry puree
Preparation: Marshmallow
Boil to 110°C.
Ingredients: Marshmallow
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70 graspberry puree
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150 ginvert sugar
Preparation: Marshmallow
Blend together the second amount of puree and invert sugar in a kitchen aid mixing bowl. Pour on the heated ingredients. Whisk on high speed.
Ingredients: Marshmallow
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40 ggelatin solution
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57 gwater
Preparation: Marshmallow
Melt together, taking care not to heat above 40°C. Pour onto the whisking ingredients.
Prepare a frame on a tray pre dusted with potato starch and icing sugar.
Whisk the mix until a high volume is achieved and the mix has cool to approx. 25°C to 30°C.
Pour into prepared frame.
Allow to set at 15°C overnight.
Chocolate brownies - triple chocolate
Ingredients: Chocolate brownies - triple chocolate
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185 gunsalted butter
Preparation: Chocolate brownies - triple chocolate
Melt together.
Cool.
Ingredients: Chocolate brownies - triple chocolate
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3 gwhole egg(s)
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275 glight brown caster sugar
Preparation: Chocolate brownies - triple chocolate
Whisk together to a sabayon. Fold in cooled chocolate mixture.
Ingredients: Chocolate brownies - triple chocolate
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85 gflour
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40 gCP
Preparation: Chocolate brownies - triple chocolate
Sieve 3 times.
Fold in sieved flours.
Ingredients: Chocolate brownies - triple chocolate
Preparation: Chocolate brownies - triple chocolate
Fold in.
Prepare a 20 cm cake tin – line the bottom with a square of waxed paper.
Pour into prepare tin and bake at 160°C for 25 minutes.
Cool in the tin – cut and serve.
Choux pastry buns
Ingredients: Choux pastry buns
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250 mlwater
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100 gbutter
Preparation: Choux pastry buns
Bring to the boil slowly. Remove the saucepan from the stove.
Ingredients: Choux pastry buns
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150 gpastry flour
Preparation: Choux pastry buns
Add the strong flour – mix well. Return to the stove and continue mixing until the mix becomes smooth and does not stick to the sides of the pan. Cool slightly. Place in a mixer.
Ingredients: Choux pastry buns
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200 gwhole egg(s)
Preparation: Choux pastry buns
Add the eggs one at a time (the amount of eggs depends on the strength of the flour) until the mix drops away from a spoon on a count of 5.
Pipe straight away onto a buttered floured tray, slipmat or demarle flexipan mat.
Small choux buns using a nozzle 1 ÂĽ- cm plain tube.
Cook at 215°C for 12 to 15 minutes until brown and set.
Choux bun glaze
Ingredients: Choux bun glaze
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150 gwhipping cream
Preparation: Choux bun glaze
Place the dark chocolate and cream together in a plastic bowl.
Heat in a microwave for 30 seconds. Stir well to create a smooth emulsion. If the chocolate has not melted heat at 10 second intervals until melted.
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