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.
Level:
Easy

Real chocolate sauces: dark, milk and white chocolate

Ingredients: Real chocolate sauces: dark, milk and white chocolate

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

  • 600 g
    pastry flour
  • 15 g
    powdered milk
  • 5 g
    salt
  • 75 g
    sugar
  • 60 g
    butter
  • 30 g
    whole egg(s)
  • 37 g
    yeast
  • 300 g
    water

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

  • 300 g
    sugar
  • 105 g
    invert sugar
  • 70 g
    raspberry puree

Preparation: Marshmallow

Boil to 110°C.

Ingredients: Marshmallow

  • 70 g
    raspberry puree
  • 150 g
    invert 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

  • 40 g
    gelatin solution
  • 57 g
    water

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

Preparation: Chocolate brownies - triple chocolate

Melt together.
Cool.

Ingredients: Chocolate brownies - triple chocolate

  • 3 g
    whole egg(s)
  • 275 g
    light brown caster sugar

Preparation: Chocolate brownies - triple chocolate

Whisk together to a sabayon. Fold in cooled chocolate mixture.

Ingredients: Chocolate brownies - triple chocolate

  • 85 g
    flour
  • 40 g
    CP

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

  • 250 ml
    water
  • 100 g
    butter

Preparation: Choux pastry buns

Bring to the boil slowly. Remove the saucepan from the stove.

Ingredients: Choux pastry buns

  • 150 g
    pastry 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

  • 200 g
    whole 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

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.