Recipes: The ghost of beehive – the idea of taste - Daniel Staron
The ghost of beehive – the idea of taste
Brownie
345g Callebaut dark chocolate 811NV
240g organic butter
150g whole eggs
145g lime-tree honey
75g almond flour
27g Extra Brute cocoa powder
3g baking powder
1g Wieliczka origine salt
1. Melt down butter and chocolate
2. Whisk eggs with honey
3. Combine and sift together cocoa powder, almond flour and baking powder
4. Add salt, emulsify chocolate mixture with pate bombe
5. Add dry ingredients
6. Transfer onto baking sheet, bake at 170 ºC
Chocolate Genoise
270g whole eggs
50g caster sugar #1
170g egg whites
185g caster sugar #2
165g wheat flour
60g coarse wheat flour
35g Extra Brute cocoa powder
6g full fat milk powder
25g organic butter
2g Wieliczka origine salt
1. Separately whisk eggs with sugar #1 and egg whites with sugar #2
2. Sift all dry ingredients apart from salt
3. Combine pate bombe and meringue
4. Add all dry ingredients
5. Emulsify with melted butter
6. Bake at 180 ºC
Centaurea pollen crunch
73g caster sugar
18g glucose syrup
10g centaurea pollen
1g Wieliczka origine salt
100g pure pecan paste
70g Callebaut milk chocolate Arriba 39%
30g honey milk chocolate
1. Dry caramelize glucose syrup and sugar
2. Add centaurea pollen and salt
3. Pour over chocolate and pecan paste
4. Roll out the mixture between two silpats
Ganache
87g cream 36%
23g inverted sugar
29g glucose syrup
165g dark chocolate Sao Thome 70%
35g organic butter
1. Heat the cream with glucose syrup and inverted sugar to 80 ºC
2. Emulsify with chocolate
3. When the ganache reaches 35-38 ºC emulsify with butter
Lemon and ginger mousse
195g whole eggs
90g egg yolk
155g caster sugar
1g lemon zest
120g lemon juice
60g ginger juice
0,5g saffron powder
4g gelatin leaves 180bloom
142g cream 36%
1. Combine eggs, egg yolks and sugar
2. Separately bring to boil lemon zest, lemon juice, ginger juice and saffron
3. Pour over egg mixture and bring to boil again
4. Remove from heat add hydrated gelatine and chill to 35 ºC
5. Combine with semi-whipped cream
Cinnamon caramel
80g caster sugar
95g cream 36%
15g cinnamon sticks
8g Extra Brute cocoa powder
75g honeydew honey
1g Wieliczka origine salt
90g organic butter
60g cocoa butter
1. Make an hot infusion with cream and cinnamon sticks
2. Add cocoa powder, honey and dry caramelized sugar
3. Deglaze it with the infusion
4. Add Salt
5. Chill to 35 ºC
6. Emulsify with butter and melted cocoa butter
Marjoram and Madagascar mousse
300g cream 36%
3g marjoram
278g marjoram infusion
226g Callebaut dark chocolate Madagascar 67%
355g cream 36%
1. Prepare a hot infusion with cream and marjoram
2. Emulsify infusion with chocolate
3. When ganache reaches 35-40 ºC add semi-whipped cream
Crème anglaise
140g cream 36%
140g milk 3,2%
30g caster sugar
80g egg yolk
1. Heat all ingredients in a pan
2. Blend with the hand blender while heating
Arriba mousse
135g crème anglaise
165g milk chocolate Arriba 39%
215g cream 36%
1. Emulsify crème anglaise with chocolate
2. Add semi-whipped cream
Chocolate and honey glacage
200g milk 3,2%
150g caster sugar
220g mineral water
153g buckwheat honey
57g Extra Brut cocoa powder
17g gelatin leaves 180bloom
33g dark chocolate Sao Thome 70%
1. Bring first four ingredients to boil
2. Remove from heat add hydrated gelatine and cocoa powder
3. Blend and strain, emulsify with chocolate
Lemon glacage
220g lemon juice
1g saffron powder
250g caster sugar
220g mineral water
55g glucose syrup
17g gelatin leaves 180bloom
2g Callebaut dark chocolate Sao Thome 70%
4g titanium dioxide
1. Bring first five ingredients to the boil
2. Add hydrated gelatin
3. Add titanium dioxide
4. Strain and add chocolate