gingerbread butter ganache
Chocolates - Week 6, June 15h These recipes are copied straight from my notes in my individual production pastry class. I’m putting them here on just a pinch for my own posterity. This ganache firms up, a bit like fudge. It is meant to be dipped in coating chocolate. The directions may seem confusing, but it's really as simple as letting the ganache firm up, coating one side in dipping chocolate, cutting, then dipping again.
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Ingredients
- 5 ounces butter, soft
- 1 tablespoon gingerbread spice
- 4 ounces molasses
- 14 ounces milk chocolate, melted, tempered
- 2 ounces anise liqueur
- as needed - dipping chocolate
- as needed - turbinado sugar, for finising
- GINGERBREAD SPICE (MIX THE FOLLOWING TOGEATHER)
- 1 ounce cinnamon
- 2 ounces ground ginger
- 1/2 ounce nutmeg
- 1/4 ounce gound cloves
How To Make gingerbread butter ganache
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Step 1By hand, with rubber gloves, mix togeather the butter, spice and molasses until well combined.
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Step 2Stream the milk chocolate into the butter mixture while stirring, taking care not to allow chunks of chocolate to from in the butter mixture.
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Step 3Stream in the liqueur, stirring until the mixture is homogenous.
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Step 4Spread into a 12"x12"x1/4" frame or mould on parchment paper. Allow to crystalize until fim enough to handel, about 20 minutes.
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Step 5Remove the frame from the butter hanache slab.
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Step 6Spread the dark chocolate on one side of the slab to pre-coat.
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Step 7Allow the precoat to crystalize, and ten cut the slab into squares.
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Step 8Dip the squares in the dark chocolate. As the chocolate begins to set, place several crystals of turbinado sugar on top of each piece.
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