COFFEE GANACHE (FOR FILLING CHOCOLATES)

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Chocolates - Week 5, June 8th 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 is a recipe for ganache used to fill a chocolate bonbon. The ganache can also be used for truffles, or simply a topping for icecreams and...

Provided by Jordan Michelle Falco

Categories     Chocolate

Number Of Ingredients 7

6 oz heavy cream
1/2 oz dark roast coffee beans, coarsely ground
milk (as needed)
2 oz glucose syrup
1 1/2 oz coffee liqueur
1 1/2 oz softened butter
14 oz dark chocolate

Steps:

  • 1. Combine the heavy cream and coffee in a sauce pan. Bring to a boil. Remove from heat, cover, and let steep for 5 minutes.
  • 2. Strain the coffee out of the cream using premoistened cheese cloth. Wring the coffee in the cheese cloth to ensure maximum extraction.
  • 3. Return the cream to its origional weight by adding milk.
  • 4. Add the glucose syrup to the flavored ceam mixture. Bring to a boil.
  • 5. Remove from heat, add the coffee liquor.
  • 6. Pour the hot coffe/cream mixture over the chocolate and the butter. Let sit for at least two minutes before stirring. If the chocolate does not melt entirely, place over a double boiler, stirring constantly untill the ganache is smooth and no lumps remain.

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