The Dream Fruit

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Topic: Relax, Recharge, Refuel

Flavors: A perfumer’s pyramid was used as a reference for the creation of this bonbon. For top and middle notes it features an fragrant berry gel with a blend of Raspberry, Strawberry and Aronia Berry. That blend morphs into a floral one with the addition of Kaffir Lime. For base notes it features an aromatic ganache consisting of my “Experience Next” Or Noir and Fleur de Cao 70% Couvertures combined with Geranium herb and Raspberry. A multisensory experience is induced by a crunchy layer that consists of Zephyr Chocolate, raspberry and aronia powder with buckwheat.

This bonbon resembling an imaginary little fruit, is designed to provide an intense sensory stimulation, to induce relaxation and day-dreaming. Close your eyes while enjoying, and let the flavors bring colors behind your eyes, like a child’s imagination.  Geranium herbs and berries are a sweet childhood memory of mine, as you could find these fragrances almost in every countryside home when growing up. They are sweet, fruity and floral at the same time, and when enjoyed with chocolate they induce a calming, dreaming experience that makes you travel back.
It is my view that the chocolate delights of tomorrow offer both well-being for the body, but also for our mood and mind. By using powerful even in small quantities ingredients (such as the Aronia Berry), this bonbon is fortified in anthocyanins. Combined with the cacao content and trehalose sugar, together they provide protection against oxidative stress of the cells. 

 

  1. Antioxidant Berry - Kaffir Lime Gel
  2. “Experience Next” Or Noir -Raspberry -Geranium Ganache
  3. Raspberry- Aronia- Buckwheat Crunch
  4. Assembly and finishing

Recipe components

Antioxidant Berry - Kaffir Lime Gel

PreparationIngredients
Preparation

Step 1. Mix a small part of the sugar with the yellow pectin and the carob gum.

Step 2. Boil all the ingredients, except for the citric acid solution, until it reaches 103oC or 65 Brix. Remove from heat.

Step 3. Add the citric acid solution and strain.

Step 4. Let it set completely and mix with a stick blender.

Ingredients
  • 84g
    raspberry puree
  • 60g
    strawberry puree
  • 24g
    Aronia juice
  • 6g
    kaffir lime juice
  • 3g
    Kaffir lime leaf
  • 2g
    yellow pectin
  • 0.6g
    carob gum
  • 82g
    sugar
  • 24g
    trehalose
  • 49g
    glucose syrup
  • 4g
    Citric acid solution 50%

“Experience Next” Or Noir -Raspberry -Geranium Ganache

PreparationIngredients
Preparation

Step 1. Bring the puree, cream, glucose, trehalose and the geranium leaves to a boil. Let it infuse for 5 minutes.

Step 2. Strain on the couvertures and blend. At 35ºC, add the anhydrous butter. Mix with a stick blender and then add lime juice.

Step 3. Use at 28ºC.

Ingredients

Raspberry- Aronia- Buckwheat Crunch

PreparationIngredients
Preparation

Step 1. Melt together Zéphyr 34%, cocoa butter  and Pure nut paste 100% Almonds.

Step 2. Add Pailleté Feuilletine and  all other ingredients and spread between two baking sheets, chill and cut.

Ingredients

Assembly and finishing

Step 1. Color the molds with green and berry-pink natural cocoa butter coloring, then pass with a layer of a white (non TiO2) natural cocoa butter coloring. 

Step 2. Cast the molds with Guayaquil 64% Dark Chocolate.

Step 3. Fill half the shells with the “Experience Next” Or Noir -Raspberry -Geranium Ganache and let it set. 

Step 4. Fill the other half shells with the Antioxidant Berry - Kaffir Lime Gel, and finish with a layer of the Raspberry- Aronia- Buckwheat Crunch.

Step 5. Close with chocolate, join the molds and decorate.