Red Swirl

Ingredients

Working Method

Red Cocoa Butter
  • Melt cocoa butter.
  • Add the red food colouring into the melted cocoa butter using a hand blender.

White Cocoa Butter
  • Melt cocoa butter. 
  • Add the white food colouring into the melted cocoa butter using a hand blender.

Pomegranate Jelly
  • Put pomegranate puree, lemon juice and sugar (1) in a pot and bring it to a boil.
  • Mix sugar (2) and pectin in a bowl; slowly add into the boiling mixture using a whisk.
  • Turn into medium heat; cook it until 107°C.
  • Pour it onto a silpat, cover with plastic wrap.
  • When it cools down to 30°C, hand blend it until smooth, pipe it into the chocolate shell. 

Lemon Ganache
  • Heat whipping cream and trimoline to 70°C; warm the lemon puree in a separate bowl.
  • Add lemon puree into the cream mixture.
  • Pour the mixture into the Belcolade Selection Blanc CT, emulsifying it with a hand blender until smooth.
  • When the mixture reaches 37°C, add unsalted butter and emulsify it until smooth.
  • Pipe the ganache into the chocolate shell when it reaches below 28°C.

Finishing
  • Temper the red and white cocoa butter until 30-31°C.
  • Make the swirl pattern using red cocoa butter on the chocolate mould.
  • Using a spray gun, apply the white cocoa butter to the chocolate mould.
  • After the cocoa butter has crystallized, coat it with tempered Belcolade Selection Blanc CT as a chocolate shell, leave it to crystallize for an hour.
  • Fill in the pomegranate jelly at the bottom and lemon ganache at the top, then leave it to crystallize for 2-3 hours.
  • Lastly, close the mould with tempered Belcolade Selection Blanc CT.
  • Demould after crystallization and store it at 16-18°C. 

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