Easter eggnog nest
Easter eggnog nest
Eggnog is traditionally a festive seasonal drink, but this flavour gives a decadent element to desserts, cakes and patisserie and can be used all year round. This Easter eggnog recipe will give your customers an unforgettable experience.
Crispy praline base ingredients
- praline : 900g
- hazelnut paste : 100g
- Belcolade dark chocolate 55% buttons : 70g
- Belcolade milk chocolate 34% buttons : 200g
- Belcolade cocoa butter : 20g
- feuiletine : 50g
- mini rice puffs : 50g
- seasalt : 2g
Crispy praline base method
- Melt the chocolate and cocoa butter and mix with all the ingredients and temper the whole at 24°C.
- Pour the filling into a frame of 12mm high pre-coated with tempered Belcolade milk chocolate.
- Leave the praline to crystallise.
- Cut with the guitar small bars 12 cm long and 3.5 cm wide.
- Enrobe with tempered Belcolade milk chocolate and decorate with small strips of chocolate to create a bird nest.
- Put the eggnog chocolate eggs in the centre of the nest.
Eggnog eggs ingredients
- egg yolks : 100g
- sugar : 175g
- concentrated milk : 175g
- pure alcohol : 50g
- Cointreau : 25g
Eggnog eggs method
- Mix the egg yolks with the sugar and the concentrated milk.
- Make a bain marie.
- Heat up the mixture to 62°C.
- Add the pure alcohol and the Cointreau.
- Heat up until 80°C.
- Pour eggnog in a closed container and leave to cool.
- Attention: Never heat up above a gas burner. Use an induction heater with a bain marie on top.
Eggnog filling ingredients
- cream 35% : 100g
- eggnog : 400g
- Belcolade white chocolate 30% buttons : 350g
- Belcolade cocoa butter : 50g
- butter : 50g
Eggnog filling method
- Heat up the cream to 85°C and add the Belcolade white chocolate and cocoa butter and mix until a ganache.
- Add the eggnog and the soft butter.
- Mix with an immersion blender.
- When the ganache is at 28°C fill up pre-coated white chocolate easter eggs and leave to set for 12h at 16°C with a relative humidity level below 60%.
- Close them and decorate with tempered coloured cocoa butter.

