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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.
Easter eggnog nest

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