Vegan chocolate mushroom mice
Vegan chocolate mushroom mice
These ghoulishly cute chocolate mice pair a smooth vegan shell with earthy porcini ganache for a Halloween treat with a difference.
Prep time
90 minutes
Cook time
5 minutes
Plant-based chocolate shell ingredients
- Food Colours cocoa butter: Black
- White cocoa butter: As desired
- Belcolade Cacao-Trace plant-based milk chocolate: 1kg
Plant-based chocolate shell method
- Temper the cocoa butters and create the eyes first.
- Once they are set, use an airbrush to spray the mould completely, and allow it to set.
- Temper the plant-based milk chocolate and make the shells for the mice.
- Add the porcini mushroom filling, leaving 4mm from the top of the mould.
- Allow to crystallise for at least six hours, or overnight, between 16 -19°C.
- Temper the milk chocolate and cap the moulds.
- To create the mice tails, use black coloured flower paste.
Porcini ganache ingredients
- 35% cream: 300g
- Roi Des Montagnes dried porcini mushrooms: 50g
- Mushroom infused cream: 115g
- Sosa sorbitol: 17g
- Sosa glucose 60DE: 40g
- Belcolade Cacao-Trace plant-based milk chocolate: 265g
- deZaan Stellar cocoa butter drops: 25g
- Salted butter: 37g
Porcini ganache method
- Infuse the porcini mushrooms in the cream.
- Heat together mushroom infusion, sorbitol, and liquid glucose to 85ºC.
- Pour the mixture onto the plant-based milk chocolate and the cocoa butter, and leave for one minute.
- Using a hand blender, blend to create an emulsion.
- Allow the ganache to reach 35ºC before adding butter and blending again until completely combined and emulsified.
- Cool to 30ºC before piping into the milk chocolate shell.
Assemble
- Leave 4mm from the top of the cavity to allow for capping.
- Leave to crystallise for at least 12 hours (overnight) between 16 - 19ºC.
- Once crystallised, temper more chocolate and cap the filled chocolate shell.
- Once set and contracted, turn out of the mould.
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