Vegan milk-a-like chocolate crowns
Vegan milk-a-like chocolate crowns
Ensure all bases are covered over the Jubilee by serving up these mouth-watering vegan crowns made using the vegan milk-a-like chocolate from Belcolade. Brush with the Sosa gold colouring powder to give them a golden finish.
Prep time
60
Cook time
15
Shell ingredients
- Belcolade Cacao Trace vegan milk-a-like chocolate (46%) buttons :
- Sosa gold colouring powder :
Shell method
- Brush gold powder into the polycarbonate mould.
- Temper the chocolate and make the shells.
Malt ganache ingredients
- oatly plant based cream : 75g
- Sosa invert : 22g
- malt extract : 40g
- Belcolade Cacao Trace vegan milk-a-like chocolate (46%) buttons : 245g
Malt ganache method
- Bring to the boil the cream, invert and malt extract.
- Pour the liquid over the chocolate and leave to stand for a couple of minutes.
- Use a hand blender to emulsify mixture.
- Allow the ganache to cool to 30°C before placing into a piping bag.
Coffee caramel ingredients
- sugar : 100g
- oatly (double) (heated to 70°C) : 135g
- Irca coffee joypaste : 5g
Coffee caramel method
- Heat a pan and sprinkle in the sugar until fully dissolved.
- Caramelise sugar to a light brown colour.
- Slowly and carefully pour in the heated oatly and cook caramel to 118°C.
- Remove from heat and pour into a bowl to cool, covering the surface with cling film.
- Once cooled to 32°C add in the coffee past and mix to combine.
- When caramel reaches 30°C place mixture into a piping bag.
- Assembly
- Make the caramel and allow to cool.
- Brush gold into the moulds.
- Temper the chocolate and create the shells.
- Once shells are set, pipe in the cooled caramel until half way.
- Make the ganache and pipe once cooled, leaving 2mm from the top.
- Allow the ganache to crystallise overnight between 16-18°C.
- Temper more of the milkalike chocolate and cap the chocolates.
- All the chocolate to set and contract before turning out the chocolates.

