Chocolate, post your ideas and experiments
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fphsecretservice said:
i'm drooling looking at that picture and i demand a recipe!!
and when i have time i'll post up my profiteroles pic!
Simple, 50:50 chocolate and cream, bit of butter, sugar and salt. Melt together, pour out and chill. Make a "shape" I cut a 1/4" thick disc with a cutter but you could just roll in your palms and flatten. and when i have time i'll post up my profiteroles pic!
Freeze it. Give it 24 hours. Then bread crumb as you would anything else but it needs three coats minimum. Freeze again and then deep fry until it looks the right colour.
Nothing clever just a lot of messing about.
/have ordered my mini-doughnut moulds
21TonyK said:
fphsecretservice said:
i'm drooling looking at that picture and i demand a recipe!!
and when i have time i'll post up my profiteroles pic!
Simple, 50:50 chocolate and cream, bit of butter, sugar and salt. Melt together, pour out and chill. Make a "shape" I cut a 1/4" thick disc with a cutter but you could just roll in your palms and flatten. and when i have time i'll post up my profiteroles pic!
Freeze it. Give it 24 hours. Then bread crumb as you would anything else but it needs three coats minimum. Freeze again and then deep fry until it looks the right colour.
Nothing clever just a lot of messing about.
/have ordered my mini-doughnut moulds
fphsecretservice said:
lol @ nothing clever!!! thats brilliant and i'm stealing it to get applause at the next dinner party
Believe me, mine is the hugely simplified and "home do-able" version of a recipe from a hugely reknowned pastry chef. His is a bit more refined and needs £300 of specialist ingredients but it does produce better looking results.Mine is also a near replica of what is served in our local M* restaurant which is a huge disappointment knowing that I can reproduce what they do with ease AND that they copied the idea in the first place!
Bob the Planner said:
have you run out of ideas for the chocolate challenge already ? 
Not yet, got a few ideas up my sleeve to try this weekend Some ideas here for sauces http://www.five.tv/shows/street-market-chefs-2/epi...
ok then tony, pimp this up....
Chocolate concrete
100g margarine
2 eggs
100g cocoa powder
1 lb self raising flour
100g sugar
melt the margarine and sugar and mix well till it goes syrupy
add flour and cocoa to the syrup on the pan mix well until its becomes stiff .
add two beaten eggs and gently mix them in until your mix softens.
place the mixture into the tray, press into the corners and flatten into the sides of the tin.
Please in the oven (gas mark 5)and leave for about 30-45 minutes. If the top feel hard take it out to cool. Cut up into slices as when its cool its quite hard to cut. It should be hard on top and moist in the middle.
Chocolate concrete
100g margarine
2 eggs
100g cocoa powder
1 lb self raising flour
100g sugar
melt the margarine and sugar and mix well till it goes syrupy
add flour and cocoa to the syrup on the pan mix well until its becomes stiff .
add two beaten eggs and gently mix them in until your mix softens.
place the mixture into the tray, press into the corners and flatten into the sides of the tin.
Please in the oven (gas mark 5)and leave for about 30-45 minutes. If the top feel hard take it out to cool. Cut up into slices as when its cool its quite hard to cut. It should be hard on top and moist in the middle.
fphsecretservice said:
ok then tony, pimp this up....
Chocolate concrete
100g margarine
2 eggs
100g cocoa powder
1 lb self raising flour
100g sugar
melt the margarine and sugar and mix well till it goes syrupy
add flour and cocoa to the syrup on the pan mix well until its becomes stiff .
add two beaten eggs and gently mix them in until your mix softens.
place the mixture into the tray, press into the corners and flatten into the sides of the tin.
Please in the oven (gas mark 5)and leave for about 30-45 minutes. If the top feel hard take it out to cool. Cut up into slices as when its cool its quite hard to cut. It should be hard on top and moist in the middle.
You sure those ratios are right? Not very "chocolaty", maybe best used as a structural element of some exotic sculpture!Chocolate concrete
100g margarine
2 eggs
100g cocoa powder
1 lb self raising flour
100g sugar
melt the margarine and sugar and mix well till it goes syrupy
add flour and cocoa to the syrup on the pan mix well until its becomes stiff .
add two beaten eggs and gently mix them in until your mix softens.
place the mixture into the tray, press into the corners and flatten into the sides of the tin.
Please in the oven (gas mark 5)and leave for about 30-45 minutes. If the top feel hard take it out to cool. Cut up into slices as when its cool its quite hard to cut. It should be hard on top and moist in the middle.
21TonyK said:
fphsecretservice said:
ok then tony, pimp this up....
Chocolate concrete
100g margarine
2 eggs
100g cocoa powder
1 lb self raising flour
100g sugar
melt the margarine and sugar and mix well till it goes syrupy
add flour and cocoa to the syrup on the pan mix well until its becomes stiff .
add two beaten eggs and gently mix them in until your mix softens.
place the mixture into the tray, press into the corners and flatten into the sides of the tin.
Please in the oven (gas mark 5)and leave for about 30-45 minutes. If the top feel hard take it out to cool. Cut up into slices as when its cool its quite hard to cut. It should be hard on top and moist in the middle.
You sure those ratios are right? Not very "chocolaty", maybe best used as a structural element of some exotic sculpture!Chocolate concrete
100g margarine
2 eggs
100g cocoa powder
1 lb self raising flour
100g sugar
melt the margarine and sugar and mix well till it goes syrupy
add flour and cocoa to the syrup on the pan mix well until its becomes stiff .
add two beaten eggs and gently mix them in until your mix softens.
place the mixture into the tray, press into the corners and flatten into the sides of the tin.
Please in the oven (gas mark 5)and leave for about 30-45 minutes. If the top feel hard take it out to cool. Cut up into slices as when its cool its quite hard to cut. It should be hard on top and moist in the middle.
Despite thinking I had lots of time this week all I've managed so far is to make a case for a tart and a ganache which has been frozen since last week!
Idea is to fill the tart with something and then top it with something fancy. Just hope I have time to do this, I'm planning to refit the kitchen tomorrow which is what i should have been doing all week!
Idea is to fill the tart with something and then top it with something fancy. Just hope I have time to do this, I'm planning to refit the kitchen tomorrow which is what i should have been doing all week!
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