A recipe that combines two favorite ingredients strawberry and chocolate, this recipe is all about decadence at its best.
Here is the recipe of Strawberry, chocolate velvet embrace, courtesy Palash Ghosh, Executive Chef, Taj Hotel & Convention Centre, Agra.
- For 4 portions
- Total time 45 minutes
- Cooking time 20 minutes
Ingredients
- Dark chocolate 14.1 ounces
- Strawberry flavor chocolate 10.58 ounces
- White chocolate 3.52 ounces
- Cocoa butter 1.4 ounces
- Fresh Strawberry 8.8 ounces
- Castor sugar 5.3 ounces
- Mascarpone cheese 2.6 ounces
- Whipped cream 1.7 ounces
- Gold dust 0.03 ounces
- Gold leaves 0.03 ounces
Equipment
- Heart shaped silicone mould (1big + 1Small) 2 nos
- Square box shaped silicone mould 1 no
Method
- Melt the dark chocolate along with cocoa butter and temper the chocolate.
- Pour the tempered chocolate into a square box shaped silicone mould, coating the bottom and sides evenly and set at room temperature for 15-20 minutes until firm.
- Carefully remove the chocolate shell from the mould once set.
- Take another bowl, melt, and temper the strawberry flavor red chocolate and pour the tempered chocolate into a heart shaped silicone mould and set at room temperature for 10-12 minutes until firm.
- Blend the strawberries into a smooth puree.
- In a mixing bowl, combine the strawberry puree mascarpone cheese, melted white chocolate and whipped cream, mix until smooth and creamy.
- Chill the filling in the refrigerator for 15 minutes to firm up.
- Pipe the chilled strawberry filling into the heart shaped chocolate shells.
- Set the large red chocolate heart on the top of the chocolate box and place some small heart shaped chocolate inside the box.
- Garnish with gold leaves and gold dusted chocolate feather.
