Shiny chocolate egg with hazelnuts

Shiny chocolate egg with hazelnuts

Alexis Sanson
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1h00
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A naturally ultra-shiny chocolate egg, using the Chef's secret technique, filled with a delicious hazelnut-vanilla praline and crunchy candied hazelnuts.
Shiny chocolate egg with hazelnuts
Completion time
Preparation
1h00
Baking
0
Resting
24h00
Techniques taught
  • Roasting dried fruit in the oven
  • Drying spent vanilla pods
  • Grinding dried vanilla to powder
  • Making praline
  • Making a liquid caramel
  • Making praline by caramelisation
  • Thickening a praline
  • Melting chocolate in the microwave
  • Sand-roasting hazelnuts
  • Making a neutral syrup
  • Tempering chocolate using the seeding method
  • Melting chocolate in the microwave
  • Creaming cocoa butter
  • Melting chocolate
  • Making a chocolate molding
  • Pouring chocolate into molds
  • Molding chocolate
  • Trimming a mold
  • Decorating with dried fruit
  • Filling with praline
  • Filling a chocolate piece
  • Unmolding chocolate
  • Unmolding
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Step 1 : Roasting hazelnuts and vanilla

Alexis Sanson
Alexis Sanson
Chef Chocolatier Confectioner | Instructor
Chef Chocolatier Confectioner | Instructor

Step 2 : Hazelnut and roasted vanilla praline

Step 3 : Milk chocolate thickened praline

Step 4 : Sugar-coating the hazelnuts

Step 5 : Tempering milk chocolate

Step 6 : Molding the shiny eggs

Step 7 : Trimming the mold

Step 8 : Filling the eggs

Step 9 : Removing the eggs from the molds

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