Fossil Age

Recipe

Created by
  • Roger Fok - Chinese finalist at the World Chocolate Masters 2015, works at JW Marriott Hongkong

Bitter almond sable

ingredients preparation
  • 13g
    butter
  • 13g
    brown sugar
  • 13g
    bitter almond powder
  • 13g
    flour
  • 0.5g
    salt
  1. Cream the butter and sugar, add salt.
  2. Add the flour and almond powder and mix to a paste.  
  3. Let it rest for an hour and roll out.  
  4. Bake at 170˚C for 12 minutes.

Bitter almond praline

ingredients preparation
  • 100g
    bitter almond paste
  • 35g
    CHM-P40GHA
  • 24g
    NCB-HD706-BY
  • 40g
    bitter almond sable
  • 15g
    BIG-PF-1BO
  1. Temper the milk chocolate and cocoa butter. 
  2. Mix with almond praline, sable and feuilltine.
  3. Roll to 5 mm and cut out.

Cuba Ganache

ingredients preparation
  • 80g
    CHD-Q70CUB
  • 40g
    CHM-P40GHA
  • 140g
    cream
  • 10g
    invert sugar
  • 15g
    butter

1. Heat the cream and invert sugar.
2. Form an emulsion with both of the chocolates and the cream.  
3. Blend and add soft butter. 
4. Pipe into the chocolate mould lined with Cacao Barry® Cuba.

Lemon verbana jelly

ingredients preparation
  • 120g
    lemon juice
  • 3g
    verbena
  • 2g
    NH pectin
  • 80g
    sugar
  • 40g
    water
  1. Mix the pectin with sugar.  
  2. Warm the liquid to 45°C.
  3. Mix in the sugar and pectin. 
  4. Cook to 107°C.
  5. Pour on a tray and allow to cool.