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Flower Power - Geraldine Müller-Maras

Chocolate Friand

100 g ground almonds
50 g flour
20 g Cacao Barry® cocoa powder Extra Brute
200 g cane sugar
180 g egg whites
170 g butter
20 g agave syrup
6 drops of natural geranium essence

  1. Mix together ground almonds, flour and cocoa powder.
  2. Whip up egg whites with cane sugar in three times and fold into dry ingredients.
  3. Add melted butter and agave syrup, and fold into previous mixture together with geranium essence.
  4. Pipe 30 g into silicon moulds and add 5 g of G-nial ganache to centre.
  5. Bake at 180°C for 8-10 minutes.

G-Nial Ganache

34 g liquid cream
6 g Trimoline® (invert sugar)
1.4 g glucose
30 g Cacao Barry® Or Noir™ dark chocolate G-Nial 70% cocoa
5 g butter (butter fat)
0.5 g invertase

  1. Mix together cream, Trimoline®, glucose and butter, and heat up to 85°C.
  2. Pour over G-Nial chocolate in three stages.
  3. Leave to cool and add 5 g of ganache to Friand before baking.

Alunga™ Chocolate Mousse

300 g cream (35%)
160 g Cacao Barry® milk chocolate couverture Alunga™ 41% cocoa
30 g Cacao Barry® Or Noir™ dark chocolate G-Nial 70% cocoa
2 g Pro Espuma
1 g tonka beans

  1. Mix together cream and tonka beans, and heat up to 60°C.
  2. Melt chocolate in cream mixture, add Pro Espuma and homogenise.
  3. Cool in freezer until firm, whip and pipe on top of baked Friand.

Blueberry Cookie

50 g rice flour
27 g flour
50 g starch
Pinch of salt
25 g icing sugar
5 g freeze-dried blueberry powder
50 g Fruit'Purée Calamansi Capfruit
40 g Fruit'Purée Blueberry Capfruit
85 g water
20 g egg yolks
5 g vegetable oil
400 g clarified butter

  1. Mix together all dry ingredients.
  2. Make well, and incorporate Fruit'Purée Calamansi Capfruit, Fruit'Purée Blueberry Capfruit, water, egg yolks and oil. Mix into smooth dough.
  3. Heat up clarified butter to 140-150°C in a pan and fry flower cookies with special flower-shaped utensil.

Blueberry Jelly

80 g Fruit'Purée Blueberry Capfruit
10 g Lemon juice
100 g red berry juice
5 g gelatine leaves
3 drops natural geranium essence

  1. Mix together and heat Fruit'Purée Blueberry Capfruit and juices.
  2. Dissolve soaked gelatine leaves and add geranium essence.
  3. Pour into silicon moulds and leave to cool.

Vanilla Ice Cream

170 g cream
170 g milk
25 g milk powder
60 g egg yolk
40 g Trimoline® (invert sugar)
½ vanilla bean
25 g sugar
2 g stab 2000 (ice cream stabiliser)
3 drops of natural geranium essence

  1. Make creme anglaise with milk, cream, milk powder, Trimoline®, vanilla and egg yolks 'à la nappe'.
  2. Add sugar, stabiliser and geranium essence, and leave to cool.
  3. Make freeze-roll ice cream 'à la minute' and serve.

Chocolate Ice Cream

160 g milk
50 g cream
9 g milk powder
15 g atomised glucose
10 g Trimoline® (invert sugar)
1 pinch of vanilla grains
10 g sugar
1 g stab 2000 (ice cream stabiliser)
45 g Cacao Barry® Or Noir™ dark chocolate G-Nial 70% cocoa

  1. Mix together and heat milk, cream, milk powder, glucose and vanilla.
  2. Mix together stabiliser and sugar, and add to milk mixture.
  3. Pour over chocolate and leave to cool.
  4. When cool, use as decoration for freeze-roll ice cream.

Bricelets

125 g flour
125 g cream
16 g butter (melted)
100 g icing sugar
70 g white wine
10 g kirsch
1 pinch of vanilla

  1. Mix together all dry ingredients.
  2. Make well, and incorporate cream, butter, white wine and Kirsch. Mix into smooth dough.
  3. Bake bricelets with traditional bricelet iron.
  4. Add bricelet pieces while making freeze-roll ice cream.

Finishing and assembly:

  1. Pipe drops of Alunga™ Milk Chocolate Mousse on baked Chocolate Friand.
  2. Add Blueberry Jelly to the centre, and place Blueberry Cookie on top.
  3. Produce freeze-roll Vanilla Ice Cream 'à la minute' filled with Bricelet pieces and freeze-dried blueberry powder. Place on top of flower-shaped Blueberry Cookie.
  4. Decorate and preserve in 'Snack to Go' box.
  5. Enjoy Swiss Flower Power.