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Christmas wreath with dark chocolate, spiced apple and creamy cremino glaze.
Gaetano Mignano Giancarlo Alosa Salvatore Toma
Gaetano Mignano Giancarlo Alosa Salvatore Toma
Components
1. Spicy Apple Gelatine
1000 g apple puree
100 g Sugar
28 g pectin
1000 g Sugar
200 g glucose 42 DE
50 g dry grappa
q.b. vanilla - cinnamon - cloves
22 g 1:1 citric acid solution

Heat the puree, add the pre-mixed pectin with the sugar, mix and cook. Gradually add the previously heated glucose and sugar and cook at 74 brix. At the end of cooking, add the grappa and the citric solution.

2. Cuba Dark Chocolate Cake
600 g Butter
350 g Cuba Dark Chocolate
10 g Salt
q.b. Vanilla
75 g Cocoa 22/24 Dark Vanilla
125 g Inverted Sugar
400 g Sugar
150 g Cream
850 g Eggs
150 g Egg Yolks
500 g Weak flour
100 g Potato Starch
25 g Baking soda
350 g Almond flour
350 g Large Chocolate Chips White Caramel - 1.700 pieces/kg

Melt butter and chocolate, pour into a planetary mixer with sugar, salt, flavourings and mix with the leaf. Add the cream mixed with eggs and yolks and finally all the previously mixed and sieved powders. Mix the drops into the dough.

3. Golden Chocolate Cream Glaze
1000 g Vanini Aurum Caramel White Chocolate
100 g Sunflower oil
300 g Artisan roasted almond praline
150 g almond paste
100 g Crunchy Flakes

Temper the chocolate, add all the other ingredients.

4. Apple Syrup
1000 g syrup 30 bè
250 g Water
250 g apple puree
250 g grappa

Mix all the ingredients

Assembly and decoration

Make the gelatine and once cold cut into 1×1 cm cubes. Make the cake and fill it with Large Chips white caramel and 350 g gelatin cubes, bake at 155°C for 40‘. Prepare the syrup and glaze. Wet the freshly baked cake. Leave overnight to rest. Frosting and decorating with a Christmas theme.

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by
Gaetano Mignano
Giancarlo Alosa
Salvatore Toma