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Icings for pandoro: the recipes of the master pastry chef – Italian cuisine reinvented by Gordon Ramsay


You want to dress up your pandoro? We give you the right idea: cover it with these 3 icings for the pandoro by Master Denis Dianin, inventor of jar cooking in pastry making and member of the Board of the Academy of Italian Master Pastry Chefs (AMPI).

Dianin also offers them in his pastry shop Dianin from Selvazzano Dentro (PD): this year, in fact, the master leavener remains well anchored to the Veneto tradition and presents a line of pandoros baptized “Un’idea di pandoro” for the unique workmanship that makes them particularly soft and gives them a shelf longer life and harmony in the perfumes and aromatic part. There are four limited editions of “Un’idea di pandoro”: the first with coffee dough and the other three with the icings that he gives to the readers of La Cucina Italiana.

3 different flavors to bring 3 delicious variations to the table: Rocher, Pistachio And Hazelnut and Dulcey.

3 icings for Denis Dianin’s pandoro

With the icing from each recipe you can icing 2 pandoros.

Hazelnut and Dulcey icing

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Ingredients

  • Hazelnut paste 91 g
  • Almond paste 91 g
  • Dulcey chocolate 455 g
  • Cocoa butter 182 g
  • Toasted chopped hazelnuts 182 g

Method

  1. Melt the chocolate at 35° and the cocoa butter at 45°.
  2. Combine the chocolate with the cocoa butter.
  3. Add the hazelnut paste and almond paste and mix.
  4. Then add the chopped hazelnuts and glaze by heating the glaze to 30°.

Rocher glaze

Ingredients

  • Hazelnut paste 182 g
  • Dark chocolate 61% 455 g
  • Cocoa butter 182 g
  • Toasted chopped hazelnuts 182 g

Method

  1. Melt the chocolate at 35° and the cocoa butter at 45°.
  2. Combine the chocolate with the cocoa butter.
  3. Add the hazelnut paste and mix.
  4. Finally, add the chopped hazelnuts and glaze after heating the glaze to 30°.

Pistachio glaze

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Ingredients

  • Pistachio paste 182 g
  • White chocolate 455 g
  • Cocoa butter 182 g
  • Pistachio grains 182g

Method

  1. Melt the chocolate at 35° and the cocoa butter at 45°.
  2. Combine the chocolate with the cocoa butter.
  3. Add the pistachio paste and mix.
  4. Finally, add the chopped pistachios and glaze after heating the glaze to 30°.

We learn to temper chocolate to make perfect chocolates and icings – Italian Cuisine

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Have you always had the secret desire to prepare handmade chocolates and do not know how? Or would you like to make a Sacher Torte but do not know which way to start for the chocolate glaze? The solution of your problems is learn how to temper chocolate, that operation that allows the chocolate to melt and then cool down to set temperatures to become shiny, bright and with perfect consistency.

How to melt the dark chocolate

First, chop the chocolate, then put a saucepan with water and let it reach the boil. Put the chocolate bowl in the saucepan with water, making sure the water is inside do not come into contact with the latter. Mix the chocolate to make it melt and verify that it reaches a temperature of 50 °. At this point, turn off, pour the melted chocolate on a marble surface and spread it with a spatula until it has cooled. Then retrieve it and let it melt again in a bain-marie, reaching 31 ° and no further, otherwise the operation would not be successful. Once the chocolate has melted, you can use it for your every recipe.

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Milk and white chocolate

Melting and cooling temperatures for chocolate tempering are not the same for all types of chocolate. This depends on the amount of cocoa butter that changes for every type of bar. If you need to temper milk chocolate, remember to heat it up to 48 ° and then re-fill it up to 29 °. For the white one, the values ​​will be 45 ° for the first fusion and 29 ° for the second one.

In the tutorial some more tips for a perfect temperament

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