Mount Budapest

This is sort of my own twist of the classic Mont Blanc Chocolate.  I called it Mount Budapest because I have added a tiny bit of Hungarian Paprika into the chocolates and shape it like a mountain with a little drizzle chopped pistachio on the top.  The main ingredient to this chocolate is the Petit Beurre Cookies or you can use Beurre Sale Sable cookies, any of those would work and I prefer using the Beurre Sale Sable just because it has salt in them and give it a little contrast to the sweet but you can certainly add a little bit of salt to taste.

Ingredient:

150g of Petit Beurre Biscuit crushed
100g of mix milk chocolate and dark chocolate (ratio is up to you)
2 Tbsp. of Pistachio cream (or creme de Marrons if you are more interested in Chestnut flavor)
1tsp. of butter
1 dash of Hungarian Paprika
1/4 cup of crushed Pistachio, try and find the greenest ones

• In a medium size mixing bowl crush the biscuits

• In another bowl, melt chocolate together with pistachio cream, paprika and butter
• Once melted, add chocolate to the crushed biscuits and mix well
• Line Silpat or parchment paper on a baking sheet
• Using spoon one tablespoon of the chocolate biscuit mixture on to the baking sheet
• Let sit til they set a bit, then using your fingers to shape each ground into a mountain shape

• Then when they are all set and harden which usually takes a few hours

Tempered Chocolate:

250g Dark Coverture Chocolate

• In a small bowl, melt 2/3 of the chocolates and use the rest of the 1/3 of chocolate to temper the chocolate.  When chocolate is tempered, try a little on your lip, it should be cool to the touch and the chocolates should be at around 88 degree.  Please refer to the Basic Truffle post for how to temper chocolate

Dipping the mounts:

• Immerse the mount into the tempered chocolate and let them set on another piece of wax or parchment paper
• After you slide them on the paper drizzle a tiny bit of the chopped pistachio on the top

• *Variations: you can switch the chopped pistachio to anything else like shredded coconut, or crushed biscuits, crushed almonds, etc.