Description
These luxurious white chocolate Belgian pralines are filled with a bittersweet coffee filling and a snappy caramelized white chocolate shell.
Ingredients
Units
Scale
- 14 ounces high quality white chocolate* (400 grams)
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar (180 grams)
- 3 tablespoons strong coffee (50 milliliters)
- 2 tablespoons Baileys (or more coffee)
- 1 tablespoon glucose syrup
Instructions
Coffee filling
- First make the coffee filling. Combine lukewarm or cold strong coffee with Bailey's liqueur, powdered sugar and glucose syrup. Whisk or stir well to ensure a smooth mixture.
- Add this mixture to a piping bag with a small tip. Place in the refrigerator while you caramelize and temper the white chocolate.
Caramelize the white chocolate
- Preheat the oven to 285 ℉ (140℃). Pour high-quality white chocolate chips (I use Callebaut) into a 9x13 inch baking pan without parchment paper. Stir with a spatula every 10 minutes for 60-70 minutes. You need to stir a little hard to scrape into the bottom of the chocolate.
- At first it will look gritty and you'll think you've ruined the chocolate. Just keep on going until the chocolate turns golden and smooth, which takes somewhere between 60-70 minutes depending on the chocolate, the oven, and the pan.
- It's done when it's golden, smooth (after stirring), and smells like butterscotch.
Temper caramelized white chocolate
- Once the caramelized white chocolate is smooth and completely melted, take the temperature. If it's below 110 ℉ (43℃), heat it in the microwave until it reaches this temperature.
- When it reaches this temperature, keep stirring until it reaches 84 ℉ (29 ℃).
- Then, you need to nuke a little more in the microwave until it reaches 87 ℉ (31 ℃) - this is the perfect working temperature so try to keep it at this spot.
- My way of doing that is to place the bowl over a small pot of simmering water and turn the temperature to the minimum. Stir often.
Make the pralines
- To your praline mold, pour the tempered caramelized chocolate into each mold. Make sure all edges are completely covered with the chocolate. Pour out the excess chocolate.
- Place the molds in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes or until the chocolate has set.
- Add the coffee filling, make sure you make a little room for the bottom of the chocolate. Place back into the refrigerator for another 15-30 minutes or until the filling has firmed a little.
- Now add a little more white chocolate on top (which will become the bottom), smooth the edges, and place it back into the refrigerator until set, about 30 more minutes.
- Snap the white chocolate Belgian pralines out of their molds and keep them in small cookie jars or boxes.
Notes
* Use a high-quality white chocolate with a high content of cocoa butter, like Callebaut, Valrhona or Guittard.
- Prep Time: 2 hours
- Additional Time: 1 hours
- Cook Time: 0 hours
- Category: Desserts
- Cuisine: Belgian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 81
- Sugar: 12
- Sodium: 11
- Fat: 4
- Saturated Fat: 2
- Unsaturated Fat: 1
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 12
- Fiber: 0
- Protein: 1
- Cholesterol: 2