Recipe: Mint Pralines – approx. 15 pieces depending on how small molds you use.
Chocolate ingredients:
100ml coconut oil/cacao butter
3 tbsp lucuma
3 tbsp cacao powder
1 pinch stevia powder (green), liquid stevia or xylitol
1 pinch vanilla
1 pinch salt (preferably Himalayan)
Mint filling:
100ml cashew nuts (or other nuts of choice)
2 tbsp lucuma powder
Leaves from approx. 4-5 sprigs of peppermint
1 pinch stevia powder (green) or xylitol
some tbsp water
Chocolate preparation:
Gently melt the coconut oil or cacao butter over a double boiler.We prefer coconut oil taste-wise, but if you're making pralines that you want to give away as gifts, then cacao butter is best instead since it doesn't melt at room temperature. Pralines made with coconut oil need to be stored in the refrigerator.
Add lucuma, cacao powder, stevia, vanilla & salt, stir until the chocolate is smooth. Let cool at room temperature until the mint filling is ready.
Mint filling preparation:
Soak the nuts for a few hours before starting. Then pour away the soaking water.
Blend the nuts, lucuma, stevia & mint leaves with some tbsp water.Since there's such a small amount of liquid and the filling should be quite thick, it's best done with an immersion blender.
Assembly:
Fill the first layer, 1/4 of the praline mold with chocolate. If you don't have praline molds, soft ice cube trays, silicone molds, small paper chocolate molds etc. work. Let set for a few minutes in the refrigerator.
When the first chocolate layer is hard, you can dollop in or pipe in the mint filling, remember to save space for a second chocolate layer on top and around the sides. When the pralines are finished, they'll look best with an even layer of chocolate all around.Let cool in the refrigerator for a few minutes.
Fill the pralines on the sides & top with chocolate. Chill well before removing or pressing them out of the molds (otherwise they break easily, as the filling is softer than the chocolate). Store in the refrigerator.
Recipe and image by Katrin Petersson from the course center Levande föda
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