Sicilian Blood Orange

A crème anglaise emulsified with a chocolate to create a smoothand creamy texture that most resembles the texture of a baked custard.

Whipped ganache is essentially a whipped cream that is stabilized by the chocolate with which it is whipped. Emulsification of chocolate and cream, chilled overnight, then whipped just as whipped cream is whipped.

A light airy dessert that is made from combining whipped cream with an egg mixture that is often whipped to a foam but can also be cooked as a crème anglaise, and then folding these two elements together with melted chocolate to create the mousse.

In liquifying chocolate, it is the cocoa butter, the fat, that is actually getting melted – changing from solid to liquid state. Because of the triglyceride composition of cocoa butter, it melts over a temperature range (~90-120°F), not just one single point. This is what makes chocolate so palatable, and for this reason melting is in important part of handling and tempering chocolate.