White chocolate and fig truffle
Creation by Hans Rompes, Latour* restaurant (Grand Hotel Huis ter Duin), Noordwijk aan Zee, the Netherlands.
Ingredients
| 5 | fresh figs |
| 30 g | butter, whisked |
| 7 g | icing sugar |
| 200 g | white chocolate |
| 4 g | purple food colouring, powder |
| 3 g | green food colouring, powder |
| 45 g | cocoa butter |
Instructions
- Clean the figs and finely blend them in the blender together with the butter, icing sugar, and 20g of melted white chocolate.
- Pipe the chocolate mixture in the shape of a fig and freeze.
- Melt 80g of white chocolate with the green food colouring and 20g of cocoa butter.
- Dip the truffle filling into the mixture.
- Melt the remaining white chocolate with the purple food colouring.
- Pipe the purple chocolate mixture onto the chocolate truffles.
Serving suggestions:
- As a friandise.
- As a component in a dessert with raspberries.