Tuiles

Molded Disks

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Complex

Appears in
Encyclopedia of Chocolate: Essential Recipes and Techniques

By Frédéric Bau and École du Grand Chocolat Valrhona

Published 2017

  • About

Before chocolate hardens (crystallizes), it will take on whatever shape you give it. If you curve it by placing it in a tuile mold or draping it over a rolling pin, you will have tuiles that will snap perfectly when you break them.

Ingredients

Method

Fill a piping bag with tempered chocolate and pipe out small quantities onto a strip of acetate (1).

Cover with a second strip of plastic and press down lightly with a rolling pin to make oval disks. Do not roll them out too thinly. Immediately separate the two