Chocolate Cigarettes

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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

This is an all-chocolate, refined version of the Russian cigarette. They are relatively simple to make as long as you choose the moment when they are sufficiently malleable.

Ingredients

Method

Spread out the tempered chocolate on your cool working surface to a thickness of just under 1/16 inch (2 mm). When it begins to set (the texture is just right when your finger can indent the chocolate easily), push it quickly away from you using the triangular scraper like a snow plough, pressing hard and keeping it firmly on the metal as you do so.

The chocolate will roll over itself a