Chocolate, Coconut, and Passion Fruit Cakes

Name: Chocolate, Coconut, and Passion Fruit Cakes
Prep time: 50 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 3 h
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon (1 g) apple pectin; 1 tablespoon (¼ oz./8 g) unsweetened cocoa powder; 3 ¼ oz. (90 g) finely chopped almonds; 6 oz. (175 g) passion fruit pulp; 3 tablespoons (1 ½ oz./45 g) glucose syrup; 3 tablespoons (1 ½ oz./45 g) glucose syrup; ½ teaspoon (1 g) yellow pectin (slow-hardening pectin); ½ teaspoon (1 g) yellow pectin (slow-hardening pectin); ¼ teaspoon (1 g) citric acid solution, 50 percent; 7 tablespoons (1 ½ oz./40 g) cake flour; ½ teaspoon (2 g) baking powder; ¼ cup (1 ¾ oz./50 g) granulated sugar; ¼ cup (1 ¾ oz./50 g) granulated sugar; ¼ cup (1 ¾ oz./50 g) granulated sugar; 2 slightly heaped tablespoons (45 g) honey; 2 slightly heaped tablespoons (45 g) honey; ¼ cup (60 ml) whole milk; 1 extra large egg (2 ¼ oz./60 g); 2 ¼ oz. (60 g) finely ground coconut (powder form); 3 tablespoons (1 ⅔ oz./45 g) butter; 3 tablespoons (1 ⅔ oz./45 g) butter; 1 ¾ oz. (50 g) bittersweet chocolate, 70 percent cocoa; 1 ¾ oz. (50 g) bittersweet chocolate, 70 percent cocoa

Preparation info

Serves
6–8

Difficulty
Complex
Ready in
3 hr

Appears in

Encyclopedia of Chocolate

By Frédéric Bau and École du Grand Chocolat Valrhona

Published 2017

About

Ingredients

Almond nougatine

4 tablespoons (60 g) butter
1 heaped tablespoon (1<

Cake
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

A day ahead, prepare the almond nougatine. Melt the butter with the glucose syrup in a saucepan. Combine the granulated sugar with the pectin and add this mixture to the saucepan. Then stir in the cocoa powder, and lastly, the finely chopped almonds. Remove immediately from the heat and pour the mixture onto a sheet of parchment paper. Cover it with a sec