Recipes
White chocolate and macadamia slice
30 minutes Preparation time
30 minutes Cooking time
70 petit four sized portions Serves
Ingredients
100 g butter, diced
400 g good quality white chocolate, roughly chopped
165 g caster sugar
4 eggs
300 g self-raising flour
1 tsp vanilla paste
140 g macadamias, chopped
Raspberry and white chocolate ganache
250 g good quality white chocolate, roughly chopped
150 ml cream
2 tbsp freeze dried raspberry powder
To decorate
Extra chopped macadamia
Edible gold dust
Method
1. Pre-heat oven on Fan Plus at 150°C.
2. Grease a 22cm x 32cm rectangle pan and line with baking paper, extending the paper about 5cm over the sides of the pan.
3. Combine the butter and chocolate in a medium saucepan and stir over a low heat, Induction Setting 3 until smooth. Remove from the heat and stir in the sugar. Cool for 10 minutes.
4. Stir in the eggs and vanilla until well combined and then stir in the flour and nuts until just combined.
5. Spread mixture into the pan. Place on a baking and roasting rack on shelf position 3, bake for 30 minutes.
6. Remove from oven and allow to cool completely before decorating with ganache.
Ganache
1. Bring cream to a boil on high heat, Induction Setting 7, then remove from heat.
2. Whisk in raspberry powder until combined and then stir through chocolate until a smooth consistency is achieved.
To decorate
1. Pour ganache over the top of the cooled slice and smooth out with a spatula. Refrigerate until ganache has set.
2. Trim edges and then cut slice into 4cm x 4cm squares and then cut each square diagonally to make a triangle.
3. Decorate each triangle with chopped macadamias and a touch of gold dust.
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