Praline-making: the resuts, part 1

(with many thanks to my amazing friend, a hobby chocolatier who knows how to make this and to her partner - winks - who has to deal with the mess we left in the kitchen after 8 hours of work!)

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Praline-making: the resuts, part 2

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Praline-making: the process.

Only bits of it, since mostly my hands were too chocolate covered to make photos 😂

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@vicgrinberg Impressive. All of it. Thanks for showing us.

I took a praline-making workshop with a really good patissier here in Hannover, and was constantly blown away by how easy Serge made all the little “Handgriffe” look: the flicks of the wrist, the turning of moulds, writing with chocolate… it’s magic.

(Adds a trip to the patisserie to tomorrow’s to do list.)

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@vicgrinberg it’s a good thing I already brushed my teeth or I would be elbow deep in the chocolate stash now. They look delicious.
@venite haha, sorry. If it helps, by the end of it t I was REALLY looking forward to the pumpkin soup and did not want ANYTHING sweet anymore 😂 May have been because I was literally elbows deep in chocolate before...
@vicgrinberg Wow, I'm deeply impressed.
@vicgrinberg Wow, those look amazing! I’m always impressed when people can get chocolate out of molds like that. I’ve never tried it, but I always expect it to stick and come out all messy. Great job!

@RichSci there is a temperature/chemistryc/cristallization trick to it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempered_chocolate

So yeah, normal heated chocolate will stick, you have to cool it down enough while stirring and then pray a bit you did it right...

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@vicgrinberg Wow, these look absolutely amazing and likely taste as good as they look.
@benknispel they do! It was super hard not to taste aaaaall the time 😂
@vicgrinberg I can absolutely relate to this 😃
@vicgrinberg 8 Hours! Respect.
@MaiKueper we hoped we would be faster but we should have known we would not...

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Where did you get that more chaotic Toblerone mold? 

@VictimOfSimony they belong to my fried, so no idea, but likely in specialized bakery shops (since we discussed how fully food quality molds are actually hard to come by!)

And love your description, I was really struggling with describing what the molds reminded me of!

@vicgrinberg Wow, that looks fabulous! And I do understand your comment with the pumpkin soup: when baking cookies with the kids I always look forward to eating something non-sweet afterwards
@vicgrinberg oh my god! Das sieht großartig aus!!!