Bulgars
Individual Swiss roll pastries filled with dark truffle and covered with chocolate.
Yield: 15 items
Ingredients
Servings
15
Measurement units
Ingredients for the dark truffle filling
- 225 g70% or 80% couverture chocolate
- 100 gmilk couverture chocolate
- 250 ml35% fat liquid cream
- optional 3 gsorbic acid sugar
Ingredients for the sponge cake sheet
- 80 gegg yolks
- 120 gegg whites
- 100 gicing sugar
- 1 dessert spoonhoney
- 100 gsoft flour
- a pinch salt
Ingredients for the coating
- 300 g70% couverture chocolate
- 150 gbutter
Nutritional Information
Per items
Yield: 15 items
Calories
448 kcal
Protein
6.1 g
Fat
32.4 g
Carbohydrates
33.2 g
Calculated from reviewed ingredient weights and pinned USDA FoodData Central records.
Step-by-step Guide
Prepare the dark truffle
It must be made the day before.
- Put the whipping cream in a saucepan over the heat.
- When the cream comes to a boil, remove it from the heat and add both chocolate couvertures.
- Keep stirring until all the chocolate is well incorporated and there are no lumps left.
- Transfer the mixture to a glass bowl and cover it with cling film touching the chocolate.
- When it is cold, put it in the refrigerator until the following day.
- The next day, temper the chocolate before using it.
- Transfer the truffle to a saucepan that can go directly over the heat and work it with your hand, kneading it until it can be stirred with whisks.
- Keep the saucepan over the heat for only 10 seconds, remove it from the heat to work the chocolate, and put it back over the heat for another 10 seconds; repeat this process until it has a texture similar to Nocilla.
Prepare the sponge cake sheet
Note: have the tray ready and the oven hot before starting, because this is a mixture without chemical leavening and, once whipped, it should not wait long before being placed in the mould and baked.
- Place the rack on the second guide from the bottom.
- Preheat the oven to 240 ºC.
- Use a flat tray with 1 cm low sides and grease it with melted butter so that the paper adheres well to the base.
- Line the base of the tray with baking paper extending about 10 cm beyond one of the long sides; the paper must not cover the sides, only the bottom.
- Press the paper against the base of the tray.
- Brush the baking paper with melted butter.
- Sift the flour or flour mix.
- Start whipping the egg whites to stiff peaks with half of the sugar.
- Halfway through whipping, gradually add the sugar, without stopping whipping, and then the honey, until you obtain a firm mixture that forms the typical peak.
- In another bowl, whisk the yolks with the other half of the sugar until they double in volume.
- Transfer 1/4 of the egg whites to the bowl of yolks and stir gently with a spatula.
- Add the sifted flours in two batches, while continuing to stir gently with a spatula.
- Fold in the remaining 3/4 of the egg whites, stirring gently but without wasting time.
- Spread the mixture over the tray and distribute it evenly.
- Smooth it with the help of a long palette knife or a spatula.
- Bake at 240 ºC for about 6 minutes, with the oven door slightly open; place a wooden spoon in it so that it does not close completely.
- Check the baking by opening the oven and carefully touching the sheet with your hand; if it sticks, it is not cooked enough yet.
- Do not brown it too much, because it must remain a slightly moist sheet that can be rolled without breaking.
Temper the filling chocolate and prepare the bulgars
- Temper the filling chocolate following the same procedure of stirring and briefly heating it over the heat, without burning it.
- Cut the sponge cake sheet into three approximately equal parts, parallel to the short side.
- Spread a layer of truffle over one of the pieces.
- Roll the sheet onto itself, from one long side to the other, applying a little pressure.
- Once the three sheets are filled and rolled, put them in the refrigerator for 30 minutes so that they firm up a little.
- Meanwhile, prepare the chocolate coating bath by melting the chocolate with the butter in a bain-marie.
- Use a somewhat wide and not very deep container so that you can coat the bulgars and remove them easily.
- Keep stirring so that the chocolate does not burn.
- Allow the coating to cool to 32 ºC.
- Prepare the oven rack with aluminium foil underneath.
- Remove the rolled sheets from the refrigerator and cut them into individual portions, without making them too large; clean the knife after each cut.
- Coat the bulgars in the couverture chocolate, dropping them into the bath and removing them with two forks.
- Leave them to drain on the rack until the couverture chocolate hardens.
- If you wish, sprinkle small chocolate granules over them.
- Return them to the refrigerator for a while, without removing them from the rack, so that the chocolate finishes setting.
Recommendations & Tricks
- The dark truffle filling must be prepared the day before.
- Have the tray ready and the oven hot before starting the mixture because it does not contain chemical leavening.
- Do not burn the chocolate during tempering.
- Do not brown the sheet too much because it must remain slightly moist in order to be rolled without breaking.
- The container for melting the coating must be wide and not very deep to make coating the bulgars easier.
- Do not make the portions too large.
Original recipe
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