What do you get when you cross CS unreal quail egg with banana bon bons? A Passion Fruit Bon Bon. It was one of those things, digging through the freezer a couple days ago for dinner and I came across some passion fruit (and seeds) that I had sealed and frozen. It somehow was stored with my frozen purees. So..........I took it out, thawed it, pureed it (with the seeds-I wasn't after the yolk look), pureed it, combined it with sugar (20%), brandy (5%) and froze in in hemispheric molds. Once frozen, I wasn't sure how well they would hold together, so I took half of them and placed a dollop of almond butter in the center and put the tops on the bottoms of all to create spheres. As luck would have it, they all held. :-) In retrospect, citruses generally do hold (duh me). So, I took out our corn holders (I ran out of long wooden skewers and tooth pics-note to self-check before). Dipped them all in cocoa butter, froze them in liquid nitrogen, then dipped in dark chocolate (both at 131F) and held over LN to harden (about 5 seconds). Set in the fridge for 30 minutes. To keep with the Almond theme, I took some almond crumbs and powdered sugar, combined in the spice grinder and POW! A chocolate passion fruit explosion. :-) Video at the end. Thank you CS!!!
Passion fruit puree before freezing
Dipped in Cocoa butter and Liquid Nitrogen
Dipped in Dark Chocolate and ready to roll.
Roll in almond crumbs and powdered sugar
Ready to eat
What it's like in the mouth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TxHfZBYG8U&feature=youtube_gdata
