COOK’S NOTES
CUT cake with a hot, dry knife.
Baileys
Chocolate
Mousse Cake
A bit
about
chocolate!
Nibs are pieces of the cacao bean itself, which
has been roasted, shelled, then broken into tiny
pieces. Nibs have the purest chocolate taste as they
haven’t been mixed with anything else.
Cocoa liquor is the liquid that comes out of the
beans when ground. The liquor is pressed to extract the cocoa butter.
Cocoa butter is the fat contained within the bean.
Cocoa powder is the resulting mass left after
cocoa butter is extracted from the cocoa liquor.
Chips often contain vegetable oil rather than
cocoa butter. They are used in baking as they retain their shape. Couverture a fine quality, very rich chocolate
high in both cocoa butter and cocoa liquor. The only
type of chocolate you can temper (which gives
chocolate its shine and snap). 34