Ingredients
- 450 until golden brown
- 16 cream puffs
- 12 circle about
- 5 eggs
- 400 gr sugar
- 350 gr semisweet chocolate
- 475 ml whipping cream to plump raisins
- 280 gr chocolate in (pieces)
- 180 gr puff pastry
- 110 gr butter (unsalted)
- 85 gr golden raisins
- 40 gr brandy
skillet until golden brown. Do not overbrown. Remove immediately from heat. Using fork, quickly dip one half of each cream puff into caramel and place on buttered parchment paper. When caramel has set, dip uncoated half in caramel. Cool. Place caramel-coated cream puffs around puff pastry. Fill center with chilled chocolate filling. Melt remaining 3 ounces chocolate. Whip cream until soft peaks form. Fold melted chocolate into half of whipped cream. Set aside. Spoon remaining half of whipped cream into pastry bag fitted with a large round tube. Pipe dome-shaped balls in rows over chocolate filling, leaving spaces between rows. Repeat, using chocolate whipped cream, filling in spaces between rows of white whipped cream to create stripes. Makes one 30 cm cake