Chocolate Namelaka
Namelaka is one of the most delicious creams that is a must in your baking repertoire to fill, frost, or beautifully decorate your desserts! This silky, delicious cream is very well balanced in sweetness, has the most perfect pipeable texture, and comes together really easily and quickly!
Servings: 8
Calories: 99kcal
Equipment
Ingredients
- 140 g Callebaut Dark Chocolate (callets) good quality semi sweet chocolate
- 106 g Milk whole milk
- 1¾ Gelatine sheet equal to 3g gold gelatin
- 212 g Heavy cream 36% fat, use it cold
Instructions
- Place finely chopped high-quality semi-sweet chocolate into a bowl, or use Callebaut Dark Chocolate (callets)
- Soak gelatin sheets in cold water while heating milk just until simmering
- Squeeze excess water from the gelatin sheets and stir them into the hot milk. Pour warm milk over the chocolate
- Let the two sit for a minute then stir and/or blend together
- Pour in cold cream and stir and/or blend together
- Place the cream into a shallow bowl or container and cover the entire surface with plastic wrap to avoid skin forming on top. Refrigerate overnight (8 hours)
- The next day, gently whisk it or whip it for a 1-2 minute and use it according to the recipe
- Store refridgated for a few days
Video
Notes
Ingredient notes:
- Measure your ingredients with a Digital scale for accuracy
- Good quality chocolate (eg. Valrhona, Callebaut) will make the best namelaka
- 1 ¾ sheets of gelatin sheets equal to 3g of gelatin. You can easily substitute the gelatin sheets by using the same amount of gelatin powder. For agar-agar, follow conversions according to the package instructions
- Make sure you read my Expert tips section above to maximize your success. A short recipe alone is not able to cover all the necessary details, and science behind baking.
- While making the cream, follow the steps and temperatures stated in the recipe
- Make sure you do not attempt to use the cream before it sets, respect the 8 hours of chilling time
- To turn this dark chocolate namelaka, into milk or white chocolate namelaka, you will need to use more white or milk chocolate. I recommend about 180g-200g (instead of 140g dark chocolate) depending on the cocoa butter % of your milk / white chocolate
Nutrition
Calories: 99kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 32mg | Sodium: 13mg | Potassium: 45mg | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 411IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 34mg | Iron: 1mg
