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Cocoa Puff Pastry

Cocoa Puff Pastry: chef Christophe Felder hit it again with this recipe that will perfectly fits in your chocolate desserts!
Course: Pastry
Cuisine: French
Keyword: Basics, French pastry
Portions 700 g
Prep Time: 45 minutes
Temps de repos: 8 hours
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Équipements

Ingredients

For detempering

  • 140 ml cold water
  • 10 g white vinegar
  • 65 g melted butter warmed
  • 5 g salt
  • 250 g flour

For the Butter Pastry

  • 200 g cold Butter Pastry
  • 40 g unsweetened cocoa powder

Instructions

For detempering (use the hook)

  • Mix the water, the vinegar and the salt.
  • Put the flour in the beater bowl. Mix at low speed, gradually add the liquid mixture and the melted butter.
  • Work the dough for a few minutes only, to obtain a homogeneous result.
  • Roll it out in square shape, wrap it with the cling film and let it rest for at least 2 hours in the refrigerator.

For the Butter Pastry (use the wire whip beater)

  • Put the butter pastry and the cocoa in the beater bowl.
  • Mix at low speed until the butter pastry absorbs all the cocoa (some minutes).
  • Roll it out in square shape, wrap it with the cling film and let it rest for at least 2 hours in the refrigerator.

Assembling (for all the details about assembling, I suggest you to consult my article about the inverted puff pastry)

  • Take the distempered dough from the refrigerator and place it on a floured work surface. Roll it out to a thickness about 1 cm.
  • Place the cocoa butter pastry at the center of the distempered dough (adjust the size if necessary, the butter pastry must be totally wrapped by the distempered dough).
  • Fold each side of the distempered dough over the cocoa butter pastry to trap it in.
  • Roll out the dough lengthwise until you get a thickness of about 8 mm. Make a single turn. Make a quarter turn. Roll out the dough again and make another single turn.
  • Wrap the dough with the film and take it to the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.
  • Take the dough out and make 2 more turns as explained above. Put the dough back in the refrigerator for 2 hours, then, proceed as above a 3rd time. The dough is ready but it needs chilling for more than 2 hours before it can be used.