huckleberries!

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Permalink Reply by Kathryn James on March 18, 2012 at 5:43am

I know it's been a long time since you posted this, and It's about 2:30 am here, so if I see a response later today when I'm fully awake that you're still interested, I'll give you more details.  For now, let me say I've been making a really good raspberry ganache in white chocolate and I do it primarily by making a pureed raspberry reduction, reducing down to 1/4 the original volume of the puree.  I typically start this with frozen raspberries.  The consistency I end up with is something of a sticky paste.  I also, because I'm able to get it, add some freeze dried powdered raspberries to the puree before I reduce and also to the ganache itself.  Let me know if you want recipes.

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Permalink Reply by Dawn-Marie Lambert on March 22, 2012 at 5:57pm

yes I would most definately be interested! I have since learned how to make a raspberry cream center which I cant wait to try with the huckleberries but I'd love to try your recipes as well.  Thank you!

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Permalink Reply by Kathryn James on March 22, 2012 at 10:33pm

Cool, so the raspberry reduction, as of yesterday at least, consists of an entire bag of frozen raspberries, which is a little over 3 cups according to the package, dumped directly into a saucepan from frozen.  I let it cook down until it loses that "wet" look, about an hour to an hour and a half.  After that, let it cool enough to throw in the food processor or blender, and finally strain to get most of the seeds out.

 

The ganache recipe is:

1/2c heavy cream

1T unsalted soft butter

20 oz white chocolate

1/4c of the raspberry reduction

1 oz (by weight) freeze dried raspberries

 

I tend to go heavy on the chocolate with white chocolate ganaches, cause I like the firmness.

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Permalink Reply by Dawn-Marie Lambert on April 15, 2012 at 12:25pm

Kathryn,

  I've been working long hours lately and have not done much chocolate making lately, or anything else for that matter!  Thank you for the recipe, I look foward to making it and will let you know how it turns out...

DM

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