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🍰 Creamy Chocolate Buttercream Pralines with Pecans

392 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Chop the dark and milk chocolate (chocolate for melting) into small pieces.
  2. 2. Melt the chocolate pieces over a hot water bath while stirring constantly.
  3. 3. Bring the cream to a boil in a saucepan.
  4. 4. Stir the hot cream smoothly into the melted chocolate.
  5. 5. Let the chocolate mixture cool down, but avoid letting it become firm.
  6. 6. Beat the butter in a food processor with the whisk until very creamy and pale.
  7. 7. Mix the whipped butter with the vanilla seeds.
  8. 8. Add the cooled, liquid chocolate mixture to the butter-vanilla mixture and mix everything well.
  9. 9. Fold in the chopped pecans into the cream.
  10. 10. Place the mixture in the refrigerator for about 30 to 40 minutes.
  11. 11. Check the consistency: The mixture should be almost firm but still pipeable.
  12. 12. Beat the cold mixture briefly again with the beaters of the hand mixer.
  13. 13. Fill the cream into a piping bag fitted with a plain round tip.
  14. 14. Pipe the cream into 30 praline molds.
  15. 15. Place one whole pecan on each filled praline.
  16. 16. Place the pralines in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.
  17. 17. Let the pralines set before serving.

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