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Mono Karma

by Francesco Boccia

Chocolate and cocoa sponge cake

  • 309 g whole eggs
  • 61 g sugar
  • 36 g acacia honey
  • 18 g cocoa powder 22/24
  • 89 g cream 35%
  • 107 g ground almonds
  • 60 g dark chocolate coating 72%
  • 119 g flour w160
  • 18 g potato starch
  • 190 g egg white
  • 190 g sugar (for the egg white)

Cherry Jam

  • 500 g cherry pulp
  • 180g sugar
  • 80 g of glucose powder 38 DE
  • 3g Pectin NH

Chocolate mousse

  • 225 g of fresh milk
  • 35 g of sugar
  • 30 g of dextrose
  • 75 g egg yolk
  • 25 g of glucose syrup 40DE
  • n.1 Tahitian vanilla pod
  • 5g active gelatine powder
  • 25 g cocoa butter
  • 170g dark chocolate coating 72%
  • 350g fresh cream 35%

Mascarpone mousse

  • 55 g sugar
  • 50 g dextrose
  • 40g water
  • 130 g egg yolk
  • 1 bourbon vanilla bean
  • 230g mascarpone
  • 420g fresh cream 35%
  • 4g active gelatine powder
  • 40 g of water (for gelatine)

Cherry and sake syrup

  • 250 g extra cherry jam
  • 500g Junmai Ginjo sake

Melting chablon paste

  • 60 g dark chocolate coating 72%
  • 40 g cocoa butter

Finishing ingredients

  • Gold Leaf Pavoni Italia
  • Coverage 72% for decorations
  • Candied cherries

Mono Karma

Chocolate and cocoa sponge cake

Heat the chocolate and cream and create a ganache using a whisk. Add honey, sugar and eggs at room temperature. Dry mix the powders with a whisk and add to the previous liquid mixture, always mixing with a whisk. Then whip the egg white with its sugar and add in 3 times to the mixture, mixing with a spatula. Spread inside the silicone molds and bake at 180°C for 10-11 minutes.

Cherry Jam

Mix the sugars with the pectin, add them to the fruit and bring to the boil. Cook until it reaches 55° brix, cool to 4°C covered with film in contact in the blast chiller.

Chocolate mousse

Prepare a custard with milk, sugar, dextrose, egg yolk, glucose and vanilla pulp. At the end of cooking (83°C) filter the vanilla and add the gelatine, mixing with a whisk. Pour over the chocolate, mixing with a hand blender, creating an elastic and shiny emulsion. When the mixture is at 39 - 40°C, pour in 2-3 times on the semi-whipped cream, mixing with a spatula.

Mascarpone mousse

Mix the cream and mascarpone together with the immersion blender and store in the refrigerator at 4°C. Hydrate the gelatin with its water. Cook the water, sugar and dextrose at 121°C and gradually pour in the egg yolks and vanilla pulp, mixing with a whisk. Filter and whip in a planetary mixer at medium speed. When the egg yolk is whipped (it must be at 30°C), stop the mixer, melt the gelatin mass well and add it to the mixture, mixing with the spatula. Lightly whip the mascarpone and cream and mix the masses with a spatula.

Cherry and sake syrup

Blend all the ingredients together and use.

Melting chablon paste

Melt the cocoa butter and chocolate at 45°C and mix them with a spatula. Sift and use at 35°C with a spray gun connected to a compressor.

Assembly

Place a soaked sponge cake disc on the SPV Pavoni. Dress over the mascarpone mousse. Place a second soaked sponge cake disc and freeze. Pipe the chocolate mousse into the Karma Pavoni mold with a piping bag. Insert the frozen inside and freeze in a blast chiller. Unmold and spray with chablon paste. Spray a light coat of Pavoni Gold Stardust. Dress the inside of the cavity with a layer of cherry jam. Decorate with candied cherries, chocolate petals and gold leaf.

The products used in this recipe

PX43117