This document outlines an advanced confectionery and chocolatier course. The course covers 5 units: 1) different stages of sugar cooking and basic sugar confections, 2) preparing items like fudge, caramels, and toffees, 3) working with couverture and cocoa butter for items like molded chocolates and dipped fruits, 4) preparing filled chocolate centers, and 5) advanced chocolate techniques like decorations, molding, and spraying. The objectives are for students to master sugar cooking, chocolate handling, and creating various confection products. Suggested reference books on topics like chocolate, sugar cooking, and confectionery techniques are also listed.
This document outlines an advanced confectionery and chocolatier course. The course covers 5 units: 1) different stages of sugar cooking and basic sugar confections, 2) preparing items like fudge, caramels, and toffees, 3) working with couverture and cocoa butter for items like molded chocolates and dipped fruits, 4) preparing filled chocolate centers, and 5) advanced chocolate techniques like decorations, molding, and spraying. The objectives are for students to master sugar cooking, chocolate handling, and creating various confection products. Suggested reference books on topics like chocolate, sugar cooking, and confectionery techniques are also listed.
This document outlines an advanced confectionery and chocolatier course. The course covers 5 units: 1) different stages of sugar cooking and basic sugar confections, 2) preparing items like fudge, caramels, and toffees, 3) working with couverture and cocoa butter for items like molded chocolates and dipped fruits, 4) preparing filled chocolate centers, and 5) advanced chocolate techniques like decorations, molding, and spraying. The objectives are for students to master sugar cooking, chocolate handling, and creating various confection products. Suggested reference books on topics like chocolate, sugar cooking, and confectionery techniques are also listed.
Objectives: After successful completion of this semester, students will be
able to cook sugar to its different stages, different confections made out of cooked sugar, Handle chocolate and prepare different products out of it, different types of chocolate garnishes and decorations.
Unit-1: Stages in sugar cooking and types of sugars basic confection
items: Sugar Syrup (Single String, Double Siring), Soft ball, Hard ball, Soft Crack, Hard Crack, Caramel, Fudge, Caramels, Rock sugar, blown sugar, Pastilage, Moulding sugar, pulled sugar, Poured sugar
Melting the curvature, Tempering the chocolate, two methods tempering, Molding simple chocolate, Chocolate bonbons, Rock chocolate, Dipping fresh fruit, Chocolate covered fruit and candies Chocolate piped from pastry bag, Praline filled chocolates, Chocolate fountain.
Unit-4: Preparing the chocolate hearts:
Creamy centers, Fondant fillings, Caramel fillings, Fudge fillings, Chocolates with liquid, centers, Liqueur chocolates, Hard and crunchy centers, Nut and nut mixture fillings, Canola, Marzipan, Ganache and truffle, Shaped and cut fillings
Unit-5: Using chocolate:
Forming cigarettes, Chocolate shavings, Chocolate cutouts, Raised chocolate, decorations using paper cone, Dipping Candies in chocolate, Lining sheet moulds, Classic techniques for molding chocolate, Specialized Molding, chocolate laced eggs, Using pastry bag to mould, Molding large figures, Preparing chocolate cups for filling, building large chocolate pieces, using chocolate spray gun for decorations, decorating fruits with chocolate, individual large candies.
SUGGESTED REFERENCE BOOKS
1. Professional baking (seventh edition) by Wayne Gisslen, John Wiley &
Sons Inc. ,2016 2. The True History of Chocloate by Sophie Dobzhansky Coe, Thames & Hudson Publications, 2013 3. Making Chocolate: From Bean to Bar to S’more by Dandelion Chocolate, Clarkson Potter Publisher, 2017 4. The Science of Sugar Confectionery by William P. Edwards, Royal Society of Chemistry Publications, 2000 5. Chocolates & Confections: Formula, Theory & Technique for the Artisan Confectioners by Peter G. Greweling & The Culinary Institute of America, Wiley Publications, 2007
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