Welcome to How To Cook That I'm Ann Reardon and today we're making a
chocolate coconut dessert that looks like a coconut 🥥 First thing we need to do
is make some dragon's beard candy and it can follow the recipe on the
howtocookthat.net website for how to make that, there's a video for that one
too. Place the water in the saucepan with the sugar and the vinegar
and of course the glucose syrup, if you don't have glucose syrup you can swap
that for corn syrup. Let that boil unstirred until it reaches a hundred and
thirty-three degrees centigrade and then remove it from the heat and pour that
into your silicon muffin tin ... you don't want to pour it into a metal one
or you won't be able to get it out and then we're just gonna leave those for
several hours to cool. While that's cooling take a balloon and dip it into
some tempered dark chocolate, it needs to be tempered otherwise it's not going to
stay set at room temperature. Lift it up and give it a bit of a shake to get off
the excess chocolate and then just place it onto some baking paper to set. Repeat
that for the number of coconuts that you want to make ... these ones are quite large
so they need to be shared as a dessert between two or three people. You can make
smaller ones using water balloons if you want individual desserts. Now that this
candy is cooled it's set really hard so you need to microwave it to soften it
and then pull it to make the dragon's beard candy. If you've never made this
before then I'll link you to my video at the end that explains all the tricks you
need to know to make this successfully. I'm not going to make it super fine
today I want it quite coarse so that the strands look like the husks on coconuts. 🥥
Now dip the dark chocolate covered balloon into milk chocolate and turn it
upside down onto a bowl. Arrange the dragons beard down over the top ... now if
you look at a coconut the strands all run in one direction a bit messily but
they're going from one end around to the other end of the coconut. So try and keep
all the strands going the one way. Once you've got a good covering of the
Dragon's beard add some more milk chocolate over the top and
spread it out so that you can still see the strands of the candy underneath. This
pulled sugar with the crisp chocolate is going to give that nice crunchy element
to our dessert. Once that's set you can just make a small cut and let the balloon
down slowly just squeezing it to pull it away from the edges and away from the
chocolate and then you can just take that out of the bowl. Now you can just
use sharp scissors to cut around the edge at the level where your dark
chocolate was so you have a nice neat coconut that looks like it's a coconut
shell being cut in half. If you prefer you could leave it untrimmed if you want
to have more of a rough edge to your dessert. 🌴Now for your mousse we're going
to need coconut cream sugar gelatin and water and we'll also need at some normal
whipping cream as well in a minute. Put the gelatin sheets into the water to
soak and as always all the recipe quantities are on the howtocookthat.net
website and there's a link to that below for you. Then put the sugar in with the
coconut cream and then I'm going to add a little bit of vanilla you could use
some rum or some banana liqueur or whatever you like here I just want to
keep it good for kids so I'm just using vanilla. Now you want to heat that until
the sugar is melted and then squeeze the water out of your gelatin sheets and add
them into the pan and keep stirring until they're dissolved. Then you just
want to leave that to cool to room temperature don't refrigerate it we
don't want to chill it we just want to take the heat out of it. Once it's cooled
whip your cream until you get stiff peaks and then fold through that cooled
coconut mixture. Now you need to immediately spoon that into your coconut
shells ... this mousse is not very sweet because you're going to get plenty of
sweetness from the chocolate if you're making the mousse just on its own you
might want to up the sugar a little bit. Fill each half with mousse and then
place them in the fridge to set. Once it is set cut a little way in with the
circle cutter just to mark where the center of your coconut
is and then using that as your guide spoon out some of that mixture from the
middle to make it look like a coconut. Warm the back of your spoon and rub it
along the inside just to smooth where you've scooped it out. Now the question
is what to put in the middle you could put coconut water in it but I think I'm
going to put some nice fresh fruit because I think that'll go well the
creamy rich coconut mousse and that crisp crunch from the chocolate and
dragons beard candy. I took one of these outside to try and get a photo in the
natural light and the birds were very curious ... one magpie was extremely brave
and came right up to where I'm sitting with the camera. Subscribe to How To Cook That
for more crazy sweet creations. Click here for my channel, here for the
latest video and here for how to make the dragon's beard candy. Make it a great
week by trying to make someone else's week great and I'll see you on Friday 🏝
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