Chocolate Kulich

Baking and Desserts | Russian cuisine

⏳ Time

4 hours 30 minutes

🥕 Ingredients

🍽️ Servings

Description

Chocolate Kulich

Ingredients

Milk - 2 fl oz
Honey - 0.2 oz
Wheat Flour - 14.5 oz
Butter - 4.2 oz
Chocolate eggs - 2 pieces
Sugar - 1.8 oz
Salt - 0 oz
Vanillin - 0.6 oz
Raisins - 2.5 oz
Liquid dark chocolate - 17.6 oz
33% Cream - 12 fl oz
Gelatin - 10 pieces

Step by Step guide

Step 1

Prepare the sponge. Mix warm milk (80 ml), honey, and flour (60 g) to create the sponge. Cover and let it rest until it rises, about 30-40 minutes.

Step 2

Prepare the dough for the kulich. Mix flour (380 g), butter, crack the eggs, add sugar, salt, vanillin, raisins, and the sponge. Let it rise for 40-45 minutes. Divide into molds and let it rest for 20-25 minutes. Bake at 338°F for 40-50 minutes.

Step 3

Soak the gelatin in cold water, melt the chocolate in a bowl over a water bath, bring the cream to a boil, and cool to 140°F. Squeeze the gelatin and dissolve it in the cream, then combine with the melted chocolate using a whisk, and cool for 2 hours in the refrigerator. Whip the ganache with a mixer until smooth.

Step 4

Cut out a nest shape from the baked kulich, and using a pastry bag with a nozzle, decorate the kulich with fine strokes of ganache in a pattern resembling 'twigs', trying to make it look like a bird's nest, and let it set.