Easy recipe for Chocolate rubik's cake

Chocolate rubik's cake

While tiding up my cupboards, I found my little square moulds that I had bought 3 years ago to make Cédric Grolet's rubik's cake for the holidays, and I wanted to make a new version for this year's festivities. This time, the focus was on chocolate with 5 different chocolates from Valrhona : Guanaja chocolate (70%) associated with pepper, Azelia chocolate associated with hazelnut, Bahibé chocolate associated with gingerbread spices, dulcey associated with coffee and Ivoire associated with coconut, all arranged on a spritz cookie. I reused Nicolas Paciello's spritz recipe. Result, crispy and melting cubes thanks to the cookie, and smooth and perfumed with the different ganaches. The recipe is really not complicated, but it's a bit long since there are five different ganaches to make, as well as five glazes, so it requires a bit of organization, but don't panic, nothing insurmountable J

The link for the mold :
Moule à rubik's cake

Prep time : 2h + 15 to 20 minutes cooking
For 25 small cubes | 5 to 6 servings :

Spritz cookie :

190g flour

100g softened butter

45g caster sugar

35g vergeoise sugar

35g almond powder

1 egg

1 teaspoon of baking powder

1 pinch of fleur de sel

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

You will have a little too much dough, the opportunity to make classic spritz to taste during the preparation of the cubes ;)

Preheat the oven to 200°C.

Mix almond powder with flour, baking powder and salt.

Mix the sugar and the vergeoise with the butter until the mix is really creamy.

Then add the egg and vanilla extract and finally the mixed dry ingredients.

Put the dough in a pastry bag fitted with a small star tip, and pocket a square large enough to fit 25 small squares inside, about 0.5cm thick. With the rest of the dough, you can pipe cookies to be dipped later in the chocolate.

Bake at 175°C for 14-15 minutes (the cookie should be golden brown).

Allow to cool, then cut out the cookie using the cube moulds, leaving the cookies inside.

Pepper & Guanaja dark chocolate ganache :

36g dark chocolate

32g liquid cream

8g honey

4g butter

Pepper (a few turns of the mill, to be adjusted according to your taste and the pepper you use)

Heat the liquid cream with the honey.

Melt the chocolate, then pour the hot cream in 3 times on the chocolate by mixing well with the maryse.

When you have a very smooth and shiny ganache, wait until it reaches about 35°C then add the butter and pepper. Mix well, if necessary you can put the ganache in a hand blender to get a nice emulsion.

Pipe the ganache in 5 of the cubes, smooth the surface and place them in the freezer.

Hazelnut & Azelia milk chocolate ganache :

19g full cream

24g 100% hazelnut praliné

25g Azelia chocolate

5g honey

7g butter

10g chopped hazelnut

Heat the liquid cream with the honey.

Melt the chocolate, add the praliné and then pour the hot cream in 3 times over the praline-chocolate mixture, mixing well with the maryse.

When you have a very smooth and shiny ganache, wait until it reaches about 35°C then add the butter. Mix well, if necessary you can put the ganache in a hand blender to get a nice emulsion. Finally add the chopped hazelnut.

Pour into 5 of the moulds, then smooth the surface and put in the freezer.

Gingerbread spices & Bahibé milk chocolate ganache :

41g Bahibé milk chocolate

35g liquid cream

4g honey

4g butter

1 pinch of gingerbread spices

Heat the liquid cream with the honey and spices.

Melt the chocolate, then pour the hot cream in 3 times over the chocolate, mixing well with the maryse.

Stop when you have a very smooth and shiny ganache, then if necessary mix the ganache with the hand blender to get a nice emulsion.

Then pour the ganache into 5 of the cubes, smooth the surface and put in the freezer.

Coffee & Dulcey chocolate ganache :

22g liquid cream

55g Dulcey chocolate

2g honey

3g butter

1g soluble coffee

Heat the liquid cream with the honey and coffee.

Melt the chocolate, then pour the hot cream in 3 times over the chocolate by mixing well with the maryse.

Stop when you have a very smooth and shiny ganache, then if necessary mix the ganache with the hand blender to get a nice emulsion.

Then, pour the ganache into 5 of the cubes, smooth the surface and set aside in the freezer.

Coconut & Ivoire white chocolate ganache :

45g white chocolate

30g liquid cream

4g honey

15g coconut powder

Heat the liquid cream.

Melt the chocolate, then pour the hot cream in 3 times over the chocolate, mixing well with the maryse. Stop when you have a very smooth and shiny ganache, if necessary you can mix the ganache with the hand blender to have a nice emulsion. Then add the coconut powder.

Pour the ganache into the last 5 cubes, smooth the surface and set aside in the freezer.

White chocolate coating :

200g white chocolate

200g cocoa butter

Unmold the cubes and let them in the freezer.

Melt the white chocolate, then add the cocoa butter.

Mix well, then dip the cubes in it, shake them to remove the excess and put them back in the freezer, except for the white chocolate cubes which you immediately roll in the coconut powder.

I had made a diagram to know in advance how to arrange my cubes, I put it below if you can use it :

White chocolate cubes icing :

Coconut powder

As soon as the cubes are coated with white chocolate, roll them in the coconut and place them in their place on the bases.

Gingerbread spices & milk chocolate icing :

100g Bahibé milk chocolate

10g of grape seed oil

Gingerbread spices

Gently melt the milk chocolate, without exceeding 35°C, then add the grape seed oil.

Dip the chocolate-spice cubes in and then sprinkle with a pinch of gingerbread spices and place them in their place on the base.

Dark chocolate cubes icing :

Chocolate velvet icing spray

Use a can of chocolate velvet spray to glaze the cubes, then place them in their place.

Hazelnut & milk chocolate cubes icing :

100g Azelia milk chocolate

10g grape seed oil

Choppes hazelnut

Gently melt the milk chocolate, without exceeding 35°C, then add the grape seed oil. Dip the hazelnut chocolate cubes in it, then place them on the bases and add a few chopped hazelnut.

Dulcey & coffee cubes icing :

100g dulcey chocolate

10g grape seed oil

Chocolate coffee beans

Gently melt the dulcey chocolate, without exceeding 35°C, then add the grape seed oil. Dip the cubes into it, then decorate with a chocolate coffee bean and place them on the bases.