Sweets by Lana/Max Shine Academy

  • kr.2,225

MAX SHINE ACADEMY

Online course with 4 lessons

ONLINE LIVE COURSE RECORDING

“Max Shine Academy” is a 4-lesson online course with a 100% focus on achieving maximum shine on your bonbons and complete information on creating moulded chocolate bonbons.
More than a class – 4 full lessons, focused on all the details to achieve stable and beautiful results! More than 20 different designs, 28 filling recipes,  access to a private course group for feedback, troubleshooting and sharing our successes, unlimited access to a recording of each lesson, a digital graduation diploma, and a lot of useful insights.
Throughout the course, I will be sharing all my experience, methods, and advice to achieve “Max Shine”. There is no “secret ingredient”. But there is a set of skills and knowledge that I will share with you to ensure that you will always have “Max Shine”.

Duration of each lesson – 5  hours
Total duration - 20 hours
Price – 2.225 DKK (appr. 299 EUR)
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Language – English


CONTENT

Recipes & theory. Lesson 1
"Lesson 1" class video
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Lesson 2

Recipes & theory. Lesson 2
"Lesson 2" class video

Lesson 3

Recipes & Theory. Lesson 3
"Lesson 3" class video

Lesson 4

Recipes & Theory. Lesson 4
"Lesson 4" class video

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU PURCHASE

To recreate designs and recipes from the class you will need – polycarbonate moulds,  chocolate, fruit purees, different sugars, and other traditional ingredients used in artisan chocolate making.  Detailed information will be provided during the class.
Please note that all transactions are final and cannot be exchanged or refunded after you have accessed the class due to the fact that all my classes are digital, so if in doubt about anything – better ask first 🙂

After your payment is completed you will get unlimited access to the class's materials ( video and text files). 

Max Shine Academy

Lesson 1. Pure Chocolate

Equipment:
Basic equipment for the chocolate kitchen. Chocolate melters, coolers, tempering machines, etc.
Ingredients:
Chocolate and how to choose it
Polycarbonate moulds. How to choose a selection of moulds for your production needs. How to clean, store and prepare them.
Theory of chocolate and crystal structure of cocoa butter:
What is chocolate and what are the different types of it
What is tempering and why it is needed
Effect of the temperature and moisture on the chocolate
Different methods of tempering and science behind it:
Tabling method
Seeding method
Tempering with cocoa butter silk and how to produce make our own cocoa butter silk
What is shine on pure chocolate bonbons and how to achieve Max Shine
Practical part:
Making Max Shine bonbons with pure dark, white chocolate, and “zebra” effect
Ganache preparation (please be aware that this course is not about fillings, therefore information and time dedicated to the preparation of fillings will be limited. But we are going to prepare a couple of ganaches together)
Recipes Lesson 1:
Basic Dark chocolate ganache
Basic Milk chocolate ganache
Basic White chocolate ganache
Polycarbonate moulds. How to choose a selection of moulds for your production needs. How to clean, store and prepare them.
Theory of chocolate and crystal structure of cocoa butter
Different methods of tempering and science behind it
Moulding with different types of chocolate
Making Max Shine bonbons with pure dark, white chocolate, and “zebra” effect

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Lesson 2. Coloring & Airbrushing

Equipment for airbrushing:
Airbrush, spray gun, compressor
Ingredients:
Cocoa butter, colorants, pre-colored cocoa butter.
Max Shine with colored cocoa butter:
Color theory, moulds, temperature, timing, reflection
Practical part:
Coloring of pure cocoa butter
Tempering
Creating different designs with colored cocoa butter, single-colored and color combinations
Working with sponges, brushes, masking tapes, airbrush, and velvet effect
Tempering the chocolate with chocolate melter
Moulding with chocolate

Recipes Lesson 2:
Vanilla Ganache
Blueberry & Lavender Ganache
Lime & Basil Ganache
Lemon & Honey Ganache
Extra Dark chocolate Ganache
Pear & Vanilla Ganache
Rose & Green tea Ganache
Mango & Passion fruit Ganache

"Plain Black"

With Vanilla ganache

"Cocoa Bean"

With Lime & Basil ganache

"Purple Cloud"

With Blueberry & Lavender ganache
Working with sponges, brushes, masking tapes

"Blue Diamond"

With Lemon & Honey ganache

"Velvet Hearts"

With Extra Dark chocolate

"Green & Yellow"

With Mango & Passion fruit ganache
Working with an airbrush

"Pink Line"

With Rose & Green Tea ganache

"Yellow Swirl"

With Pear & Vanilla ganache
Detailed information on airbrushing equipment 

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Lesson 3. Mixology

Ingredients:
Sparkling powders
Practical part:
Mixing unique shades of cocoa butter, working with sparkling powders
Creating different designs with sponges, stencils, brushes, airbrush, and multi-colored cocoa butter
Tempering the chocolate with a tempering machine
Moulding with chocolate

Recipes Lesson 3:
Cinnamon Ganache
Bergamot, Lemon & Rosemary Ganache
Coffee & Cardamom Ganache
Forest berries Ganache
Coconut & Vanilla Ganache
Hazelnut Ganache
Blueberry & Yoghurt Ganache
Peanut Ganache

"Green Sparkles"

With Bergamot, Lemon & Rosemary ganache

"Pill"

With Cinnamon Caramel ganache

"Moon"

With Coffee & Cardamom ganache
Creating different designs with sponges, stencils, brushes, airbrush and multi-colored cocoa butter

"Pink Swirl"

With Forest berries ganache

"Purple"

With Blueberry & Yoghurt ganache

"Black & Bronze"

With Hazelnut ganache
Tempering and moulding with a tempering machine

"Blue"

With peanut ganache

"Sea Wave"

With Coconut & Vanilla ganache

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Lesson 4. Natural colors

Ingredients:
Natural pre-colored cocoa butter, natural colorants for coloring your own cocoa butter
Practical part:
Working with pre-colored cocoa butter, coloring cocoa butter with natural ingredients
Creating different designs with sponges, brushes, airbrush
Molding with white chocolate

Recipes Lesson 4:
Matcha & Milk Ganache
Raspberry, Vanilla & Rose Ganache
Black sesame & Passion fruit Ganache
Date & Orange blossom Ganache
Mango & Almond milk Ganache
Greek yogurt Ganache
Raspberry & Dark chocolate Ganache

"Matcha"

With Matcha & Milk ganache

"Pink Vanilla"

With Raspberry, Vanilla & Rose ganache

"Yellow Lines"

With black Sesame & Passion fruit ganache
Coloring cocoa butter with natural ingredients

"Purple Cube"

With Date & Orange flower ganache

"Quenelle"

With Mango & Almond milk ganache

"Red & Black"

With Raspberry ganache
Creating different designs with sponges, brushes, airbrush

"Purple Rose"

With Blueberry gianduja

"Purple & White"

With Greek yoghurt ganache

"Seaweed"

With Passion fruit ganache

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