BEST CONFECTION
65% Sur Del Lago L'Olivier

Shane Tracey
Owner/Chocolatier
KeKau Chocolatier
90 North Grand Street
Eugene, OR 97402
(541) 338-7684
www.kekau.com

About Shane Tracey
Shane Tracey is the owner and artistic force behind KeKau Chocolatier, a Eugene, Oregon based chocolate company specializing in artisan chocolates made with high quality, gourmet ingredients. Shane started KeKau in 2005, and through self-study, he has developed his own award-winning style, based on Swiss and French techniques. In less than two years, Shane has landed coveted awards such as Judges' Choice (Chocolate Fantasy '06 and '07) and Best Confection (Eugene Chocolate Challenge '06 and '07), and has become a local favorite with clients and vendors alike for his unusual and beautiful chocolates and showpieces.

Shane landed his first baking job at a German Konditori in Tucson, Arizona as a bread and pastry baker in 1998. Three years later he migrated to Eugene, Oregon, working as the bread and pastry production manager at Metropol Artisan Bakery. Switching gears two years later, he moved to the Sweet Life Patisserie, an award-winning Parisian-inspired pastry shop, as a journeyman pastry cook and wedding cake decorator.

Shane had also been an active volunteer in the World Pastry Forum and Competition for three years, and obtained the sought-after position of chef assistant to Ralph Wellauer and Jean Pierre Wybauw during the forum classes, and absorbed everything he could from these master chocolatiers, thus inspiring him to create his own line of chocolates.

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RECIPE
65% Sur Del Lago L'Olivier

300 grams 65% Sur Del Lago chocolate, chopped
200 grams soy milk
150 grams L'Olivier olive oil
1 gram sea salt
15 gram trimoline

Pre-crystallize chocolate. Bring soy milk and salt to a scald then cool in an ice bath to approximately 90°F. Pour soy milk over chocolate and stir from the center out. Blend with an immersion blender and add olive oil. Blend in trimoline until combined.

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