Replacing Cointreau Crème a la Carte

Crème a la Carte is an excellent range of ready-made ganaches from Callebaut made from a base of white chocolate, cream, sugar and alcohol.

In light of Callebaut’s decision to discontinue the Cointreau and Tia Maria versions of the Crèmes, we have been working with Callebaut to develop simple recipes which will allow you to recreate a range of alcohol Crèmes using the neutral Base Crème (SCM270B) and any one of a number of culinary alcohol concentrates available from Keylink.

Description Alcohol To Use Recipe

Cointreau Crème

SCL100 Cointreau (60%) Concentrate 2.5%

Coffee Crème

SCL210 Coffee Calypso (27%) Concentrate 4.0%
(Note: no brown colour)

Brandy Crème

SCL122 St. Remy Napoleon Brandy (60%) Concentrate 2.5%

Amaretto Crème

SCL166 Amaretto (60%) Concentrate 2.5%

Crème a la Carte

With the recipes, the percentage given represents the ratio of alcohol to base mass. For example, for 1 kg of Base Crème you would add 25ml of Cointreau 60% concentrate. [So one bottle of the Cointreau concentrate would be enough for 40kgs of ganache.

Whilst these are our recommended recipes, you are obviously always free to vary the concentration if you want a stronger or weaker flavour.

More Options

Why not experiment with other alcohols or flavourings to create your own distinctive fillings?

  • Alcohol Concentrates
  • Essential Oils and Flavour Drops
  • Fruit and Flavour Pastes

To see our full range of flavouring options just ‘Browse Our Products’ and navigate to the relevant section.


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