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Bugnes

Bugnes or merveilles

Equipment used

– Saucepan

– Rolling pin

– Kitchen thermometer

– Pastry wheel

Ingredients

✔500 g flour
✔100 g melted butter
✔40 g caster sugar
✔4 eggs
✔5 g salt
✔1 sachet baking powder
✔35g. rum
✔15g. orange blossom
✔1 lemon zest
✔1 Orange zest

Carnival doughnuts have different names in different regions of France: “bugnes” in Lyon, “merveilles” in Bordeaux.

The recipe

Cut the butter into pieces and leave at room temperature to soften.

Place all the ingredients, excluding the butter, in the bowl of your food processor and knead for 2 to 3 minutes.

You can also make this recipe without a food processor, by placing all the ingredients in a large bowl and kneading by hand.

Gradually add the softened butter, cut into pieces, and knead for a further 10 minutes.

Place the dough in a bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Leave to rest in a cool place for 1 hours and 30 minutes

Heat the oil in a pan to 180°C.

On a lightly floured work surface, scoop out some of the dough.

Roll out to a thickness of 3 to 4 mm.

Using a rolling pin, cut out strips 3 to 4cm wide. If you don’t have a rolling pin, you can cut the dough with a knife..

Then cut the strips in the other direction to make rhombuses.

Score the center of each diamond with your roulette wheel.

Dip the fritters one by one into the hot oil.

Turn them over as soon as they start to color.

Remove the fritters and place on a colander to drain off as much oil as possible.

Sprinkle your doughnuts with powdered sugar or caster sugar. Repeat for the entire dough.

Doughnuts are best eaten warm. You can serve them with melted chocolate or spread for the more gorumands.

Orange entremet

Orange Entremet made with

– an orange mousse,
– an orange cream,
– a praline crunch,
– orange velvet spray.

Materials used

– Essential X6 silikomart mould

– Ancel 210 Bloom gelatine (gold quality)

– Baking paper

Ingredients

Orange cream
✔30g sugar
✔50g orange juice
✔35g egg
✔60g butter
✔2g Gelatine

Orange mousse
✔130g Cremeux
✔100g Liquid cream

Orange cream
✔30g sugar
✔35g orange juice
✔35g egg
✔50g butter

Chocolate crisp
✔20g milk chocolate
✔30g hazelnut praline
✔20g crêpes dentelles

Orange velvet spray

The recipe

For 4 desserts

Chocolate crisp
✔20g milk chocolate
✔30g hazelnut praline
✔20g crêpes dentelles

Melt the milk chocolate in the microwave. Add the crumbled crêpes dentelles and praline. Mix gently. Roll out between two sheets of baking paper and place in the freezer. Remove from the freezer and cut out with a pastry cutter the size of your mould. Place in the freezer until ready to assemble.

Orange cream (for the mousse)
✔30g caster sugar
✔50g orange juice
✔35g egg
✔60g butter
✔2g Gelatine

Place the gelatine sheet in a large bowl of cold water to soften.

Pour the egg, caster sugar and orange juice into a saucepan. Heat over a low/medium heat, stirring constantly until the cream thickens. Turn off the heat. Add the butter, cut into pieces, and the gelatine. Blend and set aside.

Orange mousse
✔130g Cremeux
✔100g mini 30% fat liquid cream

In a salad bowl, whip the very cold liquid cream into a whipped cream and gently fold into the previous cooled mixture using a maryse.

Fill the Silikomart Essential 80 mould 3/4 of the way up the sides.

Orange cream
✔30g sugar
✔35g orange juice
✔35g egg
✔50g butter

Pour the egg, caster sugar and orange juice into a saucepan. Heat over a low/medium heat without stopping to stir until the cream thickens. Turn off the heat. Add the butter, cut into pieces. Mix well. Leave to cool slightly.

Fill each cavity of the mould with a little orange cream, then finish by placing a disc of crisp. Place in the freezer for at least 4 hours or overnight.

The next day, remove the cakes from the moulds and immediately apply the orange velvet spray all around.

Gently turn your desserts upside down. I put a white chocolate decoration on top, which I found on the annikids.com website.

Pear and caramel tartlet

Pear and caramel tartlet made with

– sweet cocoa paste,
– almond cream
– diced pears
– caramel
– pear mousse,
– brown velvet spray.

Materials used

– Micro-perforated silicone baking mat

– Silikomart Klassik ring tart silicone mould (6 cavities)

– Micro-perforated strip

– Klassik 70mm Silikomart tart ring mould

– Brown velvet spray

– Pear cookie cutter

Ingredients

Pear mousse (the day before)
✔120g pears
✔20g sugar
✔2g gelatine
✔90g liquid cream 30% MG

Caramel
✔40g sugar
✔12g butter
✔50g single cream

Almond cream
✔30g butter
✔30g sugar
✔30g egg
✔30g almond powder

✔70g diced pears

Sweet cocoa paste
✔60 g soft butter
✔130 g flour
✔15g cocoa powder
✔40g sugar
✔1 pinch salt
✔1 egg yolk

+Brown velvet spray

The recipe

For 4-5 tartlets

Pear mousse (the day before)
✔120g pears
✔20g sugar
✔2g gelatine
✔90g liquid cream 30% MG

Place the gelatine in a bowl of cold water. Heat the pear purée in a saucepan and add the drained gelatine off the heat. Mix well and set aside. Whip the cream with the sugar until stiff. Stir the whipped cream into the cooled pear purée and fill the ring Klassik silicone tart mould, then place in the freezer.

Sweet cocoa paste
✔60 g soft butter
✔130 g flour
✔15g cocoa powder
✔40g sugar
✔1 pinch salt
✔1 egg yolk

Mix all the ingredients together. Roll out the dough thinly between 2 sheets of greaseproof paper then place in the fridge for at least 30 minutes. Line the circles. Optional, I used micro-perforated strips.

Almond cream
✔30g butter
✔30g sugar
✔30g egg
✔30g almond powder

Cream the butter with the sugar. Add the almond powder and egg. Mix and then fill the base of each tartlet. Bake at 165/170°C for approximately 20 minutes. Leave to cool completely.

Caramel
✔40g sugar
✔12g butter
✔50g single cream

+ ✔70g diced pears

Melt the sugar in a saucepan. Then add the previously heated liquid cream in batches. Continue cooking for a few minutes, stirring well. Remove from the heat and finish by adding the butter, cut into pieces. Leave to cool slightly and pour the caramel into the base of the tartlets. Place the pear cubes on top, pressing down a little but not going over the edge of the tartlet.

Remove the pear mousses from the freezer, turn them out of the mould and immediately apply the brown velvet spray. Place each mousse on your tartlet. I decorated with a marzipan pear that I cut out using a pear-shaped cookie cutter.

Chestnut eclair

Chestnut eclair made from

– choux pastry,
– chestnut cream pastry,
– white chestnut fondant.

Material used

– micro-perforated baking mat

– fluted tip

– pastry bag

– filling tip

– lightning bolt tines

Ingredients

Choux pastry
✔30g water
✔30g milk
✔35g flour
✔27g butter
✔Salt
✔1 teaspoon sugar
✔1 egg (depending on size)

Pastry cream
✔200g milk
✔30 g sugar
✔2 egg yolks
✔10 g cornstarch
✔15 g butter
✔1 capful of rum
✔90 g chestnut cream

Icing
✔55g white fondant
✔15g glucose
✔15g to 20g chestnut cream

The recipe

For 4 éclairs

Icing
✔55g white fondant
✔15g glucose
✔15g to 20g chestnut cream

Pour all the white fondant and glucose into the saucepan. Heat fondant to 60°C in double boiler. Add chestnut cream. Mix well. Pour onto a silicone tray and place in the freezer for a few hours.

Chestnut pastry cream
✔200g milk
✔30 g sugar
✔2 egg yolks
✔10 g cornflour
✔15 g butter
✔1 capful of rum
✔90 g chestnut cream

Heat the milk.

Mix the yolks, sugar and cornflour in a bowl and heat the milk again.
Pour the hot milk over the sugar/yolk mixture. Stir. Pour back into the pan. Stir until thickened. Add the chestnut cream and rum. Mix well. Finally, add the butter, cut into pieces. Set aside in a bowl, filter and chill.

Choux pastry
✔30g water
✔30g milk
✔35g flour
✔27g butter
✔Salt
✔1 teaspoon sugar
✔1 egg (depending on size)

+powdered sugar and cocoa butter

Heat the water, milk, butter, salt and sugar in a saucepan. Remove from the heat and add the flour mixture all at once. Mix well to dry out the dough for 2 to 3 minutes.

Add the beaten eggs gradually, mixing well between each egg.

Poach the éclairs on a baking sheet lined with a microperforated baking mat, using a fluted tip and sprinkle with a mixture of powdered sugar and cocoa butter powder. Bake at 175°C for 35 to 40 minutes (time may vary according to oven). Place a tea towel over the oven door to allow steam to escape, then cool on a wire rack.

Assembly

Remove the crème pâtissière from the fridge. Loosen a little with a spatula, then fill a pastry bag fitted with a pastry tip. Make two small holes under each éclair.

Fill the eclairs with the crème pâtissière. Place the fondant on each éclair. I decorated the eclairs with a little edible gold leaf and a chestnut with a chocolate shell, topped with chestnut cream.

Chocolatine 100% Chocolate

Materials used

– Brush

– Tefal baking tray

– Micro-perforated baking mat

– Cutter

Ingredients

Dip
✔260 g flour
✔5 g salt
✔25 g caster sugar
✔10 g fresh baker’s yeast
✔60 g (6 cl) cold milk
✔60 g (6 cl) cold mineral water
✔15 g cocoa powder
✔30 g Poitou Charentes PDO cold butter

+
✔125 g Lescure or PDO tourage butter

✔Chocolate sticks

Cocoa tempera
✔90 g pre-made pastry
✔7.5 g unsweetened cocoa powder
✔9 g mineral water

The syrup
✔30g water
✔30g sugar

The recipe

For 5 chocolatines or pains au chocolat 100% chocolate

Combine the flour, salt, sugar, baking powder, butter, cocoa powder, water and milk in the bowl of a food processor. Blend for around ten minutes. Work the dough a little by hand. Take 90g to make the cocoa mixture.

Place in a bowl, filter and leave to grow for 45 minutes at room temperature.

Cocoa tempera
✔90 g pre-made pastry
✔7.5 g unsweetened cocoa powder
✔9 g mineral water

Mix the cocoa powder with the water in the bowl of a food processor to make a paste. Add the 90g of dough taken previously. Knead for 4-5 minutes. Shape into a square, wrap and chill overnight.

After 45 minutes, degas the dough and flatten it with your hands to form a rectangle. Place in a cool place to firm up.

Soften the 125g of butter and form into a rectangle (1/2 the size of the pastry). If you don’t have tourage butter, you can use AOP Poitou Charentes butter.

On a lightly floured work surface, roll out the pastry into a rectangle and place the butter in the middle. The butter should be at a temperature of between 12 and 15°C and the tempera at between 6 and 8°C. Cover both ends of the pastry with the butter, without overlapping.

Roll out the pastry into a long rectangle and turn twice. Place in a cool place, covered with cling film, for at least 1 hour.

Carry out a single turn and place in a cool place, filmed, for at least 30 minutes.

You can make a 2nd simple turn if you want more puff pastry or go straight on to shaping your loaves.

Shaping the loaves

The next day, roll out the black pastry to the same size as the cocoa pastry. Brush the cocoa dough with water and place the black dough on top. Cover with film and chill for at least 45 minutes.

Roll out the pastry into a large rectangle. Cut 7.5 x 20 cm strips from the rectangle.

Turn the pastry over, cocoa side down. The pastry needs to be very cold before you turn it out, so don’t hesitate to chill it again. On each rectangle, make very shallow cuts on the black part using a cutter, leaving a 5 mm margin around the edges. Turn the pastry over.

Place 2 or 3 chocolate sticks on each rectangle of pastry and roll out the pains au chocolat, but do not roll the pastry too tightly.

Place on a baking tray lined with silpatain or baking paper.

Leave to rise for 2 hours at room temperature

Bake at 170°C for around 20-25 minutes.

The syrup
✔30g water
✔30g sugar

Bring the sugar and water to the boil in a saucepan. Place your pastries on a wire rack and apply hot to the pains au chocolat or chocolatines as soon as they come out of the oven using a brush.

Red fruit and mascarpone cake

Red fruit and mascarpone cake made with

– homemade sponge biscuits
– mascarpone cream
– strawberry and red fruit compote,
– white velvet spray.

Material used

– Rectangular pastry frame

– Pastry bag

– Plain pastry bag

– Ancel 210 bloom gelatine

Ingredients

Spoon biscuits
✔1 egg white
✔1 egg yolk
✔30g caster sugar
✔30g flour
+Icing sugar

Cooking time
180°C – 10 to 12 minutes

Mascarpone cream
✔250g mascarpone
✔3 yolks
✔3 whites
✔80g caster sugar
✔10g milk
✔2g gelatine

Syrup
✔20g water
✔20g sugar
✔A little alcohol

Strawberry and raspberry compote
✔180g frozen strawberries and raspberries
✔20g caster sugar
✔2g NH pectin

Assembly
✔Strawberries
✔White velvet spray

The recipe

Serves 4-5

Spoon biscuits
✔1 egg white
✔1 egg yolk
✔30g caster sugar
✔30g flour
+Icing sugar

Separate the egg whites from the yolks. Beat the egg whites with an electric mixer, adding the sugar gradually. Then add the egg yolks. Mix gently with a spatula.

Sift in the flour. Mix again. Fill a piping bag fitted with a plain tip. Pipe the sponge biscuits onto a sheet of baking paper and dust with icing sugar. Bake at 180°C for 8 to 10 minutes. Leave the biscuit to cool and place in the bottom of your rectangular tin.

Syrup
✔15g water
✔15g sugar
✔A little alcohol

In a saucepan, add the water, sugar and bring to the boil. Turn off the heat and add a little alcohol. Brush the top of your biscuit with the syrup.

Mascarpone cream
✔250g mascarpone
✔3 egg yolks
✔3 egg whites
✔80g caster sugar
✔10g milk
✔2g leaf gelatine

Place the gelatine leaves in a large bowl of cold water for around ten minutes. Pour the milk into a small bowl and heat in the microwave. Add the softened and wrung-out gelatine. Mix and set aside. Separate the egg whites from the yolks in two bowls. Beat the yolks with the mascarpone and half the sugar (40g) using an electric mixer. Add the milk and gelatine mixture. Mix well and set aside.

In the second bowl, beat the egg whites with an electric mixer, gradually adding the remaining 40g sugar. Gently fold the egg whites into the mascarpone cream.

Strawberry compote
✔180g frozen strawberries and raspberries
✔20g caster sugar
✔2g NH pectin

In a small bowl, combine the sugar and pectin.

Pour the 180g of diced strawberries and raspberries into a saucepan. I used frozen fruit this time of year. Heat over a low/medium heat for a few minutes, stirring a little. Increase the heat and as soon as it starts to boil, add the sugar and pectin mixture. Cook for 2 minutes, stirring regularly.

Assembly

Pour half of the mascarpone cream over the biscuit, pushing it up to the edges. Add the red fruit compote. Top up again with more mascarpone cream. Smooth to the level of the frame. Place in the freezer overnight.

The next day, remove the frame and apply the white velvet spray over the entire surface.

I decorated with chocolate hearts. The small hearts were bought from annikids.com in the chocolate cake decoration category. For the large heart, I melted some white chocolate and added some colouring. I then poured it into a cavity in the silikomart heart mould.

Strawberry heart entremet

Strawberry Heart Entremet

– strawberry mousse,
– strawberry compote,
– an almond biscuit
– red mirror icing,
– red velvet spray.

Material used

– Silikomart heart mould

– Ancel 210 Bloom gelatine (gold quality)

Ingredients

Strawberry compote
✔100g strawberries
✔10g caster sugar
✔1g pectin

Almond biscuit
✔35g almond powder
✔35g caster sugar
✔10g melted butter
✔7g flour
✔1 egg
✔1 egg white

Strawberry mousse
✔180g mixed strawberries
✔15g sugar
✔3g gelatine
✔150g single cream
✔10g sugar

Mirror glaze
✔40g liquid cream
✔45g white chocolate
✔45g glucose
✔45g sugar
✔25g water
✔4g gelatine
✔Red colouring

Assembly

✔Red velvet spray

✔Edible gold leaf

The recipe

For 5 desserts

Almond biscuit
✔35g almond powder
✔35g caster sugar
✔10g melted butter
✔7g flour
✔1 egg
✔1 egg white

In a bowl, mix the whole egg with the sugar. Add the almond powder, flour and melted butter. Mix well. In another bowl, beat the egg whites with a mixer. Gently fold into the mixture using a pastry blender. Pour the biscuit dough onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake the biscuit for around ten minutes at 180°C. The biscuit should come out golden brown. Take the biscuit out of the oven and leave to cool completely before cutting it out with a cookie cutter to fit the diameter of your tin.

Strawberry compote
✔100g strawberries
✔10g caster sugar
✔1g pectin

Cut the strawberries into small cubes.

Cut 100g of diced strawberries into very small cubes. Pour the diced strawberries into a saucepan and heat over a low heat for a few minutes. Mix the caster sugar and NH pectin in a small bowl. Increase the heat and pour this mixture over the strawberries and cook for a further 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Set the compote aside until ready to assemble.

Strawberry mousse
✔180g mixed strawberries
✔15g sugar
✔3g gelatine
✔150g single cream
✔10g sugar

Place the gelatine in a bowl of cold water. In a saucepan, heat the mixed strawberries with the caster sugar. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine, previously softened in a bowl of cold water and squeezed dry. Set aside to cool.

Whip the cold cream with an electric mixer and gently fold into the previous mixture.

Assemble quickly.

Assembly

Half fill the silikomart heart mould with strawberry mousse. Add the strawberry compote in the middle. Top with a little mousse and finish with the biscuit. Place in the freezer overnight.

The next day, remove the frozen hearts from the moulds and immediately apply the red velvet spray to half the heart.

Mirror icing
✔40g liquid cream
✔45g white chocolate
✔45g glucose
✔45g sugar
✔25g water
✔4g gelatine
✔Red colouring

Place the gelatine sheets in a large bowl of cold water. In a saucepan, heat the sugar, water and glucose to 110°C. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine, wrung out and softened. Pour this mixture over the melted white chocolate. Stir well. Add the liquid cream and red colouring. Use a Bamix hand blender without a bell at the end to avoid air bubbles and ensure a smooth mixture.

Place your entremets on a wire rack and apply the icing when it is around 35°C to half of the hearts, the part not covered with red velvet spray.

I put little leaves of edible gold at the junction between the velvet spray and the mirror icing.

Chocolate heart entremet

Chocolate heart entremet made with

– a milk chocolate mousse,
– a white chocolate mousse
– a praline crunch,
– white velvet spray,
– brown velvet spray.

Material used

– Silikomart flat heart mould X8

– Ancel 210 bloom gelatine

– Tefal baking tray

– Baking paper

– White and brown velvet sprays

Ingredients

Custard cream
✔100g milk
✔20g sugar
✔1 egg yolk
✔2g gelatine

Milk Chocolate Mousse
✔60g custard
✔50g chocolate
✔60 g whipping cream

White Chocolate Mousse
✔60g custard
✔50 g white chocolate
✔60 g whipping cream

Praline crisp
✔40g white chocolate
✔60g hazelnut praline
✔30g crêpes dentelles
✔10g hazelnut almond praline powder

White and brown velvet sprays

The recipe

Custard cream
✔100g milk
✔20g sugar
✔1 egg yolk
✔2g gelatine

Place the gelatine (2g) in a large bowl of cold water. In a bowl, mix the egg yolk with the caster sugar. Heat the milk in a saucepan. Remove from the heat and pour over the egg yolk mixture, stirring constantly. Return the mixture to the heat in the saucepan and cook over a low heat until it reaches 82°C. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine, stirring well.

Quickly prepare the 2 mousses in parallel.

Whip the 120g of very cold liquid cream (minimum 30% fat) (60g for the white chocolate mousse and 60g for the chocolate mousse). Set aside in a cool place.

White Chocolate Mousse
✔60g custard
✔50 g white chocolate
✔60 g whipping cream

Melt the white chocolate in the microwave. Pour half of the hot custard over the chocolate, stirring well. Leave to cool slightly.

When the mixture is below 35°C add half the whipping cream (60g). Mix gently with a spatula.

Fill the silikomart mould (4 cavities).

Milk Chocolate Mousse
✔60g custard
✔50g chocolate
✔60 g whipping cream

Melt the milk chocolate in the microwave. Pour half of the hot custard over the chocolate, stirring well. Leave to cool slightly.

When the mixture is below 35°C add the rest of the whipping cream (60g).

Mix gently with a spatula.

Fill the silikomart mould (last 4 cavities). Place in the freezer for at least 3 hours.

Praline crisp
✔40g white chocolate
✔60g hazelnut praline
✔30g crêpes dentelles
✔10g hazelnut almond praline powder

Melt 40g of white chocolate in the microwave. Add the hazelnut praline and crumbled crêpes dentelles. Mix well. Roll out between two sheets of baking paper. Place in the freezer for a few minutes, then cut out using the cookie cutter supplied with your mould.

Unmould the cakes and apply the white and brown velvet spray immediately.

Place your hearts one on top of the other on your praline crisp.

Clementine Entremet

Clementine Entremet made with

– a clementine biscuit,
– a clementine insert
– a clementine mousse,
– orange velvet spray.

Materials used

– Silikomart Givre 90 mould

– Silikomart X15 half sphere mould

– Ancel 210 Bloom gelatine (gold quality)

– Orange velvet spray

Ingredients

Clementine cream insert
✔1 egg yolk
✔15g sugar
✔100g Corsican clementine purée
✔1.5g leaf gelatine
✔15g butter

Clementine biscuit
✔50g flour
✔35g caster sugar
✔1 teaspoon yeast
✔1/2 egg
✔25g butter
✔1 clementine juice + zest
✔1 pinch of salt

Clementine mousse
✔3g gelatine
✔70g clementine juice
✔30g egg
✔30g sugar
✔40g butter
✔100g single cream

Orange velvet spray

The recipe

For 4 desserts

Clementine cream insert
✔1 egg yolk
✔15g sugar
✔100g Corsican clementine purée
✔1.5g leaf gelatine
✔15g butter

Place the gelatine sheet in a bowl of cold water. In another bowl, whisk together the egg yolk and caster sugar. Pour the previously blended clementine purée into a small saucepan. Heat the purée and pour over the egg yolk and sugar mixture. Mix well and pour back into the pan. Return to the heat for a few minutes, then remove from the heat and add the gelatine. Mix well. Add the butter, cut into pieces. Mix again. Pour into the Silikomart half sphere X15 cavity insert mould and chill for 1 hour before placing in the freezer for at least 2 hours.

Clementine biscuit
✔50g flour
✔35g caster sugar
✔1 teaspoon yeast
✔1/2 egg
✔25g butter
✔1 clementine juice + zest
✔1 pinch of salt

Pour the flour, pinch of salt and yeast into a bowl and mix. In another bowl, place the kneaded butter and work it with the caster sugar. Add the egg. Add half the flour and yeast mixture. Mix well. Add the zest of a previously washed clementine and its juice. Mix well. Add the rest of the flour mixture. Mix again.

Pour onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Smooth out evenly with an angled spatula. Bake. The tip of the knife should come out dry. Leave to cool, then cut out the biscuit using a circular biscuit cutter the same diameter as your tin.

Clementine mousse
✔3g gelatine
✔70g clementine juice
✔30g egg
✔30g sugar
✔40g butter
✔100g single cream

Place the gelatine leaves in a bowl of cold water for at least 10 to 15 minutes. In a small saucepan, heat the clementine juice. In a bowl, whisk the egg yolk with the caster sugar. Pour the hot orange juice over this mixture. Mix well and return to the pan. Continue cooking, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens slightly. Remove from the heat and add the wrung-out gelatine. When the mixture is around 60°C, add the butter, cut into pieces. Mix well and set aside. Whip the cold cream with an electric mixer. Pour in the previous mixture when the temperature is around 30°C and stir gently.

Assembly

Fill the Silikomart Givré 90 mould halfway with the clementine mousse, using a spoon to smooth the edges.

Place the clementine insert.

Add a little mousse and finish with the clementine biscuit.

Place in the freezer overnight.

The next day, remove the cakes from the moulds and immediately apply the orange velvet spray. I decorated with a little edible gold leaf. Chill for at least 3 hours.

Pistachio and orange blossom cake

Pistachio and orange blossom cake

– a pistachio praline crisp,
– a pistachio biscuit
– a pistachio mousse
– an orange blossom mousse,
– and a mirror icing.

Material used

– Square frame 12X12x4.5 cm

– Ancel 210 bloom gelatine

– Tefal baking tray

– Baking paper

Ingredients

Pistachio praline (the day before)
✔150g pistachios
✔75g sugar

Pistachio biscuit (the day before)
✔35g sugar
✔1 egg
✔35g pistachio powder
✔10g butter
✔7 g flour
✔50g egg whites

Pistachio praline crisp (the day before)
✔40g pistachio praline
✔30g white chocolate
✔30g crêpes dentelles

Pistachio mousse (the day before)
✔30g single cream
✔40g white chocolate
✔70g cold liquid cream
✔30g pistachio praline
✔2g gelatine

Orange blossom mousse (the day before)
✔60 g full cream
✔60 g white chocolate
✔3 g gelatine
✔110 g whipping cream
✔18g orange blossom

Pistachio praline mirror icing
✔45 g sugar
✔45 g glucose
✔25 g water
✔45 g white chocolate
✔30 g pistachio praline
✔30 g 30% minimum fat liquid cream
✔4g gelatine

The recipe

For 4 people

Pistachio biscuit (the day before)
✔35g sugar
✔1 egg
✔35g pistachio powder
✔10 g butter
✔7 g flour
✔50g egg whites

In a bowl, add the pistachio powder, sugar and whole egg. Mix well. Add the sifted flour. Mix well. In another bowl, whisk the egg whites with the caster sugar. Incorporate a third of the egg whites and mix to loosen the mixture, then gently fold the remaining egg whites into the mixture using a pastry blender. Pour the biscuit dough onto a baking tray lined with baking paper and smooth out the dough. Bake the biscuit for 8 to 10 minutes at 180°C.

Remove the biscuit from the oven and leave to cool before peeling it from the paper and cutting out a square using your 12x12cm frame.

Pistachio praline crisp (the day before)
✔40g pistachio praline
✔30g white chocolate
✔30g crêpes dentelles

In a bowl, pour the praline, the previously melted white chocolate and add the crêpes dentelles. Mix gently. Spread between two sheets of baking paper using a rolling pin. Place in the freezer for a few minutes. Cut out a 12x12cm square and place it at the bottom of your frame.

Place the biscuit on top of the crisp and keep in the freezer until ready to assemble.

Quickly make the two mousses in parallel.

Orange blossom mousse (the day before)
✔60 g full cream
✔60 g white chocolate
✔3 g gelatine
✔110 g whipping cream
✔18g orange blossom

Place the gelatine leaves in a large bowl of cold water for at least 10 minutes. Heat the 60g liquid cream in a small saucepan. Pour over the melted white chocolate. Mix well. Add the gelatine, well wrung out and previously softened in a bowl of cold water, and the orange blossom. Set aside. Whip the cold cream (110g) with an electric mixer. Using a spatula, gently fold in the previous mixture. Set aside. Quickly assemble the cake.

Pistachio mousse (the day before)
✔30g single cream
✔40g white chocolate
✔70g cold liquid cream
✔30g pistachio praline
✔2g gelatine

Place the gelatine leaves in a large bowl of cold water for at least 10 minutes. Heat the 30g of liquid cream in a small saucepan. Pour over the melted white chocolate. Mix well. Add the gelatine, well wrung out and previously softened in a bowl of cold water, and the pistachio praline. Set aside. Whip the cold cream (70g) with an electric mixer. Using a spatula, gently fold in the previous mixture. Set aside.

Assembly

Assemble the mousse quickly, otherwise the gelatine will start to set.

Pour 80 to 85g of orange blossom mousse into the frame. Place in the freezer for a few minutes to allow the mousse to set a little. Pour in 80 to 85g of pistachio mousse and place in the freezer for a few minutes. Pour another 80 to 85g of orange blossom mousse, place in the freezer and finish with the remaining pistachio mousse (80 to 85g). After a final few minutes in the freezer, pour in the remaining orange blossom mousse. Place in the freezer overnight.

The next day, make the pistachio icing.

Pistachio icing
✔45 g sugar
✔45 g glucose
✔25 ml water
✔45 g white chocolate
✔30 ml cream
✔30g pistachio praline
✔2 x 2g gelatine leaves

Place the gelatine leaves in a large bowl of cold water. In a saucepan, heat the sugar, water and glucose to 110°C. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine, wrung out and softened. Pour this mixture over the melted white chocolate. Stir well. Add the liquid cream and praline. Use a Bamix hand blender without a bell at the end to avoid air bubbles and ensure a smooth mixture.

Remove the cake from the freezer and apply the icing, which has been cooled to 35°C. Leave in the fridge for a few minutes until the icing has set.

Carefully remove the frame. Cut into individual slices or serve whole, then defrost in the fridge before serving.

I decorated with caramelised unsalted pistachios.