English – Les délices 31

Chocolate hazelnut cake

Chocolate hazelnut cake composed of

– a hazelnut crisp,
– a cocoa biscuit,
– a pear mousse with pieces,
– a chocolate mirror glaze.

Equipment used

– Square frame 12 x 12 x 4.5 cm

– Ancel 210 bloom gelatine

– Tefal baking tray

– Baking paper

– Angled spatula

– Edible gold leaf

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Ingredients

Cocoa biscuit
✔60g ground almonds
✔50g sugar
✔15g cocoa powder
✔20g melted butter
✔100g egg whites
✔1 egg

Pears in syrup
✔Pears
✔Caster sugar
✔Water
✔Liquid vanilla

Crunchy hazelnut
✔50g hazelnut praline
✔30g crêpes dentelles
✔35g white chocolate

Pear mousse
✔160g pears
✔3g gelatine
✔2 egg yolks
✔20g caster sugar
✔2g gelatine
✔100g single cream

+diced pears

Milk chocolate mirror glaze
✔22 g sugar
✔22 g glucose
✔12.5 ml water
✔22 g milk chocolate
✔15 ml single cream
✔2 g gelatine

The recipe

Serves 4

Crunchy hazelnut
✔50g hazelnut praline
✔30g crêpes dentelles
✔35g white chocolate

Melt the white chocolate in a bowl in the microwave.

Add the hazelnut praline and mix.

Add the crumbled crêpes dentelles. Mix gently.

Spread between two sheets of baking paper, place in the freezer for a few minutes, then cut out a square the size of your 12 x 12 cm frame. Keep cool until ready to assemble.

Cocoa biscuit
✔60g ground almonds
✔50g sugar
✔15g cocoa powder
✔20g melted butter
✔100g egg whites
✔1 egg

Pour the ground almonds, sugar and cocoa powder into a bowl. Add the egg and melted butter. Mix together.

In another bowl, beat the egg white with an electric mixer.

Gently fold this egg white mixture into the previous mixture. Pour onto your baking tray lined with baking paper, smooth with an offset spatula to ensure an even thickness, and bake at 170/180°C.

Allow your biscuit to cool. Turn it over and carefully remove the baking paper.

Then cut out two 12 x 12 cm squares.

Pears in syrup
Peel, quarter and cook the pears in a saucepan with water, sugar and liquid vanilla. Drain well on kitchen paper, then cut into pieces.

Pear mousse
✔160g pears
✔3g gelatine
✔2 egg yolks
✔20g caster sugar
✔2g gelatine
✔100g single cream

+diced pears

Soften the gelatine sheet in a bowl of cold water.

Pour the egg yolks and 20g caster sugar into a mixing bowl. Mix together. Pour the hot blended pears over this mixture and stir. Return everything to the saucepan and continue cooking, stirring constantly, without exceeding 82 to 83°C. Remove from the heat and add the squeezed and softened gelatine. Mix and set aside.

Whip the very cold liquid cream. Add the previous mixture when it has cooled to below 30°C. Mix gently.

Assembly

Place the crispy biscuit at the bottom of your mould. Add the first cocoa biscuit on top. Brush it with syrup.

Pour half of the pear mousse onto the cocoa biscuit that has been brushed with syrup and place in the freezer for a few minutes. Set aside the remaining mousse at room temperature.

Place the second cocoa biscuit on top and soak it with syrup. Add 50g of diced pears to the biscuit and pour the remaining pear mousse on top. Place in the freezer overnight.

Milk chocolate mirror glaze
✔22 g sugar
✔22 g glucose
✔12.5 ml water
✔22 g milk chocolate
✔15 ml single cream
✔2 g gelatine

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

In a saucepan, heat the sugar, water and glucose to boiling point. Remove from the heat and add the squeezed and softened gelatine. Pour this mixture over the milk chocolate, which has been melted in the microwave. Stir well. Add the single cream. Use a hand blender without a cover to achieve a smooth mixture. Remove the cake from the freezer. Cover the surface with the icing, which has been brought to 34/35°C.

Place in the refrigerator until the icing sets, then remove the frame.

Serve whole or cut into individual portions.

Place in the refrigerator to defrost.

Find this recipe in my shop, in my ebook,

Autumn Flavour Cakes, 2025 edition.

Chocolate and orange entremet

Chocolate orange dessert consisting of

– chocolate mousse,
– orange jelly,
– sponge cake,
– chocolate ganache,
– brown velvet spray,
– chocolate ice cream scoop.

Equipment used

– Silikomart Essential X6 mould

– Silikomart quenelle mould

– Silikomart tourbillon mould

– Ancel 210 Bloom gelatine (gold quality)

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Ingredients

Sponge cake
1 egg
15g sugar
5g flour
10g cornflour

Orange jelly
80g water
200g orange juice
orange zest
80g caster sugar.
9g gelatine

Chocolate mousse
✔85g milk chocolate
✔85g milk
✔20g sugar
✔1 egg (yolk and white)
✔85g whipped cream
✔2g gelatine

Whipped chocolate ganache
✔30g cream
✔30g chocolate
✔60g cream
✔1g gelatine

Chocolate ice cream

Brown velvet spray

The recipe

For 4 entremets

Sponge cake
1 egg
15g sugar
5g flour
10g cornflour

Separate the egg white and yolk. Mix the yolk with the caster sugar. Add the flour and cornflour. Mix.

Beat the egg whites until stiff. Gently fold into the previous mixture. Pipe in a circle, larger than the diameter of your mould, onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake at 180°C for 8-9 minutes.

Leave to cool, then cut out 4 circles of sponge cake smaller than the diameter of your mould. Set aside until ready to assemble.

Orange jelly
80g water
200g orange juice
orange zest
80g caster sugar.
9g gelatine

In a saucepan, heat 80g water, 200g orange juice, the zest of one orange and 80g caster sugar. Remove from the heat and add 9g of gelatine, squeezed dry and previously softened in a bowl of cold water.

Fill 4 moulds of the Silikomart Tourbillon 28 mould and place in the fridge until the jelly sets, then in the freezer. Pour the rest of the jelly into a deep dish and place in the fridge.

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When the jelly has set, cut out 4 circles using the same cutter as the one used to cut the sponge cake.

Keep chilled until ready to assemble.

Chocolate mousse
✔85g milk chocolate
✔85g milk
✔20g sugar
✔1 egg (yolk and white)
✔85g whipped cream
✔2g gelatine

Place the gelatine sheet (2g) in a large bowl of cold water. In a mixing bowl, combine the egg yolk with 10g of caster sugar. Heat the milk in a saucepan. Remove from the heat and pour over the egg yolk mixture, stirring continuously. 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.

Pour this hot custard over the milk chocolate, stirring with a whisk until it has melted. Set aside.

Whip the well-chilled liquid cream with a mixer and add it to the cream (once it has cooled slightly to below 35°C), mixing gently with a spatula. Whisk the egg whites until stiff and fold them into the mixture.

Assembly

Fill your Silikomart Essentiale mould with chocolate mousse, making sure to cover all the edges.

Add a slice of orange jelly

Top with chocolate mousse and finish with the sponge cake.

Place in the freezer overnight.

Dressage

Whipped chocolate ganache
✔30g single cream
✔30g milk chocolate
✔60g cold single cream
✔1g gelatine

Place the gelatine sheet in a bowl of cold water. Heat the cream in a saucepan. Remove from the heat and pour in three stages over the melted milk chocolate. Add the drained and softened gelatine. Then pour in the cold single cream. Mix, cover with cling film and chill for at least 4 hours.

Remove the desserts from the moulds and immediately apply the brown velvet spray.

Place your dessert on your serving plate.

Remove the orange jelly from the mould and place it immediately on your plate. I cut off one side.

Beat the chocolate ganache with an electric mixer and pipe it onto your plate using a fluted nozzle.

I decorated my plate with a scoop of chocolate ice cream moulded using a Silikomart quenelle mould and a piece of candied orange.

Cemetery cake

Cemetery cake consisting of

– praline yoghurt cake,
– sweet cocoa dough,
– cocoa lace tuile,
– chocolate decorations,
– English cream.

Equipment used

– Silicone tree lace mould

– Tree branch mould

– Tefal baking tray

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Ingredients

Praline yoghurt cake
✔3 eggs
✔1 pot of plain yoghurt
✔1 tablet of praline baking chocolate
✔2 pots of caster sugar
✔3 pots of flour
✔1 sachet of vanilla
✔1 sachet of baking powder
1/3 pot of neutral oil

English cream
✔200 g milk
✔25 g sugar
✔2 egg yolks
✔liquid vanilla or vanilla pod

Cocoa tuile
✔25g sugar
✔12g flour
✔12g melted butter
✔15g egg white
✔3/4g cocoa powder

Sweet cocoa dough
✔ 80g flour
✔10g powdered praline
✔25g caster sugar
✔10g cocoa powder
✔35g butter

Assembly and decoration
Chocolate decorations

The recipe

In a mixing bowl, pour in the pot of plain yoghurt, 2 pots of sugar and 3 pots of flour (using the empty yoghurt pot as a measure), the sachet of vanilla and the sachet of baking powder. Mix together. Add the eggs one by one. Mix together.

Cut the chocolate bar into pieces, add 1/3 of the pot of neutral oil yoghurt and melt in the microwave.

Pour the melted chocolate into the previous mixture and mix well.

Pour into an ovenproof dish, which you can butter a little to make it easier to remove. Bake in a hot oven for about 40-45 minutes at 155°C.

Leave your cake to cool. I cut it using a cookie cutter the same size as my serving plate. Place a slice of cake on each plate.

Sweet cocoa dough
✔ 80g flour
✔10g powdered praline
✔25g caster sugar
✔10g cocoa powder
✔35g butter

Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl, spread on a baking tray and bake for a few minutes at 175°C. Leave to cool. The dough will harden as it cools. Cover your praline cake with the sweet cocoa dough.

I added chocolate decorations that I found on the annikids.com website.

And I used the tree branch mould to make chocolate tree trunks.

Cocoa tile
✔25g sugar
✔12g flour
✔12g melted butter
✔15g egg white
✔3/4g cocoa powder

Mix all the ingredients together. Fill the silicone tree mould. Smooth with an offset spatula to remove any excess.

Bake in a hot oven at 180°C for 6-8 minutes (may vary depending on your oven). Remove from the mould as soon as they come out of the oven. Be careful, they harden very quickly and become brittle. Handle with care.

Place your tuiles on your plate.

English cream
✔200 g milk
✔25 g sugar
✔2 egg yolks
✔liquid vanilla or vanilla pod

Pour the milk and vanilla into a saucepan and heat. Pour the egg yolks and caster sugar into a bowl. Mix together. Pour the hot milk over the mixture and mix well before returning everything to the saucepan. Heat over a medium heat, stirring constantly, without exceeding 85°C (use a kitchen thermometer to check the temperature). Set aside to cool.

Pour a little English cream over the top when serving.

Peanut entremet

Peanut entremet composed of

– peanut mousse,
– peanut crisp,
– peanut praline,
– caramel velvet spray,
– peanut powder,
– peanut ice cream quenelle,
– caramel.

Equipment used

– Silikomart Essential X6 mould

– Silikomart quenelle mould

– Ancel 210 Bloom gelatine (gold quality)

– Baking paper

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Ingredients

Homemade caramel
✔ 40g caster sugar
✔ 50g heated single cream
✔ 12g semi-salted butter

Peanut praline
✔ 150g peanuts
✔ 75g caster sugar

Crunchy peanut
✔25g white chocolate
✔50g peanut praline
✔30g crêpes dentelles

Peanut mousse
✔100g single cream
✔10g sugar
✔1 egg yolk
✔70g praline
✔2.5g gelatine
✔80g single cream

Peanut ice cream

Unsalted peanuts

Caramel velvet spray

The recipe

Forr 4 entremets

Peanut praline
✔150g unsalted peanuts
✔75g caster sugar

Spread the unsalted peanuts on a baking tray and bake at 150°C for 15 minutes.
Pour the caster sugar into a saucepan and make a caramel. When it has turned a nice colour, pour it onto a sheet of baking paper and leave to cool. Place the peanuts and the cooled caramel, cut into pieces, in the bowl of a food processor and blend until you have a praline. You will have a little praline left over to use in other recipes.

Crunchy peanut
✔25g white chocolate
✔50g peanut praline
✔30g crêpes dentelles

Melt the white chocolate in the microwave. Add the crumbled crêpes dentelles and peanut praline. Mix gently. Roll out between two sheets of baking paper and place in the freezer. Remove from the freezer and cut out using a cookie cutter the same diameter as your mould. Place in the freezer until ready to assemble.

Peanut mousse
✔100g single cream
✔10g sugar
✔1 egg yolk
✔70g praline
✔2.5g gelatine
✔80g single cream

Soften the gelatine sheet in a bowl of cold water.

In a bowl, mix the caster sugar and egg yolk. In a saucepan, heat the 100g of single cream. Pour the hot cream into the bowl, mix and return everything to the saucepan. Cook gently until the mixture coats your spatula.

Remove from the heat, add the squeezed gelatine and peanut praline. Mix and set aside.

Whip the well-chilled liquid cream with an electric mixer.

Pour in the warm mixture (T < 30–35°C) and stir gently.

Assembly

Fill your Silikomart Essentiale mould with peanut mousse, making sure to cover all the edges.

Place a little peanut praline on each crisp.

Place the praline-covered crisp on top of your mousse.

Place in the freezer overnight or for at least 6 hours.

Homemade caramel
✔ 40g caster sugar
✔ 50g heated single cream
✔ 12g semi-salted butter

Melt the sugar in a saucepan. When it turns a nice amber colour, remove from the heat and add the heated single cream. Mix well and return to the heat to melt all the caramel. Remove from the heat and finally add the butter. Leave to cool completely, then fill a piping bag with the mixture.

The next day, remove your desserts from the moulds and immediately apply the caramel velvet spray.

Dressage

I decorated my plate with a peanut ice cream quenelle moulded using the Silikomart quenelle mould.

I poached some homemade caramel.

I added peanut powder and chocolate decorations.

Halloween eclair

Halloween éclair made with

– choux pastry,
– custard cream,
– fondant icing,
– raspberry jelly,
– chocolate decorations.

Equipment used

– Micro-perforated silicone baking mat

– Silicone stencil

– Piping bags

– Fluted nozzle

– Decorating nozzle

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Ingrédients

Pâte à choux
✔60 g d’eau
✔60 g de lait
✔70 g de farine
✔55 g de beurre
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Custard cream
✔300g milk
✔60g sugar
✔3 egg yolks
✔20g flour or cornflour
✔A little rum

Icing
✔115g white fondant
✔30g glucose
✔Red food colouring

Raspberry jelly
✔100g raspberries
✔15g caster sugar
✔1g NH pectin

Assembly
✔Chocolate decorations

✔ White fondant icing

The recipe

For 6 eclairs

Icing
✔115g white fondant
✔30g glucose
✔Red food colouring

Pour all the ingredients into the saucepan. Heat the white fondant to 60°C in a bain-marie. Add red food colouring to colour it. Quickly pour the fondant onto the silicone mould placed on a baking tray. Place in the freezer for a few hours.

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✔60 g d’eau
✔60 g de lait
✔70 g de farine
✔55 g de beurre
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Custard cream
✔300g milk
✔60g sugar
✔3 egg yolks
✔20g flour or cornflour
✔A little rum

Boil the milk in a saucepan. In a bowl, mix the egg yolks with the caster sugar. Add the cornflour. Pour in the hot milk, then return everything to the saucepan. Cook, stirring constantly. The cream will thicken. Remove from the heat. Cover with cling film and set aside to cool.

Raspberry jelly
✔100g raspberries
✔15g caster sugar
✔1g NH pectin

Blend and then strain the raspberries to remove all the seeds.

Mix the caster sugar and NH pectin in a small bowl.

Pour into a saucepan and heat. Add the sugar/pectin mixture and cook for 2 minutes, stirring constantly.

Remove from the heat and set aside in a piping bag until ready to assemble.

Recover the pastry cream and loosen it slightly by stirring it with a spatula, then fill a piping bag fitted with a piping nozzle. Make two holes under each éclair and fill them with pastry cream.

Place the frozen fondant on each éclair and then place the éclair on your serving plate.

Drizzle the raspberry jelly in small, uneven drops onto each plate.

I decorated using chocolate decorations found on the annikids.com website.

Keep refrigerated until ready to serve.

Orange panna cotta

Orange panna cotta made with

– sweet pastry,
– orange jelly,
– orange panna cotta,
– orange velvet spray.

Equipment used

– Silikomart Bloom mould

– Orange spray (coral)

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Ingredients

Sweet cocoa pastry
✔100g flour
✔10g cocoa powder
✔45g butter
✔1/2 sachet of Stevibless

Orange panna cotta
✔400g single cream
✔2 sachets of Stevibless (300mg)
✔5g gelatine
✔Zest of 1 orange

Orange jelly
✔100g orange juice
✔3g gelatine

Coral velvet spray

Chocolate decorations

The recipe

For 4 panna cottas

For this recipe, I tried replacing all the sugar with Stevibless brand stevia. Be careful, though, as it should be used in moderation. In fact, the measuring spoon provided is very small because it is so sweet.

So here is a sugar-free recipe.

Orange panna cotta
✔400g single cream
✔2 Stevibless pods (300mg)
✔5g gelatine
✔1 orange zest

Place your gelatine sheets in a large bowl of cold water.

Pour the cream (30% fat) into your saucepan, add 2 stevia pods (or 40g caster sugar) and the zest of one orange, which has been washed and scrubbed beforehand.

Heat the cream, stirring occasionally.

Turn off the heat. Add the gelatine, which has been thoroughly drained and completely softened. Mix.

Pour into your Silikomart Bloom mould.

Place in the fridge until the gelatine sets, then in the freezer overnight or for at least 6 hours so that it can be removed from the mould properly.

Orange jelly
✔100g orange juice
✔3g gelatine

Place the gelatine leaves in a bowl of cold water. Squeeze a ripe orange and pour the juice into a saucepan. Heat gently. As soon as it starts to boil, remove from the heat and add the well-drained and softened gelatine. Pour into your mould, then chill until the gelatine sets and finally place in the freezer (to make it easier to remove from the mould).

Sweet cocoa dough
✔100g flour
✔10g cocoa powder
✔45g butter
✔1/2 teaspoon Stevibless or 20g caster sugar

Mix all the ingredients together, then spread your cocoa dough onto a baking tray.

Bake in a hot oven at 175°C/180°C for a few minutes.

Remove from the oven. Your dough will harden as it cools. You can store it in a sealed container away from moisture and prepare it the day before or make it on the day itself.

The next day, remove the panna cotta from the moulds and immediately apply the coral velvet spray.

Place your panna cotta on your serving plate. Add the frozen orange jelly. I cut it in half.

Spread the sweet cocoa dough all around.

I added chocolate decorations found on the Annikids.com website.

Place in the refrigerator until ready to serve. Wait at least 3 to 4 hours for complete thawing.

Pine cone entremet

Pine cone entremet composed of

– chestnut mousse,
– pear compote,
– hazelnut crisp,
– brown velvet spray.
– sweet cocoa dough,
– tuiles,
– pear sorbet quenelle.

Equipment used

– Silikomart half-sphere mould with 15 cavities
– Ancel 210 Bloom gelatine (gold quality)
– Pine cone silicone mould

– Silikomart quenelle mould

– Pavoni Leaf silicone mould

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Ingredients

Hazelnut praline
✔150g hazelnuts
✔75g caster sugar

Hazelnut crunch
✔25g white chocolate
✔35g hazelnut praline
✔30g crêpes dentelles

Pear compote
✔1 ripe pear
✔1g pectin
✔10g sugar

Chestnut mousse
✔150g chestnut cream
✔130g single cream (30+100)
✔3g gelatine

Tile
✔25g sugar
✔12g flour
✔12g melted butter
✔15g egg white

Sweet cocoa soil
✔80g flour
✔10g powdered praline
✔30g sugar
✔10g cocoa
✔45g butter

✔Brown velvet spray

✔Pear sorbet quenelle

The recipe

For 4 pine cones

Hazelnut praline
✔150g hazelnuts
✔75g caster sugar

Spread the hazelnuts on a baking tray and bake at 150°C for 15 minutes. Pour the caster sugar into a saucepan and make a caramel. Pour onto a sheet of baking paper and leave to cool. Place the hazelnuts, which have been rubbed to remove as much skin as possible, and the caramel, cut into pieces, in a blender and blend until you obtain praline. You will have some praline left over to use in other recipes. It keeps very well in a sealed container. Just mix it well again before use, as the oil from the hazelnuts rises to the surface.

Crunchy hazelnut
✔25g white chocolate
✔35g hazelnut praline
✔30g crêpes dentelles

Melt the white 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 using a cookie cutter slightly smaller than your mould. Place the crisp in the freezer until ready to assemble.

Pear compote
✔1 ripe pear
✔2g pectin
✔10g sugar

Peel and finely dice the pear. Heat 3/4 of the diced pear in a saucepan for a few minutes. In a small bowl, mix the caster sugar and NH pectin. Increase the heat and, as soon as it starts to boil, pour over the diced pear. Cook for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Allow to cool slightly, add the remaining quarter of the diced pear, mix, then pour into the half-sphere cavities of the Silikomart mould (15 cavities). Place in the fridge for 1 hour, then in the freezer for at least 3 to 4 hours.

Assemble two hemispheres to form a complete sphere.

Brown mousse
✔150g chestnut cream
✔130g single cream
✔3g gelatine

Add the gelatine leaves to a large bowl of cold water. Heat 30g of single cream in a saucepan with the chestnut cream. Remove from the heat and add the softened, squeezed gelatine.

Whip the remaining single cream (100g), which should be very cold, with an electric mixer. Gently fold it into the previous mixture when it has cooled to below 30°C.

Assembly

Fill the Pinecone dessert silicone mould halfway with chestnut mousse.

Add the pear compote sphere.

Top with the remaining chestnut mousse.

Finish with the crispy biscuit. Place in the freezer.

The next day, quickly remove the desserts from the moulds. Apply the brown velvet spray.

Sweet cocoa dough
✔80g flour
✔10g powdered praline
✔30g sugar
✔10g cocoa powder
✔45g butter

I made some sweet cocoa dough to decorate my serving plate. Mix all the ingredients together, spread on a baking tray and bake for a few minutes at 175°C.

Allow your soil to cool completely before spreading it around your dessert.

Tile
✔25g sugar
✔12g flour
✔12g melted butter
✔15g egg white

Mix all the ingredients together. Fill the Pavoni leaf silicone mould. Smooth with an offset spatula to remove any excess.

I added a pear sorbet quenelle made using the Silikomart quenelle mould and pieces of chocolate branches.

Tree branch-shaped mould

Pear and speculoos entremet

Pear and speculoos entremet composed of

– pear compote,
– pear mousse,
– speculoos crisp,
– yellow velvet spray,
– pear jelly,
– speculoos ice cream quenelle,
– tuile.

Equipment used

– Silikomart Essential X6 mold

– Silikomart quenelle mold

– Ancel 210 Bloom gelatin (gold quality)

– Baking paper

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Ingredients

Pear compote
✔1 ripe pear
✔5g sugar
✔1g NH pectin
✔Vanilla powder

Pear mousse
✔145g pears
✔3g gelatin
✔150g heavy cream

Speculoos crunch
✔25g white chocolate
✔35g speculoos paste
✔20g crêpes dentelles

Tile
✔25g sugar
✔12g flour
✔12g melted butter
✔15g egg white

Pear jelly

Yellow velvet spray

The recipe

For 4 desserts

Pear compote
✔1 ripe pear
✔5g sugar
✔1g NH pectin
✔Vanilla powder

In a saucepan, heat the diced pears with the vanilla. In a small bowl, mix the powdered sugar and NH pectin. As soon as it starts to boil, pour over the diced pears and cook for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Set aside until ready to assemble.

Speculoos crunch
✔25g white chocolate
✔35g speculoos paste
✔20g crêpes dentelles

Melt the white chocolate in the microwave. Add the crumbled crêpes dentelles and speculoos paste. Mix gently. Roll out between two sheets of baking paper and place in the freezer. Remove from the freezer and cut out using a cookie cutter the same diameter as your mold. Place in the freezer until ready to assemble.

Pear mousse
✔145g pears
✔3g gelatin
✔150g heavy cream

Soften the gelatin sheet in a bowl of cold water. Heat the pear purée (blended ripe pears or blended pears in syrup) in a saucepan for a few minutes over low heat to allow some of the water to evaporate. Remove from the heat and add the drained and softened gelatin, stirring well. Set aside.

Whip the very cold liquid cream (minimum 30% fat content) with an electric mixer. Add the warm pear purée (at around 30°C so that the whipped cream does not collapse).

Assemble the dessert.

Fill your Silikomart mold halfway with pear mousse, making sure to cover all the edges.

Add the pear compote.

Top with pear mousse.

Finish with the crispy speculoos cookie.

Place in the freezer overnight or for at least 6 hours. The next day, remove your desserts from the molds and immediately apply the yellow velvet spray.

Dressage

Place your frozen pear jelly on your serving plate.

Cut one side of your jelly.

Place your dessert on your plate.

Chill.

Tile
✔25g sugar
✔12g flour
✔12g melted butter
✔15g egg white

Mix all the ingredients together. Fill the pear-shaped silicone mould. Smooth with an offset spatula to remove any excess.

Bake in a hot oven at 180°C for 6-8 minutes (may vary depending on your oven). Remove from the oven and turn out immediately. Be careful, they harden very quickly and become brittle. Handle with care.

I decorated my plate with a speculoos ice cream quenelle moulded using the Silikomart quenelle mould.

Add your tuile at the last minute.

Pear and hazelnut cake

Pear and hazelnut cake composed of

– a chocolate praline crisp,
– a hazelnut biscuit,
– a hazelnut mousse,
– a pear mousse with pieces,
– a chocolate mirror glaze.

Equipment used

– Square frame 12X12x4.5 cm

– Ancel 210 bloom gelatin

– Tefal baking sheet

– Baking paper

– Angled spatula

– Edible gold leaf

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Ingredients

Hazelnut biscuit
✔65g hazelnut powder
✔65g sugar
✔14g flour
✔20g melted butter
✔100g egg whites
✔1 egg

Pears in syrup
✔Pears
✔Powdered sugar
✔Water
✔Liquid vanilla

Crunchy chocolate praline
✔40g hazelnut praline
✔30g crêpes dentelles
✔30g milk chocolate

Pear mousse
✔90g pears
✔1.5g gelatin
✔60g heavy cream

Hazelnut praline mousse
✔50g heavy cream
✔60g hazelnut praline
✔2g gelatin
✔80g heavy cream

Milk chocolate mirror glaze
✔22 g sugar
✔22 g glucose
✔12.5 ml water
✔22 g milk chocolate
✔15 ml liquid cream
✔2 g gelatin

The recipe

Serves 4

Crunchy chocolate praline
✔40g hazelnut praline
✔30g crêpes dentelles (thin crispy wafers)
✔30g milk chocolate

Melt the milk chocolate in a bowl in the microwave. Add the hazelnut praline and crumbled crêpes dentelles. Mix gently. Spread between two sheets of parchment paper, place in the freezer for a few minutes, then cut into a square the size of your 12×12 cm frame. You can use your frame to cut it. Keep cool until ready to assemble.

Hazelnut biscuit
✔65g hazelnut powder
✔65g sugar
✔14g flour
✔20g melted butter
✔100g egg whites
✔1 egg

Pour the hazelnut powder, sugar, and flour into a bowl. Add the egg and melted butter. Mix. In another bowl, beat the egg white with an electric mixer. Gently fold this beaten egg white mixture into the previous mixture. Pour onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, smooth with an offset spatula to ensure an even thickness, and bake at 170/180°C.

Allow the biscuit to cool. Turn it over and carefully remove the parchment paper. Then cut into 12x12cm squares.

Place your crunchy hazelnut praline at the bottom of your frame.

Place the hazelnut cookie on top of your crispy base and refrigerate.

Pears in syrup
Peel, quarter, and cook the pears in a saucepan with water, sugar, and liquid vanilla. Drain them well on paper towels, then cut them into pieces.

You can also use canned pears, draining them well on paper towels.

If you use ripe, sweet pears, you can use them without cooking them in syrup.

Pear mousse
✔90g pears
✔1.5g gelatin
✔60g heavy cream

Soften the gelatin sheet in a bowl of cold water. Heat the pear purée (blended ripe pears or blended pears in syrup) in a saucepan for a few minutes over low heat to allow some of the water to evaporate. Remove from the heat and add the softened, squeezed gelatin, stirring well. Set aside.

Whip the very cold heavy cream (30% fat minimum) with an electric mixer. Add the warm pear purée (below 30°C so the whipped cream doesn’t collapse).

Pour half of your mousse onto your hazelnut biscuit. Add pieces of pear, spreading them evenly over the entire surface. Place in the freezer.

Hazelnut praline mousse
✔50g heavy cream
✔60g hazelnut praline
✔2g gelatin
✔80g heavy cream

Place the gelatin sheet in a large bowl of cold water.

Pour the heavy cream and hazelnut praline into a saucepan and heat. Remove from the heat and add the softened, well-drained gelatin. In a mixing bowl, whip the cold heavy cream with an electric mixer. Once the temperature has dropped (to around 30°C), gently fold it into the previous mixture using a spatula.

Pour half of the hazelnut mousse onto your pear mousse and place in the freezer for a few minutes.

Finally, add the remaining pear mousse, adding pieces of pear, and place back in the freezer for a few minutes (be careful not to wait too long, otherwise your gelatin will start to set).

Finish by pouring the remaining hazelnut mousse on top. Be careful to leave 2 mm of space at the top for the mirror glaze. Place in the freezer overnight.

Milk chocolate mirror glaze
✔22 g sugar
✔22 g glucose
✔12.5 ml water
✔22 g milk chocolate
✔15 ml liquid cream
✔2 g gelatin

Place the gelatin sheet in a large bowl of cold water.

In a saucepan, heat the sugar, water, and glucose to boiling. Remove from the heat and add the drained and softened gelatin. Pour this mixture over the milk chocolate, which has been melted in the microwave. Stir well. Add the heavy cream. Use a hand blender without a cover to achieve a smooth mixture. Remove the cake from the freezer. Cover the surface with the glaze, which has been brought to 34/35°C.

Place in the refrigerator until the icing sets, then remove the frame.

Serve whole or cut into individual portions.

I added small edible gold leaf decorations on top.

Pear praline entremet

Pear praline entremet composed of

– pear mousse,
– pear jelly,
– praline crunch,
– brown velvet spray,
– a scoop of pear sorbet.

English recipe here

Equipment used

– Silicone flower mould (Tému)

– Cooking thermometer

– Baking paper

– Rolling pin

– Piping bag

– Silikomart quenelle mould

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Ingredients

Pear mousse
✔70g single cream
✔100g blended pears
✔2g gelatine

Pear jelly
✔50g blended pears
✔2g gelatine

Hazelnut praline
✔150g hazelnuts
✔75g caster sugar

Crunchy hazelnut praline
✔30g white chocolate
✔20g crêpes dentelles
✔40g hazelnut praline

A little dark chocolate

Brown velvet spray

The recipe

For 3 plates

Hazelnut praline
✔150g hazelnuts
✔75g caster sugar

Spread the hazelnuts on a baking tray and bake at 150°C for 15 minutes. Pour the caster sugar into a saucepan and make a caramel. Pour onto a sheet of baking paper and leave to cool. Place the hazelnuts, which have been rubbed to remove as much of the skin as possible, and the caramel, cut into pieces, into a blender and blend until you obtain a praline. Store in a sealed container. You will have some praline left over to use in other recipes.

Crunchy hazelnut praline
✔30g white chocolate
✔20g crêpes dentelles
✔40g hazelnut praline

Mix the praline, white chocolate (melted in the microwave) and crêpes dentelles. Roll out between two sheets of baking paper. Place in the freezer for a few minutes and cut out using a cookie cutter slightly smaller than the mould. Set aside in the freezer until ready to assemble.

Pear mousse
✔70g single cream
✔100g blended pears
✔2g gelatine

Soften the gelatine sheet in a bowl of cold water. Heat the pear purée (blended ripe pears or blended pears in syrup) in a saucepan for a few minutes over a low heat so that the water evaporates a little. Remove from the heat and add the drained and softened gelatine, stirring well. Set aside.

Whip the very cold single cream (minimum 30% fat) with an electric mixer. Add the warm pear purée. (T<approx. 30°C so that the whipped cream does not collapse).

Assembly

Fill the mould cavities with pear mousse. I found this silicone mould on the Temu website. Add the praline crispy biscuit.

Place in the freezer overnight.

The next day, remove the desserts from the moulds and immediately apply the brown velvet spray.

Place your flowers on each plate.

Pear jelly
✔50g blended pears
✔2g gelatine

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

Blend your ripe pears. I added a few drops of lemon juice. Pour into a small saucepan and heat.

As soon as it starts to boil, remove from the heat and add the well-drained and softened gelatine. Set aside to allow the jelly to cool slightly. Fill a piping bag with the jelly.

I made the flower stems out of chocolate.

I piped pear jelly into the centre of each flower and served them with a quenelle of pear sorbet moulded in a Silikomart quenelle mould.

I decorated them with pear leaves.