Pour the egg whites, caster sugar, cornflour and lemon juice into a bowl. Beat the egg whites with an electric mixer until the meringue is firm and smooth. Fill a piping bag fitted with a plain tip with the meringue. Poach on a baking tray lined with baking paper.
Bake at 90°C for 2 h 30 minutes, then leave in the oven for a further 30 minutes.
Whip the cold cream with the mascarpone using an electric mixer. Use liquid cream with a minimum fat content of 30% (I often use Créme Fleurette Extra de Président). Gradually add the caster sugar. Fill a piping bag fitted with a plain tip with this whipped cream.
Assembly
Poach the whipped cream over the meringues.
Note: As my Pavlovas were eaten straight away, I didn’t brush on a little white chocolate to protect them from damp.
Top with red fruit, strawberries, raspberries, redcurrants and blueberries. I added a few mint leaves.
Finish by adding the chopped pistachios. Chill for at least 30 minutes.
Spoon very small amounts of pastry (1/2 teaspoon) onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Place in the oven at 180°C and bake until golden brown. The tiles will harden as they cool.
Just before serving I added a quenelle of cherry sorbet which I moulded into the silikomart quenelle mould.
In a small bowl, combine the caster sugar and NH pectin.
Heat the 150g of finely diced strawberries in a saucepan for a few minutes. Add the sugar and pectin mixture and cook for a further 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from the heat and add the 50g of diced strawberries. Set aside to cool slightly. Fill a piping bag with the compote.
White peach mousse ✔289g mixed white peaches ✔150g liquid cream ✔4.5g gelatine ✔Vervain leaves
Pour 150g of liquid cream into a saucepan. Bring to the boil, then turn off the heat and add the verbena leaves. Stir to combine. Cover and leave to infuse for 30 minutes. Remove the vervain leaves, pour into a bowl, cover and chill.
Place the gelatine leaves in a bowl of cold water.
Heat the blended white peach in a saucepan. Remove from the heat and add the drained gelatine. Mix well and set aside. Whip the chilled verbena-infused cream with an electric mixer. Pour over the cooled mixture and stir gently.
To assemble: Fill the silikomart mould with peach mousse, working up to the edges. Add the strawberry compote. Finish with the remaining mousse. Chill for at least 2 hours to set the gelatine, then freeze overnight or for at least 6 hours.
Mix the white chocolate, previously melted in the microwave, the spéculoos paste and the crêpes dentelles. Roll out between two sheets of baking paper. Chill until the chocolate hardens, then cut out using a cookie cutter. Chill until ready to assemble.
The next day, unmould the cakes and immediately apply the yellow and orange velvet sprays (I found them on the deco-relief.fr website).
In a small bowl, combine the sugar and NH pectin. Cut the strawberries into small cubes.
Heat the 100g of diced strawberries in a saucepan over a low heat for a few minutes. Increase the heat. Add the caster sugar/pectin mixture. Cook over a medium heat for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from the heat and add the 50g of diced strawberries. Leave to cool slightly and fill a piping bag with the mixture. Set aside.
Soak the gelatine in cold water until softened. Heat the strawberry purée and sugar and remove from the heat and add the wrung-out gelatine. Leave to cool until the temperature is below 30°C. Gently fold in the whipping cream using an electric mixer.
Assembly
Fill the silikomart mini Raggio mould halfway with strawberry mousse. Poach with the strawberry insert and top with the strawberry mousse. Chill for at least an hour until the gelatine has set, then freeze overnight.
In a bowl, mix the crumbled shortbread biscuits with the melted butter. Using a pastry cutter with the same diameter as your pastry (I used a Silikomart perforated tart tin), use the back of a teaspoon to press the shortbread into the pastry to a depth of around 5mm.
Place in a cool place to allow the biscuit to harden.
The next day, remove the cakes from the moulds and apply the fuchsia velvet spray. Immediately place each entremet on a shortbread biscuit.
Cut the yellow peach into small cubes. In a small bowl, combine the pectin and powdered sugar.
Pour the peach cubes into a saucepan and heat over a low heat for a few minutes.
Then turn up the heat, pour in the pectin-sugar mixture and cook for a further two minutes, stirring constantly. Turn off the heat and set aside until ready to assemble.
Shortbread cookies ✔80g Roudor-type shortbread cookies ✔40g melted butter
Crumble in the Roudor-type shortbread cookies. Add melted butter and mix.
Using a cookie cutter with the same diameter as your entremet, use the back of a teaspoon to press down the shortbread by about 5mm. Place in a cool place to harden. Set aside in the freezer until ready to assemble.
Red fruit mousse ✔110g strawberries ✔70g raspberries ✔30g sugar ✔120g liquid cream ✔3g gelatine
In a bowl of cold water, place the gelatine leaves.
Pour the blended strawberries and raspberries, strained to remove the seeds, into a saucepan. Add the caster sugar and heat over low heat for a few minutes. Remove from the heat, add the gelatine, stir and set aside.
Whip the cold cream with an electric mixer.
Pour in the previous mixture when its temperature is < 30-35°C.
Stir gently. Assemble your entremet.
Montage
Fill the Pavoflex bande creuse mould (on sale on Amazon, but also on other sites such as meilleurduchef.com, cuisineaddict.com) halfway with red fruit mousse.
Spread the peach compote evenly with a teaspoon or piping bag.
Cover with the remaining red fruit mousse.
Finish with the shortbread cookie.
Freeze overnight or for at least 6 hours.
The next day, unmold the cakes and immediately apply the white velvet spray.
Place the gelatine leaves in a large bowl of cold water. In a saucepan, pour 120g mixed strawberries, strained to remove seeds. Add 10g caster sugar. Heat through. As soon as it starts to boil, turn off the heat and add the gelatine, wrung out and softened. Leave to cool slightly, and when the mixture is close to 30°C, pour into the hollows of the entremets.
Chill until ready to eat. When the jelly had set, I placed raspberries and a jasmine flower on top.
Mix all the ingredients together, cover with cling film and chill in the fridge for 1 hour. Spread the pastry between two sheets of greaseproof paper, line your tart tin and place in the freezer for 10 minutes while you preheat your oven to 170°C. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes. Leave to cool well.
Cut the strawberries into very small cubes. Pour the 150g of diced strawberries into a saucepan and heat over a low heat for a few minutes. Mix the caster sugar and pectin in a small bowl. Increase the heat and pour this mixture over the strawberries and cook for a further 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Add the 75g of diced strawberries. Leave to cool, then spread the strawberry compote over the base of your tart tin.
Remove the mint crème pâtissière from the fridge. Loosen with a wooden spoon or spatula. Fill a piping bag fitted with a plain tip with this cream. Pipe the cream onto the base of the tart.
Spread the strawberries over the tart.
Whole strawberries around the edge and halved in the middle.
Strawberry jelly ✔60g strawberry tails ✔125g water ✔50g caster sugar ✔1g Agar agar
Place the strawberry tails with a little flesh left in the bottom of a small saucepan and add the water. Add 50g caster sugar. Heat for a few minutes, stirring a little, until the water is coloured. Strain the water through a sieve, mashing the strawberry stems well. Add the agar agar and cook for a further 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Leave to cool, then brush over the strawberries. Place in a cool place.
I decorated it with wild rose flowers I’d picked up on a morning walk in the Couserans.
Flatten the dough to a thickness of around 1 cm, wrap in cling film and chill.
Cut out cubes of cookie dough and chill until you are ready to assemble the magnums.
For the vanilla ice cream ✔90g cold sweetened condensed milk ✔260g very cold liquid cream 30%MG minimum ✔2 sachets vanilla sugar ✔Vanilla powder or vanilla pod ✔2g Stabglaces
In a small bowl, mix the 2 sachets of vanilla sugar with the Stabglaces. Pour the liquid cream, vanilla powder and vanilla sugar mixed with the Stabglaces into a bowl. Mix well and chill for at least 15 minutes. Whip the cold cream with an electric mixer. Gradually add the cold sweetened condensed milk.
Stabglaces is an emulsifier for making ice cream. It stabilises the aqueous structure of the mixture, preventing the formation of unpleasant ice crystals.
Smooth with an angled spatula to remove any excess and place in the freezer for at least 3 hours.
Chocolate icing ✔250g / 300g Alunga barry milk chocolate ✔30g neutral oil or cocoa butter
Melt the milk chocolate with the neutral oil or cocoa butter in a narrow container that can still hold the magnum. Mix well.
Unmould your magnums but keep them in the freezer to prevent them from melting. When the chocolate is below 35°C, dip the frozen magnum into the chocolate. Repeat the operation for all the magnums.
Pour the hazelnuts and almonds onto a baking tray and place in the oven at 150°C for 15 minutes. Pour the caster sugar into a saucepan and make a caramel. Pour onto a sheet of greaseproof paper and leave to cool. Place the hazelnuts, having first rubbed them to remove as much skin as possible, the almonds and the chopped caramel in the bowl of a blender and blend until you obtain the praline. Store in a sealed container. You’ll have some praline left over for other recipes.
In a bowl mix the powders together: flour, caster sugar, hazelnut powder.
Add 1 egg and the melted butter. Mix well.
Whisk the egg white with an electric mixer. Take a small portion of the egg whites and mix with the powders to loosen the mixture. Add the remaining egg whites, stirring gently with a spatula.
Pour the mixture onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Smooth with an angled spatula to ensure an even layer.
Bake in a 170°C oven for approximately 12 to 15 minutes.
Using a ruler, cut your hazelnut biscuit into long sticks about 20 cm long (the size you want for your cigars).
Mix the praline, melted white chocolate and crumbled crêpes dentelles. Roll out between two sheets of greaseproof paper and freeze for a few minutes. Using a ruler, cut out crisp sticks about 20 cm long and 1 to 1.5 cm wide. Set aside in the freezer until ready to assemble.
Place a piece of crisp on each hazelnut biscuit stick. Set aside in the freezer until ready to assemble.
Vanilla mousse ✔60g full cream ✔60g white chocolate ✔2g gelatine ✔120g whipping cream ✔1 vanilla pod
Place the gelatine leaf in a bowl of cold water.
In a saucepan, heat the 60g single cream with the vanilla pod, scraped out with the tip of a knife, or the vanilla powder. Cover and leave to infuse for at least 20 minutes.
Place 60g of white chocolate pistoles in a bowl and melt in the microwave.
Return the cream to the heat. Remove from the heat and add the drained gelatine and melted white chocolate. Remember to remove the vanilla pod. Mix well and set aside.
Whip the cold cream with an electric mixer. Pour in the previous mixture when it is < 35°C and stir gently.
Assembly
Prepare several pieces of guitar paper about 30 cm long and 20 cm wide.
Fill a piping bag fitted with a plain tip with vanilla mousse.
Poach about twenty centimetres of vanilla mousse.
Place the biscuit with the crisp on top of the mousse.
Poach hazelnut and almond praline all over.
Roll up the guitar paper. Close the ends with tape or rubber bands and place in the freezer.
Remove the guitar paper. Cut off one end with a straight knife. Try to round off the other end. Put back in the freezer quickly.
Melt the milk chocolate with a little neutral oil or cocoa butter in a narrow, elongated container.
Remove the cigars one by one, keeping the others in the freezer. Push a wooden spike into the right-hand end and quickly dip the cigar into the melted chocolate when the temperature is around 30°C.
Brush with cocoa powder.
Repeat the operation for all the cigars.
I made a little cocoa paste to decorate my serving dish and placed my cigars on top. Chill until ready to eat.
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. Poach the sponge biscuits in two circles on a sheet of baking paper.
Sprinkle with icing sugar. Bake at 180°C for 8 to 10 minutes.
Leave the biscuit to cool and cut into two circles the size of your circle.
Place the sheet of gelatine in a large bowl of cold water for around ten minutes. In a small bowl pour the milk and heat it in the microwave. Add the softened and wrung-out gelatine. Stir and set aside.
Separate the egg whites from the yolks in two bowls. Beat the egg yolks with the mascarpone and half the sugar (40g) using an electric mixer. Add the milk and gelatine mixture and the whisky stopper. Mix well and set aside.
Beat the egg whites in the second bowl with an electric mixer, gradually incorporating the remaining 40g sugar. Gently fold the egg whites into the mascarpone cream.
Assembly ✔A double espresso
Place your circle on your plate. Cover with rhodoïd film. Place the first biscuit at the bottom of your circle.
Brush the top with coffee.
Add the mascarpone cream about 1.5 cm high.
Place the second coffee-soaked biscuit on the underside.
Brush the remaining coffee over the top of the biscuit.
Add more mascarpone cream and freeze overnight.
The next day, apply brown velvet spray to the top.
I decorated the top with white marzipan, brown-tinted white marzipan and a chocolate bow from annikids.com. Chill for at least 5 hours until ready to eat.
Hydrate the gelatine in cold water until soft. In a bowl, mix the egg yolk and sugar. In a saucepan, heat the mixed peach yolk. Pour over the yolk-sugar mixture and stir with a whisk.
Return to the same saucepan and cook the whole mixture until it reaches a temperature of 82ºC. Transfer the cream to a clean bowl and add the gelatine. Mix well and leave to cool. Fill 4 cavities in the Silikomart half-sphere insert mould and place in the freezer for at least 2 hours.
White peach mousse ✔140g white peach ✔80g liquid cream ✔40g caster sugar ✔2g gelatine
Place the gelatine in a large bowl of cold water.
Pour the 140g of blended peaches into a saucepan. Heat over a low heat for around ten minutes to allow as much water as possible to evaporate. Increase the heat and stop as soon as it starts to boil. Add the drained gelatine. Set aside.
In a bowl, whip the cold cream until stiff.
Gently fold in the cooled mixture (below 30°C) using a spatula.
Assembly
Fill each cavity with white peach mousse and place in the freezer for at least 6 hours.
Mix all the ingredients together, film and chill in the fridge. Roll out the pastry between two sheets of greaseproof paper, then cut out circles using a serrated cookie cutter to the size of your entremet.
Bake at 180°C between two sheets of micro-perforated baking paper for a prettier result.
Unmould the entremets and place on top of the sugar biscuits. Unmould the yellow peach creams and immediately apply the yellow velvet spray. Place a creamy biscuit on each white peach dessert.
Place in the fridge for at least 4 hours to defrost completely.
I served it with some red fruit to give my plate a little more colour.