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Pear and hazelnut cake

Hazelnut pear cake
– a chocolate praline crunch,
– a hazelnut cookie,
– a pear mousse,
– hazelnut mousse,
– pear jelly.

Material used

– Square frame 12X12x4.5 cm

– Ancel 210 bloom gelatin

– Tefal baking tray

– Baking paper

– Angled spatula

Ingredients

Hazelnut cookie
Hazelnut powder
Powdered sugar
Egg
Flour
Melted butter
Egg whites

Pears in syrup
Pears
Powdered sugar
Water
Liquid vanilla

Chocolate praline crisp
Milk chocolate
Praline
Crêpes dentelles

Pear mousse
Pear in syrup
Liquid cream
Gelatin

Hazelnut praline mousse
Liquid cream
Liquid cream 30% fat
Gelatin
Hazelnut praline

Pear jelly
Gelatin
Mixed pears in syrup
Pear cooking water

The recipe

Serves 4

Chocolate praline crisp

Melt the milk chocolate. Add hazelnut praline and crêpes dentelles. Mix gently. Spread between two sheets of parchment paper, place in the freezer for a few minutes, then cut a square the size of your 12×12 cm frame. Place in the bottom of your frame and set aside in the fridge.

Hazelnut cookie
Mix all ingredients. Pour onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake at 170°C. Cut out a 12x12cm square and place in the pastry frame on top of the crisp.

Pears in syrup
Peel, quarter and cook pears in a saucepan with water, sugar and liquid vanilla.

Pear mousse

To make a pear mousse, pour the blended pears in syrup into a saucepan and heat. Add the gelatine and whipping cream, then pour half over the hazelnut cookie. Place in the freezer for 10 minutes.

Hazelnut mousse

To make a hazelnut mousse, pour the liquid cream and hazelnut praline into a saucepan and heat. Add the gelatine and whipping cream, then pour half over the pear mousse. Place in the freezer for 10 minutes.

Add the remaining pear mousse and place in the freezer again for 10 minutes, followed by the remaining hazelnut mousse. Place in the freezer overnight.

Pear jelly
On the same day, make a jelly using pears in syrup mixed with the pear cooking water. Add the gelatine and pour over the frozen cake.

Place in a cool place while defrosting. Remove frame. Serve whole or cut into individual portions.

Chocolate bread or « Chocolatine »

Chocolate breads or chocolatines

Materials used

– Brush

– Tefal baking tray

– Micro-perforated baking mat

Ingredients

Pastry
✔250g flour
✔5 g salt
✔30 g caster sugar
✔15 g fresh baker’s yeast
✔50 g soft butter
✔120 g warm milk
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✔125 g Lescure tourage butter

✔Chocolate sticks

The syrup
✔30g water
✔30g sugar

The recipe

Combine flour, salt, sugar, baking powder, warm butter and milk in food processor. Blend for about ten minutes.

Place in a bowl, cover and leave to rise for 45 minutes at room temperature.

Deaerate the dough and flatten with your hands to form a rectangle. Place in a cool place to firm up.

Soften the 125g butter and shape into a rectangle (1/2 the size of the dough).

On a lightly floured work surface, roll out the dough into a rectangle and place the butter in the middle. Cover both ends of the rectangle, without overlapping.

Roll out the dough into a long rectangle and make a single turn. Fold the right-hand side towards the center and then the left-hand side. Place in a cool, film-covered place.

Shaping the loaves
Roll out the dough into a regular rectangle 5 mm thick. Cut into 8.5 x 15 cm strips. Place 3 chocolate sticks per rectangle of dough, then roll out the pains au chocolat loaves loosely.

Place on a baking sheet lined with silpain. Brown the loaves with a mixture of egg yolk and cream.

Leave to rise for 2 hours at room temperature.

Apply a second coat of gilding before baking at 170°C for 15 to 20 minutes.

The syrup
✔30g water
✔30g sugar

Bring sugar and water to the boil in a saucepan. Apply hot to pains au chocolat or chocolatines as soon as they come out of the oven, using a brush.

Chestnut Entremet

Chestnut Entremet composed of

– a sweet dough cookie,
– a chestnut crisp,
– a chestnut cookie,
– chestnut cream,
– brown mousse,
– brown velvet sprays.

Material used

– Silikomart MontBlanc 105 mould

– Baking tray

– Ancel 210 Bloom gelatin (gold quality)

– Pastry bag

– Brown velvet spray

Ingredients

Chestnut cookie
✔35g chestnut flour
✔35g sugar
✔10g melted butter.
✔25g egg
✔1 egg white

Chestnut mousse
✔50g Liquid cream
✔50g Chestnut cream
✔3g Gelatin
✔120g Cold liquid cream

Chestnut crisp
✔30g white chocolate
✔30g chestnut cream
✔25g crêpes dentelles

+Brown velvet spray

Sweet dough
✔70g flour
✔20g powdered sugar
✔30g butter
✔1 egg yolk
✔1 pinch salt

La recette

For 4 to 5 desserts

Chestnut cookie
✔35g chestnut flour
✔35g sugar
✔10g melted butter.
✔25g egg
✔1 egg white

In a bowl, mix the egg with the powdered sugar. Add chestnut flour, and melted butter. Mix well. In another bowl, beat egg whites with powdered sugar. Gently fold the egg whites into the mixture using a pastry blender. Pour the cookie dough onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake for 8-10 min at 180°C. Remove from the oven and leave to cool before cutting out with a round cookie cutter to fit the diameter of your silicone mould opening.

Poach the chestnut cream over the cookies and place in the freezer. For the chestnut cream, you can make your own using vacuum-packed or jarred chestnuts, or use ready-made cream.

Chestnut crisp
✔30g white chocolate
✔30g chestnut cream
✔25g crêpes dentelles

Melt the white chocolate in the microwave. Add crumbled crêpes dentelles and chestnut cream…. Mix gently. Roll out between two sheets of baking paper and place in the freezer. Remove from the freezer and cut out using the same cookie cutter used to cut the chestnut cookie. Keep in the freezer until ready to assemble.

Brown mousse
✔50g Liquid cream
✔50g Chestnut cream
✔3g Gelatine
✔120g cold liquid cream

Place the gelatine leaves in a large bowl of cold water. In a saucepan, heat the 50g of cream and the chestnut cream. Mix well. Remove from heat and add the wrung-out, softened gelatine. Set aside. Whip the chilled cream with an electric mixer. Add the chilled cream to the previous mixture and mix gently.

Assembly

Fill Montblanc silikomart mould with chestnut mousse, add chestnut cookie covered with chestnut cream, cream side in. Top with chestnut mousse and finish with chestnut cream crumble. Place in the freezer overnight.

Sweet dough
✔70g flour
✔20g powdered sugar
✔30g butter
✔1 egg yolk
✔1 pinch salt

Mix all the ingredients, wrap and chill in the fridge. Roll out with a rolling pin and cut out with a cookie cutter. Place in the freezer for a few minutes while you preheat your oven to 180°C. Place your dough on a baking sheet between two micro-perforated baking mats. Bake for around ten minutes. Leave to cool.

The next day, turn out the frozen entremets and immediately apply the brown velvet spray. Place the entremet on the sweet cookie and chill until defrosted.

Tatin tartlet

Tatin tartlet made with

– sweet pastry,
– apple slices,
– homemade caramel,
– mascarpone whipped cream.

Material used

– Silikomart cylinder mould 6 cavities

– Silikomart quenelle mould

– Mandolin

Ingredients

For the mascarpone whipped cream
15g sugar
80g liquid cream 30% MG
40g mascarpone cheese

For the caramel
140g sugar
50g water
80g butter, cut into pieces

Golden apples

Sweet dough
100g flour
30g caster sugar
42g butter
one egg yolk
1 pinch salt

Cooking time

160°C
40 + 40 minutes

The recipe

For 4 tartlets

For the mascarpone chantilly
15g sugar
80g liquid cream 30% MG
40g mascarpone cheese

Whip the cream and mascarpone with an electric mixer. Gradually add the powdered sugar. Line the silicone quenelle mold and place in the freezer for at least 3 hours.

For the caramel
140g sugar
50g water
80g butter, cut into pieces

Make the caramel in a saucepan with the water and sugar. Once the caramel has reached a nice color, turn down the heat and add the chopped butter in batches. Mix well and pour into the silikomart mould.

Cut large apples (I used goldens, which hold up well to cooking) using a large mandolin, then a cookie cutter the diameter of your mold. Place the apple slices on the caramel. Bake for 40 minutes at 160°C. Pack the apples when removed from the oven.

Sweet dough
100g flour
30g caster sugar
42g butter
one egg yolk
1 pinch salt

Mix all the ingredients together, wrap and chill in the fridge. Roll out the dough, but not too thinly, and cut out using the same cookie cutter used to cut the apple slices. Place in the freezer for a few minutes.

Remove the silikomart from the oven. Place on top of the apples and bake for a further 40 minutes. Leave to cool slightly and unmould.

Spoon the frozen chantilly onto the completely cooled tartlets. Decorate with gold leaf.

Chill until ready to eat.

Hazelnut entremet

Hazelnut Entremet made with

– a hazelnut biscuit,
– a creamy praline insert,
– a hazelnut mousse,
– a chocolate decoration,
– a mirror icing,
– velvet spray.

Material used

– Silikomart Ode 50 mono portioon mould

– Silikomart half sphere mould x15 cavities

– Silikomart tartufino mould

– XiaoShenLu Plum Bossom 5 Hole Lace Mat

– Ancel 210 Bloom gelatine (gold quality)

Ingredients

Hazelnut praline
✔150g hazelnuts
✔75g caster sugar

Creamy praline insert
✔20g sugar
✔1 egg yolk
✔1g gelatine
✔25g praline
✔60g cream

Hazelnut biscuit
✔35 g hazelnut powder
✔1 egg
✔50g egg white
✔35g icing sugar
✔10 g melted butter
✔7 g flour

Praline crisp
✔15g milk chocolate
✔15g hazelnut praline
✔10g crêpes dentelles

Hazelnut mousse
✔35g praline
✔1 yellow
✔50g cream
✔20g sugar
✔120g liquid cream
✔3g gelatine

+Brown velvet spray
+milk chocolate decoration

Mirror icing
✔22g sugar
✔22g glucose
✔12g water
✔1 sheet gelatine 2g
✔22g milk chocolate
✔15g liquid cream

The recipe

For 6 desserts

Hazelnut praline
✔150g hazelnuts
✔75g caster sugar

Pour the hazelnuts 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, which have been rubbed to remove as much of the skin as possible, and the caramel, cut into pieces, in the bowl of a blender and blend until you obtain the praline. You’ll have some praline left over for other recipes. It keeps very well in a closed container. Just make sure you blend it again before use, as the oil from the hazelnuts will rise to the surface.

Creamy praline insert
✔20g sugar
✔1 yolk
✔1g gelatine
✔25g praline
✔60g cream

Place the gelatine in a bowl of cold water. In another bowl, mix the egg yolk with the sugar until slightly pale. Bring 60g of cream to the boil in a saucepan, remove from the heat and pour the hot cream over the previous mixture. Return to the saucepan and cook over a low heat until it reaches 82ºC. Remove from the heat and add the crushed gelatine. Pour the hot cream over the hazelnut praline and mix. Fill the insert mould with the cream. Place in the freezer for at least 4 hours.

Hazelnut biscuit
✔35 g hazelnut powder
✔1 egg
✔50g egg white
✔35 g icing sugar
✔10 g melted butter
✔7 g flour

In a bowl, mix the whole egg with the icing sugar. Add the hazelnut 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. Remove the biscuit from the oven and leave to cool completely before cutting out with a cookie cutter.

Praline crisp
✔15g milk chocolate
✔15g hazelnut praline
✔10g crêpes dentelles

Melt the milk chocolate in the microwave. Add the crumbled crêpes dentelles and praline. Mix gently. Spread over the biscuits and place in the freezer for a few minutes. Using a cookie cutter, cut out the crumble. Keep in the freezer until ready to assemble.

Hazelnut mousse
✔35g praline
✔1 yellow
✔50g cream
✔20g sugar
✔120g liquid cream
✔3g gelatine

Hydrate the gelatine in very cold water. Mix the yolks and caster sugar in a bowl. Heat the milk in a saucepan. Pour the hot milk over the previous mixture, stir and return the mixture to the pan. Cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture reaches 82°C. Remove from the heat, add the gelatine and mix well. Add the praline, mix well and set aside. Whip the cold cream with a mixer and fold into the warmed mixture.

Assembly

Pour the hazelnut mousse into the silikomart Ode 50 single portion mould. Add the frozen insert, a little mousse, the hazelnut biscuit and then the crisp. Place in the freezer overnight.

Using the remaining hazelnut mousse, fill 6 cavities in the Tartufino silikomart mould. Insert a hazelnut inside. Place in the freezer.

The next day, remove the cakes from the moulds. Apply velvet spray.

Decorate with milk chocolate using the silicone mould. Place a leaf on each dessert.

You can also draw the shape on baking paper or print it out, then place a sheet of guitar paper on top. Start by tracing the outline with a thin line of chocolate. Leave to set for a few minutes in the freezer, then fill the inside with your tempered chocolate.

Mirror icing
✔22g sugar
✔22g glucose
✔12g water
✔1 sheet gelatine 2g
✔22g white chocolate
✔15g liquid cream

Place the gelatine sheet in a 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 milk chocolate. Stir well. Add the liquid cream. Use an immersion blender to blend the mixture smoothly. Cover the frozen balls with hazelnut mousse from the Tartufino silikomart mould. Place a marble on each dessert. Place in the fridge to defrost.

Pear and speculoos cheesecake

Speculoos pear cheesecake made with
– a speculoos and butter base,
– a pear compote,
– cheesecake cream,
– pear jelly.

Material used

– Square frame 12X12x4.5 cm

– Ancel 210 bloom gelatin

Ingredients

Speculoos cookie
50g speculoos
10g butter
40g melted butter

Pear compote
145g pear cores
10g sugar
5g nH pectin
2g gelatin

Cheesecake cream
150g Philadelphia
100g mascarpone cheese
90g cottage cheese
25g powdered sugar
20g liquid cream
4g gelatine
Lemon zest

Pear jelly
80g mixed pears
2g gelatin

The recipe

Speculoos cookie
50g speculoos
10g butter
40g melted butter

Place the biscuits in a freezer bag and crumble with a rolling pin.

Empty the crumbled cookies into a bowl. Add the melted butter. Mix well. Place the pastry frame on a flat surface. Pour in the cookies evenly and press down well with the back of a spoon. Place in the freezer for a few minutes.

Pear compote
145g pear cores
10g sugar
5g nH pectin
2g gelatin

Gently heat the pear cubes in a saucepan for a few minutes. Mix the powdered sugar with the NH pectin in a small bowl. Increase the heat slightly and, as soon as it starts to boil, pour in the sugar/pectin mixture and cook, stirring constantly, for 2 minutes. Remove from heat and add the gelatine, previously softened in a bowl of cold water. Mix well. Leave to cool slightly and pour into the frame over your cookie. Place in a cool place.

Cheesecake cream
150g Philadelphia
100g mascarpone cheese
90g cottage cheese
25g powdered sugar
20g liquid cream
4g gelatine
Lemon zest

Place gelatine leaves in a bowl of cold water. Pour 20g liquid cream into a small bowl and heat in the microwave. Add the gelatine leaves, wrung out and softened. Allow to cool slightly. Pour Philadelphia, mascarpone, fromage blanc, lemon zest and caster sugar into a bowl. Mix with an electric mixer. Add the liquid cream and warmed gelatine mixture. Pour into the frame and chill for a few hours.

Pear jelly
80g mixed pears
2g gelatin

Place the gelatine sheet in a bowl of cold water. Make a pear jelly by heating 80g of mixed syrup pears in a saucepan. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine, wrung out and softened. Allow to cool slightly (temperature < 40°C). Pour over the frame and refrigerate for at least 3/4 hours.

Carefully remove the frame. Serve whole or in individual portions. I decorated with speculoos cookies.

Apple Entremet

Apple Entremet

– an apple cookie,
– a compote and diced apple insert,
– a vanilla mousse,
– a pecan crunch,
– a sweet pastry cookie
– mirror icing.

Material used

– Silikomart mini Goccia X6 mould

– Silikomart half sphere mould

– 6-cavity cylinder silikomart mould

– Ancel 210 Bloom gelatin (gold quality)

– Micro-perforated baking mat X2

Ingredients

Apple insert (the day before)
✔100g compote
✔60g apple cores
✔2g gelatin

Soft apple cookie
✔1 apple
✔30g flour
✔25g sugar
✔7g milk
✔7g oil
✔25g egg
✔1/2 sachet yeast
✔1 pinch salt
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✔40g caster sugar
✔40g melted butter
✔25g egg
✔1/2 sachet vanilla sugar

Vanilla mousse (the day before)
✔80g liquid cream
✔80g white chocolate
✔Vanilla powder or vanilla bean
✔100g cold liquid cream 30% MG min.
✔4g gelatin

Pecan crisp (the day before)
✔50g pecan praline
✔25g white chocolate
✔30g crêpes dentelles

Mirror glaze
✔45 g sugar
✔45 g glucose
✔25 g water
✔45 g white chocolate
✔colorant apple green
✔30 g liquid cream 30% MG min.
✔2 leaves gelatin 2g

Sweet dough
✔70g flour
✔20g powdered sugar
✔30g butter
✔1 egg yolk
✔1 pinch salt

The recipe

For 5 desserts

Apple insert (the day before)
✔100g compote
✔60g apple cores
✔2g gelatin

In a saucepan, heat the applesauce. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine, softened in cold water and wrung out. Add the diced apples. Fill the silikomart half-sphere mould and place in the freezer for at least 3/4 hours.

In a mixing bowl, combine the sugar, salt and egg. Then add the yeast and flour. Mix again. Add oil and milk. Mix well. Butter and sugar a 6-cavity silikomart mold. Divide the dough between the cavities. Cut the apple into small pieces and place on top of the batter. Bake at 170°C for 12 minutes.

In a separate bowl, mix the melted butter with the sugars and egg. Spread this mixture over the cake and bake for a further 15 minutes.

Turn out carefully and leave to cool.

Vanilla mousse (the day before)
✔80g liquid cream
✔80g white chocolate
✔Vanilla powder or vanilla bean
✔100g cold liquid cream at 30% MG min.
✔4g gelatin

In a bowl of cold water, place the gelatin leaves. In a small saucepan, heat the 80g liquid cream with the scraped and split vanilla pod. Turn off the heat, cover the pan and leave the vanilla to infuse for 15 minutes. Return the mixture to the heat and, off the heat, add the gelatine (having removed the vanilla pod) and the melted white chocolate. Mix and set aside. Whip the cold cream with an electric mixer. Pour over the previous mixture and stir gently.

Assembly

Fill the silikomart mini goccia mold with vanilla mousse, add the frozen apple insert, top with vanilla mousse and finish with the soft apple cookie.

Pecan crisp (the day before)
✔50g pecan praline
✔25g white chocolate
✔30g crêpes dentelles

In a bowl, combine all ingredients. Roll out between two sheets of parchment paper. Place in the freezer for a few minutes. Cut the crêpes dentelles to the size of your dessert. Return to freezer.

Mirror glaze
✔45 g sugar
✔45 g glucose
✔25 g water
✔45 g white chocolate
✔colorant apple green
✔30 g liquid cream 30% MG min.
✔2 leaves gelatin 2g

In a saucepan, heat the sugar, water and glucose. Off the heat, add the wrung-out, softened gelatine. Pour this mixture over the melted chocolate. Stir well. Add cream and coloring. Use an immersion blender to blend the mixture thoroughly.

Apply the 35°C mirror glaze to the frozen entremets, then place each on a pecan crisp.

Defrost in a cool place for at least 2 to 3 hours.

Sweet dough
✔70g flour
✔20g powdered sugar
✔30g butter
✔1 egg yolk
✔1 pinch salt

Mélanger l’ensemble des ingrédients, filmer et mettre au frigo. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin and cut out with a cookie cutter or apple-shaped tip. Place in the freezer for a few minutes while you preheat your oven to 180°C. Place your pastry on a baking tray between two micro-perforated baking mats. Enfourner pendant une dizaine de minutes. Leave to cool.

I added a little melted chocolate to represent the apple seeds and made chocolate tails.

Hazelnut coffee entremet

Hazelnut coffee entremet with
– a coffee mousse
– a hazelnut biscuit
– a praline crunch,
– a creamy coffee insert,
– a brown velvet spray.

Material used

– Raggio X6 mini Silikomart mould

– Florentine silikomart mould

– Brown velvet spray

Ingredients

Praline crisp
✔25g milk chocolate
✔25g crêpes dentelles
✔35g hazelnut praline

Coffee cream
✔90 ml liquid cream
✔1 egg yolk
✔15g caster sugar
✔½ leaf gelatine (1g)
✔Coffee extract

Hazelnut biscuit
✔23g hazelnut powder
✔23g sugar
✔5g butter
✔1 egg yolk
✔5g flour
✔45g egg whites

Coffee mousse
✔3g gelatine leaves
✔120g liquid cream 30% MG
✔2 yolks
✔30g sugar
✔80g milk
✔Coffee extract

+ Brown velvet spray

The recipe

For 5 desserts

Coffee cream
✔90 ml single cream
✔1 egg yolk
✔15g caster sugar
✔½ leaf gelatine (1g)
✔Coffee extract

Place the gelatine in a large bowl of cold water.

In a mixing bowl, combine the egg and caster sugar. In a saucepan, heat the cream then pour over the previous mixture. Mix well and return to the pan. Heat over a low/medium heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture reaches 82/83°C. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine, wrung out and softened, and the coffee extract. Pour into the silikomart florentin mould. Place in the freezer for at least 4 hours, then remove from the mould and use a pastry cutter or pastry bag to cut a hole in the centre. Return to the freezer.

Hazelnut biscuit
✔23g hazelnut powder
✔23g sugar
✔5g butter
✔1 egg yolk
✔5g flour
✔45g egg whites

In a bowl, mix the yolk with the sugar. Add the hazelnut 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. Remove the biscuit from the oven and leave to cool completely before cutting out with a cookie cutter. Layer a coffee cream on top of a hazelnut biscuit and put in the freezer until ready to assemble.

Praline crisp
✔25g milk chocolate
✔25g crêpes dentelles
✔35g hazelnut praline

Melt the milk chocolate in the microwave. Add the crumbled crêpes dentelles and the praline. Mix gently. Roll out between two sheets of baking paper and place in the freezer. Remove from the freezer and use a pastry cutter or pastry bag to cut out the creamy coffee and biscuit. Place in the freezer.

Coffee mousse
✔3g gelatine leaves
✔120g liquid cream 30% MG
✔2 yolks
✔30g sugar
✔80g milk
✔Coffee extract

In a bowl of cold water, soften the gelatine leaves. In a saucepan, heat the milk with the coffee extract. In a bowl, mix the yolks with the caster sugar. Pour the hot milk over the yolks and return to the saucepan. Heat to between 82 and 83°C. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine, wrung out and softened. Mix well. Set aside. Whip the cold cream with an electric mixer. Gently fold in the cooled mixture.

Assembly

Fill the mini roggia mould with the coffee mousse. Add the creamy coffee/hazelnut biscuit insert. Top with the coffee mousse and finish with the chocolate praline crunch. Place in the freezer overnight.

The next day, remove the frozen entremets from the moulds and immediately apply the brown velvet spray. Chill for at least 3 to 4 hours, until defrosted, before serving.

I decorated them with a little edible gold leaf and a chocolate coffee bean.

Caramel popcorn tartlet

Caramel popcorn tartlet

– sweet pastry,
– creamy caramel,
– a dome of popcorn mousse,
– a chocolate disc,
– caramelized popcorn.

Materials used

– Micro-perforated silicone baking mat

– Klassik Silikomart silicone ring tart mold (6 cavities)

– Micro-perforated strip

– Silikomart Klassik tart ring mould 80mm

Ingredients

Popcorn mousse (the day before)
60g popcorn-infused liquid cream
2 egg yolks
30g powdered sugar
3g gelatin
100g full-fat cream 30% fat min.

Sweet dough
✔70 g soft butter
✔130 g flour
✔45g sugar
✔1 pinch salt
✔1 egg yolk

Creamy caramel (the day before)
✔60g sugar
✔20g water
✔15g glucose
✔20g hot liquid cream
✔2 egg yolks
✔100g cold liquid cream

The recipe

For 4 tartlets

Popcorn mousse (the day before)
60g popcorn-infused liquid cream
2 egg yolks
30g powdered sugar
3g gelatin
100g full-fat cream 30% fat min.

Place gelatine leaves in a bowl of cold water. In a bowl, add two egg yolks with powdered sugar and mix. Return the infused cream to the heat and pour gradually into the bowl. Stir and return to the pan. Cook, stirring constantly, without exceeding 82-83°C. Remove from the heat, add the gelatine, mix and set aside to cool slightly. In the meantime, whip the 100g of cold cream with an electric mixer. Incorporate the previous mixture and stir gently with a spatula. Pour into your silikomart tart ring Klassik mold. Freeze overnight.

Sweet dough
✔70 g soft butter
✔130 g flour
✔45g sugar
✔1 pinch salt
✔1 egg yolk

Mix all ingredients. Roll out the dough thinly between 2 sheets of parchment paper and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. Line the circles. Bake at 165/170°C for 15 to 20 minutes. Leave to cool completely.

Caramel cream (the day before)
✔60g sugar
✔20g water
✔15g glucose
✔20g hot liquid cream
✔2 egg yolks
✔100g cold liquid cream

In a saucepan, heat the sugar, water and glucose. When the caramel is colored, pour in the hot cream. Mix well. In a bowl, combine the yolks and cold cream. Pour the caramel over the yolks, stir and return to the pan. The caramel will thicken slightly. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine, softened in cold water and squeezed dry. Fill the tartlet moulds with the cream and place in the freezer for at least 4 hours.

Remove the popcorn mousses from the freezer. Turn out of the moulds and place on the tartlets. I decorated with caramelized popcorn all around and a white chocolate disk decorated with chocolate transfer foil.

Chocolate and praline cake

Chocolate and praline cake

– a chocolate praline crisp
– a praline cake
– a milk chocolate rocher glaze

Material used

– Silikomart Puff mould

– Baking paper

Ingrédients

Hazelnut praline
✔100g hazelnuts
✔50g caster sugar

Chocolate praline crisp
✔30g chocolate
✔55g hazelnut praline
✔25g crêpes dentelles

Chocolate praline cake
✔180g flour
✔150g sugar
✔3 eggs
✔1 plain yoghurt
✔1 sachet yeast
✔1 praline chocolate bar (185g)
✔20 g neutral oil
✔1 pinch salt

For the glaze
✔200g milk chocolate
✔20 to 30g chopped almonds
✔15g neutral oil

The recipe

For 6 cakes

Hazelnut praline
✔100g hazelnuts
✔50g caster sugar

Pour the hazelnuts onto a baking tray and bake at 150°C for 15 minutes. In a saucepan, pour the powdered sugar and make a caramel. Pour onto a sheet of parchment paper and leave to cool. Place the hazelnuts (rubbing to remove the skin) and chopped caramel in the bowl of a blender and blend until praline is obtained. You’ll have some praline left over at the end of this recipe, which you can store in a closed jar.

Chocolate praline crisp
✔30g chocolate
✔55g hazelnut praline
✔25g crêpes dentelles

Mix all ingredients together and roll out between two sheets of parchment paper. Using a cookie cutter, cut out the diameter of your silikomart Puff mold and place in the freezer for around ten minutes.

Chocolate praline cake
✔180g flour
✔150g sugar
✔3 eggs
✔1 plain yoghurt
✔1 sachet yeast
✔1 praline chocolate bar (185g)
✔20 g neutral oil
✔1 pinch salt

Pour the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into a bowl. Add yoghurt and mix. Add eggs and mix again. Melt the chopped chocolate in a bowl with the neutral oil in the microwave. I used a bar of Poulain brand pralinoise. Add the melted chocolate to the previous mixture. Fill the silikomart silicone mould only 3/4 full with the mixture, as the cake will swell during baking, and place in the oven at 180°C for 20 to 25 minutes. Keep an eye on baking.

As soon as the tip of the knife comes out dry, remove your mold. Using a knife, cut away the part of the cake that protrudes from the tin to create a flat, even base. Turn out and leave to cool. Place a disc of crisp under each cake and place in the freezer for a few minutes.

For the glaze
✔200g milk chocolate
✔20 to 30g chopped almonds
✔15g neutral oil

Melt milk chocolate and neutral oil. Mix well. Add chopped almonds. Mix again. Remove the cakes from the freezer and place them on a rack on a baking tray. Frost the cakes. You can collect any excess icing that has dripped under your rack for reuse.

I decorated the cake with little leaves of edible gold.