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Chocolate bar

Chocolate bar

Materials used

– Brush

– Tefal baking tray

– Micro-perforated baking mat

– Cutter

Ingredients

Tempera
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
30 g cold butter PDO Poitou Charentes

+
125 g Lescure or PDO tourage butter

Chocolate sticks

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

Syrup
30g water
30g sugar

The recipe

For 5 chocolate bars

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

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

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

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

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

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

On a lightly floured work surface, roll out the dough into a rectangle and place the butter in the middle. The butter should be between 12 and 15°C and the tempera between 6 and 8°C. Overlap the two ends of the dough.

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.

Roll out a second time and place back in the fridge, covered with cling film, for at least 30 minutes.

Shaping the chocolatines

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

Roll out the dough into a rectangle, then cut it into strips measuring approximately 8.5 x 22 to 23 cm (depending on the length of your moulds).

Turn the dough over onto the cocoa side. The dough must be very cold before cutting, so don’t hesitate to put it back in the fridge. On each rectangle, make very shallow cuts on the black part using a cutter, leaving a 5 mm margin around the edges. Turn the dough over.

Place 6 chocolate sticks on each rectangle of dough, then roll up the chocolate breads without pressing the dough too tightly.

Then place them on a baking tray covered with Silpain.

Leave to rise for 2 hours at room temperature.

Bake at 170°C for 15 to 20 minutes.

The syrup
✔30g water
✔30g sugar

Heat the sugar and water in a saucepan until boiling. Brush onto the chocolate croissants or chocolatines while still warm, straight out of the oven.

Blackberry puffed rice entremet

Blackberry puffed rice entremet composed of

– puffed rice,
– blackberry compote filling,
– blackberry mousse,
– purple velvet spray,
– blackberry jelly.

Equipment used

– Silikomart Essenziale mould

– Silikomart swirl mould

– Ancel gold quality gelatine (210 bloom)

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Ingredients

Puffed rice biscuit
✔20g white chocolate
✔20g puffed rice

Blackberry compote
✔110g blackberries
✔15g sugar
✔1g pectin

Blackberry mousse
✔80g blended blackberries
✔20g sugar
✔60g milk
✔15g sugar
✔1 egg yolk
✔3g gelatine
✔80g single cream

Blackberry jelly
✔35g blackberries
✔5g water
✔5g sugar
✔1g gelatine

+ purple velvet spray

+ fresh wild blackberrie

The recipe

For 4 entremets

Blackberry compote
✔110g blackberries
✔15g sugar
✔1g pectin

In a small bowl, mix the caster sugar with the NH pectin.

Place your blackberries (preferably wild) in a saucepan.

Cook over low heat for a few minutes.

Pour in the sugar/pectin mixture and continue cooking, stirring for two minutes. Turn off the heat, leave to cool and set aside for assembly.

Blackberry mousse
✔80g blended blackberries
✔20g sugar
✔60g milk
✔15g sugar
✔1 egg yolk
✔3g gelatine
✔80g single cream

Place the gelatine in a large bowl of cold water.

Blend the wild blackberries with the caster sugar (adjust the amount depending on your blackberries. If they are very sweet, there is no need to add any).

Pour the milk into a saucepan and heat.

In a salad bowl, mix the egg yolk with the caster sugar. When the milk is hot, pour it over the egg yolk/sugar mixture. Mix and return everything to the saucepan. Cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture coats your spatula (without exceeding 82-82°C). Remove from the heat and add your gelatine and blended blackberries.

Optional: You can strain your mixture to remove the blackberry seeds.

Whip the chilled liquid cream with an electric mixer. Fold into the previous mixture once it has cooled slightly so that the whipped cream does not collapse.

Gently mix with a spatula and proceed with assembly.

Assembly

Fill the Silikomart Essenziale mould halfway.

Add the blackberry compote.

Top up with the remaining blackberry mousse.

Place in the freezer for at least 4 hours or overnight.

Puffed rice biscuit
✔20g white chocolate
✔20g puffed rice

Melt the white chocolate in a bowl in the microwave. Then add the puffed rice. Mix well and press into a dessert ring the same diameter as your dessert mould.

Place in the fridge to allow the chocolate to harden.

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

Place the desserts on top of the puffed rice biscuits.

Blackberry jelly
✔35g blended blackberries
✔5g water
✔10g sugar
✔1g gelatine

Place the gelatine in a large bowl of cold water.

In a saucepan, pour 35g of wild blackberries, previously blended and strained, with a little water and caster sugar (optional, depending on the ripeness and flavour of your fruit) and heat.

Turn off the heat as soon as it starts to boil, add the softened and well-drained gelatine. Pour into your Silikomart swirl silicone mould. Place in the fridge until the gelatine sets, then in the freezer to make it easier to remove from the mould.

Plating

Place the dessert on your plate and top with the blackberry jelly.

I added a few fresh blackberries and a geranium flower.

Red fruit entremet

Red fruit entremet composed of

– red fruit mousse,
– speculoos biscuit,
– strawberry compote,
– pink velvet spray,
– red fruit jelly.

Equipment used

– Silikomart mini Raggio X6 mould

– Ancel 210 Bloom gelatine (gold quality)

– Silikomart quenelle mould

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Ingredients

Crunchy speculoos biscuit
✔20g white chocolate
✔30g speculoos paste
✔20g crêpes dentelles

Strawberry compote filling
✔80g diced strawberries
✔50g diced strawberries
✔15g caster sugar
✔2g NH pectin

Red fruit jelly
✔50g raspberries
✔50g strawberries
✔1 tablespoon water
✔10g sugar
✔3g gelatine
✔Red food colouring

Red fruit mousse
✔100g strawberries
✔100g raspberries
✔40g sugar
✔120g single cream
✔3g gelatine

✔Pink velvet spray

✔Red berries

✔Cherry sorbet quenelle

The recipe

For 3 desserts

Red fruit jelly
✔50g raspberries
✔50g strawberries
✔1 tablespoon water
✔10g sugar
✔3g gelatine
✔Red food colouring (optional)

Place the gelatine in a large bowl of cold water.

In a saucepan, pour in the raspberries and strawberries, which have been blended and strained, with a little water and caster sugar (optional, depending on the ripeness and flavour of your fruit) and heat.

Turn off the heat as soon as it starts to boil, add the softened and well-drained gelatine. Pour into your silicone mould. Place in the fridge until the gelatine sets, then in the freezer to make it easier to remove from the mould.

Crunchy speculoos biscuit
✔20g white chocolate
✔30g speculoos paste
✔20g crêpes dentelles

Mix the white chocolate (melted in the microwave), the speculoos paste and the crêpes dentelles. Roll out between two sheets of baking paper.

Place in the fridge to allow the chocolate to harden, then cut out shapes using a cookie cutter slightly smaller than the opening of your mould. I used a piping nozzle to make the hole in the middle. Keep in the fridge until ready to assemble.

Strawberry compote filling
✔80g diced strawberries
✔50g diced strawberries
✔15g caster sugar
✔2g NH pectin

In a small bowl, mix the caster sugar and NH pectin.

In a saucepan, heat the 80g of finely diced strawberries for a few minutes. Add the sugar and pectin mixture and continue cooking for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from the heat and add the 50g of diced strawberries. Set aside to cool slightly.

Red fruit mousse
✔100g strawberries
✔100g raspberries
✔40g sugar
✔120g single cream
✔3g gelatine

Soak the gelatine in cold water until softened. Heat the strawberry and raspberry purée (strawberries and raspberries blended then strained to remove the seeds) and sugar, then remove from the heat and add the drained gelatine. Leave to cool until the temperature is below 30°C.

Gently fold in the well-chilled liquid cream, which has been whipped with an electric mixer, using a spatula.

Proceed with assembly.

Assembly

Fill the Silikomart mould halfway with red fruit mousse.

Spread the strawberry compote all around.

Add the remaining red fruit mousse.

Finish with the crispy speculoos biscuit.

Chill for at least 2 hours, then place in the freezer overnight.

The next day, remove the jelly from the mould and place it immediately on your serving plate, remove the desserts from their moulds and immediately apply the pink velvet spray.

I placed the dessert on top of the red fruit jelly, accompanied by a cherry sorbet quenelle made using the Silikomart quenelle mould.

Chill until ready to serve.

Serve the dessert accompanied by a few red fruits.

Peach and speculoos entremet

Peach and speculoos entremet composed of

– a crispy speculoos biscuit,
– white peach mousse,
– yellow and orange velvet spray,
– yellow peach jelly,
– a butterfly tuile.

Equipment used

– Silikomart Ode 50 silicone mould

– Pavoni butterfly mould

– Yellow and orange velvet sprays

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Ingredients

Crunchy biscuit
✔20g white chocolate
✔30g speculoos paste
✔20g crêpes dentelles

White peach and verbena mousse
✔40g single cream
✔Verbena leaves
✔85g blended peaches
✔15g sugar
✔70g cold single cream
✔2g gelatine

Yellow peach jelly
✔100g peaches
✔20g sugar
✔10g water
✔4g gelatine

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

Assembly

Yellow and orange velvet spray

Decoration
A few edible flowers

The recipe

For 4 entremets

Crunchy biscuit
✔20g white chocolate
✔30g speculoos paste
✔20g crêpes dentelles

Mix the white chocolate (melted in the microwave), the speculoos paste and the crêpes dentelles. Roll out between two sheets of baking paper.

Place in the refrigerator to allow the chocolate to harden, then cut out using a cookie cutter with a diameter slightly smaller than the opening of your mould. Keep refrigerated until ready to assemble.

White peach and verbena mousse
✔40g single cream
✔Verbena leaves
✔85g blended white peaches
✔15g sugar
✔70g cold single cream
✔2g gelatine

Place the gelatine in a large bowl of cold water.

Pour the 40g of single cream into a saucepan. Heat, turn off the heat, add the verbena leaves and leave to infuse for a few minutes.

Remove the verbena leaves. Add the blended peaches.

Increase the heat and turn off as soon as it starts to boil. Then add the squeezed gelatine. Set aside.

In a mixing bowl, whip the 70g of well-chilled liquid cream with a mixer until stiff.

Gently fold in the cooled mixture (temperature below 30°C) using a spatula.

Montage

Fill each cavity of the Silikomart Ode 50 mould with white peach mousse.

Add the crispy speculoos biscuit and place in the freezer for at least 6 hours.

Yellow peach jelly
✔100g peaches
✔20g sugar
✔10g water
✔4g gelatine

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

Blend the 100g of peaches. Pour into a saucepan with the water and caster sugar. Heat. As soon as it starts to boil, remove from the heat and add the softened and squeezed gelatine. Mix and leave to cool slightly before filling your silicone mould.

The next day, remove the peach desserts from their moulds and immediately apply the yellow and orange velvet spray.

Place on your plate in the hollow of the yellow peach jelly.

Place in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours to thaw completely.

I served it with edible flowers. Add your tuile just before serving.

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

Mix all the ingredients together. Fill the Pavoni butterfly 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.

Place the tuiles on the plate just before serving.

Strawberry and speculoos entremet

Strawberry and speculoos entremet composed of

– strawberry mousse,
– strawberry compote insert,
– speculoos crisp,
– fuchsia velvet sprays,

Equipment used

– Temu St Anna silicone mold

– Baking paper

– Ancel 210 bloom gelatin

Ingredients

Strawberry compote
✔100g diced strawberries
✔15g sugar
✔1g NH pectin

Strawberry mousse
✔180g strawberries
✔30g sugar
✔4g gelatin
✔180g cold liquid cream

Speculoos crunch
✔30g white chocolate
✔20g Crêpes dentelles
✔40g Speculoos paste

Assembly

✔Fuchsia velvet spray

The recipe

For 4 entremets

Strawberry compote
✔100g diced strawberries
✔15g sugar
✔1g NH pectin

In a small bowl, combine the powdered sugar and NH pectin.

In a saucepan, heat the 100g of finely diced strawberries for a few minutes. Add the sugar and pectin mixture and continue cooking for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Set aside to cool slightly.

Crunchy speculoos
✔30g white chocolate
✔20g Crêpes dentelles
✔40g Speculoos paste

Mix the white chocolate (previously melted in the microwave), the speculoos paste, and the crêpes dentelles. Roll out between two sheets of baking paper.

Place in the refrigerator to allow the chocolate to harden, then cut out using a cookie cutter. Keep refrigerated until ready to assemble.

Strawberry mousse
✔180g strawberries
✔30g sugar
✔4g gelatin
✔180g cold heavy cream

Soak the gelatin in cold water until softened. Heat the strawberry purée (blended strawberries) and sugar, then remove from the heat and add the drained gelatin. Leave to cool until the temperature is below 30°C.

Gently fold in the well-chilled liquid cream, which has been whipped beforehand with an electric mixer.

Assembly

Fill halfway with strawberry mousse.

Spread the strawberry compote.

Top with the remaining strawberry mousse.

Finish with the speculoos cookie.

Place in the freezer overnight.

The next day, remove the desserts from the molds and immediately apply the fuchsia velvet spray.

I decorated with flowers.

Blackberry entremet

Blackberry entremet composed of

– a reconstituted shortbread biscuit,
– a blackberry compote insert,
– a blackberry mousse,
– a black velvet spray,
– a scoop of vanilla ice cream,
– a blackberry jelly.

Equipment used

– Silikomart 3D Wild Berries mold

– Silikomart Half Spheres mold X15

– Silikomart Quenelle mold

– Ancel Gold Quality Gelatin (210 bloom)

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Ingredients

Reconstituted shortbread biscuit
✔40g Roudor-type shortbread biscuits
✔15g butter

Blackberry compote
✔125g blackberries
✔15g sugar
✔1g pectin

Blackberry mousse
✔110g blended blackberries
✔20g sugar
✔80g milk
✔15g sugar
✔1 egg yolk
✔3g gelatin
✔100g heavy cream

Blackberry jelly
✔35g blended blackberries
✔5g water
✔10g sugar
✔1g gelatin

+ black velvet spray

+ fresh wild blackberries

The recipe

For 4 entremets

Reconstituted shortbread cookie
✔40g Roudor-type shortbread cookies
✔15g butter

In a salad bowl, crumble shortbread cookies such as Roudor. Add the butter, melted in the microwave. Mix.

Using a cookie cutter or small dessert ring with a diameter smaller than the opening of your silicone mold, press down the shortbread biscuit with the back of a teaspoon. Place in the refrigerator to allow the butter to harden and set aside until you are ready to assemble your dessert.

Blackberry compote
✔125g blackberries
✔15g sugar
✔1g pectin

In a small bowl, mix the powdered sugar with the NH pectin.

Place your blackberries (preferably wild) in a saucepan.

Cook over low heat for a few minutes.

Pour in the sugar/pectin mixture and continue cooking, stirring for two minutes. Turn off the heat and leave to cool.

Fill the Silikomart half-sphere mold (15 cavities) with this compote. Place in the freezer.

Blackberry mousse
✔110g blended blackberries
✔20g sugar
✔80g milk
✔15g sugar
✔1 egg yolk
✔3g gelatin
✔100g heavy cream

Place the gelatin in a large bowl of cold water.

Blend the wild blackberries with the powdered sugar (adjust the amount depending on your blackberries. If they are very sweet, there is no need to add any).

Pour the milk into a saucepan and heat.

In a salad bowl, mix the egg yolk with the powdered sugar. When the milk is hot, pour it over the egg yolk/sugar mixture. Mix and return everything to the saucepan. Cook while stirring until the mixture coats your spatula (without exceeding 82-82°C). Remove from the heat and add your gelatin and blended blackberries.

Optional: You can strain your mixture to remove the blackberry seeds.

Whip the very cold liquid cream with an electric mixer. Fold into the previous mixture once it has cooled slightly so that the whipped cream does not collapse.

Gently mix with a spatula and proceed with assembly.

Assembly

Pour the blackberry mousse into the Silikomart 3D Wild Berries Mold until it is half full.

Add the blackberry compote insert.

Top with a little blackberry mousse and finish with the shortbread cookie. Place in the freezer overnight.

Blackberry jelly
✔35g blended blackberries
✔5g water
✔10g sugar
✔1g gelatin

Place the gelatin in a large bowl of cold water.

In a saucepan, pour 35g of wild blackberries, previously blended and strained, with a little water and powdered sugar (optional, depending on the ripeness and flavor of your fruit) and heat.

Turn off the heat as soon as it starts to boil, add the softened and well-drained gelatin. Pour into your silicone mold. Place in the refrigerator until the gelatin sets, then in the freezer to make it easier to remove from the mold.

The next day, remove the desserts from their molds and immediately apply the black velvet spray.

Plating

Place the dessert on your plate. I added a mulberry leaf. I added blackberry jelly, fresh blackberries, and a scoop of vanilla ice cream molded with the Silikomart quenelle mold, added at the last minute.

Raspberry tartlet

Raspberry tartlet made with

– sweet pastry,
– custard cream,
– raspberries,
– raspberry jelly,
– mint leaves.

Equipment used

– Piping bag

– Micro-perforated baking mat

– Plain nozzle

– Tefal baking tray

Ingredients

Sweet pastry
✔140 g plain flour
✔100 g softened butter
✔50 g sugar
✔30 g ground almonds
✔1 g fine salt
✔1 egg yolk

Mint custard cream
✔250g milk
✔3 egg yolks
✔35g sugar
✔25g flour
✔30g butter
✔Mint leaves

Assembly

✔Raspberries
✔Mint leaves

The recipe

For 5-6 tartlets

Sweet pastry
✔140 g flour
✔100 g softened butter
✔50 g sugar
✔30 g ground almonds
✔1 g fine salt
✔1 egg yolk

Mix all the ingredients together. Cover with cling film and chill for at least 30 minutes.

Roll out the dough thinly between two sheets of baking paper. Cut out circles.

Bake between two micro-perforated baking mats in a hot oven at 75°C until they are nicely browned. Leave to cool completely.

Custard cream
✔250g milk
✔3 egg yolks
✔35g sugar
✔25g flour
✔30g butter

+ optional: a little alcohol to flavour the cream

Heat the milk.

Optional: infuse a few fresh mint leaves in the milk to flavour it.

In a bowl, mix the egg yolks, sugar, flour or cornflour. Pour the hot milk over the mixture. Stir. Pour back into the saucepan. Stir until the cream thickens. Remove from the heat, add the butter cut into pieces and mix.

You can add a little alcohol to flavour your cream.

Pour into a bowl, cover with cling film and set aside in a cool place.

Take the cooled pastry cream. Loosen it up a little with a spatula. Fill a piping bag fitted with a plain nozzle and pipe the cream onto the tartlets.

Arrange the raspberries alternately.

Fill the raspberries with a little raspberry jelly.

Soften 1g of gelatine in a bowl of cold water. Blend 25g of raspberries (you can strain out the seeds if you prefer). Pour into a small saucepan with a tablespoon of water. Add 5g of caster sugar. Heat. Remove from the heat and add the drained and softened gelatine. Leave to cool before filling a piping bag and decorating the raspberries.

I decorated it with small fresh mint leaves.

Blueberry and vanilla entremet

Blueberry and vanilla entremet composed of

– vanilla mousse,
– blueberry compote,
– puffed rice,
– purple velvet spray,
– a quenelle of blueberry sorbet,
– blueberry jelly.

Equipment used

– Silikomart Essenziale 80 mould

– Cooking thermometer

– Silikomart whirlpool mould

– Silikomart quenelle mould

– Dessert ring

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Ingredients

Vanilla mousse
✔50g full-fat cream
✔50g white chocolate
✔1.5g gelatine
✔100g whipped cream
✔1 vanilla pod

Blueberry compote
✔80g blueberries
✔15g caster sugar
✔1g NH pectin

Puffed rice
✔20g white chocolate
✔Puffed rice

Purple velvet spray

Blueberry jelly
✔90g blueberries
✔15g caster sugar
✔10g water
✔2g gelatine

Faur blueberry sorbet

The recipe

For 3 entremets

Blueberry compote
✔80g blueberries
✔15g caster sugar
✔1g NH pectin

In a small bowl, mix together the sugar and NH pectin.

Heat the 80g of blueberries in a saucepan for a few minutes over low heat. Increase the heat. Add the powdered sugar / pectin mixture. Cook over medium heat for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Allow to cool slightly and set aside until ready to assemble.

Puffed rice
✔20g white chocolate
✔Puffed rice

Melt the white chocolate in the microwave.

Add the puffed rice and mix well. Fill the bottom of a dessert ring to a depth of about 5-7 mm, pressing down with the back of a teaspoon. Carefully remove the dessert ring and repeat the process. Place in the freezer for a few minutes to allow the chocolate to set.

Vanilla mousse
✔50g full-fat cream
✔50g white chocolate
✔1.5g gelatine
✔100g cold whipped cream
✔1 vanilla pod

Soften the gelatine leaves in a bowl of cold water. Heat the cream and vanilla pod (scraped with the tip of a knife) in a saucepan. Remove from the heat, add the softened, squeezed gelatine and melted white chocolate. Mix together. Set aside.

Whip the well-chilled liquid cream with an electric mixer. Gently add the cooled mixture (when its temperature is below 30°C). Proceed with assembly.

Assembly

Fill your Silikomart Essential mould halfway with vanilla mousse.

Spread the blueberry compote. Top with vanilla mousse.

Finally, add the puffed rice crisp.

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

Fill your Silikomart quenelle mould with blueberry sorbet, pressing down firmly with a teaspoon. Place in the freezer for at least 2 hours to allow the sorbet to harden and take shape.

I used a delicious blueberry sorbet from the Faur brand (produced in Ariège).

Blueberry jelly
✔90g strained blueberries
✔15g caster sugar
✔10g water
✔2g gelatine

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

Blend and strain the blueberries (at least 150g) to remove the skins. Pour into a saucepan with the water and caster sugar. Heat. As soon as it starts to boil, remove from the heat and add the softened and squeezed gelatine. Mix and leave to cool before filling the Silikomart swirl mould. Chill for at least 1 hour before placing in the freezer.

The next day, remove the mousses from the freezer and immediately apply the purple velvet spray.

Plating

Place your dessert and blueberry jelly on your plate. Add a few fresh blueberries. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Just before serving, add a scoop of blueberry sorbet. I decorated mine with a dahlia flower.

Strawberry Pavlova

Strawberry pavlova composed of

– meringue,
– mascarpone whipped cream,
– strawberry compote,
– strawberry slices,
– mint leaves.

Equipment used

– Baking sheet

– Plain piping tip

– Piping bag

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Ingredients

Meringue
80g egg whites
160g sugar
12g cornstarch
6g lemon juice

Mascarpone whipped cream
150g cold heavy cream
75g mascarpone cheese
40g powdered sugar

Strawberry compote
150g strawberries
20g powdered sugar
2g NH pectin

A little white chocolate

Mint leaves

The recipe

For 4 Pavlovas

Meringue
80g egg whites
160g sugar
12g cornstarch
6g lemon juice

Pour the egg whites, powdered sugar, cornstarch, and lemon juice into a mixing bowl. Beat the egg whites with an electric mixer until you obtain a firm, smooth meringue. Fill a piping bag fitted with a plain tip with the meringue. Pipe the meringue onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

Bake at 90°C for 2 hours and 30 minutes, then leave in the oven for another 30 minutes with the oven turned off.

Using a kitchen grater, lightly sand the meringues so that they stand upright when turned over.

Melt a little white chocolate in the microwave and brush it over the surface to protect it from moisture.

Strawberry compote
150g strawberries
20g powdered sugar
2g NH pectin

In a small bowl, mix together the powdered sugar and NH pectin.

In a saucepan, cook the strawberries cut into small pieces over low heat for a few minutes. Then increase the heat, add the sugar and pectin mixture.

Cook for two minutes, stirring occasionally. Turn off the heat. You can blend the compote or leave it chunky.

Fill a piping bag with the compote and set aside until ready to assemble.

Mascarpone whipped cream
150g cold heavy cream
75g mascarpone cheese
40g powdered sugar

Using an electric mixer, whip the very cold heavy cream with the mascarpone. Use heavy cream with at least 30% fat content (I often use Président Fleurette Extra cream). Gradually add the powdered sugar. Fill a piping bag fitted with a plain tip with this whipped cream.

Assembly

Pipe the whipped cream onto the meringues.

Then spoon the strawberry compote into the middle of the whipped cream.

Place the strawberry slices on top. I added some small mint leaves.

Mint and chocolate entremet

Mint and chocolate entremet

– a creamy chocolate insert,
– mint mousse,
– cocoa biscuit,
– green velvet spray,
– chocolate puffed rice,
– chocolate leaves.

Equipment used

– 3D rose silicone mould

– Ancel 210 Bloom gelatine (gold quality)

Silikomart half-sphere mould

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Ingredients

Cocoa biscuit
✔15g caster sugar
✔1 egg
✔10g single cream
✔15g butter
✔35g flour
✔1 teaspoon baking powder
✔5g cocoa powder

Chocolate cream
✔40g cream
✔1 egg yolk
✔5g sugar
✔10g chocolate
✔0.5g gelatine

Mint mousse
✔80g single cream
✔mint leaves
✔1 egg yolk
✔30g sugar
✔80g single cream (30% fat)
✔2g gelatine

✔Chocolate chips

✔Puffed rice

✔Green velvet spray

✔Mint leaves

The recipe

For 3 entremets

Chocolate cream
✔40g cream
✔1 egg yolk
✔5g sugar
✔10g chocolate
✔0.5g gelatine

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

In a mixing bowl, add the egg yolk and caster sugar. Mix together.

Pour the cream into a saucepan and heat. Add the chocolate.

Pour this mixture over the previous mixture. Stir and return everything to the saucepan over a low heat.

Stirring constantly, continue cooking until the cream coats your spatula. Do not exceed 83°C.

Remove from the heat and add the drained and softened gelatine.

Pour into the Silikomart half-sphere mould and place in the freezer.

Cocoa biscuit
✔15g caster sugar
✔1 egg
✔10g single cream
✔15g melted butter
✔35g flour
✔1 teaspoon baking powder
✔5g cocoa powder

Separate the egg white from the yolk.

Add the sugar and cream to the egg yolks. Mix well. Add the melted butter. Sift 35g of flour, the cocoa powder and the baking powder. Mix.

Beat the egg whites with an electric mixer until stiff. Gently fold into the mixture using a spatula.

Spread onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Smooth with an offset spatula. Bake at 170°C for 15 to 20 minutes. The blade of a knife should come out clean.

Leave the biscuit to cool completely. Turn the biscuit out onto a new sheet of baking paper and carefully remove the baking paper.

Cut out the biscuit using a cookie cutter with a diameter smaller than your mould.

Set aside until ready to assemble.

Mint mousse
✔80g single cream
✔mint leaves
✔1 egg yolk
✔30g sugar
✔80g single cream (30% fat)
✔2g gelatine

Pour 80g of single cream into a saucepan. Heat the cream. Turn off the heat and add the fresh mint leaves. Cover and leave to infuse for at least 30 minutes.

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

Strain the cream to remove the mint leaves, pressing them well. Return the cream to the heat.

In a mixing bowl, combine the egg yolk and caster sugar.

Pour the hot cream over it. Mix and pour everything into the saucepan. Return to the heat, stirring constantly. Do not exceed 82°C. The cream should coat your spatula. Add the softened and squeezed gelatine. Mix. Set aside.

Whip the 80g of very cold liquid cream and add the previous mixture when its temperature is around 30°C. Mix gently and proceed to assembly.

Assembly

Fill the 3D rose mould halfway with mint mousse.

Add the chocolate cream filling.

Top with the remaining mint mousse and finish with the cocoa biscuit.

Chill for at least 2 hours, then place in the freezer overnight.

Chocolate puffed rice

Melt a little milk chocolate in the microwave. Add the puffed rice and mix to coat it completely with chocolate.

Using a cookie cutter, press down a little puffed rice with the back of a spoon. Place in the fridge to harden.

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

Place each dessert on a base of puffed rice.

I made chocolate petals, which I then placed between my dessert and my puffed rice biscuit.

I added some small fresh mint leaves.

Place in the fridge until ready to serve.