Almond dacquoise (the day before) ✔45g egg whites ✔45g almond powder ✔40g icing sugar ✔15g caster sugar
Whisk the egg whites with the caster sugar. Sift in the almond powder and icing sugar. Stir gently. Spread on a baking sheet and bake at 170°C for about 10 minutes. Cut out the biscuit with a biscuit cutter.
Pear bavarois (the day before) ✔200g pear puree ✔200g of liquid cream 30% fat ✔30g caster sugar ✔5g of gelatine
Place the gelatine sheets in a large bowl of cold water. Heat the mixed pears in a saucepan. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine leaves, which have been softened and wrung out well. Mix and set aside. In a large bowl, whip the cold cream with an electric mixer, gradually adding the caster sugar. Add the warm mixture and stir gently with a pastry blender. Pour into the silikomart cylinder mould 6 cavities and finish by placing the dacquoise biscuit. Place in the freezer overnight.
To make a homemade caramel: Melt the sugar in a saucepan. When it has a nice amber colour add the heated cream off the heat. Mix well and put back on the heat to melt all the caramel. Remove from the heat and gradually add the butter, cut into pieces. Transfer to a container, strain and place in a cool place.
Mix all the ingredients together. Line a mould (here a Pavoni butterfly mould). Place in the oven at 170°C. Keep an eye on the cooking time as it is very quick, 6 to 8 minutes. Turn out of the oven. Be careful, they harden very quickly and become fragile and brittle.
Assembly
Take the bavarois out of the freezer. Leave to defrost in a cool place. Using a cookie cutter, mark the hole and then use a spoon to remove 0.5 to 1 cm from the top. Top with caramel. Place chopped almonds at the base all around.
Place in the fridge until ready to eat. Just before serving, place a decorative tile on top.
Puffed rice ✔100g white chocolate ✔Coffee extract ✔40g puffed rice
Assembly ✔Brown velvet spray
The recipe
For 4 desserts
Spoon biscuit ✔1 egg white ✔1 egg yolk ✔30g caster sugar ✔30g flour ✔A little icing sugar
Separate the egg white from the yolk. Whisk the egg white with an electric mixer, adding the sugar gradually. Then add the egg yolk. Mix gently with a spatula. Sift in the flour. Mix again. Fill a piping bag fitted with a plain tip. Poach the rounded spoon biscuits on a sheet of baking paper and sprinkle with icing sugar. Bake at 180°C for 8 to 10 minutes. Leave the biscuit to cool and cut out using a cookie cutter smaller than the diameter of your Silikomart mould.
Coffee mousse (the day before) ✔2 gelatine leaves (4g) ✔200g single cream 30% fat ✔2 yolks ✔40g sugar ✔120g 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 the mixture 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 (the day before)
Fill the Silikomart mould with the coffee mousse. Add the sponge cake previously soaked in coffee with a brush. Top with the remaining mousse and place in the freezer overnight.
Coffee ganache (the next day) ✔20g white chocolate ✔Coffee extract ✔20g liquid cream ✔0.5g gelatine
Soften the gelatine sheet in a bowl of cold water. Heat the liquid cream with the coffee extract in a saucepan. Melt the white chocolate in the microwave. Pour the cream over the chocolate. Mix well. Set aside.
Puffed rice ✔100g white chocolate ✔Coffee extract ✔40g puffed rice
Melt the white chocolate in the microwave. Add the coffee extract and puffed rice. Mix and fill tartlet circles the size of your dessert. Press down 1 to 1.5 cm and repeat 3 times. Leave the chocolate to harden a little before removing the mould.
Remove the desserts from the freezer, unmould and immediately apply the brown velvet spray.
Place on the puffed rice. Add some coffee ganache in the middle and chill.
I decorated with a little edible gold leaf and a chocolate coffee bean.
Sweetened paste ✔70g soft butter ✔130g flour ✔45 g icing sugar ✔1 pinch of salt ✔1 egg yolk
Soft toffee ✔100g liquid full cream ✔30g whole milk ✔30g glucose syrup ✔50g sugar ✔50g glucose syrup ✔1 pinch of salt ✔35g butter ✔25g whole milk
The recipe
For 4 tarts
Peanut praline (the day before) ✔50g sugar ✔100g peanuts
Roast the peanuts on a baking tray for 15 minutes in the oven at 150°C. Make a caramel with the sugar and pour it onto baking paper. When it has cooled, break it into pieces and put it in the bowl of a blender. Add the peanuts and blend until you have a praline. Be careful, you need a good blender.
Peanut mousse (the day before) ✔1 yellow ✔10g sugar ✔40g milk ✔3g gelatine ✔50g praline peanuts ✔100g cold liquid cream
In a bowl of cold water, place the gelatine leaves. In a saucepan, heat the milk. In a bowl, mix the yolks and sugar. Pour the milk over and transfer to the saucepan. Heat while stirring and without exceeding 83°C. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine and the praline. Mix and set aside. Whip the cold cream with an electric mixer. Pour in the previous mixture and stir gently. Pour into the mould. Place in the freezer overnight. You will have some mousse left after this step.
Soft toffee ✔100g liquid full cream ✔30g whole milk ✔30g glucose syrup ✔50g sugar ✔50g glucose syrup ✔1 pinch of salt ✔35g butter ✔25g whole milk
In a saucepan, bring 100g cream to the boil with 30g milk, 30g glucose and the salt. In another pan, make a caramel with 50g sugar and 50g glucose. Remove from the heat. Deglaze the caramel with the hot cream and milk mixture in several stages. Return to the heat, stirring regularly. Place the caramel in a narrow container. When the caramel is about 60°C, add the chopped butter and milk. Use a hand blender to mix the caramel well. Strain and store in a cool place.
Heat the cream and pour off the heat, in three batches, over the previously melted white chocolate. Add the praline and set aside.
Sweet pastry ✔70 g soft butter ✔130 g flour ✔45 g icing sugar ✔15 g almond powder ✔1 pinch of salt ✔1 egg yolk
Mix all the ingredients together. Roll out the dough thinly between 2 sheets of greaseproof paper then put it in the fridge for 30 minutes. Line the circles. Bake in the oven at 180°C for about 20 minutes. Leave the tartlets to cool completely.
Assembly Top the tartlet bases with a tablespoon of peanut praline. Then add a spoonful of soft caramel. Place peanuts on top. Fill to the brim with the peanut praline ganache. Place in a cool place for at least 2 hours so that the ganache sets.
Finally, place the peanut mousse on top and decorate with caramelised peanuts all around. Chill for at least 1 hour until ready to eat.
Blend the raspberries and strain to remove the seeds. Place the gelatine leaves in a bowl of cold water. Pour the raspberries into a saucepan with the caster sugar and heat through. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine, wrung out and softened. Mix well and set aside. Pour the chilled cream into a bowl and whip it with an electric mixer and the sugar. Incorporate the previous mixture and stir gently. Fill the X8 silikomart flat heart mould. Place in the freezer for at least 3 hours.
Sweet pastry ✔130g flour ✔45g sugar ✔1 pinch of salt ✔70g butter ✔1 egg yolk
Mix all the ingredients together, film and place in a cool place. Roll out the dough thinly between 2 sheets of greaseproof paper. Using the heart cookie cutter supplied with the tin, detail hearts. Use both sides of the cutter for the top and bottom of the raspberry heart. Place in the freezer while you preheat your oven. Bake between two micro-perforated baking mats at 170° for approximately 12 minutes. Leave to cool.
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 on a sheet of baking paper and sprinkle with icing sugar. Bake at 180°C for 8 to 10 minutes. Leave the biscuit to cool and cut into two hearts.
Place the gelatine leaves 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. Mix well and set aside. Separate the egg whites from the yolks in two bowls. Beat the yolks with the mascarpone and half the sugar (40g) using an electric mixer. Add the milk and gelatine mixture. Mix well and set aside.
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.
Syrup ✔20g water ✔20g sugar ✔A little alcohol
In a saucepan, add the water, sugar and bring to the boil. Turn off the heat and add a little alcohol.
Assembly Brush the top of your biscuits with syrup. Place your pastry frame on a plate. Insert the first (largest) syrup-soaked biscuit.
Add the halved strawberries all around, then the mascarpone cream, pushing it up over the strawberries. Add the chopped strawberries in the middle. Top up with more mascarpone cream. Add the second soaked biscuit. Smooth over the frame. Fill a piping bag with the remaining mascarpone cream. Poach the top evenly all around.
Soften the gelatine in a bowl of cold water. In a saucepan, pour the strawberry purée, blended and strained to remove the seeds, and the sugar then heat without boiling. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine when the temperature has dropped below 70°C. Leave to cool, then pour over the cake in the middle. Return to the fridge.
Using the remaining strawberry jelly, dip two strawberries into the jelly. Leave to cool on greaseproof paper before placing on the cake.
Choux pastry ✔60g water ✔60g milk ✔70g flour ✔55g butter ✔Salt ✔1 teaspoon sugar ✔2 or 3 eggs (depending on size)
Pastry cream ✔300g milk ✔60g sugar ✔3 egg yolks ✔20 g cornflour ✔25g butter ✔Liquid vanilla ✔1 capful of rum
Montage ✔ White chocolate ✔ Silver food paper ✔ White pastry fondant
The recipe
For 7-8 eclairs
Choux pastry ✔60g water ✔60g milk ✔70g flour ✔55g butter ✔Salt ✔1 teaspoon sugar ✔2 or 3 eggs (depending on size)
In a saucepan heat the water, milk, butter, salt and sugar.Off the heat, add the flour.Dry the dough.Pour into a bowl and then add the beaten eggs, gradually.Poach the choux pastry on a micro-punched mat with a fluted tip. Bake at 180°C for 35 to 40 minutes.
Pastry cream ✔300g milk ✔60g sugar ✔3 egg yolks ✔20 g cornflour ✔25g butter ✔Liquid vanilla ✔1 capful of rum
In a saucepan, boil the milk with vanilla. In a bowl, mix the yolks with the powdered sugar. Add the cornflour. Pour in the hot milk and return the mixture to the pan. Cook without stopping stirring. The cream will thicken. Remove from the heat, add the butter cut into pieces.
Assembly Fill your éclairs with pastry cream using a piping tip. Heat up the fondant pâtissier and coat your éclairs with a ribbon nozzle.
I decorated my eclairs with a white chocolate decoration and silver foil.
Make a homemade praline and fill 5 cavities of the silikomart petit fours mould with 20g of praline and place in the freezer for at least 6 to 8 hours.
Make the cream with the homemade praline and pour it into the Silikomart small oven mould X15 cavities (about 20g per cavity) and place in the freezer for at least 4 hours.
Praline crisp 20g milk chocolate 40g of praline 30g of crêpes dentelles
Mix the ingredients together. Cut out squares of crisp to fit your mould. Place in the freezer.
Vanilla mousse 5 g gelatine 35 g egg yolks 36 g sugar 120 g whole milk 30g whipping cream 1 vanilla pod 200 g whipping cream
Mix the yolks and sugar in a bowl. Pour in the milk and hot cream and return to the pan. Cook until 83°C. Add the gelatine off the heat. Whip the cream and add it to the previous mixture.
Assembly
Fill the silikomart cube mould with vanilla mousse. Add the insert (praline and creamy praline). Complete with the mousse and finish with the crunchy mixture. Place in the freezer overnight.
Mirror glaze 70g sugar 70g glucose 70g milk chocolate 37g water 6g gelatine 45g of liquid cream
Remove the cakes from the freezer and cover the surface with the icing below 35°C.
For the lemon madeleine biscuit (the day before) ✔30g butter ✔25g egg ✔50g caster sugar ✔Vanilla liquid ✔20g milk ✔5g single cream ✔35g flour ✔1/2 sachet of yeast ✔25g egg whites ✔Zest of one lemon
Lemon curd (the day before) ✔35g lemon juice ✔3g gelatine ✔16g butter ✔25g sugar ✔35g eggs
Lemon mousse (the day before) ✔100g Curd ✔120g single cream
Sweet dough ✔130g flour ✔45g icing sugar ✔10g almond powder ✔70g butter ✔1 pinch of salt ✔1 egg yolk
Italian meringue ✔60g caster sugar ✔22g water ✔60g egg whites
The recipe
For the lemon madeleine biscuit (the day before) ✔30g butter ✔25g egg ✔50g caster sugar ✔Vanilla liquid ✔20g milk ✔5g single cream ✔35g flour ✔1/2 sachet of yeast ✔25g egg whites ✔Zest of one lemon
In a mixing bowl, work the butter into the powdered sugar. Add the egg and vanilla. Mix well. Add the milk and cream and whisk again. Sift in the flour and baking powder. In another bowl, beat the egg whites and add them gently to the previous mixture. Finally, add the lemon zest. Pour onto a baking tray covered with baking paper. Smooth with an angled spatula.
Bake at 170°C until lightly coloured. Leave to cool completely and then cut out biscuits to fit your silikomart.
In a saucepan, heat the lemon juice with the caster sugar and egg until the cream thickens. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine, previously softened in a bowl of cold water and wrung out, the butter. Set aside to cool.
Lemon mousse ✔100g Curd ✔120g single cream
Whip the chilled liquid cream with an electric mixer and gently fold into the previous mixture with the lemon curd.
Assembly
Place your biscuit in the Silikomart rainbow mould on the rectangular side. Fill the rest of the mould with lemon mousse. Place in the freezer overnight.
Sweet dough ✔130g flour ✔45g sugar ✔1 pinch of salt ✔70g butter ✔1 yolk
Mix all the ingredients together, wrap and chill. Roll out the dough thinly between 2 sheets of baking paper. Using the cutter supplied with the mould. Use both sides of the cutter for both sides. Place in the freezer while you preheat your oven. Bake between two micro perforated baking mats at 170° for about 12 minutes. Leave to cool.
Italian Meringue ✔60g caster sugar ✔22g water ✔60g egg whites
Heat the water and sugar in a saucepan to 118°C. Using an electric mixer, start beating the egg white and then pour the syrup over it when it reaches the desired temperature. Continue beating until the meringue has cooled. Fill a pastry bag with a piping bag.
Assembly Poach the meringue over the lemon mousses and then use a blowtorch to colour it. Use the remaining meringue to stick the sweet pastry biscuits on either side of the tartlet. Place the tartlets in the fridge until ready to eat. I decorated the tart with fresh mint leaves.
Choux pastry ✔60g water ✔60g milk ✔70g flour ✔55g butter ✔Salt ✔1 teaspoon sugar ✔2 or 3 eggs (depending on size)
+Icing sugar / chopped pistachios
In a saucepan heat the water, milk, butter, salt and sugar. Remove from the heat and add the flour all at once. Mix well to dry out the dough for 2 to 3 minutes. Then gradually add the beaten eggs, mixing well between each egg. Poach the éclairs on a baking tray covered with a micro perforated baking mat. Sprinkle the icing sugar over the top, followed by the chopped unsalted pistachios.
Bake at 180°C for 35 to 40 minutes (time may vary depending on the oven).
Leave to cool on a wire rack, then cut the éclairs in half lengthways.
Pour the unsalted pistachios onto a baking tray and place in the oven at 150°C for 15 minutes to roast. In a saucepan, pour the caster sugar and make a caramel. When the caramel has a nice colour, pour it onto a sheet of baking paper or silicone mat and leave to cool. Place the pistachios (having rubbed them to remove the skins) and the cooled caramel, cut into pieces, in the bowl of a blender and blend until you have a praline.
Pistachio pastry cream ✔250g milk ✔50g caster sugar ✔3 egg yolks ✔25g cream powder ✔1 sheet of gelatine ✔50g butter ✔60g pistachio praline Heat the milk. In a bowl mix the yolks, sugar, cream powder.
Pour the hot milk over it. Stir. Pour back into the pan. Stir until thickened.
Remove from the heat and add the drained gelatine, the butter cut into pieces and the pistachio praline. Mix well. Pour into a bowl, filter it and set aside in a cool place.
Assembly Take the cooled cream and fill a piping bag. Poach on the eclairs. Fill a second piping bag with the remaining pistachio praline and place it on the eclairs. Place in a cool place until ready to eat.