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White chocolate blueberry bread

White chocolate blueberry bread

Materials used

– Brush

– Tefal baking tray

– Micro-perforated baking mat

– Cutter

Ingredients

Distemper
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

White Chocolate sticks

Violet tempera
✔90 g paste removed
✔Violet coloring

Blueberry compote
✔200g fresh or frozen blueberries
✔30g caster sugar
✔2g NH pectin

Syrup
✔30g water
✔30g sugar

The recipe

For 5-6 white chocolate blueberry breads

Distemper
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

Combine the flour, salt, sugar, yeast, butter, water and milk in the bowl of a food processor. Blend for around ten minutes. Work the dough a little by hand. Take 90g to make the violet tempera.

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

Violet tempera
✔90 g of paste removed
✔violet colorant

Mix, in the bowl of a food processor, the 90g of previously removed dough and the violet colorant. Knead for 4-5 minutes to thoroughly incorporate the dye. Shape into a square, film 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, rotate by 90°C and turn twice. Fold the left side 1/3 towards the center and then the right side 2/3 without overlapping. Then fold in half. Cut on both sides. Place in a cool, film-covered place.

Roll out the dough into a long rectangle. Make a single turn and chill, covered with cling-film, for at least 30 minutes.

Make a second simple turn and place in a cool place, filmed, for at least 30 minutes.

Blueberry compote
✔200g fresh or frozen blueberries
✔30g caster sugar
✔2g NH pectin

Place the blueberries in a saucepan and heat over low heat, stirring regularly, for around 5 minutes. Increase the intensity of the heat and as soon as it starts to boil add the sugar and pectin mixture. Cook for one minute, stirring constantly. Turn off the heat and leave to cool to room temperature. You can also blend the compote.

Shaping the breads

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

Roll out the dough into a 30cm x 30cm square. Cut the square in half, then cut 8.5 x 15 cm strips (8.5cm for the length of your chocolate sticks).

Turn the dough over on the green side. The dough needs to be cold before cutting, so don’t hesitate to chill it again. On each rectangle, make very shallow cuts on the green side using a cutter, leaving a 5 mm margin around the edges. Turn the pastry over.

Spread blueberry compote evenly, leaving 1 cm all around, 2 white chocolate sticks per pastry rectangle, then roll out loaves loosely.

Place on a baking sheet lined with silpain or baking paper.

Let stand for 2 hours at room temperature.

Bake at 175°C for about 30 minutes. Remove to a wire rack immediately after baking.

The syrup
✔30g water
✔30g sugar

Bring sugar and water to the boil in a saucepan. Apply hot to the loaves as soon as they come out of the oven, using a brush.

Apple quince, vanilla and hazelnut cake

Quince, vanilla and hazelnut apple cake with

– a hazelnut cookie,
– a praline crunch,
– a quince-apple mousse,
– vanilla mousse,
– quince jelly.

Material used

– Square frame 12X12x4.5 cm

– Ancel 210 bloom gelatin

– Tefal baking tray

– Baking paper

Ingredients

Preparing the quince
1 quince

Hazelnut cookie
35g hazelnut powder
25g egg
1 egg white
35 g powdered sugar
10 g butter
7 g flour

Praline crisp
50g hazelnut praline
35g Milk chocolate
30g Crêpes dentelles

Apple and quince mousse
50g apple compote (cooked mixed apples)
50g quince compote (quince previously cooked and blended)
20g sugar
60g cream
2g gelatin

Vanilla mousse
✔60g full-fat liquid cream
✔60g white chocolate
✔1.5g gelatin
✔60g whipping cream
✔1 vanilla pod

Quince jelly
✔85g quince cooking juice
✔10g caster sugar
✔2g gelatin

The recipe

Preparing quince
✔1 quince

Cut your quince into pieces, keeping the seeds and skin. Pour into a saucepan and cover with water. Cook for 1h30 to 2h00 over low/medium heat. Once cooked, strain the juice and keep it to make your own jelly. Keep the quince pieces for the quince compote. I put them through a manual purée press to remove seeds and skins.

Hazelnut cookie
✔35g hazelnut powder
✔25g egg
✔1 egg white
✔35 g powdered sugar
✔10 g butter
✔7 g flour

Make a hazelnut butter. In a saucepan, melt the butter until it takes on a pretty color and a hazelnut fragrance. Set aside. Mix the egg and powdered sugar in a bowl. Add hazelnut powder, flour and melted butter. Mix well. In another bowl, beat egg whites with a mixer. Incorporate a third of the egg whites and mix to loosen the mixture, then gently fold the remaining whites into the mixture using a pastry blender. Pour the cookie dough onto a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Bake for 8-10 min at 180°C. Remove from the oven and leave to cool before peeling off the paper and cutting out a 12x12cm square.

Praline crisp
✔50g hazelnut praline
✔35g Milk chocolate
✔30g Crêpes dentelles

Mix praline, melted milk chocolate and crêpes dentelles. Roll out between two sheets of baking paper. Place in the freezer for a few minutes. Cut out the crêpes dentelles with your frame. Place it at the bottom of your frame on a plate. Place the cookie on top of the croustillant.

Apple and quince mousse
✔50g applesauce (mixed cooked apples)
✔50g quince compote (quince previously cooked and blended)
✔20g sugar
✔60g cream
✔2g gelatin

Place the gelatine leaves in a bowl of cold water. In a saucepan, heat the two compotes with the caster sugar. Remove from heat and add the gelatine. Set aside.

Whip the cold cream with an electric mixer. Pour over the previous mixture, when its temperature is around 30°C, and stir gently.

Pour half of the mousse (80g) inside the frame onto the cookie and place in the freezer for a few minutes. Set the remaining mousse aside at room temperature.

Vanilla mousse
✔60g full-fat liquid cream
✔60g white chocolate
✔1.5g gelatin
✔60g whipping cream
✔1 vanilla pod

Place the gelatine leaves in a bowl of cold water. In a saucepan, heat the 60g of liquid cream with the vanilla pod, previously split in half and scraped. Turn off the heat, cover and leave to infuse for at least 20 minutes. Reheat the cream a little, then remove from the heat and add the drained gelatine. Pour over the melted white chocolate. Mix and set aside.

Whip the cold cream with an electric mixer. Pour over the previous mixture, when its temperature is around 30°C, and stir gently.

Pour half of the mousse (80g) inside the frame over the apple-quince mousse, and place in the freezer for a few minutes. Reserve the remaining vanilla mousse at room temperature.

Finish by pouring in the remaining apple-quince mousse. Place in the freezer for a few minutes. Pour in remaining vanilla mousse. Freeze overnight.

Quince jelly
✔85g quince cooking juice
✔10g caster sugar
✔2g gelatin

Soften the gelatine leaves in a bowl of cold water. Pour the quince cooking juice and powdered sugar into a saucepan, then bring to the boil. Remove from heat and add the gelatine. Leave to cool (< 40°C), then pour over the frozen cake. (If the vanilla mousse has already reached the height of the frame, warm the 4 sides of the frame slightly with your hands and raise it by 2 to 3 millimeters).

Leave in the fridge until the jelly sets. Carefully remove the frame. Cut into individual slices and defrost in the fridge.

I decorated with quince paste cubes.

Strawberry vanilla tartlet

Strawberry and vanilla tartlet

– sweet pastry,
– almond cream,
– strawberry pieces,
– a vanilla dome,
– red velvet spray,
– fresh strawberries and mint leaves.

Materials used

– Micro-perforated silicone baking mat

– Micro-perforated strip (optional)

– Silikomart tart ring Klassik 70mm mould

– Silikomart mould 15 mini truffles

– Red velvet spray

Ingredients

Sweet dough
70 g soft butter
130 g flour
45 g powdered sugar
15 g almond powder
1 pinch salt
1 egg yolk

Creamy almonds
30g egg
30g almond powder
30g powdered sugar
30g of butter

Vanilla dome
40g white chocolate
40g liquid cream
2g gelatine
80g liquid cream 30% MG

Mounting

Red velvet spray
Strawberries and mint leaves

The recipe

For 5 tartels

Vanilla dome
40g white chocolate
40g liquid cream
2g gelatine
80g liquid cream 30% MG
Vanilla bean or vanilla powder

In a bowl of cold water, place the gelatin sheet. In a saucepan, heat the 40g of liquid cream with the scraped and split Black Bourbon 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 then, off the heat, add the gelatine (remove the vanilla pod beforehand). Pour over the melted white chocolate, mix and set aside. Whip the cold cream with an electric mixer. Pour over the previous mixture and stir gently. Fill the silikomart mould with 15 mini trufles and place in the freezer for at least 4 hours.

Sweet dough
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 baking paper and place in the fridge for 30 minutes. Line the circles with the dough. Place in the freezer for 10 minutes while you preheat your oven. Place in the oven at 170°C and bake for 10 minutes.

Creamy almonds
30g egg
30g almond powder
30g powdered sugar
30g softened butter

Cream butter with powdered sugar. Add almond powder and egg. Mix and spread over the tart shells. Add strawberry pieces. Bake tarts at 170° for approx. 15-20 minutes. Leave to cool.

Remove the vanilla domes from the freezer and immediately apply the red velvet spray. Place the dome on the tartlet. Arrange fresh strawberries all around.

Decorate with fresh mint leaves.

I placed sesame seeds and a strawberry stem on the dome.

Speculoos eclair

Speculoos eclair made with

– choux pastry,
– speculoos pastry cream,
– colored white fondant.

Material used

– micro-perforated baking mat

– fluted tip

– pastry bag

– filling tip

– Chablon

Ingredients

Choux pastry
✔60g water
✔60g milk
✔70g flour
✔55g butter
✔Salt
✔1 teaspoon sugar
✔2 or 3 eggs (depending on size)

Pastry cream
✔400g milk
✔60 g sugar
✔4 egg yolks
✔20 g cornstarch
✔35 g butter
✔80g speculoos dough

Icing
✔115g white fondant
✔30g glucose
✔Coffee extract

The recipe

For approx. 6 éclairs

Icing
✔115g white fondant
✔30g glucose
✔Coffee extract

Pour all ingredients into the saucepan. Heat the white fondant in a bain-marie to 60°C. Colour with coffee extract. Mix well. Pour onto a silicone tray and place in the freezer for a few hours.

Pastry cream
✔400g milk
✔60 g sugar
✔4 egg yolks
✔20 g cornstarch
✔35 g butter
✔80g to 100g speculoos dough

Heat milk.

Mix the yolks, sugar and cornflour in a bowl and heat the milk again.
Pour hot milk over sugar/yolk mixture. Stir. Pour back into saucepan. Stir until thickened. Add speculoos paste. Mix well. Finally, add the butter, cut into pieces. Set aside in a bowl, filter and chill.

Choux pastry
✔60g water
✔60g milk
✔70g flour
✔55g butter
✔Salt
✔1 teaspoon sugar
✔2 or 3 eggs (depending on size)

+powdered sugar and cocoa butter

Heat the water, milk, butter, salt and sugar in a saucepan. Remove from the heat and add the flour all at once. Mix well to dry out the dough for 2 to 3 minutes.

Add the beaten eggs gradually, mixing well between each egg.

Poach the éclairs on a baking sheet lined with a microperforated baking mat, using a fluted tip. Sprinkle with a mixture of powdered sugar and cocoa butter powder. Bake at 175°C for 35 to 40 minutes (time may vary according to oven). Place a tea towel over the oven door to allow steam to escape, then cool on a wire rack.

Assembly

Remove the crème pâtissière from the fridge. Loosen it a little with a spatula, then fill a pastry bag fitted with a pastry tip. Make two small holes under each éclair and top with cream. Place the fondant on each éclair. Set aside in a cool place and decorate with a little edible gold leaf.

Very Parfait blueberries

Very Parfait blueberries with

– ice cream,
– whipped cream,
– blueberry compote,
– chopped unsalted peanuts.

Materials used

– Pastry bag

– Fluted socket

Ingredients

For the blueberry compote
✔ 180g blueberries
✔ 30g sugar powder
✔ 1g NH pectin

For the ice cream
✔ 180g single cream
✔ 60g sweetened condensed milk

For the chantilly
✔ 100g single cream
✔ 50g mascarpone cheese
✔ 25g powdered sugar

✔ Unsalted peanuts

The recipe

Serves 3

For the blueberry compote
✔ 180g blueberries
✔ 30g sugar powder
✔ 1g NH pectin

Place the bilberries in a saucepan and heat over low heat, stirring regularly, for a few minutes or so. Increase the intensity of the heat and as soon as it starts to boil add the sugar and pectin mixture. Cook for one minute, stirring constantly. Turn off the heat and allow to cool to room temperature. Pour a little compote into the bottom of each glass.

For the ice cream
✔ 180g liquid cream, 30% MG
✔ 60g sweetened condensed milk

Whip the chilled liquid cream with the sweetened condensed milk and liquid vanilla. Fill a piping bag with an 8-tooth tip.

Intersperse layers of compote and whipped cream. Freeze for at least 3 hours.

For the chantilly
✔ 100g single cream
✔ 50g mascarpone cheese
✔ 25g powdered sugar

Pour the 30% minimum fat liquid cream with the mascarpone into a bowl. Beat with an electric mixer. Gradually add the powdered sugar. Place the whipped cream in a piping bag fitted with a fluted tip.
Remove the verrines from the freezer and poach the whipped cream on top.

Sprinkle with chopped unsalted peanuts. Place in the freezer until ready to eat.

Remember to take them out at least 15 minutes before eating.

Peanut choux

Peanut choux composed of

– choux pastry,
– peanut ganache,
– peanut praline,
– cracker,
– and a few chopped peanuts.

Materials used

– Micro-perforated silicone baking mat

– Ancel 240 bloom gelatin

– Pastry bags

– Plain tip

Ingredients

Peanut praline
✔150g peanuts
✔75g caster sugar

For the cracker
✔60g butter
✔60g flour
✔60g brown sugar
A few chopped peanuts

Choux pastry
✔60g water
✔60g milk
✔70g flour
✔55g butter
✔Salt
✔1 teaspoon sugar
✔2 or 3 eggs (depending on size)

Mounted peanut ganache
✔450 g liquid cream (min. 30% fat)
✔90 g white chocolate
✔100 g peanut praline
✔3g gelatin

The recipe

For 4-5 Choux

Peanut praline
✔150g peanuts
✔75g caster sugar

Pour the peanuts onto a baking tray and bake at 150°C for 15 minutes. Pour the caster sugar into a saucepan and create a caramel. Pour onto a sheet of parchment paper and leave to cool. Place the peanuts and chopped caramel in the bowl of a blender and blend until praline is obtained. Store in a closed container. You’ll have plenty of praline left over for other recipes.

For the cracker
✔60g butter
✔60g flour
✔60g brown sugar
A few chopped peanuts

Mix all the ingredients together, spread between two sheets, place in the freezer for a few minutes and then detail with a circular cookie cutter to the dimensions of your choux. Sprinkle chopped peanuts on top. Return to the freezer.

For the choux pastry
✔60g water
✔60g milk
✔70g flour
✔55g butter
✔Salt
✔1 teaspoon sugar
✔2 or 3 eggs (depending on size)

Heat the water, milk, butter, salt and sugar in a saucepan. Remove from heat and add flour all at once. Mix well to dry out the dough for 2 to 3 minutes. Add the beaten eggs gradually, mixing well between each egg. Poach the puffs on a baking sheet lined with silpain. Top each with a disk of cracker. Bake in a static-heat oven at 170°C for around 45 minutes (time may vary according to oven). Leave to cool.

Mounted peanut ganache
✔450 g liquid cream (min. 30% fat)
✔90 g white chocolate
✔100 g peanut praline
✔3g gelatin

Place the gelatin leaf in a bowl of cold water. Pour 225g liquid cream into a saucepan and heat. When the cream is hot, add the praline, stir and pour over the melted white chocolate. Finally, add the gelatine and make up with the remaining 225g of cold cream. Mix well. Filter on contact and chill for at least 4 hours.

Assembly:
Cut out the choux pastries and pipe a small amount of peanut praline into a piping bag. Using an electric mixer, beat the ganache until stiff. Using a plain tip, pipe some of the ganache up to the edge. Change the tip to finish poaching the ganache. Place the caps on top. Add peanut praline in the middle of the hole and place a few peanuts on top. Keep in a cool place until ready to eat.

Marbled chocolate

Marbled chocolate

Materials used

– Brush

– Tefal baking tray

– Micro-perforated baking mat

– Cutter

Ingredients

Distemper
✔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 PDO Poitou Charentes butter

+
✔125 g Lescure or PDO tourage butter

✔Chocolate sticks

Cocoa distemper
✔90 g pre-made pastry
✔3.5 g unsweetened cocoa powder
✔4 g mineral water

The syrup
✔30g water
✔30g sugar

The recipe

For 5 chocolatines or marbled pains au chocolat

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

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

Cocoa tempera
✔45 g + 45 g of pre-poured paste
✔3.5g unsweetened cocoa powder
✔4 g mineral water

Mix the cocoa powder with the water in the bowl of a food processor to make a paste. Add 45g of the dough taken previously. Knead for 4-5 minutes. Shape into a rectangle. Roll the remaining 45g of dough into a ball and place in the middle of the brown rectangle. Close by rolling the brown pastry over the white pastry and place in the fridge to firm up. Cut into sections and lay them flat next to each other. Roll a little so that they stick together. Cover with clingfilm and chill overnight.

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

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

On a lightly floured work surface, roll out the pastry into a rectangle and place the butter in the middle. The butter should be at a temperature of between 12 and 15°C and the tempera at between 6 and 8°C. Cover both ends of the pastry with the butter, without overlapping.

Roll out the pastry into a long rectangle, rotate your pastry by 90°C and make a double turn. Fold the left side 1/3 towards the centre and then the right side 2/3 without overlapping. Then fold the whole in half. Cut both sides with a cutter. Place in a cool, filmed place.

Roll out the pastry again into a long rectangle. Make a single turn and chill, covered with clingfilm, for at least 30 minutes.

Make a second simple turn and chill, covered with clingfilm, for at least 30 minutes.

Shaping the breads

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

Roll out the pastry into a rectangle measuring approximately 20cm by 40cm, then cut into strips measuring approximately 8.5 x 20cm (8.5cm for the length of your chocolate sticks).

Place 2 or 3 chocolate sticks per rectangle of dough, then roll out the pains au chocolat without pressing the dough too tightly.

Place on a baking tray lined with silpatain or baking paper.

Leave to bake for 2 hours at room temperature or in a switched-off oven with a bowl of hot water.

Bake at 170°C for around 25 minutes.

The syrup
✔30g water
✔30g sugar

Heat the sugar and water in a saucepan until boiling. Apply hot to the pains au chocolat or chocolatines as soon as they come out of the oven using a brush. Leave to cool on a wire rack before serving.

Strawberry flower tart

Strawberry flower tart

– shortbread biscuits,
– strawberry compote,
– strawberry mousse,
– pink velvet spray,
– chocolate petals.

Materials used

– Silikomart half sphere silicone mould

– Micro-perforated silicone baking mat

– Micro-perforated strip

– Silikomart tart ring Klassik mould 70mm

– Pink velvet spray

Ingredients

Strawberry mousse
✔120g mixed strawberries
✔20g sugar
✔100g liquid cream
✔2.5g gelatine

Strawberry compote
✔120g diced strawberries
✔15g sugar
✔1g NH pectin

Biscuits
✔100g Breton Sand
✔50g melted butter

+ pink velvet spray
+ white chocolate

The recipe

For 3 tarts

Strawberry mousse
✔120g mixed strawberries
✔20g sugar
✔100g single cream
✔2.5g gelatine

Place the gelatine leaf in a bowl of cold water. In a saucepan, heat the blended strawberries with the caster sugar . Remove from the heat and add the gelatine, previously softened in a bowl of cold water and squeezed dry. Set aside to cool. Whip the cold cream with an electric mixer and gently fold into the previous mixture. Fill the silikomart half sphere mould. Place in the freezer for at least 3-4 hours.

Biscuits
✔100g Breton Sand
✔50g melted butter

In a salad bowl, crumble the Breton shortbread biscuits. Add the melted butter. Mix then line the tartlet moulds, packing well at the bottom and edges with the back of a spoon. Place in a cool place to allow the butter to harden.

Strawberry compote
✔120g diced strawberries + 30g diced strawberries
✔15g sugar
✔1g NH pectin

Cut 120g of diced strawberries into very small cubes. Pour into a saucepan and heat the diced strawberries 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 30g of diced strawberries. Mix well. Fill the tartlets with the compote and set aside.

Top the tartlets with the strawberry compote.

Assembly

Make tempered white chocolate and colour it with a little food colouring. Make chocolate petals on guitar paper.

Take the strawberry mousse from the freezer. Turn out of the mould and immediately apply the pink velvet spray. Place the white chocolate rose petals on the tartlet and place the strawberry dome on top.

Yellow peach and pistachio cake

Yellow peach and pistachio cake made with
– a pistachio biscuit,
– a yellow peach mousse
– a pistachio mousse
– a peach jelly.

Full english recipe in my shop

Material used

– Rectangular frame 20X11x4.5 cm

– Ancel 210 bloom gelatine

– Tefal baking tray

– Baking paper

– Angled spatula

Ingredients

Pistachio cake
35g pistachio powder
35g sugar
7g flour
10g melted butter
2 egg whites

Peach jelly

Peach mousse
Liquid cream
Yellow peach
Gelatine
Sugar
Egg yolks

Pistachio mousse
Liquid cream
White chocolate
Vanilla
Pistachio praline
Gelatine

The recipe

Pistachio cake
35g pistachio powder
35g sugar
7g flour
10g melted butter
2 egg whites

Pour the sugar, pistachio powder and flour into a bowl. Mix well. Add the egg and melted butter. Beat the egg whites with an electric mixer. Add ⅓ of the egg whites to the batter and mix to soften. Add the remaining egg whites and mix gently. Pour onto a baking tray, smoothing the surface. Bake at 180°C for 10 to 12 minutes. Leave to cool, then cut out a 20×11 cm rectangle to fit your pastry frame.

Yellow fruit Pavlova cloud

Yellow fruit Pavlova cloud made with

– a meringue
– whipped cream
– and yellow fruit.

Equipment used

– Baking tray

– Baking paper

– Plain pastry bag

– Pastry bag

Ingredients

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

Chantilly cream
150g cold single cream
30g caster sugar

+ Yellow fruit (peaches and apricots)
+ a few mint leaves

The recipe

Serves 5 Pavlova clouds

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

Place the egg whites, caster sugar, cornflour and lemon juice in 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? hours, then leave in the oven for a further 30 minutes.

Chantilly cream
150g cold single cream (30% fat)
30g caster sugar

Whip the cold cream with an electric mixer. Use single cream with a minimum fat content of 30% (I often use Président Fleurette Extra). 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.

Top with yellow fruit and mint leaves. Chill until ready to eat. I served these pavlovas with a fresh fruit salad.

Tip : If you don’t want to eat your pavlovas straight away, we recommend applying a little melted white chocolate with a brush before poaching the whipped cream to protect your meringues from humidity.