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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.

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.

Mint and raspberry entremet

Mint and raspberry entremet composed of

– a crispy speculoos base,
– mint mousse,
– fresh raspberries,
– white velvet spray,
– raspberry compote,
– a lace tuile.

Equipment used

– Silikomart half-sphere mould with 6 cavities

– Ancel 210 bloom gelatine (gold quality)

– Kitchen thermometer

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Ingredients

Speculoos crunch
✔55g white chocolate
✔65g speculoos paste
✔40g crêpes dentelles

Raspberry compote
✔160g raspberries
✔30g sugar
✔1g pectin nh

Mint mousse
✔150g single cream
✔mint leaves
✔3 egg yolks
✔45g sugar
✔150g single cream (30% fat)
✔4g gelatine

Pistachio lace biscuits
✔30 g unsalted chopped pistachios
✔60 g caster sugar
✔15 g flour
✔25 g orange juice
✔30 g melted butter

White velvet spray

The recipe

For 6 people

Mint mousse
✔150g single cream
✔mint leaves
✔3 egg yolks
✔45g sugar
✔150g single cream (30% fat)
✔4g gelatine

Pour 150g 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 leaves in a large bowl of cold water.

In a bowl, mix the egg yolks and caster sugar.

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

Pour the hot cream over the egg yolk/sugar mixture. 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 150g of very cold liquid cream and add the previous mixture when its temperature is around 30°C. Mix gently and assemble.

Crunchy speculoos
✔55g white chocolate
✔65g speculoos paste
✔40g crêpes dentelles

Melt the white chocolate in the microwave. Add the speculoos paste.

Add the crumbled crêpes dentelles. Mix gently. Roll out between two sheets of baking paper and place in the freezer. Remove from the freezer and cut out using a cookie cutter the same diameter as your mould. Place in the freezer until ready to assemble.

Assembly

Fill the Silikomart half-sphere mould halfway with mint mousse, add the raspberries, top up with mint mousse and finish with the crunchy layer. Place in the freezer overnight.

The next day, remove the frozen desserts from their moulds and immediately apply the white velvet spray. Place on your serving plate and chill for at least 2 to 3 hours to allow them to thaw.

Raspberry compote
✔160g raspberries
✔30g sugar
✔1g NH pectin

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

Heat the 160g of raspberries in a saucepan for a few minutes over low heat. Increase the heat. Add the sugar/pectin mixture. Cook over medium heat for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Blend, let cool, and fill a piping bag with the mixture.

Pistachio lace biscuits
✔30 g chopped unsalted pistachios
✔60 g caster sugar
✔15 g flour
✔25 g orange juice
✔30 g melted butter

Chop the unsalted pistachios.

Pour the flour and caster sugar into a mixing bowl.

Add the melted butter and orange juice. Mix.

Finish by adding the chopped pistachios. Chill for at least 30 minutes.

Place very small amounts of dough (1/2 teaspoon) on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Bake at 180°C until golden brown. The tuiles will harden as they cool.

Poach the raspberry compote around the dessert. Place fresh raspberries and mint leaves on top. Keep chilled.

Just before serving, place the lace tuile on top.

Vanilla macadamia nut magnum

Vanilla macadamia nut magnum composed of

– vanilla ice cream,
– caramelised macadamia nuts,
– caramel,
– white chocolate rock icing.

Equipment used

– Silikomart Magnum Gel01 mould

– Angled spatula

– Piping bag

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Ingredients

For the homemade caramel
✔ 40g caster sugar
✔ 60g heated single cream
✔ 15g semi-salted butter

Caramelised macadamia nuts
✔40g pecan nuts
✔20g water
✔20g caster sugar

For the vanilla ice cream
✔45g cold sweetened condensed milk
✔480g very cold liquid cream, minimum 30% fat content
✔21 sachet of vanilla sugar
✔Vanilla powder or vanilla pod
✔1g ice cream stabiliser

Chocolate rock icing
✔250g/300g white chocolate
✔30g neutral oil or cocoa butter
✔30g chopped almonds
✔Caramel colouring

The recipe

For 4 magnums

For the homemade caramel
✔ 40g caster sugar
✔ 60g heated single cream
✔ 15g semi-salted butter

Melt the sugar in a saucepan.

When it has a nice amber colour, remove from the heat and add the previously heated cream. Mix well and return to the heat to melt all the caramel completely.

Remove from the heat and finally add the butter. Leave to cool completely, then fill a piping bag with the mixture.

Caramelised macadamia nuts
✔40 g pecan nuts
✔20 g water
✔20 g caster sugar

Cut half of the macadamia nuts in half or into pieces.

Melt the caster sugar and water in a saucepan. When the caramel has browned, add the macadamia nuts and stir well to coat them in caramel.

Continue stirring until they are well coloured.

Place them on baking paper, spacing them apart to prevent them from sticking together, and leave them to cool.

In a small bowl, mix the packet of vanilla sugar with the Stabglaces. In a salad bowl, pour in the liquid cream, vanilla powder, and vanilla sugar mixed with Stabglaces. Mix well and refrigerate for at least 15 minutes.

Next, whip the well-chilled liquid cream with an electric mixer. Gradually add the cold sweetened condensed milk as well.

Stabiliser is an emulsifier used in ice cream production. It stabilises the watery structure of the mixture by preventing the formation of ice crystals, which are unpleasant to the taste.

Fill a piping bag with the vanilla cream.

Assembly

Fill the Silikomart Gel01 magnum mould halfway with vanilla cream.

Add the caramelised macadamia nuts.

Add a wooden stick per magnum, then pour in the caramel.

Top with vanilla cream.

Smooth with the angled spatula to remove any excess and place in the freezer for at least 3 hours.

Chocolate rock glaze
✔250g / 300g white chocolate
✔30g neutral oil or cocoa butter
✔30g chopped almonds
✔Caramel food colouring

Melt the chocolate with the neutral oil or cocoa butter, chopped almonds and a drop of food colouring in a narrow container that can still hold the Magnum. Mix well.

Remove your magnums from the moulds but keep them in the freezer to prevent them from melting. When the chocolate is below 35°C, dip the well-frozen magnum into it. Repeat the process for all the magnums.

Return to the freezer until ready to serve.

Strawberry and mint eclair

Strawberry and mint eclair

– choux pastry,
– mint pastry cream,
– strawberry compote,
– strawberry jelly.

Material used

– micro-perforated baking mat

– fluted tip

– piping bag

– Silikomart fashion eclair mould

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Ingredients

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

Mint pastry cream
✔3 egg yolks
✔30g caster sugar
✔250g milk
✔20g flour
✔Mint leaves

Strawberry compote
✔110g cut strawberries
✔20g sugar
✔2g pectin

Strawberry jelly
✔70g juice from strawberry tails
✔3g gelatine
✔10g caster sugar
✔Strawberry brownoise

The recipe

For approx. 6 éclairs

Strawberry jelly
✔70g juice from strawberry tails
✔3g gelatine
✔10g caster sugar
✔Strawberry brownoise

Place the strawberry stems, covered with a little water and the sugar, in a small saucepan and heat over a low heat for a few minutes.

Strain the water, mashing the stalks well.

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

Return the filtered strawberry water to the heat. Remove from the heat and add the spun gelatine. Mix well. Set aside.

Finely dice the strawberries.

Pour the diced strawberries into the previous mixture.

Spread into the Silikomart fashion eclair mould about 8 mm high, chill for an hour and then freeze.

Mint pastry cream
✔3 egg yolks
✔30g caster sugar
✔250g milk
✔20g flour
✔Mint leaves

Pour 250g of milk into a saucepan. Heat through. Turn off the heat and add the fresh mint leaves. Cover and leave to infuse for at least 30 minutes.

Strain the milk and squeeze out the mint leaves. Return the milk to the heat.

Mix the yolks, sugar and flour or cornflour in a bowl. Pour the hot milk over the sugar/yolk mixture. Stir. Pour back into the saucepan. Stir until thickened. 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) + icing sugar and cocoa butter.

+Icing 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.

Then gradually add the beaten eggs, mixing well between each egg.

Poach the éclairs on a baking tray lined with a micro perforated baking mat, using a fluted tip and sprinkle with a mixture of icing sugar and cocoa butter powder. Bake at 175°C for 35 to 40 minutes (time may vary depending on oven). Straddle the oven door with a tea towel to allow the steam to escape. Leave to cool on a wire rack.

Strawberry compote
✔110g chopped strawberries
✔20g sugar
✔2g pectin

In a saucepan, cook the strawberries cut into small pieces over a 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. Fill a piping bag with the mixture and set aside until ready to assemble.

Assembly

Remove the pastry cream from the fridge. Loosen it a little with a spatula, then line a piping bag with the cream and cut off the top of each éclair.

Poach the crème pâtissière with mint.

Poach the strawberry compote.

Replace the cut-out part of the lightning bolt on top to close the opening.

Place the frozen strawberry jelly on each éclair.

I decorated with a halved strawberry and mint leaves.

Chill until ready to eat.

Blueberry tartlet

Blueberry tartlet made with

– sweet pastry,
– mint custard,
– wild blueberries
– and mint leaves.

Materials used

– Pastry bag

– 1cm plain pastry bag

– Téfal baking tray

Ingredients

Sweet pastry
✔140 g flour
✔100 g kneaded butter
✔50 g icing sugar
✔50 g almond powder
✔1 g fine salt
✔45 g egg yolks

Mint pastry cream
✔250g milk
✔3 egg yolks
✔35g sugar
✔25g flour
✔Mint leaves

Assembly

✔Wild blueberries
✔Mint leaves

The recipe

Sweet pastry
✔140 g flour
✔100 g kneaded butter
✔50 g icing sugar
✔50 g almond powder
✔1 g fine salt
✔45 g egg yolks

Mix all the ingredients together. Roll out the dough thinly between 2 sheets of greaseproof paper and place in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.

Cut the pastry into 8cm x 15cm rectangles.

Carefully place these rectangles on your rectangular moulds, folding the pastry gently so that it doesn’t crack. Place in the freezer for at least 30 minutes.

Bake in a hot oven at 200°C, then immediately lower the temperature to 175°C until they are nicely coloured. Leave to cool completely.

Carefully slide the cooled tartlet out of its holder and set aside to assemble.

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

Heat the milk.

Add the mint leaves, cover and leave to infuse for at least 20 minutes. Remove the leaves and return the milk to the heat.

In a bowl, combine the yolks, sugar and cornflour. Pour the hot milk over this. Stir. Pour back into the saucepan. Stir until the cream thickens. Off the heat, add the butter cut into pieces and stir.

Pour into a bowl, filter and chill.

Remove the cooled crème pâtissière. Loosen it slightly with a spatula. Fill a piping bag fitted with a plain tip with the cream and poach it on the tartlets.

Garnish with wild blueberries.

I decorated it with fresh mint leaves. I served with a little whipped cream on top, but you could also sprinkle a little caster sugar on top.