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Vanilla pecan tartlet

Vanilla pecan tartlet made with

– sweet pastry,
– pecan cream,
– a pecan praline,
– a vanilla mousse,
– white velvet spray.

Material used

– Micro perforated silicone baking mat

– Klassik Silikomart silicone ring tart mould (6 cavities)

– Micro-perforated strip

– Silikomart Klassik tart ring mould 70mm

– White velvet spray

Ingredients

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

Pecan praline
✔100g pecans
✔50g caster sugar

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

Creamy pecan
✔30g pecan powder
✔30g sugar
✔30g egg
✔30g butter

The recipe

For 6 tarts

Vanilla mousse (the day before)
✔100g cold liquid cream 30% fat min.
✔100g white chocolate
✔100g liquid cream
✔2 sheets of gelatine (4g)
✔1 vanilla bean or vanilla powder

In a bowl of cold water, soften the gelatine leaves. In a saucepan, heat the cream with the vanilla bean previously split in half and scraped. Turn off the heat, cover and leave to infuse for at least 20 minutes. Heat the cream a little more, then take it off the heat and add the gelatine, wrung out. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine and the melted white chocolate. Mix well. Set aside. Whip the cold cream with an electric mixer. Gently add the cooled mixture. Pour into your silikomart ring Klassik tart mould. Place in the freezer overnight.

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 greaseproof paper then put it in the fridge for 30 minutes. Line the circles.

Pecan cream
✔30g pecan powder
✔30g sugar
✔30g egg
✔30g butter
Work the kneaded butter with the sugar. Add the pecan powder and the egg. Mix together. Garnish the tarts. Bake at 175°C for 20 minutes. Allow to cool completely.

Pecan Praline
✔100g pecans
✔50g caster sugar
Pour the pecans onto a baking tray and bake at 150°C for 15 minutes. In a saucepan, pour the caster sugar and make a caramel. Pour onto a sheet of baking paper and allow to cool. Place the pecans and the chopped caramel in the bowl of a blender and blend until you have a praline.

Spoon the praline onto each tartlet.

Remove the vanilla mousses from the freezer and apply the white velvet spray immediately. Place the mousses on the tarts and chill until ready to eat and defrost (2 hours). I put a pecan nut on top.

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Coffee and chocolate cake

Coffee and chocolate cake composed of

– a hazelnut biscuit,
– a praline crunch,
– a coffee mousse,
– a chocolate ganache,
– a dark chocolate glaze.

Material used

– Rectangular frame 20X10 cm

– Ancel 210 bloom gelatin

– Baking tray

– Baking paper

Ingredients

Hazelnut biscuit (the day before)
✔100 g hazelnut powder
✔2 egg
✔3 egg whites
✔100 g icing sugar
✔30 g butter
✔14 g flour
✔14 g caster sugar

Hazelnut praline (the day before)
✔100g hazelnuts
✔50g powdered sugar

Chocolate crisp (the day before)
✔60g hazelnut praline
✔30g milk chocolate
✔30 to 35g of crêpes dentelles

Coffee mousse (the day before)
✔120g cold liquid cream
✔Coffee extract
✔125g milk
✔50g caster sugar
✔3 g gelatine

Chocolate ganache (the day before)
✔60g dark chocolate
✔60g liquid cream

Dark chocolate glaze
✔45g sugar
✔45 g glucose
✔25 ml water
✔45 g dark chocolate
✔30 ml unsweetened condensed milk or cream
✔2 x 2g gelatine leaves

The recipe

For 5 to 6 people

Hazelnut biscuit (the day before)
✔100 g hazelnut powder
✔2 egg
✔3 egg whites
✔100 g icing sugar
✔30 g butter
✔14 g flour
✔14 g caster sugar

Make a hazelnut butter. In a saucepan, melt the butter until it takes on a nice colour and a hazelnut smell. Set aside. In a bowl, mix the whole egg with the icing sugar. Add the hazelnut powder, flour and melted butter. Mix well. In another bowl, beat the egg whites with the powdered sugar. Incorporate a third of the egg whites and mix to loosen the mixture, then gently fold the rest into the mixture with a pastry blender. Pour the biscuit dough onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake the biscuit for 8 to 10 minutes at 180°C. Remove the biscuit from the oven and allow it to cool before peeling it off the paper and cutting out 3 rectangles measuring 20X10cm. Place the first biscuit on a plate inside your rectangular frame.

Hazelnut praline (the day before)
✔100g hazelnuts
✔50g powdered sugar

Place the hazelnuts on a baking tray and bake at 150°C for 15 minutes. In a saucepan, pour the caster sugar and make a caramel. Pour onto a sheet of baking paper and leave to cool. Place the hazelnuts, rubbed to remove as much of the skin as possible, and the caramel cut into pieces in the bowl of a blender and blend until you have praline. You will have some praline left over for another recipe. This can be kept in a closed container. You will just have to mix it well again before use as the oil from the hazelnuts rises to the surface.

Chocolate crisp (the day before)
✔60g hazelnut praline
✔30g milk chocolate
✔30 to 35g of crêpes dentelles
Melt the chocolate. Add the crêpes dentelles and the praline. Mix gently. Spread on the biscuit and place in the freezer.

Coffee mousse (the day before)
✔120g cold liquid cream
✔Coffee extract
✔125 g milk
✔50g caster sugar
✔3 g gelatine

Hydrate the gelatine in very cold water. In a saucepan, heat the milk, caster sugar and coffee extract (to be measured according to the desired intensity). Remove from the heat, add the gelatine, mix and set aside. Whip the cold cream with a mixer and add it to the previous mixture. Pour half of it over the crisp and put it back in the freezer for a few minutes.

Chocolate ganache (the day before)
✔60g dark chocolate
✔60g single cream

In a saucepan, heat the liquid cream. Pour the hot cream in batches over the melted chocolate and mix well.

Remove the cake from the freezer. Place a second biscuit on top of the coffee mousse. Pour the chocolate ganache and then the third biscuit. Put back in the freezer for a few minutes before pouring in the remaining coffee mousse. Return to the freezer overnight.

Dark chocolate icing
✔45 g sugar
✔45 g glucose
✔25 ml water
✔45 g dark chocolate
✔30 ml unsweetened condensed milk or cream
✔2 x 2g gelatine leaves

In a saucepan, heat the sugar, water and glucose. Off the heat, add the wrung out and softened gelatine. Pour this mixture over the melted chocolate. Stir well. Add the condensed milk. Use a hand blender to mix the mixture thoroughly. Remove the cake from the freezer. Cover the surface of the cake with the glaze, which has been cooled to 35°C. Leave in the fridge for a few minutes until the icing has set.

Carefully remove the frame and cut 0.5 cm off each side of the cake, so that the layers are well defined. Cut out individual slices and leave to defrost in the fridge. I decorated with edible gold leaf.

Brioche of kings

Material used

– Baking tray

– Baking paper

– 1 brush

– 1 bean

Ingredients

✔250 grams of flour
✔12 grams fresh baker’s yeast
✔50 grams of milk
✔50 grams caster sugar
✔50 grams soft butter
✔3g salt
✔1 egg
✔25g rum
✔25g orange blossom
✔orange and lemon peel
+
✔1 egg yolk for gilding
✔Sugar beads

The recipe

For a brioche for 6 people

Add all the ingredients to the bowl of a food processor: yeast, flour, sugar, butter, salt, milk, orange blossom, the zest of one orange and one lemon and rum. Blend until all ingredients are well incorporated (at least 8 minutes). Then gradually add the soft butter cut into pieces.

Continue to knead slowly for 10 minutes.

Cover the bowl with a cloth and leave to rise at room temperature for 1 hour.

On the floured work surface, form a ball, then wrap in plastic wrap and chill overnight.

The next day, degas the dough and shape it into a crown. Place on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Leave the dough to rise in the switched-off oven with a large bowl of hot water for at least 2 to 3 hours.

Brush the pastry with egg yolk.

Sprinkle with sugar pearls.

Bake at 160°C for 15 minutes, placing the brioche in a cold, unheated oven (so that it continues to rise and is thus softer and more airy), then turn the oven off for about 10/15 minutes.

Pistachio galette

Pistachio galette made with

– homemade inverted puff pastry,
– pistachio cream,
– pastry cream.

Material used

– Baking tray

– Parchment paper

– Rolling pin

– 1 bean

– Silikomart braided effect silicone mat

Ingredients

Inverted puff pastry

Mani butter
✔330g butter for turning
✔130g flour

Dump
✔100g kneaded butter
✔305g T45 flour
✔10g salt
✔125g cold water
✔3g white vinegar

Pastry cream
✔250g milk
✔Vanilla powder or vanilla pod
✔2 egg yolks
✔40g caster sugar
✔20g cornflour

Pistachio cream
✔65g ointment butter
✔65g icing sugar
✔1 egg
✔85g pistachio powder
✔1 capful of rum

Frangipane cream
✔Pistachio cream
✔110g custard

+a few chopped pistachios

The recipe

Serves 4 to 6

Inverted puff pastry

Mani butter
✔330g butter for turning
✔130g flour

In the bowl of the food processor, add the chopped tourage butter and the flour. Mix with the hook until the mixture is smooth. Spread on a sheet of baking paper and form a rectangle of even height. Cover with plastic wrap and chill for at least 1 hour.

Distemper
✔100g butter
✔305g T45 flour
✔10g salt
✔125g cold water
✔3g white vinegar
In the bowl of a food processor, add the softened butter, salt and flour. Start mixing and then pour in the cold water with the vinegar. Then pour onto a sheet of baking paper and make a rectangle the same width as the kneaded butter. Use a rolling pin to make an even rectangle. Film and chill for at least 1 hour.

Make 2 double rounds and then 1 single round, leaving the dough to rest in the fridge for at least 2 hours between each round.

On the floured work surface, roll out the kneaded butter into a rectangle. Place the tempera in the middle. Fold the two ends of the beurre manié towards the middle, over the distemper to wrap it completely.

First double or wallet round
Roll out the dough lengthwise. Fold the top quarter downwards and then the bottom quarter upwards, leaving a space of about two fingers. Then fold the dough in half by half. Rotate the dough a quarter turn. With a knife, make small cuts in the dough on both sides. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill for at least 1 hour.

Second double or wallet round – same as above
Roll out the dough lengthwise. Fold the top quarter down and then the bottom quarter up, leaving a space of about two fingers. Then fold the dough in half by half. Rotate the dough a quarter turn. With a knife, make small cuts in the dough on both sides. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill for at least 1 hour.

Single turn
Roll out the dough lengthwise again, turn it a quarter turn and fold it in three, first the right side towards the middle and then the left side.

Pastry cream
✔250g milk
✔Vanilla powder or vanilla pod
✔2 egg yolks
✔40g caster sugar
✔20g cornflour

Heat the milk with the vanilla. In a bowl, add the egg yolks, sugar and cornflour. Mix well. Pour the hot milk over the mixture gradually while stirring, then return it to the pan. Return to the heat, over medium heat, stirring constantly until the cream thickens. Pour the cream into a bowl, strain and chill. You will have enough custard left over at the end of this recipe to make and freeze a second circle of frangipane cream.

Pistachio cream
65g of butter
65g icing sugar
1 egg
85g pistachio powder (Mix pistachios)
1 capful of rum
Mix all the ingredients together.

Frangipane cream
Pistachio cream
110g of pastry cream

Mix the pistachio cream and the custard. I added some chopped pistachios on top for a little crunch. Place the cream on a piece of baking paper. Place a bean on top and freeze overnight.

The next day, roll out your puff pastry into a large rectangle and cut two circles (one slightly larger than the other) in the puff pastry (use a cutter or scalpel to cut the pastry so as not to crush the leaves). Brush the smaller circle with water. Place the frozen pistachio frangipane cream in the middle and cover with the second circle of puff pastry. Press all around to divide the pastry well. Turn the whole thing over on a baking tray, having previously placed a Silikomart silicone mat with a braided effect.

Brush egg yolk over the top only (be careful not to apply egg yolk to the edges) then place in the fridge for at least 10 minutes to allow the yolk to dry. Place your cake in the fridge for 30 minutes before baking.

Bake at 180°C for 30 min then lower the temperature to 160°C for 40 min.

After baking, turn the cake over to get the braided effect on the top. I sprinkled a little caramel powder (obtained by mixing cooled caramel) and put the cake back in the oven at 220°C for a few minutes to colour it.

I put some chopped pistachios on top.

Hazelnut galette

Hazelnut galette made with

– homemade inverted puff pastry,
– hazelnut cream,
– pastry cream.

Material used

– Baking tray

– Parchment paper

– Rolling pin

– 1 bean

Ingredients

Inverted puff pastry

Mani butter
✔330g butter for turning
✔130g flour

Dump
✔100g kneaded butter
✔305g T45 flour
✔10g salt
✔125g cold water
✔3g white vinegar

Pastry cream
✔250g milk
✔Vanilla powder or vanilla pod
✔2 egg yolks
✔40g caster sugar
✔20g cornflour

Hazelnut cream
✔65g ointment butter
✔65g icing sugar
✔1 egg
✔85g hazelnut powder
✔1 capful of rum

Frangipane cream
✔Hazelnut cream
✔110g custard

+some chopped hazelnuts

The recipe

Serves 4 to 6

Inverted puff pastry

Mani butter
✔330g butter for turning
✔130g flour

Make 2 double rounds and then 1 single round, leaving the dough to rest in the fridge for at least 2 hours between each round.

Single turn
Roll out the dough lengthwise again, turn it a quarter turn and fold it in three, first the right side towards the middle and then the left side.

Pastry cream
✔250g milk
✔Vanilla powder or vanilla pod
✔2 egg yolks
✔40g caster sugar
✔20g cornflour

Hazelnut cream
✔65g butter
✔65g icing sugar
✔1 egg
✔85g hazelnut powder
✔1 capful of rum
Mix all the ingredients together.

Frangipane cream
✔Hazelnut cream
✔110g custard

Mix together the hazelnut cream and the custard. I added chopped hazelnuts on top to add a little crunch. Place the hazelnut cream on a piece of greaseproof paper. Place a bean on top and freeze overnight.

The next day, roll out your puff pastry into a large rectangle and cut out two hazelnut shapes (one slightly larger than the other) in the puff pastry (use a cutter or scalpel to cut the pastry and not to crush the leaves). Brush some water on one of the hazelnuts with a brush. Place the frozen frangipane cream in the middle and cover with the second circle of puff pastry. Press all around to divide the pastry well. Turn the whole thing over on a baking tray.

Brush egg yolk over the top only (be careful not to apply egg yolk to the edges) then place in a cool place for at least 10 minutes for the yolk to dry. Brush with more egg yolk and decorate the cake with the back of a knife. Place the cake in the fridge for 30 minutes before baking.

Prick the pastry (small holes with a wooden pick) at the level of your decoration so that the air escapes during baking. Bake at 180°C for 20 minutes and then lower the temperature to 160°C for 40 minutes.

Brioche of kings

Material used

– Baking tray

– 1 bean

– Micro perforated baking mat

Ingredients

Ingredients for 2 buns
✔400 grams flour
✔24 grams fresh baker’s yeast
✔100 grams of 10 cl milk
✔60 grams caster sugar
✔50 grams soft butter
✔1 level teaspoon of salt
✔2 eggs
✔15g rum
✔1 tablespoon orange blossom
+
✔Egg yolk for gilding
✔Sugar beads

The recipe

Add all the ingredients to the bowl of the food processor: yeast, flour, sugar, butter, salt, eggs, milk, orange blossom and rum.

Knead slowly for 50 minutes.

Place the filmed dough in a cool place overnight.

Degas and shape the dough into a crown. Gild and let the dough rise.

Brown the dough again and sprinkle with sugar pearls.

Bake at 160°C for 15 minutes and then turn off the oven.

Brioche, french king cake

Brioche of king

Soft brioche, traditionally served at Epiphany, which shares the limelight with its cousin the frangipane or Parisian galette

Recipe

Classic frangipane galette made with

– homemade puff pastry,
– almond cream
– pastry cream,
– syrup for the topping.

Recipe

Hazelnut galette made with

– homemade inverted puff pastry,
– hazelnut cream,
– pastry cream.

Recipe

Chocolate bar galette made with

– homemade puff pastry,
– and chocolate frangipane cream.

Recipe

Pomponette

A fluffy, individual brioche galette with a lovely orange blossom flavour.

Recipe

Chocolate hazelnut frangipane galette made with

– homemade puff pastry,
– hazelnut cream,
– chocolate pastry cream,
– syrup for topping.

Recipe

French king cake

French king cake made with

– homemade puff pastry,
– frangipane cream,

Material used

– Baking tray

– Parchment paper

– 1 bean

Ingredients

Puff pastry
✔300g flour
✔5g salt
✔150g tempered water
✔100g melted butter
✔150g butter for turning

Pastry cream
✔100ml milk
✔1 egg
✔15g sugar
✔10g cornflour
✔Vanilla powder

Almond cream
✔85g almond powder
✔65g icing sugar
✔65g softened butter
✔1 egg
✔10g rum

Frangipane cream
✔almond cream
✔pastry cream
✔30g chopped almonds

The recipe

For 4 to 6 people

Puff pastry (the day before)
✔300g flour
✔5g salt
✔150g tempered water
✔100g melted butter
✔150g butter for turning

Pour the flour, salt, water and melted butter into the bowl of a food processor and mix the ingredients. Make a ball and slash with a knife to form a cross.

Cover with plastic wrap and chill for at least 30 minutes. During this time, place your tourage butter (if not classic butter) in greaseproof paper, folding the sheet to obtain a square of about 15 to 16 cm. Flatten with a rolling pin to get an even thickness.

Roll out the dough on a floured work surface in the shape of a cross. Put the butter in the middle.

Enclose the tourage butter by folding the 4 sides into the centre. Then roll out the dough lengthwise. If necessary, cut off the ends to make a nice rectangle.

Rotate the dough a quarter turn and fold the dough in three, right side towards the middle and then the left side. Fold the dough lengthwise again and fold in three, first the right side and then the left side. Two rounds have now been completed. Wrap your dough in plastic wrap and chill for at least 1 hour.

Make 2 more rounds in the same way. Wrap your dough in plastic wrap and chill overnight. You can then use it as is or make two more rounds to get a thinner pastry.

Pastry cream (the day before)
✔100ml milk
✔1 egg
✔15g sugar
✔10g cornflour
✔Vanilla powder

Heat the milk in a saucepan. In a bowl, mix the egg, sugar and cornflour. Pour the hot milk over the mixture and return it to the pan until it thickens. Strain and set aside in a cool place.

Almond cream (the day before)
✔85g almond powder
✔65g icing sugar
✔65g softened butter
✔1 egg
✔10g rum

Mix all the ingredients together.

Frangipane cream

✔30g chopped almonds (Optional)

Mix the almond cream and the custard. I added chopped almonds to give it a little crunch. Place the cream in a circle on baking paper. Place a bean on top and freeze overnight.

The next day, roll out your puff pastry into a large rectangle and cut two circles (one slightly larger than the other) in the puff pastry (use a cutter or scalpel to cut the pastry so as not to crush the leaves). Brush some water on one of the circles. Place the frozen frangipane cream in the middle and cover with the second circle of puff pastry. Press all around to divide the pastry well. Turn the whole thing out onto a baking tray.

Brush with egg yolk/cream and chill for 10 minutes. Brush again with egg yolk and decorate the cake with the back of a knife. Place the cake in the fridge for 30 minutes before baking.

Prick the pastry (small holes with a wooden pick) at the level of your decoration so that the air escapes during baking. Bake at 180°C for 20 minutes, then lower the temperature to 160°C for 40 minutes. You can brush your cake with a mixture of water and sugar (brought to the boil in a small saucepan) to give it more shine.

Vanilla, caramel candle Entremet

Vanilla, caramel candle Entremet made of

– a sweet pastry biscuit
– a creamy caramel insert
– a vanilla mousse,
– a financier,
– a white velvet spray,
– white chocolate wax,
– a white chocolate flame,
– popping candy.

Material used

– Silikomart micro perforated baking mat

– Silikomart truffle mould X15

– Silikomart chocolate mould Tartufino

– Ancel gold quality gelatine 210 bloom

– White velvet spray

Ingredients

Creamy caramel (the day before)
✔30g sugar
✔10g water
✔7g glucose
✔10g hot liquid cream
✔1 egg yolk
✔50g cold liquid cream
✔2g gelatine

Financier (the day before)
✔40g soft butter
✔30g peanut powder
✔100g egg whites
✔55g icing sugar
✔30g flour
✔1.5g fine salt

Vanilla mousse (the day before)
✔50g single cream
✔50g white chocolate
✔Vanilla powder or vanilla pod
✔50g cold liquid cream 30% MG min.
✔2g gelatine

Sweet dough biscuits
✔70g flour
✔10g icing sugar
✔40g butter
✔1 egg yolk
✔1 pinch of salt

+ White velvet spray

+ Popping candy

+ White chocolate

The recipe

For 9 small candles

Creamy caramel (the day before)
✔30g sugar
✔10g water
✔7g glucose
✔10g hot liquid cream
✔1 egg yolk
✔50g cold liquid cream
✔2g gelatine

In a large bowl of cold water, place the gelatine sheet. In a bowl, mix the yolk and the 50g of cold liquid cream. Set aside. In a saucepan, make a caramel with the water, sugar and glucose. Deglaze the caramel with the hot liquid cream. Add the egg yolk/cream mixture to the caramel and heat over a very low heat so as not to cook the eggs, like when making a custard, without stopping to stir. Do not exceed 82°C. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine, wrung out and softened, stirring well. Pour into the silikomart Tartufino mould and place in the freezer for at least 4 hours.

Financier (the day before)
✔40g soft butter
✔30g peanut powder
✔100g egg whites
✔55g icing sugar
✔30g flour
✔1.5g fine salt

In a saucepan, add the butter and make a hazelnut butter by letting it heat up over a low heat. This will take on a nice colour and a hazelnut smell. Set aside. In a bowl, add the flour, icing sugar, salt and peanut powder. Gradually add the unbeaten egg whites while mixing. Add the cooled melted butter and mix. Pour onto a baking tray lined with baking paper and bake at 180°C for about ten minutes. Leave to cool, then cut out small circles of the same diameter as your tin.

Vanilla mousse (the day before)
✔50g liquid cream
✔50g white chocolate
✔Vanilla powder or vanilla pod
✔50g cold liquid cream 30% MG min.
✔2g gelatine

In a bowl of cold water, place the gelatine sheet. In a saucepan, heat the 50g of liquid cream with the vanilla pod or vanilla powder. 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 (having first removed the vanilla pod). Pour over the melted white chocolate, mix and set aside. Whip the cold cream with an electric mixer and add the icing sugar. Pour over the previous mixture and stir gently.

Assembly
Half fill the Silikomart Truffles mould. Add the creamy caramel insert, a little of the remaining vanilla mousse and finish with the financial biscuit. Place in the freezer overnight.

The next day

Sweet dough biscuits
✔70g flour
✔10g icing sugar
✔40g butter
✔1 egg yolk
✔1 pinch of salt

Mix all the ingredients together, roll out and put in the fridge. Roll out the dough between two sheets of baking paper then detail circles with a cookie cutter. Bake at 180°C between two sheets of micro perforated paper. Watch the cooking and take them out as soon as they colour. Leave to cool.

Melt some white chocolate (150g). Poach the chocolate on baking paper, drawing flames. Apply some popping candy on top and let it set. Place the remaining white chocolate in a piping bag.

Turn out the cakes and apply the white velvet spray immediately. Poach the white chocolate on the top, making drips. Push in the flame covered with popping candy before the white chocolate in the wax is set. Place on the sweet pastry discs and chill (2 hours) until ready to eat.

Three chocolate log

– a hazelnut biscuit,
– a crunchy biscuit,
– a white chocolate mousse,
– a milk chocolate mousse,
– a dark chocolate mousse,
– a milk chocolate mirror glaze.

Material used

– Silicone log mould – small model – 18 x 8 cm – Silikomart

– Ancel 210 bloom gelatine (gold quality)

– Plate for dune-shaped log end (meilleurduchef)

Ingredients

Basic custard
✔milk
✔egg yolks
✔caster sugar
✔Vanilla powder or vanilla pod

Mirror glaze (the day before)
✔sugar
✔glucose
✔water
✔milk chocolate
✔liquid cream 30% MG min.
✔leaves of gelatine

Hazelnut biscuit
✔65g icing sugar
✔1 egg
✔65g hazelnut powder
✔20 g butter
✔15g flour
✔15g caster sugar
✔2 egg whites

Praline crisp
✔milk chocolate
✔hazelnut/almond praline
✔crêpes dentelles

White chocolate mousse
✔hot custard
✔white chocolate Zephyr
✔liquid cream
✔ leaf of gelatine

Milk chocolate mousse
✔hot custard
✔milk chocolate
✔liquid cream
✔leaf gelatine

Dark chocolate mousse
✔hot custard
✔dark chocolate
✔liquid cream
✔sheet gelatine

The recipe

Basic custard
✔milk
✔egg yolks
✔caster sugar
✔Vanilla powder or vanilla pod

In a saucepan, pour and heat the milk with the vanilla. In a bowl, pour the yolks and powdered sugar. Mix well. Pour the hot milk over the yolks and mix well before returning the mixture to the pan. Heat over medium heat, stirring constantly, without exceeding 85°C. Set aside.

Hazelnut biscuit
✔65g icing sugar
✔1 egg
✔65g hazelnut powder
✔20g butter
✔15g flour
✔15g caster sugar
✔2 egg whites
Melt the butter in a small saucepan until it has a nice golden colour. Set aside. In a bowl, mix the whole egg with the icing sugar. Add the hazelnut powder, flour and melted butter. Mix well.
In another bowl, beat the egg whites with the powdered sugar. Gently fold them into the mixture using a marysee. Pour the biscuit dough onto a baking tray covered with baking paper. Bake the biscuit for about 10 minutes at 170°C. Remove the biscuit from the oven and allow it to cool before peeling it off the paper and cutting it into a 6X17 cm rectangle. Set aside.

Praline crisp
✔milk chocolate
✔hazelnut/almond praline
✔crêpes dentelles

Melt the milk chocolate. Add the praline. Mix. Finally add the crumbled crêpes dentelles. Mix gently. Spread on the hazelnut biscuit and put in the freezer.

Whip the 300 g of cream with a minimum of 30% fat content with an electric mixer. Set aside in a cool place.

White chocolate mousse
✔hot custard
✔white chocolate Zephyr
✔liquid cream
✔ leaf of gelatine

In a bowl of cold water, soften the gelatine sheet. Heat the custard in a saucepan. Remove from the heat and add the wrung-out and softened gelatine. Stir to combine. Pour over the melted white chocolate. Add and gently stir the 100g of whipping cream with an electric mixer. Pour into the Silikomart log mould and place in the freezer for 15 minutes so that the mousse hardens.

Milk chocolate mousse
✔hot custard
✔milk chocolate
✔liquid cream
✔leaf gelatine

In a bowl of cold water, soften the gelatine sheet. In a saucepan, heat the custard. Off the heat, add the wrung out and softened gelatine. Stir to combine. Pour over the melted milk chocolate. Add and gently stir the 100g of whipping cream with an electric mixer. Pour into the Silikomart log mould, over the white chocolate mousse and place in the freezer for 15 minutes to harden.

Dark chocolate mousse
✔hot custard
✔dark chocolate
✔liquid cream
✔sheet gelatine

In a bowl of cold water, soften the gelatine sheet. In a saucepan, heat the custard. Off the heat, add the wrung out and softened gelatine. Stir to combine. Pour over the melted dark chocolate. Add and gently stir the 100g of liquid cream whipped with an electric mixer. Pour into the Silikomart log mould, over the milk chocolate mousse. Add the hazelnut biscuit with the crunchy side facing inwards and place in the freezer overnight.

Mirror glaze (the day before)
✔sugar
✔glucose
✔water
✔milk chocolate
✔liquid cream 30% MG min.
✔leaves of gelatine

In a saucepan heat the sugar, water and glucose. Off the heat add the wrung out and softened gelatine. Pour this mixture over the previously melted chocolate. Stir well. Add the liquid cream. Use the hand blender to obtain a homogeneous mixture and place the mixture in the fridge.

The next day, take the log out of the freezer and apply the icing, which should be brought to around 35°C.

I decorated with cocoa nibs, the number 2023 in edible gold powder stamped on the icing and two log ends made of milk chocolate. Place in the fridge for at least 5 to 6 hours before eating.

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