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.
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.
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.
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.
– 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.
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.
Tour simple
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pour all the ingredients into the pan. Heat the white fondant to 60°C in a bain marie. Mix well. Pour onto the silicone chablon placed on a baking tray and place in the freezer for a few hours.
Choux pastry ✔60g water ✔60g milk ✔70g flour ✔55g butter ✔Salt ✔1 teaspoon sugar ✔2 or 3 eggs (depending on size)
+sucre glace et beurre de cacao
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). Place a tea towel astride the door of your oven so that the steam can escape. Leave to cool on a wire rack.
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 long spoon biscuits on a sheet of baking paper and sprinkle with icing sugar. Bake at 180°C for 8 to 10 minutes.
Separate the egg whites from the yolks in two bowls. Using an electric mixer, beat the yolks with the mascarpone and half the sugar (25g). Mix and set aside.
In the second bowl, beat the egg whites with an electric mixer, gradually incorporating the remaining 25g sugar. Gently fold the egg whites into the mascarpone cream.
Assembly
Cut the top off your éclairs. Top with mascarpone cream.
Add the sponge cake, which has been soaked in coffee. Top with a little mascarpone cream.
Close the éclair. Place the white fondant on each lightning bolt.
I cut baking paper into the shape of my éclair to protect it and sprinkled cocoa powder over half of the fondant.
Mix the sugar and pectin in a small bowl. Pour the 120g of diced strawberries into a saucepan. Heat over a low/medium heat for 3 to 4 minutes, stirring a little. Increase the heat and, as soon as it starts to boil, add the sugar and pectin mixture. Cook for 2 minutes, stirring regularly. Turn off the heat and add the 30g of diced strawberries. Mix well. Fill 4 cavities of the silikomart small oven insert mould, leave to cool slightly then place in the freezer for at least 3 hours.
In a bowl, add the almond powder, icing sugar, flour and melted butter. Mix well. Add the egg and mix again.
In another bowl, beat the egg whites with an electric mixer. Fold in a small amount to loosen the mixture, then gently fold in the rest using a pastry blender. Pour the biscuit dough onto a baking tray lined with baking paper, smoothing with an angled spatula. Do not spread the dough out too much, so that it is at least 5 to 8 mm thick.
Bake the biscuit for around ten minutes at 180°C. The time may vary depending on the oven. The biscuit should come out golden brown. Take the biscuit out of the oven and leave it to cool before cutting it out with a circular cookie cutter to the diameter of the opening in your silikomart mould.
Place the gelatine in a large bowl of cold water. Pour the 130g of blended peaches into a saucepan. Heat until just beginning to boil. Remove from the heat and add the wrung-out gelatine. Set aside. In a salad bowl, whip the very cold liquid cream and gently fold in the cooled mixture using a pastry blender.
Assembly Fill the silikomart mini dot X6 mould with peach mousse, add the frozen insert, adding a little more mousse if necessary, then finish with the almond biscuit, which you can brush with a syrup flavoured with a little alcohol. Place in the freezer overnight.
The next day, remove the frozen entremets from the moulds. Immediately apply the velvet sprays. I used one yellow and one orange.
I garnished with a brunoise of yellow peach and decorated with an edible flower.