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Apple cube

Apple cube with

– vanilla mousse,
– diced apples with cinnamon
– a crumble
– a sweet pastry biscuit.

Materials used

– 8-cube Silikomart mould

– Ancel 210 bloom gelatine

– Silikomart X2 microperforated baking mat

– Baking tray

– Baking paper

– Rolling pin

– Square cookie cutter

Ingredients

Vanilla mousse
30g liquid cream
30g white chocolate
60g cold single cream 30% fat min
Vanilla powder or vanilla pod
1g gelatine

Apple cubes
150g apple cores
1g gelatine
Cinnamon powder
20g caster sugar
30g water

Sweet pastry
25g caster sugar
70g flour
35g butter
1 egg yolk

Crumble
25g brown sugar
70g flour
40g butter

The recipe

Vanilla mousse
30g liquid cream
30g white chocolate
60g cold single cream 30% fat min
Vanilla powder or vanilla pod
1g gelatine

In a small saucepan, pour the 30g of liquid cream (minimum fat content 30%). Add the vanilla powder or, better still, a vanilla pod cut in half and scraped with the tip of a knife to extract the vanilla. Heat to a gentle boil. Turn off the heat and leave to infuse, covered, for 20 minutes. Melt the white chocolate in the microwave. Heat the cream again for a minute, then remove from the heat and add the gelatine. Pour over the melted white chocolate. Mix well and set aside. Whip the cream and fold into the previous mixture.

Assembly

Fill the silikomart cube mould about 1/3 full with vanilla mousse. Place in the freezer for at least 30 minutes to 1 hour for the mousse to set.

Apple cubes
150g apple cores
1g gelatine
Cinnamon powder
20g caster sugar
30g water

Peel and dice around 2 apples. I’ve chosen goldens, which hold up well to cooking. Remember to keep the apple stalks to decorate your cube. Place your leaf gelatine in a bowl of cold water. Pour the diced apples into a frying pan with the water and caster sugar. Fry for a few minutes over a medium heat. Add a little powdered cinnamon. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine, wrung out and softened.

Leave to cool slightly before placing in the Silikomart mould on top of the vanilla mousse. Press down slightly with the back of a spoon. Return to the freezer.

Sweet dough
25g caster sugar
70g flour
35g butter
1 egg yolk

Mix all the ingredients together. Form into a ball, roll out and chill for 30 minutes. Roll out the dough between two sheets of baking paper. Place in the freezer for a few minutes, then cut out using a square, fluted cookie cutter to the size of your silikomart mould.

Place on a baking tray covered with a micro-perforated mat. Place a second mat on top and bake in a hot oven at 170°C for around ten minutes. Leave to cool completely before handling, as they will harden as they cool.

Crumble
25g brown sugar
70g flour
35g butter

Mix all the ingredients together. Crumble onto a baking tray lined with baking paper and bake for a few minutes at 170°C. Using a square cookie cutter (the same size as your silikomart cube mould), cut out the crumble as soon as it comes out of the oven while it is still hot, then leave to cool completely. The crumble will then harden and you can place it on your apple cubes.

Remove your cubes from the freezer, place each one on a sweet pastry biscuit and then place a square of crumble on top.

I decorated with a real apple tail and a mint leaf.

Strawberry Entremet

Strawberry Entremet composed of

– a sweet pastry,
– a strawberry mousse,
– a strawberry compote insert,
– a white chocolate crisp,
– pink velvet spray,
– Bergena flowers.

Equipment used

– Tefal baking tray

– Silikomart truffles crown mould

– Angled spatula

– Baking paper

– Ancel 210 bloom gelatine

Ingredients

Strawberry compote
✔150g strawberries
✔20g sugar
✔2g gelatine

Strawberry mousse
✔240g strawberries
✔40g sugar
✔5g gelatine
✔180g liquid cream

Crisp
✔50g white chocolate
✔30g Crêpes dentelles

Sweet pastry
✔65g flour
✔25g icing sugar
✔35g butter
✔1 pinch of salt
✔1 egg yolk

Assembly

✔Spray velvet pink
✔Bergena flowers

The recipe

Strawberry compote
✔150g small diced strawberries
✔20g sugar
✔2g gelatine

Place the gelatine leaves in a bowl of cold water. In a saucepan, heat the finely diced strawberries with the caster sugar for a few minutes. Remove from the heat and add the wrung-out gelatine. Mix well and set aside to cool slightly. Fill a piping bag with the compote.

Crisp
✔50g white chocolate
✔30g Crêpes dentelles

Mix the melted white chocolate and the crêpes dentelles. Roll out between two sheets of baking paper. Place in a cool place for the chocolate to harden, then cut out using a cookie cutter. Chill until ready to assemble.

Strawberry mousse
✔240g strawberries
✔40g sugar
✔5g gelatine
✔180g single cream

Place the gelatine leaves in a bowl of cold water. In a saucepan, heat the strawberry coulis (mixed strawberries) with the caster sugar. Remove from the heat and add the wrung-out gelatine. Mix well and set aside. Whip the cold cream with an electric mixer. Pour over the cooled mixture and stir gently.

To assemble: Fill the Silikomart mould with the strawberry mousse, pushing it up to the edges. Add the strawberry compote. Finish with the remaining mousse and then the crumble. Place in the freezer overnight or for at least 6 hours.

Sweet pastry
✔65g flour
✔25g icing sugar
✔35g butter
✔1 pinch of salt
✔1 egg yolk

Mix all the ingredients together, film and place in a cool place. Roll out the pastry thinly between 2 sheets of greaseproof paper. Cut out using a cookie cutter. Place in the freezer while you preheat your oven. Bake between two micro-perforated baking mats at 170° for approximately 12 minutes. Leave to cool.

The next day, unmould the entremets and immediately apply the pink velvet spray (I found it on the deco-relief.fr website). Place each entremet on a sweet pastry biscuit.

I decorated it with Bergena flowers.

Vanilla and praline sheep entremet

Vanilla and praline sheep entremet made with

– a hazelnut biscuit,
– a praline insert
– a creamy praline insert
– a vanilla mousse
– a praline crunch,
– a white velvet spray,
– a sugar paste decoration.

Materials used

– Silikomart 3D Forest Fruits mould

– Silikomart half sphere mould X15

– Gold quality Ancel gelatine (210 bloom)

Ingredients

Hazelnut praline
✔100g hazelnuts
✔50g almonds
✔75g caster sugar

Hazelnut biscuit
✔35g hazelnut powder
✔35g caster sugar
✔10g melted butter
✔7g flour
✔1 egg
✔1 egg white

Praline crisp
✔20g white chocolate
✔25g praline
✔20g crêpes dentelles

Creamy hazelnut praline almonds
✔0.5g gelatine
✔30 ml cream
✔1 egg yolk
✔5g caster sugar
✔15g praline

Vanilla mousse
✔80g cream
✔1 vanilla pod
✔80g white chocolate
✔120g cold liquid cream
✔2g gelatine

+ white velvet spray

The recipe

For 4 entremets

Hazelnut praline
✔100g hazelnuts
✔50g almonds
✔75g caster sugar

Pour the hazelnuts and almonds onto a baking tray and place in the oven at 150°C for 15 minutes. Pour the caster sugar into a saucepan and make a caramel. Pour onto a sheet of greaseproof paper and leave to cool. Place the hazelnuts, which have been rubbed to remove as much of the skin as possible, the mandes and the chopped caramel in the bowl of a blender and blend until you obtain the praline. You’ll have some praline left over for other recipes. It keeps very well in a sealed container. Just stir it well again before use, as the oil will rise to the surface. Fill the cavities of the silikomart half sphere x15 mould with praliné. Place in the freezer for at least 5-6 hours.

Hazelnut praline cream
✔0.5g gelatine
✔30 ml cream
✔1 egg yolk
✔5g caster sugar
✔15g praline

Place the gelatine in a bowl of cold water. In another bowl, mix the egg yolk with the sugar until they whiten slightly. Bring 30 ml of cream to the boil in a saucepan, remove from the heat and pour the hot cream over the previous mixture. Return to the saucepan and cook over a low heat until it reaches 82ºC. Remove from the heat and add the wrung-out gelatine. Pour the hot cream over the hazelnut praline and mix. Fill the insert mould, Silikomart half-sphere 15 cavities for me, with this creamy praline. Place in the freezer for at least 4 hours.

Place half a praline sphere and half a cream sphere on top of each other. Place in the freezer until ready to assemble.

Hazelnut biscuit
✔35g hazelnut powder
✔35g caster sugar
✔10g melted butter
✔7g flour
✔1 egg
✔1 egg white

In a bowl, mix the whole egg with the sugar. Add the hazelnut powder, flour and melted butter. Mix well. In another bowl, beat the egg whites with a mixer. Gently fold them into the mixture using a pastry blender. Pour the biscuit dough onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake the biscuit for around ten minutes at 180°C. The biscuit should come out golden brown. Remove the biscuit from the oven and leave to cool completely before cutting out with a cookie cutter.

Praline crisp
✔20g white chocolate
✔25g praline
✔20g crêpes dentelles

Melt the white chocolate in the microwave. Add the crumbled crêpes dentelles and praline. Mix gently. Roll out between two sheets of baking paper and place in the freezer. Remove from the freezer and cut out with a pastry cutter the size of your mould. Keep in the freezer until ready to assemble.

Vanilla mousse
✔80g cream
✔1 vanilla pod
✔80g white chocolate
✔120g cold liquid cream
✔2g gelatine

Place the gelatine leaf in a large bowl of cold water. In a saucepan, heat the cream then turn off the heat and infuse with the vanilla pod previously halved and scraped out. Return the saucepan to the heat. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine, wrung out and softened, and the melted white chocolate. Mix again. Set aside. Whip the cold cream with an electric mixer. Add the cooled cream (approx. 30°C) to the previous mixture and mix gently.

Assembly

Pour the vanilla mousse halfway into the Silikomart 3D Fruits des Bois mould. Add the insert and the hazelnut biscuit. Top with a little vanilla mousse and finish with the crisp. Place in the freezer overnight.

The next day, remove the cakes from the moulds and immediately apply the white velvet spray. I decorated them with a sheep’s head made from sugarpaste.

Easter egg strawberry cake

Easter egg strawberry cake made with

– sponge cake soaked in syrup,
– mousseline cream.
– fresh strawberries,
– almond paste.

Materials used

– Mallard oval cake tin

– Ancel 210 bloom gelatine

– Tefal baking tray

– Baking paper

– Rolling pin

– Angled spatula

– 4.5cm high rhodoïd film

– Chocolate spatula (optional)

Ingredients

The sponge cake
4 eggs
110 g sugar
55 g flour
55 g cornflour

The mousseline cream
360 g milk
70 g sugar
3 egg yolks
15 g flour
120 g butter
15 g cornflour
liquid vanilla or vanilla pod
120 g butter

Strawberry jelly
120g strawberries
20g sugar
3.5g gelatine
red colouring

Assembly and decoration

Strawberries
Milk and dark chocolate decorations
Syrup (30g water, 30g sugar, 1 cap alcohol)

The recipe

Serves 6

The sponge cake
4 eggs
110 g sugar
55 g flour
55 g cornflour

Whisk the eggs and sugar in a bowl, place in a bain-marie and whisk until the mixture reaches 55°C.

Pour into the bowl of the food processor and whizz until completely cool, doubling the volume of the mixture.

Sift in the flour and cornflour and stir gently. Bake in an oven preheated to 210°C, then immediately reduce the temperature to 180°C for 8-9 minutes. When cool, turn out onto a sheet of baking paper and carefully remove the baking sheet used during cooking.

Cut two ovals smaller than the size of your mould and set aside for assembly.

The mousseline cream
360 g milk
70 g sugar
3 egg yolks
15 g flour
120 g butter
15 g cornflour
liquid vanilla or better vanilla pod
120 g butter

Heat the milk and vanilla. In a bowl, combine the egg yolks, sugar, flour and cornflour. Pour in the hot milk, stir and return to the saucepan. Blend until the cream thickens. Remove from the heat, add 120g of diced butter and blend. Strain on contact and allow the cream to cool completely. In the bowl of a food processor, whip the remaining 120g of butter until fluffy. Then gradually add the mousseline cream, which has cooled to room temperature (same temperature as the butter). Be careful to use standard butter, not soft or low-fat, as it will harden in the refrigerator and hold the cream and the strawberry mould together.

Assembly
Place your entremet oval on your plate. Cover with cling film. Arrange the halved strawberries around the edge. Place your first sponge cake on the bottom. Brush the sponge cake with a syrup of sugar and rum or kirsch. In a small saucepan, pour 30g caster sugar and 30g water and heat until boiling. Remove from the heat and add a small capful of alcohol. Mix well. Poach some crème mousseline, a few strawberries cut into pieces, some cream, the second sponge cake soaked in syrup and then finish with a little cream. Smooth with an angled spatula and set aside in the fridge for at least 4 hours to allow the butter to harden and give your strawberry cake some hold.

Strawberry jelly
120g strawberries
20g sugar
3.5g gelatine
red colouring

Blend 120g of strawberries and strain to remove the seeds. Pour the strawberries into a saucepan with 20g caster sugar. Heat through. Remove from the heat and add 3.5g of gelatine, previously softened in a bowl of cold water and squeezed dry. I added a drop of red colouring because the strawberries lose their colour when heated. Mix and leave to cool before pouring over your cake. Chill until the jelly sets.

I decorated the strawberries with strawberries and chocolate eggs.

Remember to remove the rhodoïd film before serving your cake.

Fried egg eclair

Fried egg eclair composed of

– choux pastry,
– pastry cream
– white fondant
– almond paste.

Material used

– micro-perforated baking mat

– fluted tip

– piping bag

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 cornflour
✔35 g butter
✔Vanilla, liquid or powdered
✔1 capful of rum

Assembly
✔ Almond paste
✔ White pastry fondant
✔ Yellow colouring

The recipe

For about 6 éclairs

Pastry cream
✔400g milk
✔60 g sugar
✔4 egg yolks
✔20 g cornflour
✔35 g butter
✔Vanilla, liquid or powdered
✔1 capful of rum

Heat the milk In a bowl, mix the yolks, sugar and cornflour.
Pour the hot milk over it.Stir.Pour back into the saucepan.Stir until thickened.Set aside in a bowl, film and chill.

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 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 icing sugar. Bake at 175°C for 35 to 40 minutes (time may vary depending on oven). Leave to cool on a wire rack.

Assembly

Remove the pastry cream from the fridge. Loosen it a little with a spatula, then use a piping bag fitted with a piping tip to pipe two small holes under each éclair and top with the cream. Heat the white fondant (35°C) in a bain-marie with a little yellow colouring and drizzle over the éclairs. Set aside in a cool place.

I decorated them with little fried eggs made with marzipan. I used white marzipan coloured yellow for the yolk.

Mango coconut egg

Mango and coconut egg

– a coconut dacquoise biscuit,
– a diced mango insert
– a coconut mousse,
– mango jelly,
– chocolate icing,
– chocolate puffed rice.

Materials used

– Silikomart secret mould 100ml – 8 cavities

– Ancel 210 bloom gelatine

– Silikomart small oven mould 15 cavities

– Silikomart half sphere mould – 24 cavities

Ingredients

Coconut dacquoise
50g egg whites
30g grated coconut
30g icing sugar
5g caster sugar

Mango insert
30g mixed mango
10g caster sugar
a little vanilla powder
1g gelatine
50g diced mango

Coconut mousse
5g gelatine
200g coconut cream
30g caster sugar
180g single cream 30% fat

Mango jelly
75g mango mix
10g caster sugar
1g gelatine

Puffed rice
55g chocolate puffed rice
50g milk chocolate

Chocolate icing
150g white chocolate
4-6 pistoles of milk chocolate
10g neutral oil
a little vanilla powder

Assembly
Diced fresh mango

Bread roll

The recipe

For 6 desserts

Coconut dacquoise
50g egg whites
30g grated coconut
30g icing sugar
5g caster sugar

Whisk the egg whites with the caster sugar. Sift in the coconut powder and icing sugar. Stir gently. Poach the dacquoise on a sheet of baking paper about the length of your tin and bake at 170°C for 12 to 15 minutes. Leave to cool. Using a cookie cutter, cut out circles the same diameter as your tin. Set aside.

Mango insert
30g mixed mango
10g caster sugar
a little vanilla powder
1g gelatine
50g diced mango

Place the gelatine in a large bowl of cold water. In a saucepan, heat the mango purée with the caster sugar until it boils. Remove from the heat, add the wrung-out gelatine, vanilla powder and diced mango, leave to cool slightly then pour halfway into your silikomart petits fours mould (about 15g). Chill for 1 hour, then freeze for at least 4 hours.

Coconut mousse
5g gelatine
200g coconut cream
30g caster sugar
180g single cream 30% fat

Place the gelatine leaves in a bowl of cold water. In a small saucepan, heat the 200g coconut cream with the caster sugar until it comes to the boil. Turn off the heat and add the wrung-out gelatine. Mix well and set aside. Whip the cold cream with an electric mixer. Pour over the previous mixture and stir gently.

Assembly

Fill the Silikomart secret mould with coconut mousse. Add the frozen mango insert. Top with the coconut mousse and then the dacquoise biscuit. Chill in the freezer overnight.

Mango jelly
75g mixed mango
10g caster sugar
1g gelatine

Soften the gelatine in a bowl of cold water. In a saucepan, pour in the blended mango, caster sugar (to be measured according to your fruit) and 1 tablespoon of water if the mixture is too thick. Remove from the heat and add the wrung-out gelatine. Leave to cool (< 40°C) then pour into the silikomart half sphere 24 cavity mould. Place in the freezer.

Puffed rice
55g chocolate puffed rice
50g milk chocolate

Melt the milk chocolate. Add the puffed rice and mix well. Fill the base of an entremet ring, pressing down with the back of a teaspoon. Repeat the operation. Place in the freezer for a few minutes to allow the chocolate to set.

Chocolate icing
150g white chocolate
4-6 pistoles of milk chocolate
10g neutral oil
a little vanilla powder

The next day, melt the white chocolate with the neutral oil. Add a few dabs of milk chocolate. Mix well. Add a little vanilla powder.

Unmould the frozen entremets and immediately apply the chocolate icing. Using a wooden skewer, dip each dessert into the icing. Scrape the underside of each dessert over the rim of your bowl to remove any excess chocolate.

Place each entremet on a disc of puffed rice.

Cut the fresh mango into small cubes and fill the hollow of the mould. Then add the half sphere of mango jelly.

I served my entremet with some mouillettes.

Mouillette in sliced bread

Cut a slice of sandwich bread or brioche. Fry in a pan with a little butter and caster sugar, turning well on all sides.

Half Lemon Entremet

Half Lemon Entremet composed of
– sweet pastry,
– a lemon mousse,
– a lemon curd,
– white chocolate,
– lemon jelly,
– velvet spray.

Materials used

– Micro-perforated silicone baking mat X2

– Silikomart Rainbow mould

– Tefal baking tray

Ingredients

Lemon curd
✔2 eggs
✔50g sugar
✔60g lemon juice
✔4g gelatine
✔30g butter

Lemon mousse
✔Curd
✔160g liquid cream

Sweet pastry
✔65g flour
✔22g sugar
✔1 pinch of salt
✔35g butter
✔1 yolk

Lemon jelly
✔25g lemon juice
✔8g sugar
✔8g water
✔1g gelatine

Lemon curd
✔2 eggs
✔50g sugar
✔60g lemon juice
✔4g gelatine
✔30g butter

In a saucepan, heat the lemon juice with the caster sugar and eggs until the cream thickens. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine, previously softened in a bowl of cold water and squeezed dry. Set aside to cool.

Remove 50g of lemon curd and pipe into a piping bag.

Lemon mousse
✔Curd
✔160g single cream

Whip the very cold liquid cream with an electric mixer and gently fold into the previous lemon curd mixture.

Assembly

Half fill your Silikomart rainbow mould with lemon mousse. Poach a little curd. Top with the remaining lemon mousse. Place in the freezer overnight.

Sweet pastry
✔65g flour
✔22g sugar
✔1 pinch of salt
✔35g butter
✔1 yolk

Mix all the ingredients together, line and chill. Roll out the pastry thinly between 2 sheets of greaseproof paper. Using the cookie cutter supplied with the tin. Use both sides of the cutter for both sides. Place in the freezer while you preheat your oven. Bake between two micro-perforated baking mats at 170° for around ten minutes. Leave to cool.

The next day, unmould the cakes and immediately apply the velvet sprays. I used one yellow and one green velvet spray. Place each entremet on a sweet pastry biscuit.

I made a white chocolate decoration and placed it on top of the biscuit.

Lemon jelly
✔25g lemon juice
✔8g sugar
✔8g water
✔1g gelatine

Place the gelatine sheet in a large bowl of cold water to soften. Pour the lemon juice, sugar and water into a saucepan. Heat through. Remove from the heat, add the gelatine and leave to cool slightly before pouring over your dessert.

Raisin bread

Raisin bread made with

– leavened puff pastry
– pastry cream
– raisins

Materials used

– Brush

– Tefal baking tray

– Cutter

– Rolling pin

Ingredients

Raised puff pastry
✔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

✔Dried grapes

For the pastry cream
✔250 ml milk
✔3 egg yolks
✔60g caster sugar
✔25g cream powder or cornflour
✔Vanilla powder

For the gilding
✔1 egg yolk
✔1 teaspoon single cream

The syrup
✔30g water
✔30g sugar

The recipe

Leavened puff pastry

The 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 tourage butter

Combine the flour, salt, sugar, yeast, butter; water and milk in the bowl of a food processor. Blend for around ten minutes. Place in a bowl, line and leave to rise for 45 minutes at room temperature.

Deaerate the dough then flatten it with your hands to form a rectangle. Place in a cool place to firm up.

Soften the 125g of butter and shape into a rectangle (the size ⅓ of the pastry).

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 rectangle with the butter without overlapping. Cover with plastic wrap and chill for at least 30 minutes.

Roll out the pastry into a long rectangle and make a single turn. Fold the right-hand side towards the centre and then the left-hand side. Chill again.

For the pastry cream
✔250 ml milk
✔3 egg yolks
✔60g caster sugar
✔25g cream powder or cornflour
✔Vanilla powder

Heat the milk in a saucepan with the vanilla. In a bowl, whisk together the egg yolks, sugar and cream powder. Pour the hot milk over this mixture. Stir and pour back into the saucepan. Stir until the cream thickens. Set aside in a cool place.

Soak the sultanas in warm water with a capful of rum.

Roll out the pastry into a rectangle. Trim the edges of the rectangle with a box cutter if necessary. Cover with the pastry cream and drained raisins, leaving a two-centimetre border at the bottom. Brush a little water over this margin. Roll out the pastry and place in the freezer for a few minutes to firm up a little so that you can cut out sections.

Place them on a baking tray lined with baking paper, spacing them well apart as they will increase in size. Place your baking tray in the oven with a pan filled with hot water or on the very low heat setting (< 30°).

For the gilding
✔1 egg yolk
✔1 teaspoon single cream

Glaze with a mixture of egg yolk and cream, then bake at 170°C for 20 minutes. Once out of the oven, place the raisin bread on a wire rack and immediately pour over the hot syrup.

Brush syrup over a mixture of 30g sugar and 30g water brought to the boil.

Enjoy 😋

Strawberry tiramisu

Strawberry tiramisu made with

– homemade sponge biscuits
– mascarpone cream
– strawberries,
– pink velvet spray.

Equipment used

– Pastry frame 16cm

– Pastry bag

– Plain pastry bag

– Ancel 210 bloom gelatine

Ingredients

Spoon biscuits
✔3 egg whites
✔3 egg yolks
✔90g caster sugar
✔90g flour
+Icing sugar

Cooking time
180°C – 8 to 10 minutes

Mascarpone cream
✔250g mascarpone
✔3 yolks
✔3 whites
✔80g caster sugar
✔10g milk
✔2 x 2g gelatine leaves

Syrup
✔20g water
✔20g sugar
✔A little alcohol

Assembly
✔Strawberries
✔Spray velvet pink

The recipe

Serves 6

Spoon biscuits
✔3 egg whites
✔3 egg yolks
✔90g caster sugar
✔90g flour
+Icing sugar

Separate the egg whites from the yolks. Beat the egg whites with an electric mixer, adding the sugar gradually. Then add the egg yolks. Mix gently with a spatula.

Sift in the flour. Mix again. Fill a piping bag fitted with a plain tip. Poach the sponge biscuits on a sheet of baking paper and sprinkle with icing sugar. Bake at 180°C for 8 to 10 minutes. Leave to cool and cut into two squares.

Mascarpone cream
✔250g mascarpone
✔3 yolks
✔3 whites
✔80g caster sugar
✔10g milk
✔2 x 2g gelatine leaves

Place the gelatine sheets in a large bowl of cold water for around ten minutes. Pour the milk into a small bowl and heat in the microwave. Add the softened and wrung-out gelatine. Mix well and set aside. Separate the egg whites from the yolks in two bowls. Beat the yolks with the mascarpone and half the sugar (40g) using an electric mixer. Add the milk and gelatine mixture. Mix well and set aside.

Beat the egg whites in the second bowl with an electric mixer, gradually incorporating the remaining 40g sugar. Gently fold the egg whites into the mascarpone cream.

Syrup
✔20g water
✔20g sugar
✔A little alcohol

In a saucepan, add the water, sugar and bring to the boil. Turn off the heat and add a little alcohol.

Assembly
Brush the top of your biscuits with syrup. Place your pastry frame on a plate. Insert the first (largest) syrup-soaked biscuit.

Add the halved strawberries all around, then the mascarpone cream, pushing it up over the strawberries. Add the chopped strawberries in the middle. Top up with more mascarpone cream. Add the second soaked biscuit. Smooth over the frame. Fill a piping bag with the remaining mascarpone cream. Evenly poach the top. Place in the freezer for at least 2 hours.

Apply pink velvet spray.

Hazelnut pear cake

Hazelnut pear cake with

– a hazelnut biscuit
– a hazelnut praline crisp,
– a pear mousse
– a rocher icing.

Material used

– Pavoni Slake mould

– Ancel 210 bloom gelatine

– Tefal baking tray

– Baking paper

Ingredients

Hazelnut praline
✔100g hazelnuts
✔50g caster sugar

Hazelnut biscuit
✔35g icing sugar
✔1 egg
✔35g hazelnut powder
✔10g butter
✔7 g flour
✔1 egg white

Chocolate and hazelnut praline crisp
✔40g hazelnut praline
✔30g milk chocolate
✔30g crêpes dentelles

Pear mousse (the day before)
✔115g mixed pears
✔10g caster sugar
✔100g single cream
✔3g gelatine

Rock icing
✔150g chocolate
✔20g neutral oil
✔30g chopped almonds

The recipe

Serves 6

Hazelnut praline
✔100g hazelnuts
✔50g caster sugar

Pour the hazelnuts onto a baking tray and place in the oven at 150°C for 15 minutes. Pour the caster sugar into a saucepan and make a caramel. Pour onto a sheet of greaseproof paper and leave to cool. Place the hazelnuts, which have been 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 the praline is obtained.

Hazelnut biscuit
✔35g icing sugar
✔1 egg
✔35g hazelnut powder
✔10 g butter
✔7 g flour
✔1 egg white

Melt the butter. 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 a mixer. Gently fold into the mixture using a pastry blender. Pour the biscuit dough onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake the biscuit for approximately 10 minutes at 170°C. Remove the biscuit from the oven and leave to cool before peeling it from the paper and cutting it out using the cookie cutter supplied with the tin.

Chocolate and hazelnut praline crisp
✔40g hazelnut praline
✔30g milk chocolate
✔30g crêpes dentelles

Melt the milk chocolate. Add the crumbled crêpes dentelles and praline. Mix gently. Spread over the hazelnut biscuit and place in the freezer.

Pear mousse
✔115g mixed pears
✔10g caster sugar
✔100g liquid cream
✔3g gelatine

Soften the gelatine leaves in a bowl of cold water. Heat the pear purée (blended ripe pears or blended pears in syrup) in a saucepan. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine, wrung out and softened, stirring well. Set aside. Whip the cold cream with a mixer, adding the icing sugar. Add the cooled pear purée.

Assembly

Fill the Pavoni Slake mould with the pear mousse, then finish with the hazelnut biscuit covered in the crumble, with the crumble facing inwards. Place in the freezer overnight.

Rock icing
✔150g chocolate
✔20g neutral oil
✔30g chopped almonds

In a narrow container that can hold the entremet, pour melted milk chocolate with a little neutral oil and chopped almonds. Mix well. Remove the desserts from the freezer. Push a wooden skewer over the top and dip the entremets into the rock icing, which has been cooled to <40°C. Scrape the edges of the cakes to remove any excess and place them on a plate.