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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pour the eggs, sugar and sachet of vanilla sugar into the bowl of the food processor. Whizz for 10 minutes, then sift in the flour. Stir gently with a spatula and pour onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake at 170°C until golden brown. Leave to cool, peel off the paper and cut the sponge into 3 squares.
For the syrup ✔100ml water ✔65ml strong coffee ✔12ml coffee extract ✔70g sugar ✔1 vanilla pod
Pour all the ingredients into a saucepan and heat, then set aside.
Coffee buttercream ✔3 eggs ✔60 g sugar ✔200 g softened butter ✔25ml coffee extract
In a double boiler, heat the eggs and sugar to 50°C, checking the temperature with a kitchen thermometer. Transfer to the bowl of a food processor and whizz until cool. Add the butter, then the coffee. If the cream is grainy or doesn’t look right, you can add a little more butter to make up for it.
Place your 1st sponge cake in the bottom of your frame. Brush it with syrup. Cover with a layer of buttercream (1/3 of the cream, i.e. about 130g). Repeat the operation for the other two biscuits. Chill for a few hours.
Coffee ganache ✔50g white chocolate ✔1g gelatine ✔Coffee extract ✔50g hot cream ✔200g cold cream ✔1g gelatine
Pour the 50g of liquid cream into a saucepan and heat. In a bowl, add the 50g of white chocolate and melt a little in the microwave. Pour over the hot cream, the gelatine (previously softened in a bowl of cold water) and the coffee extract (a few drops for me, depending on the desired intensity). Mix well. Chill for at least 4 hours.
Whip the ganache with an electric mixer. Fill a piping bag with the ganache and poach on the cake.
Optional: You can add pan-roasted chopped almonds all around the cake.
Vanilla mousse ✔60g cream ✔1 vanilla pod ✔60g white chocolate ✔120g cold liquid cream ✔2g gelatine
The recipe
For 5 desserts
Peanut praline ✔50g sugar ✔100g peanuts
Roast the peanuts on a baking sheet for 15 minutes in the oven at 150°C. Make a caramel with the sugar and pour onto greaseproof paper. When cool, break into pieces and place in the bowl of a blender. Add the peanuts and blend until praline-like. A good blender is essential. Fill the silikomart petits fours mould halfway up and place in the freezer for at least 4 hours.
In a bowl of cold water, place the gelatine leaves. In a saucepan, heat the milk. In a bowl, mix the yolks and sugar. Pour over the milk and transfer to the saucepan. Heat while stirring, without exceeding 83°C. Remove from heat and add the gelatine and praline. Mix and set aside. Whip the cold cream with an electric mixer. Pour over the previous mixture and stir gently. Pour into Pavoni Ipnosi silicone spiral mould. Freeze overnight. You’ll have some mousse left over after this step.
Melt the butter. In a bowl, mix the whole egg with the sugar. Add peanut powder, flour and melted butter. Mix well. In another bowl, beat the egg whites with the powdered sugar. Gently fold into the mixture using a pastry blender. Pour the cookie dough onto a baking tray lined with baking paper or into a silicone mould. Bake for approx. 10 min at 170°C. Remove from the oven and leave to cool. Cut out with a cookie cutter.
Mix melted chocolate and peanut praline. Crumble crêpes dentelles. Mix together. Roll out between two sheets of baking paper and place in the freezer. Remove from freezer and cut out with a cookie cutter the diameter of your cookie.
Vanilla mousse ✔60g cream ✔1 vanilla pod ✔60g white chocolate ✔120g cold liquid cream ✔2g gelatine
In a large bowl of cold water, place the gelatine leaves. 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. Set aside. Whip the chilled cream with an electric mixer. Add the cooled cream (approx. 30°C) to the previous mixture and mix gently.
Assembly
Half-fill the silikomart essenziale mould with vanilla mousse. Add the frozen praline insert. Top with a little mousse, then finish with the cookie and crunch. Place in the freezer overnight.
The next day, unmold the entremets and apply the brown velvet spray. Top with peanut mousse.
Mix the salt, sugar, flour, yeast and milk in a food processor for a few minutes. Then add the butter, cut into pieces. When the butter is well integrated into the dough, place it in a bowl. Cover with cling film and chill for 1 hour.
Spread out on a floured work surface and shape into a large rectangle.
Spread the spread (for me it was Nutella) all over the surface.
Roll up to form a sausage. Place in the freezer for 30 minutes. Cut in half and braid the dough, with the cut side up.
Place in a cake tin, cover with a tea towel and leave to rise for 1h30 to 2h00 near a source of heat (radiator for example, or in a switched-off oven with a container of hot water).
Preheat oven to 170°C and bake for 35 to 40 minutes.
Remove from the oven, allow to cool slightly, then remove from the mold and place on a wire rack.
Brush with syrup (mixture of 30g sugar, 30g water brought to the boil).
Place the pecans on a baking tray and bake 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 pecans and chopped caramel in the bowl of a blender and blend until you have a praline.
You will have some pecan praline left over after this recipe. You can store it in a sealed jar.
Melt the milk chocolate in the microwave. Add the crumbled crêpes dentelles and the pecan praline. Mix gently. Roll out between two sheets of baking paper and place in the freezer. Remove from the freezer and cut out using a pastry cutter. Place in the freezer.
Place the gelatine leaf in a bowl of cold water. In a small saucepan, heat the 70g of liquid cream with a few drops of coffee extract (to be measured according to the desired intensity). Remove from the heat and add the gelatine and melted white chocolate. Mix well and set aside. Whip the cold cream with an electric mixer. Pour in the previous mixture when the temperature is around 30°C and stir gently.
Assembly
Fill the Silikomart Essenziale 80 mould halfway with the coffee mousse, using a spoon to smooth the edges. Poach some pecan praline in the middle. Add a little more coffee mousse and finish with the pecan crisp. Place in the freezer for at least 6 hours or overnight.
The next day, remove the cakes from the moulds and immediately apply the brown velvet spray. Decorate with a chocolate coffee bean. Chill for at least 3 hours.
In a bowl of cold water, soften the gelatin leaf. In a small saucepan, heat the blended strawberries and powdered sugar. Mix well. Remove from heat and add the wrung-out, softened gelatin. Mix and set aside.
Whip the chilled cream with an electric mixer. Gently fold in the cooled mixture. Pour into your silikomart mini dot sphere mold. Freeze for 4 hours.
Sweet dough ✔35 g soft butter ✔65 g flour ✔22g powdered sugar ✔1 pinch salt ✔1 egg yolk
Mix all ingredients together. Roll out the dough thinly between 2 sheets of parchment paper, then place in the fridge for at least 30 minutes. Line the circles. Bake at 165/170°C for 15-20 minutes. Leave to cool completely.
Cream butter with sugar. Add almond powder and egg. Mix well. Remove from freezer and fill tartlets. Bake at 175°C for 20 minutes. Leave to cool completely.
In a small bowl, combine the sugar and NH pectin. Cut strawberries into small cubes. Heat the diced strawberries in a saucepan for a few minutes over low heat. Increase heat. Add the powdered sugar/pectin mixture. Cook over medium heat for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Leave to cool slightly and fill a piping bag with the mixture. Set aside.
Once the tartlets have cooled, top with strawberry compote and smooth to the edge of the tartlet with a spatula. Set aside.
Remove the strawberry mousse from the freezer and immediately apply the velvet fuchsia spray, then place on the tartlets.
Optional: You can garnish the top with a little strawberry jelly.
Strawberry jelly ✔25g strawberries, mixed and strained ✔7g water ✔5g caster sugar ✔1g gelatin
I decorated with a small prunus flower, a raspberry and a small sheet of edible gold leaf.
Chestnut mousse ✔60g chestnut cream ✔15g single cream ✔1.5g gelatine ✔35g single cream
In a bowl of cold water, soften the gelatine sheet. In a small saucepan, heat the 15g single cream and the 60g chestnut cream. Mix well. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine, wrung out and softened. Mix and set aside.
Whip the cold cream with an electric mixer. Gently fold in the cooled mixture. Pour into your silikomart half sphere mould. Place in the freezer for 4 hours.
Brown mounted ganache ✔50g single cream ✔50g white chocolate ✔50g chestnut cream ✔100g single cream ✔1g gelatine
Heat the 50g of liquid cream in a saucepan. Pour over the melted white chocolate in batches. Mix well. Add the chestnut cream. Pour in the 100g cold cream. Mix, cover with clingfilm and chill for at least 4 hours.
Sweet pastry ✔70 g soft butter ✔130 g flour ✔45g icing sugar ✔1 pinch of salt ✔1 egg yolk
Mix all the ingredients together. Roll out the dough thinly between 2 sheets of greaseproof paper then place in the fridge for at least 30 minutes. Line the rings with the pastry. Bake at 165/170°C for 15 to 20 minutes. Leave to cool completely.
Poach some chestnut cream at the bottom of each tartlet.
Chantilly cream ✔20 cl single cream ✔80 g mascarpone cheese ✔25 g caster sugar ✔1 capful of liquid vanilla
Whip the liquid cream with the mascarpone in a mixer. Add the caster sugar and vanilla. Top the tartlets with the whipped cream. Smooth out.
Whip the cold whipping cream with an electric mixer. Cover the tart shells with the whipped cream, smoothing with an angled spatula.
Remove the half-spheres of chestnut mousse from the freezer, turn them out of the mould and immediately apply the white velvet spray, then place them on the tartlets.
Using an electric mixer, whip up the chestnut ganache and poach it onto the tartlets using a fluted tip.
I decorated it with a little edible gold leaf and a decorative tile that I put on at the last minute. Chill until ready to eat.
Coconut biscuit Mix all the ingredients together. Pour onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake in the oven at 170°C. Cut out a 12x12cm square and place in the pastry frame on top of the crisp.
Raspberry compote
Make a raspberry compote and pour half over the coconut biscuit. Place in the freezer for a few minutes.
Coconut mousse
Make a coconut mousse. Add the gelatine and whipping cream, then pour half over the compote. Place in the freezer for a few minutes.
Raspberry jelly On the same day, make a jelly using blended raspberries. Add the gelatine and fill a piping bag with it.
Apply the white velvet spray to the frozen cake. Place in a cool place while defrosting. Remove the frame. Serve whole or cut into individual portions.