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Blueberry cake

Blueberry cake made with

– an almond biscuit,
– blueberry mousse
– a blueberry cream,
– blueberry jelly
– whipped cream.

Material used

– Square frame 12X12x4.5 cm

– Ancel 210 bloom gelatine

– Tefal baking tray

– Baking paper

– Angled spatula

Ingredients

Almond biscuit
35g almond powder
35g icing sugar
25g egg
10g melted butter
7g flour
2 egg whites (50g)

Blueberry mousse 1
80g liquid cream
90g blueberries
15g sugar
2g gelatine

Blueberry mousse 2
55g blueberries
30g sugar
110g cream
2g gelatine

Blueberry cream
90g blueberries
2 egg yolks
30g sugar
30g single cream
1 leaf gelatine 2g

Blueberry jelly
50g blueberries, mixed and strained
15g water
10g caster sugar
2g gelatine

The recipe

Pour 4 personnes

Almond biscuit
35g almond powder
35g icing sugar
25g egg
10g melted butter
7g flour
2 egg whites (50g)

Mix the powders, butter, egg and egg whites in a bowl. Bake at 170°C for 14-15 minutes.

Blueberry mousse 1
80g liquid cream
90g blueberries
15g sugar
2g gelatine

Pour the blended blueberries into a saucepan. Bring to the boil, then remove from the heat and add the gelatine. Mix well. In another bowl, whip the cream and add to the previous mixture. Mix well. Pour over the biscuit and place in the freezer for 10 minutes.

Blueberry cream
90g blueberries
2 egg yolks
30g sugar
30g single cream
1 leaf gelatine 2g

Heat the cream. Mix the egg yolks and sugar and add the boiling cream to the mixture. Return to the heat and thicken. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine and mixed blueberries. Pour into the frame. Place in the freezer.

Blueberry mousse 2
55g blueberries
30g sugar
110g cream
2g gelatine

Place 55g of the blueberries in a saucepan. Bring to the boil, then remove from the heat and add the gelatine. Mix well. In another bowl, whip the very cold liquid cream and add to the previous mixture. Pour over the cream and place in the freezer overnight.

Blueberry jelly
50g blueberries, mixed and strained
15g water
10g caster sugar
2g gelatine

Make a jelly with all the ingredients and pour over the frozen cake.

Chill until defrosted. Carefully remove the frame. Serve whole or cut into individual portions.

I decorated with fresh wild blueberries, mint leaves and a little whipped cream on top.

Raspberry tartlet

Raspberry tartlet made with

– a sweet pastry,
– a pastry cream,
– raspberry compote,
– raspberry mousse,
– pink velvet spray.
– a plastic chocolate raspberry,
– mint leaves and raspberries.

Materials used

– Micro-perforated silicone baking mat

– Klassik Silikomart silicone ring tart mold (6 cavities)

– Micro-perforated strip (optional)

– Silikomart tart ring Klassik 70mm mould

– Pink velvet spray

Ingredients

Raspberry mousse
✔80g raspberries
✔20g sugar
✔90g liquid cream
✔2g gelatine

Sweet pastry
✔50 g soft butter
✔100 g flour
✔35 g powdered sugar
✔15 g almond powder
✔1 pinch salt
✔1 egg yolk
✔Colorant pink

Pastry cream
✔85g milk
✔1 yolk
✔20g sugar
✔7g cornstarch
✔a little liquid or powdered vanilla
✔1 capful of rum

Raspberry compote
✔85g raspberries
✔10g sugar
✔2g NH pectin

Plastic chocolate
✔65g white chocolate
✔40g glucose
✔Red coloring

Assembly
✔Raspberries
✔Mint leaves
✔Pink velvet spray

The recipe

For 4 tartlets

Raspberry mousse
✔80g raspberries
✔20g sugar
✔90g liquid cream
✔2g gelatine

Place gelatine in cold water until softened. Heat raspberry purée (blend raspberries and strain to remove seeds) and caster sugar until boiling, then remove from heat and add wrung-out, softened gelatine. Mix and set aside.

Pour the cold cream into a bowl and whip with an electric mixer. Stir the cold cream into the warmed (below 30°C) mixture and pour into the silikomart mold. Place in the freezer for at least 3 hours.

Sweet pastry
✔50 g soft butter
✔100 g flour
✔35 g powdered sugar
✔15 g almond powder
✔1 pinch salt
✔1 egg yolk
✔Colorant pink

Mix all ingredients. Form into a ball, line and chill for at least 30 minutes. Roll out the dough thinly between two sheets of baking paper. Cut out circles and strips. You can place micro-perforated strips in your tartlet molds (optional). Line the tartlet circles and prick the pastry with a fork. Place in the freezer for a few minutes and bake at 170°C for 15 mins on a micro-perforated baking mat. Leave to cool.

Pastry cream
✔85g milk
✔1 yolk
✔20g sugar
✔7g cornstarch
✔a little liquid or powdered vanilla
✔1 capful of rum

Heat the milk and vanilla in a saucepan. In a bowl, combine the yolks, sugar and cornflour. Pour over the hot milk. Return to the saucepan and heat, stirring constantly, until the cream thickens. Add the capful of rum to flavor your cream (optional). Strain and chill.

Raspberry compote
✔85g raspberries
✔10g sugar
✔2g NH pectin

Place the raspberries in a saucepan and heat over low heat, stirring regularly, for around 5 minutes. Turn up 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 leave to cool to room temperature.

Assembly

Remove the pastry cream and loosen a little. Garnish each tart base with a little cream (approx. 20-25g). Top with raspberry compote.

Remove your raspberry mousse from the freezer and immediately apply the pink velvet spray. Place your mousse on your tartlet. Keep in a cool place until ready to eat. Allow at least 1 to 2 hours for the raspberry mousse to defrost.

I decorated with fresh raspberries, mint leaves and a small raspberry made from plastic chocolate.

Plastic chocolate
65g white chocolate
40g glucose
Red coloring

For the chocolate paste or plastic chocolate: Melt the white chocolate and add the heated glucose and colorant. Mix well. You’ll obtain a paste that needs to be filtered on contact. Leave to rest at room temperature overnight before using.

I made small beads which I then assembled to form a raspb

Strawberry Peach Entremet

Peach and strawberry mousse
-a peach mousse,
-a strawberry compote,
-a sweet biscuit,
-yellow and red velvet spray,
-whipped cream.

Material used

– Decoflex half hollow egg silicone mould

– Yellow and red velvet spray

– Saint Honoré piping tip

– Pastry bag

– Micro-perforated baking mat X2

– Baking tray

Ingredients

Sweet pastry biscuit
✔70g flour
✔20g icing sugar
✔30g butter
✔1 egg yolk
✔1 pinch of salt

Strawberry compote
✔60g strawberries, cut into small cubes
✔10g sugar
✔1g NH pectin

Peach mousse
✔2 egg yolks
✔25g sugar
✔160g peaches
✔140g liquid cream
✔4g gelatine

Final assembly
✔Yellow and red velvet spray
✔Chantilly

The recipe

For 6 entremets

Peach mousse (the day before)

✔2 egg yolks
✔25g sugar
✔160g peaches
✔140g single cream
✔4g gelatine

Place the gelatine leaves in a bowl of cold water. In a bowl, pour the 2 egg yolks and the 25g caster sugar. Mix well. In a small saucepan, heat the 160g peeled and mixed yellow peaches. Pour over the previous mixture and stir. Return the mixture to the saucepan and, without stopping stirring, continue cooking like a custard, without exceeding 82-83°C. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine, wrung out and softened. Mix well and set aside.

In another bowl, whip the 140g of very cold liquid cream with an electric mixer. Pour over the previous mixture, whose temperature is below 30°C, and stir gently with a spatula.

Assembly (the day before)

Fill the Silikomart mould with peach mousse. Place in the freezer overnight.

Sweet pastry biscuit
✔70g flour
✔20g icing sugar
✔30g butter
✔1 egg yolk
✔1 pinch of salt

Mix all the ingredients together, film and chill in the fridge. Roll out the pastry between two sheets of baking paper and cut out using a fluted cookie cutter. Place in the freezer for a few minutes while you preheat your oven to 180°C. Place your pastry on a baking tray between two micro-perforated baking mats. Place in the oven for around ten minutes. Leave to cool.

Strawberry compote
✔60g strawberries, finely diced
✔10g sugar
✔1g pectin NH

Mix the sugar and pectin NH in a small bowl. Heat the finely diced strawberries in a saucepan over a low heat for a few minutes. Stir occasionally. Then increase the heat to a gentle boil. Add the sugar and pectin mixture. Cook over a medium heat for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Leave to cool, then fill a piping bag with the mixture.

Take the frozen entremets out of the freezer and immediately apply the yellow and red velvet sprays. Place the entremet on the sweet biscuit.

Garnish the centre with the strawberry compote.

Using a Saint Honoré piping tip, poach the whipped cream on top. Using an electric mixer, whip the cream (minimum 30% fat) with the mascarpone and a little caster sugar. Chill for at least 3 hours while defrosting.

Blueberry tartlet

Blueberry tartlet made with

– sweet pastry,
– pastry cream,
– blueberry compote,
– a vanilla dome,
– wild blueberries.

Material used

– Silikomart 70mm perforated tart moulds

– Micro-perforated baking mat

– Silikomart pomponette mold

Ingredients

Sweet dough
✔70 g soft butter
✔130 g flour
✔45 g powdered sugar
✔1 pinch salt
✔1 egg yolk

Vanilla dome
✔25g white chocolate
✔25g liquid cream
✔1.5g gelatin
✔Vanilla powder
✔50g liquid cream 30% MG min

Pastry cream
✔125g milk
✔30g caster sugar
✔12g cornflour
✔2 eggs yolk
✔1 capful rum

Blueberry compote
✔150g blueberries
✔25g sugar
✔2g NH pectin

Montage
✔Wild blueberries
✔Mint leaves
✔Edible gold leaf

La recette

Vanilla dome
✔25g white chocolate
✔25g liquid cream
✔1.5g gelatin
✔Vanilla powder
✔50g liquid cream 30% MG min

Soften the gelatine in a bowl of cold water. In a saucepan, heat the cream and vanilla. Remove from heat and add the gelatine and melted white chocolate. Mix well. Set aside. Whip the chilled cream with an electric mixer. Gently fold in the cooled mixture. Pour into your silikomart pomponette mold. Freeze for 2 to 3 hours.

Pastry cream
✔125g milk
✔30g caster sugar
✔12g cornflour
✔2 eggs yolk
✔1 capful rum

Heat the milk. In a bowl, combine the yolks, sugar and cornflour. Pour the hot milk over them. Stir. Pour back into the saucepan. Stir until the cream thickens. Off the heat, add the capful of rum. Mix well. Pour into a bowl, strain and chill.

Sweet dough
✔70 g soft butter
✔130 g flour
✔45 g powdered sugar
✔1 pinch salt
✔1 egg yolk

Mix all ingredients. Roll out the dough thinly between 2 sheets of parchment paper and chill in the fridge for 30 mins. Line the circles and freeze for 10 minutes. Preheat oven to 170°C. Bake for about ten minutes, then brush with egg yolk. Continue baking for a few minutes. Leave to cool.

Blueberry compote
✔150g blueberries
✔25g sugar
✔2g NH pectin

Place the blueberries in a saucepan and heat over low heat, stirring regularly, for around 5 minutes. Turn up 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 leave to cool to room temperature.

Assembly

Remove the crème pâtissière from the fridge. Loosen it a little and spread it inside the tartlets. Spread the blueberry compote on top.

Place the vanilla dome in the middle, then add the wild blueberries around it.

I then decorated with mint leaves and a small sheet of edible gold.

Chocolate eclair

Chocolate eclair

– choux pastry,
– chocolate pastry cream,
– fondant pâtissier,
– milk chocolate.

Materials used

– Micro-perforated silicone baking mat

– Pastry bags

– Ribbon piping

– Garnishing tip

– Guitar paper

Ingredients

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

Pastry cream
✔300g milk
✔60 g sugar
✔3 egg yolks
✔20 g cornstarch
✔25 g butter
✔Liquid vanilla
✔1 capful of rum
✔Milk chocolate

Montage
✔ Milk chocolate
✔ Silver foil
✔ White pastry fondant

The recipe

For 7-8 eclairs

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. Let the dough dry out. Pour into a bowl and gradually add the beaten eggs. Poach the choux pastry onto a micro-perforated mat using a fluted tip. Bake at 180°C for 35 to 40 minutes, then place on a wire rack to cool completely.

Make two holes under each lightning bolt.

Pastry cream
✔300g milk
✔60 g sugar
✔3 egg yolks
✔20 g cornstarch
✔25 g butter
✔Liquid vanilla
✔1 capful of rum
✔Milk chocolate

In a saucepan, boil milk with vanilla. In a bowl, mix the yolks with the powdered sugar. Add the cornflour. Pour in the hot milk and return to the pan. Cook, stirring constantly. The cream will thicken. Remove from the heat, add the butter cut into pieces and the milk chocolate pistoles (according to the desired intensity). Stir until the chocolate has completely melted into the cream.

Assembly
Fill your éclairs with pastry cream using a piping tip. Warm up the fondant pâtissier with a little melted milk chocolate and top your éclairs with a ribbon pastry tip.

I decorated my éclairs with a milk chocolate decoration. Heat the milk chocolate in the microwave and fill with a piping bag. Draw parallel lines of chocolate on a square of guitar paper the width of your éclair. Let the chocolate set a little before rolling your éclair in it. Place in a cool place and wait for the chocolate to set completely before carefully removing the guitar paper.

I added little leaves of edible gold on top.

Strawberry and vanilla cake

Strawberry and vanilla cake
– an almond cookie,
– a strawberry mousse,
– vanilla mousse,
– strawberry jelly.

Material used

– Square frame 12X12x4.5 cm

– Ancel 210 bloom gelatin

– Tefal baking tray

– Baking paper

– Angled spatula

Ingredients

Almond cookie
35g almond powder
35g powdered sugar
25g egg
7g flour
2 egg whites

Strawberry mousse
120g mixed strawberries
20g powdered sugar
90g min. 30% fat liquid cream
3g gelatin

Vanilla mousse
90g white chocolate
90g liquid cream
4g gelatin
130g liquid cream 30% fat
1 vanilla pod

Strawberry jelly
50g strawberries, mixed and strained
15g water
10g powdered sugar
2g gelatin

The recipe

For 4 people

Almond cookie
35g almond powder
35g powdered sugar
25g egg
7g flour
2 egg whites

Mix ingredients together. Bake in a 170°C oven. Cut out a 12X12cm rectangle.

Vanilla mousse (85g X3)
90g white chocolate
90g liquid cream
4g gelatin
130g liquid cream 30% fat
1 vanilla pod

Mix the melted white chocolate, hot cream, vanilla and gelatine. Add the whipping cream. Pour over the almond cookie and place in the freezer for 10 minutes.

Strawberry mousse(85g X2)
120g mixed strawberries
20g powdered sugar
90g min. 30% fat liquid cream
3g gelatin

Mix strawberries and gelatine. Add the whipping cream and pour over the vanilla mousse (approx. 85g). Return to the freezer for 10 minutes.

Assembly

Proceed quickly with the rest of the assembly, otherwise the mousses will start to set, interspersing successive layers of vanilla and strawberry mousse. Place in the freezer overnight or for at least 6 hours.

Strawberry jelly
50g strawberries, mixed and strained
15g water
10g powdered sugar
2g gelatin

Make a strawberry jelly and pour over the frozen cake.

Place in a cool place while defrosting.

Creme brulee peach lavender

Crème brulée peach lavender with

– white peaches,
– lavender sprigs,
– brown sugar.

Equipment used

– Crème brulée ramekins

– Kitchen blowtorch

Ingredients

✔150g milk
✔150g cream
✔4 small sprigs of lavender
✔White peaches
✔20g caster sugar
✔20g brown sugar
✔3 egg yolks
✔Brown sugar

The recipe

Ingredients for 6 ramekins

✔150g milk
✔150g cream
✔4 small sprigs lavender
✔White peaches
✔20g caster sugar
✔20g brown sugar
✔3 egg yolks
✔Brown sugar

Peel white peaches and cut into quarters. Divide between 6 ramekins.

Heat the milk and cream. Turn off the heat. Add lavender sprigs. Cover the pan and leave to infuse for 15-20 minutes.

In a bowl, add the caster sugar, brown sugar and egg yolks. Mix well. Pour over the hot mixture, having first removed the lavender sprigs (I filtered the mixture through a small sieve). Mix well. Using a spoon, remove the light foam and bubbles from the surface, then divide between 6 ramekins.

Bake for 1 hour at 100°C.

Place in a cool place, filming the ramekins, overnight.

Before serving, sprinkle with brown sugar, blowtorch, then sprinkle again with brown sugar and blowtorch again for a nice crust.

Strawberry entremet

Strawberry Entremet

– a strawberry mousse,
– a strawberry compote insert,
– a creamy strawberry insert
– a white chocolate crunch,
– a mirror glaze,
– a strawberry tail,
– sesame seeds.

Materials used

– Silikomart strawberry mould

– Ancel 210 bloom gelatin

– Silikomart pomponette mould 24 cavities

– Bamix-type hand blender without bell

– Kitchen thermometer

Ingredients

Strawberry compote
✔90g mixed strawberries
✔10g sugar
✔2g NH pectin
✔50g diced strawberries
✔2g gelatin

Creamy strawberry insert
✔15g sugar
✔1 egg yolk
✔70g strawberry coulis
✔1g gelatine
✔15g cream

White chocolate crisp
✔100g white chocolate
✔30g crêpes dentelles

Strawberry mousse
✔200g mixed strawberries
✔40g powdered sugar
✔150g liquid cream
✔6g gelatin

Mirror glaze
✔70g sugar
✔70g glucose
✔37g water
✔70g white chocolate
✔5g gelatin
✔45g liquid cream
✔red coloring

Assembly
✔Strawberry stems
✔Sesame seeds

The recipe

For 6 entremets

Strawberry compote (the day before)
✔90g mixed strawberries
✔10g sugar
✔2g NH pectin
✔50g diced strawberries
✔2g gelatin

Place the gelatin sheet in a bowl of cold water. Mix sugar and pectin NH in a small bowl. Heat the strawberry coulis with the caster sugar in a saucepan until it comes to a gentle boil. Add the diced strawberries and the sugar-pectin mixture. Cook over medium heat for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and add the gelatine. Line the silikomart pomponette mould and chill for at least 1 hour to allow the gelatine to set. Then place in the freezer for at least 2-3 hours.

Strawberry cream insert (the day before)
✔15g sugar
✔1 egg yolk
✔70g strawberry coulis
✔1g gelatine
✔15g cream

Moisten gelatine in cold water. Heat the strawberry coulis in a saucepan. Mix the egg yolk and sugar in a bowl, without blanching, and add the boiling purée to the mixture. Return to the heat and thicken like a custard. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine and cream. Leave to cool slightly. Fill the Silikomart pomponette mould and place in the freezer for 4 hours.

White chocolate crisp (the day before)
✔100g white chocolate
✔30g crêpes dentelles

Melt the white chocolate in the microwave. Add crumbled crêpes dentelles. Mix well. Roll out between two sheets of baking paper. Place in the freezer for a few minutes, then cut out using a circular cookie cutter.

Strawberry mousse (the day before)
✔100g mixed strawberries
✔20g caster sugar
✔120g liquid cream
✔3g gelatin

Place the gelatine leaves in a bowl of cold water. In a saucepan, heat the strawberry coulis with the powdered sugar. Remove from heat and add the gelatine. Mix 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 halfway with strawberry mousse, working up the sides. Add the frozen insert in the middle, sticking the strawberry compote insert and the creamy strawberry insert together. Top with strawberry mousse and finish with white chocolate crunch. Place in the freezer overnight.

Mirror glaze (the day before)
✔70g sugar
✔70g glucose
✔37g water
✔70g white chocolate
✔5g gelatin
✔45g liquid cream
✔red coloring

Soften the gelatine in a container filled with cold water. Melt the white chocolate in the microwave. Heat water, sugar and glucose in a saucepan. Remove from heat and add the gelatin. Mix well. Pour over melted white chocolate. Add cream and coloring. Blend to homogenize the mixture using an immersion blender without a bell at the end, to limit the formation of air bubbles. Filter on contact and chill.

The next day, bring the glaze to around 35°C and pour over the still-frozen entremets.

Final assembly
✔6 Strawberry tails
✔Sesame seeds

I decorated with sesame seeds and a strawberry tail. Place in a cool place for at least 2-3 hours while defrosting.

Melon Entremet

Melon Entremet

– melon mousse
– a melon compote insert,
– an almond biscuit
– chocolate icing.

Materials used

– Pumpkin 3D silicone mould
– Ancel 210 bloom gelatine
– Baking tray

Ingredients

Melon compote insert
60g mixed melon
10g sugar
2g NH pectin
30g diced melon
1.5g gelatine

Almond biscuit
✔35g icing sugar
✔35g almond powder
✔10g melted butter
✔25g egg
✔7g flour
✔1 egg white

Melon mousse (the day before)
✔2 egg yolks
✔25g sugar
✔140g melon
✔100g single cream
✔4g gelatine

Icing
✔250g white chocolate
✔20g neutral oil
✔green colouring

The recipe

For 3 entremets

Melon compote insert
60g mixed melon
10g sugar
2g NH pectin
30g diced melon
1.5g gelatine

Soften the gelatine in a bowl of cold water. Mix the caster sugar and NH pectin in a bowl. Heat the blended melon in a saucepan over a low heat for a few minutes to reduce the water content. Increase the heat and when it boils, add the diced melon and the sugar and pectin mixture. Cook for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine, stirring well. Fill the silikomart petits fours mould. Chill for at least 30 minutes for the gelatine to take effect, then freeze for at least 3 hours.

Almond biscuit
✔35g icing sugar
✔35g almond powder
✔10g melted butter
✔25g egg
✔7g flour
✔1 egg white

In a bowl, mix the whole egg with the icing sugar. Add the almond 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 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.

Melon mousse (the day before)
✔2 egg yolks
✔25g sugar
✔140g melon
✔100g single cream
✔4g gelatine

Place the gelatine leaves in a bowl of cold water. Pour the 2 egg yolks and 25g caster sugar into a bowl (adjust the amount according to your melon). Mix well. In a small saucepan, heat the 140g of melon mix for a few minutes (3-4 minutes) over a low/medium heat to reduce a little and evaporate some of the water. Pour over the previous mixture and stir. Return the mixture to the saucepan and, without stopping stirring, continue cooking like a custard, without exceeding 82-83°C. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine, wrung out and softened. Mix well and set aside.

In a separate bowl, whip the 100g of cold liquid cream with an electric mixer. Pour over the previous mixture, whose temperature is below 30°C, and stir gently with a spatula.

Assembly
Fill the mould with the melon mousse, add the melon compote insert, add a little more mousse if necessary and finish with the almond biscuit. Place in the freezer overnight. I kept some of the leftover mousse for the melon stem.

The next day, unmould the desserts. Use the remaining mousse to make a melon stem. Put back in the freezer to set and harden.

Icing

✔250g white chocolate
✔20g neutral oil
✔green colouring

Melt some white chocolate in the microwave with a little neutral oil in a narrow container that is high enough but can hold your entremet. Add a tiny pinch of green colouring to obtain a pale green white chocolate. Remove a little chocolate and add some green colouring. Fill a piping bag with it. Poach the green chocolate on the star-shaped surface. Using a wooden skewer, dip your dessert into the chocolate (with the melon tail pointing downwards).

Repeat for the remaining cakes. Add more green chocolate to the surface and dip your frozen entremet.

Place the desserts in the fridge for 3 to 4 hours, just long enough for them to defrost.

Post-tasting opinion: I wanted to try this seasonal fruit in a dessert. It looks nice but the melon doesn’t have a strong enough flavour, very pronounced for my taste. Lacks flavour.

Red fruit tartlet

Red fruit tartlet made with

– sweet pastry,
– strawberry and raspberry compote,
– pastry cream,
– red fruit (strawberries, redcurrants, raspberries)
– chocolate squares.

Materials used

– Micro-perforated silicone baking mat

– Micro-perforated strip (optional)

– Silikomart tart ring Klassik 70mm mould

Ingredients

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

Pastry cream
160g milk
2 egg yolks
40g sugar
15g cornflour
10g butter

Strawberry and raspberry compote
100g strawberries and raspberries
10g caster sugar
2g NH pectin

Assembly

Strawberries, redcurrants, raspberries
Mint leaves

The recipe

For 4 tarts

Pastry cream
160g milk
2 egg yolks
40g sugar
15g cornflour
10g butter

Heat the milk. In a bowl, combine the egg yolks, sugar and cornflour. Pour the hot milk over the egg yolks. Stir. Pour back into the saucepan. Stir until the cream thickens. Remove from the heat and add the capful of rum. Mix well. Pour into a bowl, strain and chill.

Sweet pastry
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 and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Line the circles with the pastry. Place in the freezer for 10 minutes while you preheat your oven. Place in the oven at 170°C and bake for 15/20 minutes (time may vary depending on the oven).

Strawberry and raspberry compote

100g strawberry and raspberry mix
10g caster sugar
1g pectin NH

Mix the sugar and NH pectin in a small bowl. Pour the strawberry and raspberry mixture, cut into small pieces, into a saucepan and heat over a low heat for a few minutes. Then increase the heat and, as soon as it boils, add the pectin and sugar mixture and cook for 2 minutes, stirring constantly.

Top the tartlets with the compote.

Take the crème pâtissière from the fridge. Loosen it a little with a spatula and fill the tartlets.

Add red fruit: strawberries, raspberries and redcurrants.

I decorated the tartlets with mint leaves and chocolate squares made with chocolate transfer paper.