Neutral topping ✔100g water ✔100g sugar ✔4g gelatine
The recipe
For 6 tarts
Pears tatin ✔Diced pears in syrup ✔100 g caster sugar ✔45 g hot full cream ✔30g hot water ✔4 g gelatine
Soften the gelatine leaves in a bowl of cold water. Cut pear cubes and divide between the 6 cavities of the Silikomart mould. In a saucepan, make a caramel with the 100g sugar and 30g water. When the caramel is a lovely golden colour, pour in the 45g of previously heated cream. Stir and cook over a low heat. Remove from the heat and add the drained gelatine.
Pour into your silikomart ring Klassik tart tin over the diced pears. Leave to cool slightly, then place in the freezer overnight.
Mix all the ingredients together. Roll out the dough thinly between 2 sheets of greaseproof paper then put in the fridge for 30 minutes. Line the circles with the pastry.
Cream the butter with the sugar. Add the hazelnut powder (or finely chop the hazelnuts) and the egg. Mix well. Divide the cream between the 6 tartlets. Top with the diced pears. Place in the freezer for a few minutes. Bake at 175°C for 20 minutes. Leave to cool completely.
Neutral topping ✔100g water ✔100g sugar ✔4g gelatine
In a bowl of cold water, soften the gelatine leaves. Pour the water and sugar into a saucepan and bring to the boil. Remove from the heat and add the wrung-out gelatine.
Remove the pear domes from the freezer and immediately apply the neutral glaze at 30°C. Place the pear domes on the tartlets and chill in the fridge until ready to eat and defrost (2 hours). I put a little edible gold leaf on top.
– a sweet dough biscuit, – a white chocolate crisp, – a popcorn mousse – mirror icing, – homemade caramelised popcorn.
Material used
– Raggio X6 mini silikomart mould
– Ancel 210 Bloom gelatine (gold quality)
– Micro perforated baking mat
Ingredients
White chocolate crisp ✔50g white chocolate ✔4g neutral oil ✔20g crêpes dentelles
Popcorn mousse ✔60g popcorn-infused liquid cream ✔2 egg yolks ✔30g caster sugar ✔Vanilla powder or vanilla pod ✔3g gelatine ✔100g full cream 30% fat min.
Sweet pastry ✔70g flour ✔20g icing sugar ✔30g butter ✔1 egg yolk ✔1 pinch of salt
Mirror icing ✔75g sugar ✔75g water ✔75g cream ✔5g cornflour ✔12g water ✔3g gelatine
Assembly ✔Caramel ✔Popcorn
The recipe
For 4 desserts
White chocolate crisp ✔50g white chocolate ✔4g neutral oil ✔20g crêpes dentelles
Melt the white chocolate in the microwave. Add the crumbled crêpes dentelles. 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 diameter of the opening in your tin. I then used a pastry bag to pierce the centre. Keep in the freezer until ready to assemble.
Place some corn kernels in a saucepan with a little oil. Place a lid on the pan and heat through. When all the popcorn has popped, add some liquid cream. Heat the cream, turn off the heat and leave to infuse for at least 1 to 2 hours. Strain the popcorns, crushing them as much as possible to recover the infused cream, at least 120g.
Popcorn mousse (the day before) ✔120g popcorn-infused liquid cream ✔30g caster sugar ✔3g gelatine ✔110g liquid cream 30% MG min.
Place the gelatine leaves in a bowl of cold water. Return the infused cream to the heat. with the caster sugar. Mix well. Remove the gelatine from the heat, stir and set aside to cool slightly. Meanwhile, using an electric mixer, whip the 110g of very cold single cream. Incorporate the previous mixture and stir gently with a spatula.
Assembly Fill the silikomart mini Roggia X6 mould with popcorn mousse and finish with the crisp. Place in the freezer overnight.
Caramel mirror icing ✔75g sugar ✔75g water ✔75g cream ✔5g cornflour ✔12g water ✔3g gelatine
Soften the gelatine in a container filled with cold water. In a bowl, mix the cornflour with the 12g of water. In a saucepan, make a dry caramel with the 75g sugar. Decook the caramel with the previously heated water and cream. Add the cornflour and bring to the boil. Remove from the heat and add the drained gelatine. Mix, strain and chill.
The next day, reheat the icing to 30°C and cover the frozen desserts.
Sweet pastry ✔70g flour ✔20g icing sugar ✔30g butter ✔1 egg yolk ✔1 pinch of salt
Mix all the ingredients together, cover with cling film and chill in the fridge. Roll out the pastry with a rolling pin and cut out using a 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.
Place the entremets on the sweet biscuits and chill until defrosted.
– Klassik Silikomart silicone ring tart mold (6 cavities)
– Micro-perforated strip
– Klassik 70mm tarte ring Silikomart mold
– Brown velvet spray
Ingredients
Chestnut mousse (the day before) ✔100g chestnut cream ✔45g liquid cream ✔3g gelatin ✔100g liquid cream
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✔90g Pears cut into cubes ✔Chestnut cream
Sweet dough ✔70 g soft butter ✔130 g flour ✔45g powdered sugar ✔1 pinch of salt ✔1 egg yolk
+Brown velvet spray
The recipe
For 5 tarts
Chestnut mousse (the day before) ✔100g chestnut cream ✔45g liquid cream ✔3g gelatin ✔100g liquid cream
In a bowl of cold water, soften the gelatin leaf. In a saucepan, heat the 45g of liquid cream and the 100g of chestnut cream. Mix well. Remove from heat and add the wrung-out, softened gelatin. Mix and set aside.
Whip the cold cream with an electric mixer. Gently fold in the cooled mixture. Pour into your silikomart ring Klassik tart mold. Freeze overnight.
Sweet dough ✔70 g soft butter ✔130 g flour ✔45g powdered sugar ✔1 pinch of 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.
Spread 1 tablespoon of chestnut cream over the bottom of each tartlet.
Add diced pears.
Remove the chestnut mousse domes from the freezer, unmold and immediately apply the light-brown velvet spray. I decorated with a marron glacé and a little edible gold leaf.
Pour the peanuts onto a baking tray and bake at 150°C for 15 minutes. Pour the powdered 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.
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. Gradually add the beaten eggs, mixing well between each egg. Poach the puffs in a circular pattern on a baking sheet lined with silpain. Sprinkle with chopped peanuts and powdered sugar. Bake at 170°C for 35 to 40 minutes (time may vary according to oven). Leave to cool.
Heat the milk in a saucepan. In a bowl, mix the yolks, sugar and cornflour. Pour over the hot milk. Return to the saucepan and heat, stirring constantly, until the cream thickens. Remove from heat and add gelatin and butter (20g). Place in a cool place. Work the butter into the cooled cream, then add the praline. Mix well.
Assembly Cut out the choux, poach a little praline with a piping bag and then the mousseline cream with a fluted tip. Place the caps on top and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Decorate with peanuts.
Pear jelly Gelatin Mixed pears in syrup Pear cooking water
The recipe
Serves 4
Chocolate praline crisp
Melt the milk chocolate. Add hazelnut praline and crêpes dentelles. Mix gently. Spread between two sheets of parchment paper, place in the freezer for a few minutes, then cut a square the size of your 12×12 cm frame. Place in the bottom of your frame and set aside in the fridge.
Hazelnut cookie Mix all ingredients. Pour onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake at 170°C. Cut out a 12x12cm square and place in the pastry frame on top of the crisp.
Pears in syrup Peel, quarter and cook pears in a saucepan with water, sugar and liquid vanilla.
Pear mousse
To make a pear mousse, pour the blended pears in syrup into a saucepan and heat. Add the gelatine and whipping cream, then pour half over the hazelnut cookie. Place in the freezer for 10 minutes.
Hazelnut mousse
To make a hazelnut mousse, pour the liquid cream and hazelnut praline into a saucepan and heat. Add the gelatine and whipping cream, then pour half over the pear mousse. Place in the freezer for 10 minutes.
Add the remaining pear mousse and place in the freezer again for 10 minutes, followed by the remaining hazelnut mousse. Place in the freezer overnight.
Pear jelly On the same day, make a jelly using pears in syrup mixed with the pear cooking water. Add the gelatine and pour over the frozen cake.
Place in a cool place while defrosting. Remove frame. Serve whole or cut into individual portions.
Pastry ✔250g flour ✔5 g salt ✔30 g caster sugar ✔15 g fresh baker’s yeast ✔50 g soft butter ✔120 g warm milk + ✔125 g Lescure tourage butter
✔Chocolate sticks
The syrup ✔30g water ✔30g sugar
The recipe
Combine flour, salt, sugar, baking powder, warm butter and milk in food processor. Blend for about ten minutes.
Place in a bowl, cover and leave to rise for 45 minutes at room temperature.
Deaerate the dough and flatten with your hands to form a rectangle. Place in a cool place to firm up.
Soften the 125g butter and shape into a rectangle (1/2 the size of the dough).
On a lightly floured work surface, roll out the dough into a rectangle and place the butter in the middle. Cover both ends of the rectangle, without overlapping.
Roll out the dough into a long rectangle and make a single turn. Fold the right-hand side towards the center and then the left-hand side. Place in a cool, film-covered place.
Tour simple
Shaping the loaves Roll out the dough into a regular rectangle 5 mm thick. Cut into 8.5 x 15 cm strips. Place 3 chocolate sticks per rectangle of dough, then roll out the pains au chocolat loaves loosely.
Place on a baking sheet lined with silpain. Brown the loaves with a mixture of egg yolk and cream.
Leave to rise for 2 hours at room temperature.
Apply a second coat of gilding before baking at 170°C for 15 to 20 minutes.
The syrup ✔30g water ✔30g sugar
Bring sugar and water to the boil in a saucepan. Apply hot to pains au chocolat or chocolatines as soon as they come out of the oven, using a brush.
In a bowl, mix the egg with the powdered sugar. Add chestnut flour, and melted butter. Mix well. In another bowl, beat egg whites with powdered sugar. Gently fold the egg whites into the mixture using a pastry blender. Pour the cookie dough onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake for 8-10 min at 180°C. Remove from the oven and leave to cool before cutting out with a round cookie cutter to fit the diameter of your silicone mould opening.
Poach the chestnut cream over the cookies and place in the freezer. For the chestnut cream, you can make your own using vacuum-packed or jarred chestnuts, or use ready-made cream.
Melt the white chocolate in the microwave. Add crumbled crêpes dentelles and chestnut cream…. Mix gently. Roll out between two sheets of baking paper and place in the freezer. Remove from the freezer and cut out using the same cookie cutter used to cut the chestnut cookie. Keep in the freezer until ready to assemble.
Place the gelatine leaves in a large bowl of cold water. In a saucepan, heat the 50g of cream and the chestnut cream. Mix well. Remove from heat and add the wrung-out, softened gelatine. Set aside. Whip the chilled cream with an electric mixer. Add the chilled cream to the previous mixture and mix gently.
Assembly
Fill Montblanc silikomart mould with chestnut mousse, add chestnut cookie covered with chestnut cream, cream side in. Top with chestnut mousse and finish with chestnut cream crumble. Place in the freezer overnight.
Mix all the ingredients, wrap and chill in the fridge. Roll out with a rolling pin and cut out with a cookie cutter. Place in the freezer for a few minutes while you preheat your oven to 180°C. Place your dough on a baking sheet between two micro-perforated baking mats. Bake for around ten minutes. Leave to cool.
The next day, turn out the frozen entremets and immediately apply the brown velvet spray. Place the entremet on the sweet cookie and chill until defrosted.
For the mascarpone whipped cream 15g sugar 80g liquid cream 30% MG 40g mascarpone cheese
For the caramel 140g sugar 50g water 80g butter, cut into pieces
Golden apples
Sweet dough 100g flour 30g caster sugar 42g butter one egg yolk 1 pinch salt
Cooking time
160°C 40 + 40 minutes
The recipe
For 4 tartlets
For the mascarpone chantilly 15g sugar 80g liquid cream 30% MG 40g mascarpone cheese
Whip the cream and mascarpone with an electric mixer. Gradually add the powdered sugar. Line the silicone quenelle mold and place in the freezer for at least 3 hours.
For the caramel 140g sugar 50g water 80g butter, cut into pieces
Make the caramel in a saucepan with the water and sugar. Once the caramel has reached a nice color, turn down the heat and add the chopped butter in batches. Mix well and pour into the silikomart mould.
Cut large apples (I used goldens, which hold up well to cooking) using a large mandolin, then a cookie cutter the diameter of your mold. Place the apple slices on the caramel. Bake for 40 minutes at 160°C. Pack the apples when removed from the oven.
Sweet dough 100g flour 30g caster sugar 42g butter one egg yolk 1 pinch salt
Mix all the ingredients together, wrap and chill in the fridge. Roll out the dough, but not too thinly, and cut out using the same cookie cutter used to cut the apple slices. Place in the freezer for a few minutes.
Remove the silikomart from the oven. Place on top of the apples and bake for a further 40 minutes. Leave to cool slightly and unmould.
Spoon the frozen chantilly onto the completely cooled tartlets. Decorate with gold leaf.
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 you obtain the praline. You’ll have some praline left over for other recipes. It keeps very well in a closed container. Just make sure you blend it again before use, as the oil from the hazelnuts will rise to the surface.
Place the gelatine in a bowl of cold water. In another bowl, mix the egg yolk with the sugar until slightly pale. Bring 60g 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 crushed gelatine. Pour the hot cream over the hazelnut praline and mix. Fill the insert mould with the cream. Place in the freezer for at least 4 hours.
Hazelnut biscuit ✔35 g hazelnut powder ✔1 egg ✔50g egg white ✔35 g icing sugar ✔10 g melted butter ✔7 g flour
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 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.
Melt the milk chocolate in the microwave. Add the crumbled crêpes dentelles and praline. Mix gently. Spread over the biscuits and place in the freezer for a few minutes. Using a cookie cutter, cut out the crumble. Keep in the freezer until ready to assemble.
Hydrate the gelatine in very cold water. Mix the yolks and caster sugar in a bowl. Heat the milk in a saucepan. Pour the hot milk over the previous mixture, stir and return the mixture to the pan. Cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture reaches 82°C. Remove from the heat, add the gelatine and mix well. Add the praline, mix well and set aside. Whip the cold cream with a mixer and fold into the warmed mixture.
Assembly
Pour the hazelnut mousse into the silikomart Ode 50 single portion mould. Add the frozen insert, a little mousse, the hazelnut biscuit and then the crisp. Place in the freezer overnight.
Using the remaining hazelnut mousse, fill 6 cavities in the Tartufino silikomart mould. Insert a hazelnut inside. Place in the freezer.
The next day, remove the cakes from the moulds. Apply velvet spray.
Decorate with milk chocolate using the silicone mould. Place a leaf on each dessert.
You can also draw the shape on baking paper or print it out, then place a sheet of guitar paper on top. Start by tracing the outline with a thin line of chocolate. Leave to set for a few minutes in the freezer, then fill the inside with your tempered chocolate.
Mirror icing ✔22g sugar ✔22g glucose ✔12g water ✔1 sheet gelatine 2g ✔22g white chocolate ✔15g liquid cream
Place the gelatine sheet in a bowl of cold water. In a saucepan, heat the sugar, water and glucose to 110°C. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine, wrung out and softened. Pour this mixture over the melted milk chocolate. Stir well. Add the liquid cream. Use an immersion blender to blend the mixture smoothly. Cover the frozen balls with hazelnut mousse from the Tartufino silikomart mould. Place a marble on each dessert. Place in the fridge to defrost.
Place the biscuits in a freezer bag and crumble with a rolling pin.
Empty the crumbled cookies into a bowl. Add the melted butter. Mix well. Place the pastry frame on a flat surface. Pour in the cookies evenly and press down well with the back of a spoon. Place in the freezer for a few minutes.
Gently heat the pear cubes in a saucepan for a few minutes. Mix the powdered sugar with the NH pectin in a small bowl. Increase the heat slightly and, as soon as it starts to boil, pour in the sugar/pectin mixture and cook, stirring constantly, for 2 minutes. Remove from heat and add the gelatine, previously softened in a bowl of cold water. Mix well. Leave to cool slightly and pour into the frame over your cookie. Place in a cool place.
Place gelatine leaves in a bowl of cold water. Pour 20g liquid cream into a small bowl and heat in the microwave. Add the gelatine leaves, wrung out and softened. Allow to cool slightly. Pour Philadelphia, mascarpone, fromage blanc, lemon zest and caster sugar into a bowl. Mix with an electric mixer. Add the liquid cream and warmed gelatine mixture. Pour into the frame and chill for a few hours.
Pear jelly 80g mixed pears 2g gelatin
Place the gelatine sheet in a bowl of cold water. Make a pear jelly by heating 80g of mixed syrup pears in a saucepan. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine, wrung out and softened. Allow to cool slightly (temperature < 40°C). Pour over the frame and refrigerate for at least 3/4 hours.
Carefully remove the frame. Serve whole or in individual portions. I decorated with speculoos cookies.