English Country Garden.
Chocolate and Lemon Cremeux
75g sugar
26g butter
10g glucose
83g whipping cream
41g lemon juice
96g Cacao Barry ghana 40%
1. Make a dry caramel with the sugar and add the glucose.
2. Then add the butter, lemon juice and cream.
3. Pour this over the milk couverture and hand blend till smooth.
4. chill until needed
Lemon Curd
75g lemon juice
55g golden caster sugar
50g egg
20g egg yolk
2g gelatine
40g unsalted butter
1. Mix all your Ingredients together in the thermomix heat to 90˚C.
2. Once cooked add the gelatine cool to 60˚C and add butter, pipe into small sphere moulds and freeze.
Chocolate Biscuit base (12cm x 2.5cm)
75g butter
75g dark soft sugar
60g flour
15g cocoa powder
75g ground almonds
QS salt
QS vanilla
1. Cream butter and sugar, add yolks and salt.
2. Add flour, cocoa and baking powder and mix to a paste.
3. As soon as it comes together stop machine, rest for an hour and roll out.
4. Bake at 160˚C for about 15 minutes
Madifrolio Chocolate Mousse
basic custard
250g whipping cream
250g milk
100g egg yolks
50g caster sugar
300g mousse bustard base
350g Cacao Barry madifrolio 65%
450g whipped cream 35%
1. Make a crème Anglaise and form an emulsion with the chocolate
2. Fold in whipped Cream
Raspberry Pain de Gens (12cm x 1.5cm)
120g eggs
120g almond paste
37g butter
22g flour
1.5g baking powder
4.5g raspberry liquor
75g crushed frozen raspberries
1. Whisk your eggs and warmed almond paste together light and fluffy.
2. Melt the butter mix with a little batter and fold back into mixture add raspberry liquor.
3. Fold in dry ingredients
4. Spread onto a baking sheet and sprinkle with frozen raspberries.
5. Bake at 200˚C for about 6-8 minutes, spray with alcohol.
6. Cut into required sizes.
Whipped Milk Chocolate Ganache
56g whipping cream
6g glucose
6g sugar
77.5g (40%) Cacao Barry ghana
130g cold whipping cream
1. Bring to the boil your cream, sugar and glucose.
2. Pour this over the milk chocolate and hand blend.
3. Cool slightly and add cold un-whipped cream
4. Chill well whip to required consistency.
Chocolate Arabesque Tuille
100g isomalt
100g sugar
200g glucose
90g chocolate 100%
1. Make a light caramel with the Isomalt, sugar and glucose.
2. Add the 100% Chocolate and stir well until shiny and smooth..
3. Spread onto a Silpat allow to cool and blend in the Thermomix to fine powder
4. Dust onto a Silpat mat and cook for a few minutes until it melts.
5. Set aside ready to use.
Raspberry Jelly
125g boiron raspberry puree
0.65g agar agar
1 leaf gelatine
1. Heat the puree and add the agar.
2. Bring to the boil and add the gelatine.
3. Pipe into the small sphere moulds and allow to set.
Raspberry Gel
75g boiron raspberry puree
75g carma mirror glaze
- Blend the two together and chill to 4° until ready to use.
Chocolate Ganache for Truffle
20g egg yolk
75g cream
62g Cacao Barry madifrolio 65%
12g trimoline
QS elderflower extract
1. Make a ganache with the cream, trimoline and chocolate.
2. Mix in the egg yolk and add extract and allow to cool.
3. Pipe into truffle shells and freeze.
Beignets Batter
20g cocoa powder
80g flour
20g chopped cocoa nibs
100g milk
40g muscavado sugar
40g egg
2g baking powder
pinch salt
1. Place the dry ingredients into a bowl and add the liquid to form a smooth batter add cocoa nibs.
2. Dip truffles in batter and fry in oil, dust with icing sugar and serve.
Finishing
- Components
- Chocolate Mousse
- Chocolate Decoration
- Chocolate Streusel
- Chocolate & Lemon Cremeux
- Raspberry Pan de Gen
- Lemon Curd Balls
- Raspberry Jelly Balls
- Raspberry Gel
- Milk Chocolate Whipped Ganache
- Chocolate Arabesque Tuille
- Micro leaves
- Crystallised Flowers
- Chocolate Truffle Fritter
- Popping Candy