1. Cocoa shortcrust pastry
- 215g Butter 82% Fat
- 135g Icing Sugar
- 2g Salt
- 45g Almond Powder
- 70g Egg
- 310g Strong Flour
- 50g Cacao powder 20% mg
1. Cocoa shortcrust pastry
Combine butter, icing sugar, salt and almond powder. Stir in eggs, then flour and cocoa.
Bake at 150 ° C for 30 minutes
2. Gluten-free chocolate biscuit
Melt the chocolate and butter at 45 ° C.
Whisk the egg whites and the sugar, then add the egg yolks.
Stir in the Chocolate + Butter preparation.
Spread in a 60 x 40 cm plate.
Bake at 180 ° C for 8 min.
3. Morello Cherry Crémeux
Mix glucose and pectin.
Incorporate this mixture into the fruit puree. Bring to boil.
Stir in the butter then mix everything. Poach 20g in moulds.
4. Pear - Vanilla Jelly
Mix the fruit puree with the vanilla.
Mix the vegetable gelling agent with the sugar and the glucose. Incorporate the second preparation into the first.
Bring to boil. Pour into moulds.
5. Vanilla glaze
Melt all ingredients. Use at 35 ° C - 45 ° C
6. Vanilla - Pear Mousse
Whip the cream.
Mix the fruit puree with the lime puree, sugar and vanilla.
Melt the gelatin mass then add to the second preparation. Incorporate the whipped cream into the preparation.
Poach 25g per mould.
7. Cranberry - Morello Cherry Crémeux
Mix the sugar with the glucose and the pectin. Stir in fruit puree mixed with water.
Bring to boil.
Stir in the butter then mix.
Poach 20g in a mould.
8. Red flocking
Melt the chocolate with the cocoa butter and the oil at 40 ° C - 45 ° C. Add the color.
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