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Makes 32 portions
Recipe Step by Step
CHOCOLATE-FLAVORED SWEET SHORTCRUST PASTRY
200 g Butter *
400 g Bread flour
160 g Confectioner’s sugar
34 g Cocoa powder
64 g Egg
3.4 g Salt
Sift the flour, salt, cocoa powder and confectioner’s sugar and place in the mixer.
Add the chilled pieces of butter and incorporate them into the mixture.
Add the egg and continue mixing until the dough is smooth, then place in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.
Roll out the dough to 2 - 2.25 mm thickness and bake at 170°C for approx. 15 minutes.
VANILLA MOUSSE
140 g Heavy cream 36%
13 g Madagascan vanilla pods
42 g Egg yolks
80.5 g Fine sugar
0.28 g Salt
6 g Gelatin powder 200 Bloom
36 g Water
525 g Heavy cream 36%
Gradually incorporate the cream into the egg sugar, salt mixture and heat to 82°C.
When it has reached 82°C, add the gelatin mixture and strain.
Allow to cool to 40°C.
Add the heavy cream whipped (525 g) to the mixture once cooled to 40°C or below.
Fill the quenelle molds with the mixture, 25 g per mold.
MILLOT 74% MOUSSE
437.36 g Heavy cream 36% 1
53.01 g Egg yolks
32.78 g Egg whites
65.56 g Water
98.45 g Fine sugar
355.30 g MILLOT 74%
0.8 g Salt
120.23 g Milk
21 g Gelatin powder 200 Bloom
130 g Water
Beat the egg yolk and egg whites together. Heat the water and sugar to 106°C.
Add the sugar syrup to the egg and, continue to beat until light and reached about 35°C.
Melt the chocolate at 50-55°C.
Bring the salted milk to a boil. Dissolve the gelatin in this hot milk.
Make an emulsion with the milk and chocolate. Combine this mixture with the half-sphere.
Then add the whipped cream to this mixture.
Pour into small, white, eclipse-shaped molds, push inside and add the chocolate sponge on top.
36 g of mousse per mold.
Pour the chocolate glaze on top.
MILLOT 74% COFFEE CRÉMEUX
135 g Heavy cream 36%
135 g Milk
15 g Freshly ground coffee
67.5 g Egg yolks
27 g Sugar
120 g MILLOT 74%
3 g Gelatin powder 200 Bloom
18 g Water
Mix the sugar and egg yolks, then add the boiling milk mixture.
Heat to 82°C, then dissolve the gelatin in the mixture.
Pour this mixture over the chocolate, then mix using an immersion blender.
Pour the mixture into small eclipse-shaped molds.
15 g per piece.
MILLOT 74% CHOCOLATE GLAZE
134.4 g Cold water
22.4 g Gelatin powder 200 Bloom
168 g Water
336 g Fine sugar
336 g Glucose
224 g Sweetened condensed milk
336 g MILLOT 74%
Heat the second portion of water, sugar and glucose to 103°C.
Mix the condensed milk with the soaked gelatin.
Add the sweetened water and mix.
Melt the chocolate.
Add the hot mixture to the chocolate and mix well.
Mix with an immersion blender.
CHOCOLATE SPONGE
200 g Egg yolks
100 g Fine sugar
200 g Egg whites
100 g Fine sugar
1.4 g Salt
112 g Pastry flour
150 g Almond powder
48 g Cacao power
40 g Powdered cream
2 g Powdered vanilla
Egg with + 1 part of sugarbeat till stiff, bit by bit, fold the stiff egg whites into the mix of beaten egg yolks +
almond powder, powdered cream and powdered vanilla + 1 part of sugar, until smooth.
Quickly incorporate the mix of flour, salt, and cacao powder.
APRICOT COMPOTE
275.2 g Apricot Purée
166.4 g Apricots dried
48 g Sugar
5.6 g Pectin X58
Add the sugar and the pectin and cook for 3 minutes until a jelly forms. Spread 15 g per piece on top of the MILLOT 74% Coffee
Crémeux.
Assembly and finishing
Make the chocolate glaze 24 hours in advance and store in the refrigerator until use. Then make the sponge, cut it into fine 0.5 cm slices and bake at 180°C. Then cut out disks with a 5.5 cm diameter cookie cutter. Make the chocolate shortbread dough, roll it out to 2.3 mm and cut out 7.5 cm biscuits. Bake at 165°C and coat in a mixture of 100 g of chocolate and 100 g of cocoa butter. Make the vanilla mousse, inject it into Pavoni PX073 molds (Quenelle) then freeze. Then, spray with a mixture of 100 g of ivory white chocolate, 100 g of cocoa butter and 5 g of white food coloring, splash with dark chocolate and put back in the freezer. Bring the coffee crémeux to a boil, pour 15 g per piece into the Silikomart SF164 mold (Globe) and return to the freezer. Bring the compote to a boil and spread 15 g per piece on top of the coffee crémeux, then return to the freezer. Next, fill the pastry includ (SF163 Silkomart) with the freshly made chocolate mousse, 26 g per piece, push the frozen cremeux into the center, top it of with dot of chocolate mousse. Cover with a slice of sponge and freeze. Heat the glaze to 35°C and remove any air with an immersion blender. Immediately pour the glaze onto the tartlets. Make a 5.5 x 5.5 cm decoration with orange chocolate, roll it on a 7 cm PVC tube and leave to set. Finally, place the decoration on the tartlet, then a quenelle of vanilla mousse on top, and attach with a little chocolate.