Vanilla, Rose & Pomegranate Entremets
Vanilla Praliné
Ingredients
- 187 g raw almonds
- 125 g sugar
- 82 g water
- 20 g vanilla seeds
Method
- Lightly toast the almonds together with the vanilla pods.
- Cook the sugar and water to 110°C.
- Add the almonds and vanilla, sand the mixture, then caramelize.
- Allow to cool completely.
- Blend cold until smooth using a Thermomix or food processor.
Vanilla Crunch
Ingredients
- 125 g white chocolate 34% Anëo Weiss
- 125 g vanilla praliné
- 125 g corn flakes
Method
- Melt the white chocolate.
- Mix with the vanilla praliné.
- Gently fold in the corn flakes.
- Spread 20 g of crunch on each biscuit.
- Refrigerate.
Cranberry Sponge
Ingredients
- 10 egg yolks
- 100 g sugar
- 10 egg whites
- 140 g sugar
- 180 g T55 flour
- 4 g baking powder
- 2 g salt
- 100 g grapeseed oil
- 100 g whole milk
- 90 g cranberries
Method
- Whisk the yolks with 100 g sugar until pale.
- Whip the whites with 140 g sugar to a soft peak.
- Gently combine both mixtures.
- Fold in sifted flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Mix a small portion with the milk and oil, then reincorporate.
- Add cranberries.
- Spread into a greased frame lined with baking paper.
- Bake at 180°C for 8 minutes.
- Cool and cut into heart shapes.
Pomegranate Gel Insert
Ingredients
- 166 g pomegranate purée
- 6.6 g sugar
- 2 g agar-agar
- As needed fresh pomegranate seeds
Method
- Heat the purée.
- Add the sugar mixed with agar-agar while whisking.
- Bring to a boil and cook for 1 minute.
- Pour onto a tray and cool.
- Blend cold until smooth.
- Add pomegranate seeds.
- Pour 80 g onto each biscuit.
Pomegranate Marmalade
Ingredients
- 200 g pomegranate purée
- 40 g pomegranate juice
- 80 g sugar
- 40 g glucose syrup
- 4 g NH pectin
- 10 g lemon juice
- As needed fresh pomegranate seeds
Method
- Mix sugar and pectin.
- Heat purée, juice, and glucose to 40–50°C.
- Add sugar/pectin mixture while whisking.
- Bring to 103°C or boil strongly for 1 minute.
- Remove from heat, add lemon juice and seeds.
- Cool to 35°C, pour into inserts.
- Cover with plastic wrap and freeze for at least 4 hours.
Rose Vanilla Mousse
Rose & Vanilla Infused Cream Base
Ingredients
- 250 g cream
- 1 vanilla pod
- 15 g mild honey or invert sugar
- 5 g edible rose petals
- 10 g rose water
Method
- Heat cream, split vanilla pod, and honey to 70°C.
- Add rose petals, cover, and infuse 30–40 minutes off heat.
- Strain without pressing.
- Add rose water cold to taste.
Crème Anglaise
Ingredients
- 150 g whole milk
- 60 g egg yolks
- 40 g sugar
- 3 g powdered gelatin
- 18 g water
- 250 g whipped cream
Method
- Bloom gelatin.
- Heat milk.
- Blanch yolks with sugar, add hot milk.
- Cook to 82–83°C.
- Add gelatin.
- Incorporate infused cream.
- Cool to 35–38°C.
- Fold in whipped cream in three additions.
Red Mirror Glaze
Ingredients
- 150 g sugar
- 150 g glucose
- 75 g water
- 100 g sweetened condensed milk
- 150 g white chocolate 34% Anëo Weiss
- 10 g powdered fish gelatin
- 50 g hydration water
- As needed liposoluble coloring (red, pink, pearlescent)
Method
- Bloom gelatin for 10 minutes.
- Boil water, sugar, and glucose to 103–104°C.
- Remove from heat, add condensed milk and gelatin.
- Pour over chopped white chocolate.
- Blend without incorporating air.
- Add coloring.
- Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate 12 hours.
Glazing
- Reheat gently.
- Ideal temperature: 32–34°C.
- Glaze frozen entremets at –18°C.