Elle & Vire Recipes
by EMMANUELE FORCONE

Recipe BABAMISU

For
12 pieces
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To prepare this dish

Ingredient list
MASCARPONE FOAM
250 g Mascarpone
250 g Excellence whipping cream 35% fat
70 g egg yolks
150 g sugar
50 g milk
5 g 200 Bloom gelatine
30 g water for the gelatine
1 Vanilla bean
BABA
80 g Elle & Vire gourmet butter 82% fat
300 g strong flour (high protein)
50 g sugar
240 g whole eggs
40 g egg yolks
25 g yeast
2 g salt
COFFEE IMBIBING SYRUP
500 g (1000 g water + 750 g sugar)
250 g espresso coffee
VANILLA AND MASCARPONE ICE CREAM
250 g Mascarpone
900 g milk
40 g honey
70 g dextrose
5 g neutro hot process powdered stabilizer
1 vanilla pods
230 g sugar
120 g egg yolks
COCOA HAZELNUT STREUSEL
150 g Elle & Vire gourmet butter 82% fat
150 g raw brown sugar
150 g powdered hazelnuts
1 g salt
115 g flour
23 g cocoa powder 22%-24%
ASSEMBLY
Dark chocolate "Babamisù" decorative disk
cocoa powder
Elle & Vire products used

The recipe,
step by step

  1. 1

    MASCARPONE FOAM

    Combine the cream, whole egg yolks and sugar and heat to 82°C to prepare the custard.

    Add the gelatine mass, stir until it melts and pour over the mascarpone.

    Mix with a hand blender.

    Transfer the mixture to a syphon, load with two CO2 cartridges and shake well.

    Store at 4°C until ready to use.

  2. 2

    BABA

    Put into a cutter the flour, the eggs, salt, sugar, the cold butter and the yeast and mix everything for about a minute.

    Allow the dough to triple in volume.

    When the mass has risen action the cutter to deflate it.

    Put into a piping bag and put inside a sphere mold 25 g of dough.

    Let rise at 28°C and bake in the oven 180°C by pressing for 15 minutes.

    While it’s baking, cover the mold with a micro-perforated silicon mat and a grid.

  3. 3

    COFFEE IMBIBING SYRUP

    Boil 1000 g of water and 750 g of sugar.

    Weigh out 500 g and add the coffee.

    Soak the baba spheres in the imbibing syrup when it has cooled to 70°C.

  4. 4

    VANILLA AND MASCARPONE ICE CREAM

    Bring the milk, honey, dextrose, stabilizer and vanilla to the boil.

    Pour the mixture over the previously combined yolks and sugar and cook to 82°C.

    Remove from the heat, strain and pour over the mascarpone.

    Mix well with a hand blender.

    Refrigerate for 10 hours at 4°C then churn the ice cream.

  5. 5

    COCOA HAZELNUT STREUSEL

    In a stand mixer using the paddle, cream the butter and add the remaining ingredients with the machine running.

    When the mixture forms a dough, work through a coarse sieve and spread onto a baking tray.

    Place in the freezer until hardened, then bake at 150°C until golden brown.

  6. 6

    ASSEMBLY

    Place the baba in the center of the dish.

    Top with a scoop of ice cream.

    Sprinkle some of the cocoa hazelnut streusel around.

    Cover with mascarpone foam.

    Prepare the finishing touch by sifting cocoa powder over the top of the chocolate “tiramisu” decorative disk and place it on top of the mascarpone foam.


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A few words about the author…

EMMANUELE FORCONE

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