Elle & Vire Recipes
by Julien Alvarez

Recipe A love of mom

To prepare this dish

Ingredient list
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600 g crusty/layered bottom
600 g raspberry sponge cake
600 g raspberry/champagne jelly
1050 g rosé champagne mousse
1 recipe Opalys icing
Crusty/layered bottom
170 g Opalys chocolate 33%
6 g lime zests
170 g speculoos
140 g reversed layering
110 g golden flakes
1.8 g sea salt
Reverse layering for «Crusty/layered bottom»
48.6 g Elle & Vire gourmet butter 82% fat
18 g pastry flour (1)
42 g pastry flour (2)
17 g Elle & Vire gourmet butter 82% fat
13 g water
1.6 g salt
0.4 g white vinegar
Raspberry sponge cake
164 g 65% Almond paste
168 g eggs
50 g Elle & Vire gourmet butter 82% fat
33 g flour
2.2 g baking powder
70 g egg whites
22 g sugar
91 g raspberry nibs
Raspberry/champagne jelly
298 g champagne
4 g vanilla pods
74.5 g sugar
30 g starch
112 g raspberry nibs
37 g lemon juice
45 g gelatine mass
Gelatine mass for «Raspberry/champagne jelly»
6.4 g powered gelatine
38.3 g water
Rosé champagne mousse
344 g champagne
15 g lemon juice
8.4 g vanilla pods
15 g orange zest
15 g lemon peel
81 g gelatine mass
430 g Excellence whipping cream 35% fat
144 g cold-set glucose-added
Gelatine mass for «Rosé champagne mousse»
11.5 g powered gelatine
70 g water
Cold-set glucose-added meringue for «Mousse champagne rosé»
87 g glucose syrup
57 g egg whites
Recipe/s Opalys icing
125 g water
250 g sugar
250 g glucose syrup
145 g sweetened condensed milk
265 g Opalys chocolate 33%
112 g gelatine mass
2 g vanilla powder
5 g Titanium dioxide
Gelatine Mass for «Opalys icing»
16 g powered gelatine
96 g water
Elle & Vire products used

The recipe,
step by step

  1. 1

    Love

  2. 2

    Crusty/layered bottom

    Melt the chocolate then carefully bring together all the ingredients. 

    Use right away. 

     

  3. 3

    Reverse layering for «Crusty/layered bottom»

    Make a kneaded butter.

    With a flat whisk, work the butter (1) at room temperature with the flour (1).

    Put aside for an hour at 4°C before moulding it into a frame.

    Make a distemper.

    With a hook whisk, mix together the flour (2), salt and butter (2).

    Little by little at the water and vinegar.

    Mix without giving it too much elasticity. 

    Put aside for an hour at 4°C.

    Proceed with the rolling of the dough.

    Set the distemper in the kneaded butter.

    Roll a couple of times and then leave it for 2h min à 4°C.

    Roll another couple of times and then leave it for 2h min à 4°C.

    Finally, just roll one last time.

    Finishing touch: Thousand layers: 2,5 mm thickness 

  4. 4

    Raspberry sponge cake

    Mix the almond paste and the eggs in a robot-coupe.

    Beat everything together with a whip.

    Incorporate the sieved powders then the butter melted at 45°C.

    After they become tepid, beat the eggs whites with the sugar.

    Carefully Incorporate the meringue to the first mixture.

    At the raspberry pieces.

    Spread right away.

    1750 g / 40X60 flexipan / Baking at 170°C 

  5. 5

    Raspberry/champagne jelly

    Boil the rosé champagne and infuse the vanilla pods for 10 minutes. 

    Add the mixture of sugar and starch and boil to thicken. 

    Put the raspberry pieces, gelatine mass and lemon juice.

    Obtain a homogenous mix by whisking and then run the inserts.

    Note: Replace raspberry by wild strawberry, partially or entirely. 

  6. 6

    Gelatine mass for «Raspberry/champagne jelly»

    Poor the cold water over the gelatine powder.

    Whip to obtain a homogenous mass.

    Let soak for a minimum of 20 minutes.

    Keep at 4°C.

    Remove using a clean utensil.

    MEP for 5 days. 

  7. 7

    Rosé champagne mousse

    Boil the champagne then infuse the zests and vanilla pods for 10 minutes.

    Pass through a chinois then add the lemon juice and melted gelatine mass.

    Create the glucose meringue in parallel to bringing the cream into a mousse.

    Relax the jelly at 28°C with half of the cream then the meringue.

    Finally add the rest of the beaten cream.

    Proceed to the assembly.

    Note: 1,8 Kg for a 2 cm flexipan 

  8. 8

    Gelatine mass for «Rosé champagne mousse»

    Poor the cold water over the gelatine powder.

    Whip to obtain a homogenous mass.

    Let soak for a minimum of 20 minutes.

    Keep at 4°C.

    Remove using a clean utensil.

    MEP for 5 days. 

  9. 9

    Cold-set glucose-added meringue for «Mousse champagne rosé»

    Heat up the mixture at 40°C with the bain-marie method.

    Beat with a whisk.

  10. 10

    Recipe/s Opalys icing

    Boil the water with sugar and glucose syrup (103°C).

    Pour over the rest of the ingredients.

    Carefully mix to obtain a perfectly homogenous texture with no bubbles.

    Store at 4°C.

    Use at around 30°C. 

    Colouring: Pink: 1,100 Kg mass/0,6 g of red raspberry, Purple : red raspberry +sparkling silver 

  11. 11

    Gelatine Mass for «Opalys icing»

    Poor the cold water over the gelatine powder.

    Whip to obtain a homogenous mass.

    Let soak for a minimum of 20 minutes.

    Keep at 4°C.

    Remove using a clean utensil.

    MEP for 5 days. 


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