Elle & Vire Recipes
by Nicolas Boussin Executive Pastry Chef at La Maison de l'Excellence Savencia® Best Pastry Craftsman in France

Recipe Asian Floral Tart

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Ingredient list
Shortbread pastry
360 g flour
150 g icing sugar
60 g almond powder
4 g salt
210 g Elle & Vire all Purpose butter 82% fat
70 g eggs
Fondant
200 g Elle & Vire all Purpose butter 82% fat
160 g icing sugar
160 g almond powder
40 g grated coconut
20 g starch
200 g eggs
60 g Excellence whipping cream 35% fat
Tropical fruit preserve
300 g guava puree
50 g passion fruit puree
20 g ginger puree
200 g diced mango
5 g yellow pectin
20 g sugar (A)
80 g sugar (B)
Sublime coconut
500 g Sublime, Cream with Mascarpone
100 g coconut purée (with coconut pieces)
30 g sugar
3 vanilla beans, split and scraped
20 g Malibu®
Hibiscus jelly
25 g hibiscus flowers
500 g water
80 g sugar
35 g atomised glucose
20 g pectagel 843 Louis François
6 g lemon juice
rose extract
Assembly and presentation
sliced mango
fresh flowers
neutral glaze
lime zests
passion fruit seeds
Elle & Vire products used

The recipe,
step by step

  1. 1

    Shortbread pastry

    Combine the butter and all the powdered ingredients including the salt until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs, and then add the eggs. Refrigerate to rest. Roll the dough out to a thickness of 2 mm then line the ring moulds. Leave to rest. Bake in a fan-assisted oven at 150°C. 

  2. 2

    Fondant

    Soften the butter. Add the icing sugar, ground almonds, coconut, and starch. Gradually add the eggs then the warm cream. 

  3. 3

    Tropical fruit preserve

    Bring the purees to the boil and add the sugar (A) and the pectin. Add the sugar (B) and heat to 51% Brix (102°C). Add the diced mango, cook for a further 3 minutes then leave to cool. 

  4. 4

    Sublime coconut

    Combine all the ingredients using a mixer. 

  5. 5

    Hibiscus jelly

    Bring the water and the hibiscus flowers to the boil. Infuse for 30 mn. Strain through a sieve. Combine the sugar with the pectagel and the powdered glucose and add to the infusion. Boil for 3 mn, stirring continuously. Remove from the heat, add the lemon juice and strain through a sieve. Cool then add the rose extract. Blend. 

  6. 6

    Assembly and presentation

    Spread the fondant and the tropical fruit preserve onto the tart base*. Transfer to a Demarle® Silpain and bake in the oven at 150°C. Leave to cool. Add different sized balls of Sublime coconut. Add mango slices and coat with neutral glaze. Add flower petals, hibiscus jelly, lime zests and passion fruit seeds. 

    *3 x 18 cm ring moulds 


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Nicolas Boussin

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