Elle & Vire Recipes
by Lai Yi Chun

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To prepare this dish

Ingredient list
JASMINE TEA RUBY GANACHE
85 g hot water
350 g Excellence whipping cream 35% fat
112 g ruby chocolate
40 g hydrated gelatin
14 g flower honey
4 g pectin
10 g passion fruit puree
18 g sugar
8 g dried jasmine
15 g jasmine tea leaves
70 g milk
36 g Excellence whipping cream 35% fat
8 g Mascarpone
PINEAPPLE GEL
80 g pectin
40 g passion fruit puree
15 g banana purée
38 g jasmin tea
33 g Glucose syrup (43 DE)
4,5 g LM pectine
45 g trehalose
15 g candied pineapple
PASSIONFRUIT CREAM
24 g milk
42 g egg yolks
42 g sugar
28 g banana purée
40 g pectin
97,5 g passion fruit puree
169 g Elle & Vire gourmet butter 82% fat
17 g hydrated gelatin
STREUSEL
95 g raw sugar
95 g T55 flour
115 g almond powder
95 g Elle & Vire gourmet butter 82% fat
1 g salt
LEMON ZEST CRUNCH
2 g lemon zest
24 g white chocolate
100 g feuilletine
100 g streusel
SPONGE CAKE
300 g eggs
170 g sugar
20 g Elle & Vire gourmet butter 82% fat
40 g milk
170 g T45 flour
APPAREIL À PULVÉRISER
300 g ruby chocolate
300 g cocoa butter
6 g red food colouring
6 g white food colouring
6 g yellow food colouring
ASSEMBLY
SQ pink cocoa butter
SQ yellow cocoa butter
SQ white cocoa butter
Elle & Vire products used

The recipe,
step by step

  1. 1

    JASMINE TEA RUBY GANACHE

    Combine the hot water, cream and milk. Heat to 80°C and pour over the jasmine tea leaves and the dried jasmine. Let infuse for 10 minutes. Strain the mixture, add the sugar and stir until dissolved. Add the fruit purees, honey and hydrated gelatin. Pour over the ruby chocolate, then use a hand blender to emulsify the mixture. Incorporate the chilled cream and the mascarpone. Keep in the fridge for at least 18 hours before using.
  2. 2

    PINEAPPLE GEL

    Combine the fruit purees, jasmine tea and glucose in a saucepan. Heat to 30°C. Add the combined pectin and trehalose and boil for 2 minutes. Let the mixture cool down, then stir in the candied pineapple.
  3. 3

    PASSIONFRUIT CREAM

    Combine the milk, egg yolks and sugar then add the fruit purees. Make a crème anglaise custard, then blend with the butter and hydrated gelatin to form an emulsion.
  4. 4

    STREUSEL

    Combine all the ingredients in a mixer using the paddle attachment. When it forms a dough, break into pieces and bake at 165°C for 25 minutes.
  5. 5

    LEMON ZEST CRUNCH

    Melt the white chocolate and cocoa butter, mix with the combined feuilletine, streusel and lemon zest. Use a laminator to make Ø5-cm circles.
  6. 6

    SPONGE CAKE

    Warm the eggs, sugar and flower honey to 38°C. Whip the mixture to form soft peaks, then incorporate the sifted flour and combined milk and butter heated to 50°C. Mix together and pour into a baking tray.
  7. 7

    APPAREIL À PULVÉRISER

    Heat the ruby chocolate and cocoa butter to 40°C. Use a hand blender to mix with the food colouring.
  8. 8

    ASSEMBLY

    Prepare a sponge cake disc using a 4-cm round cutter. Fill Ø-4 cm hemispherical moulds with the pineapple gel, passionfruit cream and a sponge disc. Top with the lemon zest crunch. Freeze. Whip the jasmine tea ganache, pipe 2 layers of petals onto a round paper mould and freeze for later. Fill the silicone mould with the ganache. When frozen, unmould and dip into the cocoa butter then pipe out a circle of jasmine tea ganache petals. Top with the frozen double layer of petals. After it is set, spray with pink, yellow and white cocoa butter. Finish decorating the flower with a pineapple gel center.

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