Elle & Vire Recipes
by Chong Ko Wai

Recipe Chinese lanterns strawberry kaffir lime

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1 person
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To prepare this dish

Ingredient list
Almond crumble
215 g Elle & Vire gourmet butter 82% fat
215 g brown sugar
173 g T55 flour
3 g sea ​​salt
107 g almond powder
Crispy base
500 g Almond crumble
125 g Dulcey chocolate
40 g feuilletine
Strawberry compote
317 g frozen strawberries
95 g sugar
27 g dextrose
2,75 g NH pectin
70 g strawberry puree
1,5 g citric acid powder
201 g frozen strawberry juice
Kaffir lime
30 g finely ground almonds
59 g hazelnut powder
89 g icing sugar
78 g egg yolks
50 g egg whites
105 g sugar
2 kaffir lime
177 g egg whites
78 g T55 flour
Strawberry syrup to soak
200 g Strawberry juice
20 g sugar
Strawberry whipped ganache
224 g Excellence whipping cream 35% fat
15 g invert sugar
350 g strawberry chocolate Valrhona® Inspiration edition
580 g Excellence whipping cream 35% fat
0,5 vanilla pods
3,5 g gelatine
17,5 g water
Elle & Vire products used

The recipe,
step by step

  1. 1

    Almond crumble

    • Toast almond powder. 

    • Mix all dry ingredients with butter to get big crumble size. 

    • Bake at 175°C for 12 mins. 

  2. 2

    Crispy base

    •  Melt chocolate then fold in all ingredients until mix well. 
  3. 3

    Strawberry compote

    • Mix frozen strawberry & sugar, keep in chiller for one night. 
    • The next day, sieve out the juice from the strawberry set aside. 
    • Premix dextrose & pectin. 
    • In a pot, warm strawberry puree to 40°C, then add in premix. Mix well. Add in sieved strawberry pulp and bring to boil for around 1 min. 
    • Lastly add in citric acid powder. Keep strawberry juice for syrup. 
  4. 4

    Kaffir lime

    • Mix well almond, hazelnut powder, icing sugar, egg yolk, and egg white (1) . Whip until the mixture is thick and has doubled in volume. 
    • Fold flour. 
    • Another side, mix a hard pick meringue with egg white (2) & sugar. Fold in to sabayon. 
    • Lastly, mix in kaffir lime zest & juice. 
  5. 5

    Strawberry syrup to soak

    • Warm both ingredient together and brush biscuit Joconde until to soak. 
  6. 6

    Strawberry whipped ganache

    • Warm cream (1), , invert sugar, half-vanilla bean and gelatine mass to 70°c then add in strawberry chocolate, blend well. 
    • Add in cream (2) blend well again. 
    • Chill in chiller for one night before use. 
  7. 7

    Assembly

    • Red cacao butter to spray 
    • Chocolate decoration 
    • Using cylinder mold, layer crispy base on the bottom. Add use little bit of strawberry whipped ganache to attach with the biscuit Joconde, then top strawberry compote on top. Freeze until the compote is firm enough to layer with strawberry whipped ganache, until it’s leveled with the mold. Freeze until firm. 
    • Unmold the cake and using a spinning machine, pipe remaining strawberry whipped ganache with rose petal to create lantern like pattern from bottom to top. Freeze again. Spray with red color cocoa butter spray.
    • Top with chocolate decoration. 

     


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A few words about the author…

Chong Ko Wai

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