Elle & Vire Recipes
by Frederic Cassel pastry Chef

Recipe Ichigo - letter to Santa Claus

For
6 persons
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To prepare this dish

Ingredient list
Biscuit roll cake
232 g egg yolk
224 g egg white
188 g fine sugar
92 g flour
24 g starch
44 g butter
72 g milk
24 g trimoline
Sable Tan Gram
500 g butter
4 g salt
150 g egg yolks
450 g bread flour
90 g cornstarch
162 g icing sugar
Strawberry compote
811 g mara des bois strawberry purée
1722 g fraises gariguettes
246 g fine sugar
172 g trimoline
50 g pectin NH
strawberry sirup
8000 g fraises gariguettes
400 g fine sugar
8 vanilla pods
5200 g jus de fraise
240 g lemon juice
64 g gelatine
Sublime cream vanilla
4500 g Sublime, Cream with Mascarpone
10 vanilla pods
475 g fine sugar
40 g gelatine
white pistol
600 g opalys chocolate
400 g cocoa butter
Elle & Vire products used

The recipe,
step by step

  1. 1

    Biscuit roll cake

    Beat the egg yolks, then beat the egg whites with the sugar. Mix butter, milk and trimoline in a plastic container and melt at 40°C

    Sift the flour and cornstarch. Mix the whitened yolks by hand in the egg whites. Achieve a mass balance by mixing part of the eggs with the liquids. Stir in flour/starch mixture and liquids to finish.

    Set on a black plate with a parchment sheet in a frame at 800g

    Bake at 180°C for 15min

  2. 2

    Sable Tan Gram

    Loosen the butter with the batter with the leaf. Cook the egg yolks in the microwave and once cooked, strain them through a sieve using a horn. Add the cooked yolks and icing sugar, then flour, salt and cornstarch. Let it set in the refrigerator for a few hours, then spread out in the rolling mill at 4mm thick and cut a 560x360mm rectangle.

    Cook on silpaint for 20min at 170°C Place the frame in the freezer between two plates so it does not deform and once cold pulverize a layer of cocoa butter on top

  3. 3

    Strawberry compote

    In a saucepan, heat the purée and the sugar mixed with the pectin NH, then add the trimoline and bring to boil. Add the chopped strawberries and return to stock. Pour 2800g into a 560x360mm recumbent flexipan

  4. 4

    strawberry sirup

    Cut the strawberries into pieces and put them to cook for 1h in the bain marie in a chicken’s ass filmed with the sugar and the scraped vanilla pod. Chinoise the strawberries in a Chinese stamen using a maryse to recover a maximum of juice.

    (The remaining chair can be used to replace part of the puree in the compote)

    Soak the gelatin in cold water then once hydrated add to the strawberry juice heat to 50° and pour in the lemon juice

    Soak both sides of the cookie with a brush (700g per sheet)

  5. 5

    Sublime cream vanilla

    Dip the gelatin in cold water. In a saucepan, boil 1/ 3 of the cream, sugar and vanilla pods, split and scraped. Add the gelatin and the rest of the cold cream, then chinoise and mix. Store the cream in the room and beat with the whisk if necessary

  6. 6

    white pistol

    Mix ingredients together and use at 45° for a velvet effect

  7. 7

    Assembly

    Run the strawberry compote into a frame. Soak the top of the biscuit with the strawberry syrup, then glue the soaked side to the compote and let it set in the refrigerator at 4°C, then remove the sulfurize sheet from the biscuit and soak the second side. Stir in 300g of sublime cream and spread over the cookie to glue the shortbread to the gram. Set to take in the freezer.


    Unmould and cut out rectangles of 125mmx180mm

    Assemble the remaining vanilla cream and place 350g per mould, then insert until the cream is flush.

    Put in the freezer

    Unmould and pulverize with white pistol device


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