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Ingredient list
Vanilla and roasted almond biscuit
390 g ground roasted almonds
390 g icing sugar
36 g maizena
3 g baking powder
1 g vanilla powder
1 g vanilla extract
345 g eggs
105 g egg yolks
135 g Mascarpone
Apricot compote
380 g frozen apricot halves, cut into pieces
460 g apricot purée
50 g passion fruit pulp
140 g sugar
7 g pectin NH
130 g dried apricots, cut into pieces
5 g gelatine powder (200 Bloom)
30 g water for dissolving the gelatine
100 g apricot liqueur
4810 g dulce de leche
Meringue
260 g glucose syrup
160 g egg whites
Dulce de leche mousse
200 g milk
1000 g dulce de leche
40 g gelatine powder (200 Bloom)
240 g water for dissolving the gelatine
1200 g Excellence whipping cream 35% fat
400 g meringue
Almond hazelnut streusel
420 g Elle & Vire gourmet butter 82% fat
180 g Original american cream cheese 34% fat
540 g T55 flour
300 g brown sugar
300 g Muscovado sugar
300 g almond powder
300 g ground hazelnuts
10 g fleur de sel
Spray sauce
400 g blonde couverture chocolate 35%
100 g dark couverture chocolate 63%
500 g cocoa butter
Elle & Vire products used

The recipe,
step by step

  1. 1

    Vanilla and roasted almond biscuit

    Sift the dry ingredients together then, using the K-beater, beat in a stand mixer with the eggs, yolks and vanilla extract. Add the mascarpone, then pour into a Flexipat®, smooth the surface and bake at 160°C for 15 minutes in a fan oven. Leave to cool.
  2. 2

    Apricot compote

    Heat the dried apricots and pulps to 40°C, then add the pectin NH diluted in the sugar. Blend in a food processor. Add the frozen apricot pieces and then bring to the boil. Add the dissolved gelatine and the apricot cream. Pour over the biscuit. Cut out with the appropriate Silikomart® cutter, pipe in 8 g of dulce de leche and place the dessert back into the freezer.
  3. 3

    Caramel brun semi liquide

    Faire un caramel brun avec le sucre. Décuire avec la crème chaude, le lait, le beurre, la fleur de sel et la vanille. Ajouter la gélatine hydratée. Laisser refroidir. Etaler sur le biscuit et saupoudrer de grains de maïs. Mettre au congélateur. Détailler des ronds de 4 cm de diamètre.
  4. 4

    Meringue

    Heat all the ingredients to 40°C in a bain marie, then whip with a hand mixer.
  5. 5

    Dulce de leche mousse

    Bring the milk to the boil, then pour over the dulce de leche and dissolved gelatine. At 25°C, fold in the whipped cream and meringue.
  6. 6

    Almond hazelnut streusel

    Mix all the ingredients together in a stand mixer with the K-beater, knead on the minimum setting. Sift through a large-holed sieve. Bake on Silpain® at 140°C for 20 minutes.
  7. 7

    Spray sauce

    Melt together at 45°C.
  8. 8

    Assembly

    Pipe in the dulce de leche mousse, place the insert inside and cover with mousse. Place in the freezer and unmould. Stick the almond/hazelnut streusel onto the little desserts. Spray with a couverture of the sauce and decorate with a 2x8 cm dark chocolate lozenge, passed in gold powder and bent around a 10 cm tube.

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A few words about the author…

Nicolas Boussin

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