Elle & Vire Recipes
by Eric Perez

Recipe Hazelnut Chocolate Cake

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To prepare this dish

Ingredient list
Hazelnut dacquoise
225 g ground hazelnuts
225 g icing sugar
50 g flour
310 egg whites
75 g granulated sugar
Hazelnut crunch
150 g milk chocolate
170 g praline paste
115 g paillete feuilletine
Chocolate mousse/ Pate a bombe
275 g egg yolks
275 g water
90 g skimmed milk powder
30 g trimoline
Chocolate mousse
285 g pâte à bombe
365 g chocolate 64%
485 g Excellence whipping cream 35% fat
Hazelnut mousse
105 g Excellence whipping cream 35% fat
6 g gelatine
140 g hazelnut paste
230 g praliné noisette à l'ancienne
275 g pâte à bombe
370 g Excellence whipping cream 35% fat
Chocolate Glaze
syrup
310 g sugar
230 g water
65 g glucose
Finishing
200 g glucose
400 g syrup
700 g Excellence whipping cream 35% fat
900 g dark pate a glacé
100 g dark chocolate coating (64% cocoa)
100 g cocoa paste
Elle & Vire products used

The recipe,
step by step

  1. 1

    Hazelnut dacquoise

    Mix icing sugar, cake flour and hazelnut flour together. Whip up egg whites with sugar and incorporate the flours. Pipe discs onto flexipan and bake at 180°C / 356°F in a convection oven.

  2. 2

    Hazelnut crunch

    Melt the chocolate. Add the paste then the paillete feuilletine. Spread onto flexipan discs and freeze.

  3. 3

    Chocolate mousse/ Pate a bombe

    Heat all ingredients to 85°C / 185°F except the trimoline. Whisk until cool. Add the trimoline last.

  4. 4

    Chocolate mousse

    Melt chocolate to 50°C-55°C / 122°F-131°F. Add some of the whipped cream. Fold in the pate a bombe. Fold in the rest of the whipped cream.

  5. 5

    Hazelnut mousse

    Boil the cream and add the gelatine and pour onto praline paste and hazelnut paste. While still warm fold in the pate a bombe. Fold in the whipped cream. Pour the hazelnut mousse into flexipan discs and freeze.

  6. 6

    Chocolate Glaze

    Boil and set aside.

  7. 7

    Finishing

    Take 400 g of the boiled syrup. add 200 g glucose and the 700 g cream. Bring to a boil and pour onto the melted chocolate. Preserve in chiller and glaze at 28°C / 82.4°F on frozen cake.

  8. 8

    Assembly

    In a filmed ring, assemble up-side down. Place the chocolate mousse in first. Add a layer of hazelnut dacquoise, then the hazelnut mousse followed by more chocolate mousse. Finish with a layer of the hazelnut crunch then the hazelnut dacquoise. Place in freezer. Glaze at 28°C / 82.4°F on frozen cake.


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