V. Earl Grey Raspberry

by Chef Loi Ming Ai


Earl Grey Raspberry

Ingredients

Croissant Dough

800 g T45
200 g T65 
16 g Dry yeast
100 g Caster sugar
15 g Inverted sugar
20 g Salt
80 g Debic Butter Croissant Sheet
400 g Water
50 g Whole egg
560 g Debic Butter Sheet 82%

Earl Grey Frangipane

200 g Valrhona Pate d’amande 55%
150 g Whole egg
200 g Almond powder
15 g Corn starch
15 g Earl grey powder
150 g Debic Butter Sheet Croissant
100 g Crème Patisserie

Raspberry Gelee

220 g Ponthier raspberry puree
10 g Ponthier lemon puree
100 g Glucose syrup
6 g Ingredium gellan gum

Preparation

Croissant Dough

Mix all ingredients together in a mixing bowl, except dry yeast, mix at speed 1 with hook attachment for 30 seconds, add in dry yeast, continue to mix until gluten fully developed.

Earl Grey Frangipane

Emulsify almond paste with whole egg in a Robot Coupe. Followed by, almond powder, corn starch, vanilla bean, butter and crème patisserie. 

Raspberry Gelee

Mix gellan gum in purees and blend with a Micromix. Pour puree mixture in a saucepan and bring to a boil with glucose syrup. Pour over the square ring and allow to cool down and set in the chiller.

Assembly

Temperature of the dough at 0˚C, roll out the butter into 30cm x 30cm and the dough into 30cm x 60cm. Do a traditional lock with 1 double fold (roll out the dough to No.5), sandwich 200g of flatten maroon croissant dough into the double fold. Do 1 single fold (roll out the dough to No.9). Roll the width of the dough to 49cm, put on 500g of flatten red croissant dough on the laminated dough, then rest the dough in the freezer for 30 minutes. Roll the length of the dough into No.6. Rest the dough in the freezer for 30 minutes. Slice the dough into 5mm on one side of the dough, twist it and place on the surface, roll the width to 28cm. Rest the dough in the freezer for another 30 minutes, roll the length of the dough into 60cm. Rest the dough in the freezer for 30 minutes, roll the dough into 5mm. Rest again the dough in the freezer for 30 minutes, then roll the dough into 4mm. Rest the dough in freezer for 15 minutes before divide.