Caramel vanilla finger

Lady finger sponge with vanilla mousse and caramel interior.

Caramel Chocolate Dairy
Caramel vanilla finger
Gaëtan Fiard

Gaëtan Fiard

Le Boudoir de Léa, Bordeaux, France

Ingredients

For 24 servings

Interieur caramel vanilla

240 g sugar

100 g glucose

110 g milk

460 g Debic Stand & Overrun

90 g gelatine mass (15 g powder gelatine + 75 g water)

48 g Debic Crème Butter

Lady finger sponge cake

200 g egg white

200 g sugar

130 g egg yolk

40 g potato starch

230 g flour

Cocoa streusel

120 g sugar

180 g Debic Crème Butter

240 g flour

2 vanilla pods

4 g fleur de sel

Recombined streusel

500 g baked cocoa streusel

125 g feuilletine

187 g Dulcey® chocolate

Vanilla mousse

865 g Debic Stand & Overrun (1)

2 vanilla pods

285 g egg yolk

144 g sugar

135 g gelatine mass (23 g gelatine powder + 112 g water)

865 g Debic Stand & Overrun (2)

255 g mascarpone

Spray chocolate

300 g Dulcey® chocolate

120 g cocoa butter

45 g grape seed oil

Preparation

Interieur caramel vanilla

Cook a caramel with the sugar and glucose.

Then deglaze with the milk and Stand & Overrun already brought to the boil. Re-cook at 104°C.

Then add the gelatine mass at 60°C and the Crème Butter at 40-45°C.

Pipe in a frame over the sponge cake and the crispy streusel.

Lady finger sponge cake

Beat the egg whites with the sugar until a stiff meringue, then add the yolks to the meringue and finally sift in the starch and flour.

Spread on a baking tray on a Silpat and bake in a frame.

Bake at 180°C during 2 x 5 minutes.

Turn the baking tray after 5 minutes.

Cocoa streusel

Mix the ingredients together until you obtain very small crumbles, then freeze.

Bake at 160°C for about 15 minutes.

Recombined streusel

Mix the ingredients together and press in the moulds.

Vanilla mousse

Infuse the Stand & Overrun (1) and vanilla over a heat for 30 minutes. 

Make an anglaise and fold in the gelatine mass.

Whip the Stand & Overrun (2) and mascarpone.

Combine at 20°C to 22°C.

Fill the moulds.

Spray chocolate

Melt the chocolate and cocoa butter.

Add the oil.

Use at 30°C.

Assembly

Fill silicon moulds with the recombined streusel.

Press properly.

Cut out the sponge cake in the same shape as the streusel and stick together with a drop of caramel.

Pipe with a piping bag a line of vanilla caramel on the sponge cake.

Fill the moulds with the vanilla mousse.

Freeze.

Spray gun with the chocolate spray.

Finishing touch

Decorate with whipped Stand & Overrun and fresh peaches.

Recipe tags Caramel Chocolate Dairy
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