Caramel vanilla finger

Lady finger sponge with vanilla mousse and caramel interior.


Caramel vanilla finger
Gaëtan Fiard

Gaëtan Fiard

Le Boudoir de Léa, Bordeaux, France

Ingredients

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.

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