Crema Catalana millefeuille

Inverted puff pastry with cinnamon ganache and salted toffee. 

Caramel Dairy Dough
Crema Catalana millefeuille
Rolling pin and whisk

Debic's Culinary Team

Debic

Ingredients

For 24 servings

Inverted puff pastry butter dough

1560 g Debic Croissant Butter

600 g strong flour

Internal dough

700 g strong flour

700 g soft flour

50 g salt

600 g water

9 g vinegar

400 g Debic Cake Butter

Pastry cream

1000 g milk

400 g sugar

1 lemon, zest

1 cinnamon stick

200 g egg yolks

70 g modified starch

Salted toffee

350 g Debic Stand & Overrun

3 g salt

92 g milk

166 g sugar

125 g Debic Cake Butter

92 g glucose (2)

Whipped ganache of cinnamon & lemon

188 g Debic Stand & Overrun (1)

63 g milk

25 g glucose

28 g gelatine mass

1 lemon, zest

1 cinnamon stick

250 g white chocolate, 35%

45 g mascarpone

535 g Debic Stand & Overrun (2)

10 g cognac, Rémy-Martin 50% vol

Preparation

Inverted puff pastry butter dough

Mix both ingredients and laminate into a 40x30 cm rectangle on plastic. Chill

Internal dough

Mix the flour and salt, add the water and vinegar, then the Cake Butter. 

Mix just to combine – not too much. Let the dough rest overnight. 

Prepare the butter dough. Roll out the dough to 40x70 cm, and the butter to 40x35 cm.

 Place the dough over the butter, fold over the excess dough to sandwich the butter (butter/dough/butter). 

Make two single folds. Chill at least 60 minutes, then make another single fold. 

Chill for 2-3 hours minimum and roll out. 

Cut into 60x40 cm sheets, dust with icing sugar, cover with a baking tray and bake at 190°C for 45 minutes.

Pastry cream

Heat the milk and sugar with the lemon and cinnamon. 

Mix the yolks and starch, combine, and cook until boiling. 

Cool and store in a piping bag.

Salted toffee

Heat the glucose (1), Stand & Overrun, salt, and milk until dissolved. 

Caramelise the sugar separately. Once ready, deglaze  with the cream mixture and cook to 105°C.

Cool and emulsify with the Cake Butter and glucose (2). 

Store in a piping bag.

Whipped ganache of cinnamon & lemon

Heat the Stand & Overrun (1), milk, glucose, gelatine, lemon, and cinnamon. 

When it boils, pour over the chocolate and mascarpone. 

Blend well and add the remaining Stand & Overrun (2) and cognac. 

Chill for at least 12 hours.

Assembly

On the first puff pastry layer, pipe the pastry cream and toffee.

Top with the second layer and pipe whipped ganache in an "S" shape. 

Finishing touch

Dust with cinnamon powder and finish with milk chocolate shavings shaped like cinnamon sticks.

Recipe tags Caramel Dairy Dough
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