Halloween

Entremets with rich pumpkin flavours for the spookiest night.


Halloween
Nicolas Arnaud

Nicolas Arnaud

European Champion Patisserie 2016, Brussels, Belgium

Ingredients

For 3 servings

Almond mousse

600 g Debic Stand & Overrun (1)

240 g almond paste 66%

48 g gelatine powder

240 g water

3 l Debic Stand & Overrun (2)

130 g sugar

Pumpkin crémeux

1 kg pumpkin purée

375 g orange purée

670 g Debic Stand & Overrun

335 g egg yolk

200 g sugar

30 g gelatine powder

150 g water

Orange confit

700 g orange purée

300 g mandarin purée

15 g pectin NH

72 g sugar

72 g inverted sugar

128 g glucose syrup

Almond dacquoise

172 g flour

510 g ground almonds

300 g sugar (1)

600 g sugar (2)

840 g egg white

Glaçage

570 g glucose syrup

570 g sugar

372 g water (1)

395 g condensed milk (1 can)

270 g cocoa butter

1 g orange colouring

30 g gelatine powder

150 g water (2)

Decoration

various marzipan

various chocolate

Debic products used

Preparation

Almond mousse

Hydrate the gelatine with the water.

Heat the first cream with the almond paste and melt in the gelatine mass.

Mix to a homogeneous mixture.

Whip the second cream with the sugar to soft peaks and fold in the almond mixture.

Pumpkin crémeux

Hydrate the gelatine with water. 

Cook the purées with the cream, egg yolks andsugar to 85 °C (anglaise). 

Add the gelatine mass and mix to a smooth crémeux.

Pour in silicone Ø14 cm moulds.

Freeze.

Orange confit

Bring the purées to a boil together with the glucose and inverted sugar. 

Premix the pectin with the sugar, then sprinkle the blend over the fruit purée while continuously heating it to a boil. 

Pour over the frozen pumpkin purée and freeze together.

Almond dacquoise

Sieve and premix the flour with the first sugar and ground almonds. 

Whip the egg whites with the second sugar to a soft peak meringue.

Combine and spread over a baking tray.

Bake at 185 °C for 18–20 minutes.

Glaçage

Hydrate the gelatin with the second water. 

Bring all the ingredients to a boil except the cocoa butter and colouring. 

Pour over the cocoa butter, colouring agents and gelatine mass. 

Mix with a hand blender.

Leave overnight.

Use at 35 °C.

Assembly

Build up the entremets upside down.

Portion 3/4 of the almond mousse in the circles and push in the frozen pumpkin-orange inserts.

Continue with the remaining mousse and close with the dacquoise.

Freeze.

Finishing touch

Unmould the circles and glaze with the orange glaçage. 

Finish with Halloween decorations in marzipan and chocolate.

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