The dark one

Monoportions with dark chocolate, hazelnut, and passion fruit.


The dark one
Jaël Verleysen

Jaël Verleysen

Patisserie Verlesen, Aalst, Belgium

Ingredients

For 55 servings

Joconde

480 g egg yolk

180 g sugar (1)

180 g almond powder

180 g icing sugar

170 g flour

90 g cocoa powder

420 g egg white

180 g sugar (2)

170 g Debic Crème Butter

Passion fruit crémeux

60 g water

12 g gelatine powder

1000 g passion fruit purée

450 g egg yolk

300 g sugar

350 g Debic Crème Butter

Crispy feuilletine

625 g hazelnut praline

400 g white chocolate

325 g feuilletine

Hazelnut cream

1500 g hazelnut praline

1 l Debic Stand & Overrun

10 g gelatine powder

50 g water

Dark chocolate mousse

320 g egg yolk

355 g sugar

215 g water

1000 g dark chocolate 70%

2 l Debic Stand & Overrun

Dark cocoa glazing

1000 g Debic Stand & Overrun

165 g water (1)

1465 g sugar

400 g cocoa powder

315 g water (2)

63 g gelatine powder

1050 g neutral jelly (mirroir)

Decoration

a marzipan spider

macarons

Preparation

Joconde

Whip the egg yolk with the sugar (1).

In a separate bowl, whip the egg whites with the sugar (2).

Combine both mixtures.

Sieve and mix the remaining dry ingredients; fold into the previous mixture.

Carefully mix with the melted butter at 40 °C. Spread over 2 trays (60×40 cm).

Bake at 220 °C for 8 minutes.

Passion fruit crémeux

Hydrate gelatine with water. 

Bring the purée to a boil.

Pour into the egg-sugar mixture and reheat to 85 °C to prepare an anglaise.

Add the gelatine mass and mix in the softened butter at approximately 45 °C.

Cool down.

Crémeux caramel

Hydrate the gelatine powder with water.

Caramelise the sugar to golden brown, reduce with the cream (ambient temperature or slightly heated) and the scraped vanilla pod.

Add the egg yolks and bring to 85 °C to prepare an anglaise.

Add the gelatine mass and the salt.

Crispy feuilletine

Melt the white chocolate with the praline.

Mix in the feuilletine.

Spread over a tray at 30 °C and cool.

Hazelnut cream

Hydrate the gelatine with the water.

Bring the cream to a boil.

Add the praline and the gelatine mix.

Mix with a hand blender.

Cool.

Dark chocolate mousse

Bring the sugar and water to a boil at 121 °C.

Pour over the whisked egg yolks in a stand mixer while continuously mixing.

Mix in the melted chocolate and fold in the semi-whipped cream.

Use immediately.

Dark cocoa glazing

Hydrate the water (2) with gelatine powder.

Bring the water (1), cream, and sugar/cocoa premix to a boil.

Add the neutral jelly and the gelatine mass.

Mix well with a hand blender.

Use at 35 °C.

Assembly

Cut out joconde discs of 5 cm Ø and place in cylinder tubes.

Fill the tube with the hazelnut cream and close with a second joconde disc.

Fill with a small layer (approximately 1/4 of the recipe) of dark chocolate mousse followed by the crémeux and the remaining 3/4 of the chocolate mousse.

Freeze.

Finishing touch

Once frozen, unmould and glaze with the cocoa glazing.

Decorate with a marzipan spider and macaroons.

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