Snow white entremet

Brownie biscuit with hazelnut dacquoise and mandarin crèmeux.

Chocolate Citrus Nuts
Snow white entremet
Brecht Van Pouchke

Brecht Van Pouchke

Painture, Oedelem, Belgium

Ingredients

For 6 servings

Brownies biscuit

265 g dark chocolate 64%

250 g Debic Brioche Butter

300 g sugar

5 g sea salt

300 g eggs

60 g flour

Hazelnut dacquoise

200 g egg white

72 g sugar (1)

122 g grounded hazelnut

144 g sugar (2)

40 g flour

Crèmeux mandarin

80 g mandarin puree

45 g passion fruit puree

1 orange, zest

175 g sugar

165 g egg

4 g gelatine

270 g Debic Brioche Butter

10 g Cointreau 60%

5 g orange compound

10 g lime juice

Caraïbe ganache

200 g Debic Stand & Overrun 35%

20 g inverted sugar

180 g dark chocolate 64%

70 g Debic Brioche Butter

Vanilla mousse

300 g Debic Stand & Overrun 35% (1)

132 g sugar (1)

3 vanilla pods, Madagaskar

100 g egg yolk

100 g sugar (2)

16 g gelatine

1200 g Debic Stand & Overrun 35% (2)

Glazing

92 g water

165 g sugar

165 g glucose

32 g gelatine

165 white chocolate, Ivoire

120 g condensed milk

65 g neutral glazing

Preparation

Brownies biscuit

Melt the dark chocolate, add the softened Brioche Butter.

Make sure the butter is not completely melted so that butter crystals remain present.

Portion 200 g / Silpat. Bake at 190°C for 12 minutes.

Hazelnut dacquoise

Beat the egg whites with the sugar (1), sieve the rest of the ingredients and fold them into the firm meringue.

Pipe on a tray covered with a baking sheet 6 spirals of dacquoise 15 cm Ø. Bake for 12 minutes at 195°C.

Crèmeux mandarin

Bring the fruit purees, zest and sugar to the boil. 

Realize an anglaise (84°C) with the eggs.

Add the soaked gelatine and allow to cool to ± 45 to 50°C. 

Add the cold Brioche Butter, Cointreau, lime juice and compound and emulsify by mixing for 5 minutes.

Portion 125 g per interior mould and freeze.

Caraïbe ganache

Bring the Stand & Overrun and inverted sugar to the boil and pour onto the chocolate.

Emulsify by mixing with the hand blender.

While mixing, add the cold Brioche Butter.

Pour the ganache into a container and allow to set in the refrigerator.

Vanilla mousse

Bring the Stand & Overrun (1) with the sugar (1) and the scraped-out vanilla to the boil.

Allow to infuse for half an hour.

Meanwhile, mix the egg yolks with the remaining sugar (2) and cook an anglaise (84°C) with the infused cream.

Finish this preparation by mixing the anglaise.

Add the soaked gelatine and allow to cool to 25-30°C.

Whip the Stand & Overrun (2) to soft peaks and fold in the cooled anglaise.

Glazing

Bring the water with the sugar and glucose to a boil.

Cook for 2 minutes.

Emulsify with a hand blender.

While mixing, add the condensed milk and neutral jelly.

Allow to cool.

Assembly

Build the entremets upside down.

Start with the vanilla mousse on the bottom and chemise the sides of the ring with it as well.

Place the frozen layer mandarin crèmeux followed by the hazelnut dacquoise.

Add the remaining vanilla mousse.

Pipe a few dots of ganache on the brownies and freeze them.

Finishing touch

Finish this build-up with the combined ganache-brownies.

Freeze.

Demould the entremets and glaze them with the glaçage (35°C).

Finish with white chocolate decorations.

Recipe tags Chocolate Citrus Nuts
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