St. Honoré baby shower cake

St. Honoré tower cake with puff pastry, ruby chocolate, and blueberries.


St. Honoré baby shower cake
Andres Albite

Andrés Albite

Bakery Culinary Advisor, Spain

Ingredients

For 3 servings

Inverted puff pastry

1900 g soft flour

500 g strong flour

72 g salt

30 g sugar

940 g water

60 g vinegar

400 g Debic Cake Butter

2000 g Debic Croissant Butter

Pâte à choux

330 g milk

330 g water

280 g Debic Cake Butter

10 g salt

10 g sugar

10 g inverted sugar

380 g flour

680 g eggs

Vanilla pastry cream

1600 g milk

400 g Debic Stand & Overrun

2 vanilla pods

160 g cornflour

300 g sugar

480 g egg yolks

Finish cream

1000 g Debic Stand & Overrun

70 g icing sugar

Ruby chocolate whipped ganache

200 g milk

10 g glucose

7 g gelatine powder

320 g ruby chocolate

400 g Debic Stand & Overrun

Blueberry compote

300 g fresh blueberries

100 g sugar

5 g pectin NH

2 g gelatine powder

20 g lemon juice

Preparation

Inverted puff pastry

Knead all the ingredients except the Croissant Butter.

Divide into 4 kg dough balls and let them rest, covered, on the counter for 15 minutes.

Roll out on a baking sheet and refrigerate overnight.

Give each ball two single folds, then rest for two hours in the refrigerator.

Give two more single folds.

Let it rest for at least two hours in the refrigerator.

Roll out to a thickness of 4 mm and cut out circles measuring 26 cm, 22 cm and 16 cm, and cut a 5 cm circle in the centre of each circle. 

Let it rest at room temperature for 2 hours and bake at 150 °C for 30 minutes.

Pâte à choux

Melt all the ingredients except the flour and eggs in a saucepan.

Add the flour and cook briefly until the mixture forms a smooth dough that pulls away from the sides of the pan. 

Add the eggs little by little in a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment.

When the desired consistency is reached, place in a pastry bag with a round nozzle (16 mm) and pipe onto a silicone baking mat with micro-perforation.

Bake for 15 minutes at 160°C with the vent closed and for another 15 minutes with the vent open.

Vanilla pastry cream

Infuse the milk and cream with the vanilla pods.

Strain and make a pastry cream with the remaining ingredients.

Cool in a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment for a creamier texture. 

Refrigerate.

Ruby chocolate whipped ganache

Heat the milk with the glucose and melt the previously hydrated gelatine.

Emulsify with the chocolate and finally with the cold cream.

Let it rest in the refrigerator for 12 hours before whipping.

Blueberry compote

Heat the fresh blueberries with half the sugar.

When it reaches 40 °C, add the pectin with the remaining sugar and boil for 3 minutes.

Add the previously hydrated gelatine and lemon juice.

Assembly

Fill the choux puffs with the blueberry compote.

Place a base of custard and blueberry compote on the puff pastry to hold the choux pastries together.

Finishing touch

Whip the Stand & Overrun with sugar and decorate with the St. Honoré nozzle, alternating the cream and the ruby chocolate whipped ganache. 

Finish the creation with a dedicated chocolate decoration.

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