Street Kitchen: April 2012

This is a Pavé du Faubourg , the recipe is from Chocolate Desserts by Pierre Herme . I combined with sea salt caramel layer from Adriano Zumbo's chocolate mousse cake.

I also make the lacquer glaze from Rose's Heavenly Cake book.

Adriano Zumbo's chocolate mousse cake recipe:

Ingredients
Pate sable cinnamon
285g cold butter cubed
185g caster sugar
375g plain flour
1 egg
2g ground cinnamon
1/4 scraped vanilla bean

Texture apple tatin insert
PART A
4 granny smith apples, peeled & diced
350g caster sugar
175g butter
PART B
3 granny smith apples, peeled & diced
10g butter
1 orange zest
6g fresh ginger (leave in large bits)
50g caster sugar
15ml calvados

Salted caramel layer
300g caster sugar
60g glucose
120g water
220g cream
5g gelatine leaves
125g butter unsalted
2g sea salt flakes

Biscuit decor jaconde
Cigarette decor paste
50ml cream
50g egg white
50g icing sugar
30g plain flour
20g cocoa

Biscuit jaconde
60g plain flour
40g butter melted
200g almond meal
200g icing sugar
6 eggs
180g egg whites
90g caster sugar

Chocolate blackberry sabayon mousse
Blackberry ganache
125g blackberry pulp
12g inverted sugar
50g caster sugar
6g caster sugar
3g pectin nh
200g 64% dark chocolate
35g butter
Sabayon mousse
60ml liquid strained black tea
50g sugar
50g egg
145g blackberry ganache (see recipe above)
60g 64% chocolate
400g whipped cream soft peaks

Chocolate spray
500g dark chocolate
350g cocoa butter
Tempered chocolate
500g white chocolate

Pate sable cinnamon

1. Preheat oven to 160°c.
2. Add butter, sugar, flour, cinnamon and vanilla to a food processor and process to fine crumb. Add egg, mix till it comes together. Tip mixture onto bench and knead lightly. Roll out on a sheet of baking paper until 7 – 8 mm thick. Place ring mould over pastry and cut around outside edge, remove excess outer pastry.
3. Transfer pastry and ring mould on baking paper to an oven tray and bake until lightly golden.

Texture apple tatin insert
PART A
Dry caramelise the sugar, emulsify the caramel with the butter. Add the apples, cook until the apples are translucent and caramel in colour. Cool mixture.
PART B
Peel and dice the apples. Add butter, orange zest, ginger to a pan and cook until aromatic. Add sugar ,apples. Cook over high heat for 1 minute, add calvados and flambé. Cool mixture.
Mix the 2 apple mixtures together. Place in a silicon mould. Place in blast freezer until set.

Salted caramel layer
Heat cream. Place sugar, glucose, water in a saucepan, cook to caramel colour. Deglaze sugar with cream. Add gelatine. Cool to 50°c. Add butter and blitz.
Place in a silicon mould and place in blast freezer.

Biscuit decor jaconde

Cigarette decor paste
Mix all ingredients together.

Biscuit jaconde
Melt butter. Whip eggs, icing sugar, and almond meal together. Whip egg whites and sugar together to form stiff peaks. Fold egg whites into egg almond mixture alternating with butter, flour.
Preheat oven to 160°c.
Place cigarette paste on tray, swirl pattern with fingers. Place in freezer. Use a palette knife spread cigarette paste with a thin layer about 3mm thick of jaconde. Bake until lightly golden. Cool.

Chocolate blackberry sabayon mousse

Blackberry ganache
Heat blackberry pulp in a saucepan, add sugar and inverted sugar, bring to the boil. Add extra sugar and pectin.
Pour mixture over chocolate in a bowl, stir until smooth. Cool to 40°c, add butter and blend with a stick blender.

Sabayon mousse
Place tea, sugar; eggs in a bowl over simmering water (bain marie) and whip to form a sabayon. Melt chocolate, mix in cream. Fold in blackberry ganache, gently fold in sabayon.

Chocolate spray
Temper chocolate see method below. Cool to 40°c. Add cocoa.
Place in spray gun.

Tempered chocolate

Melt the chocolate in a bowl. Add more chocolate stirring until melted, until the temperature of the chocolate reaches approximately 32°c (dark chocolate), approximately 30°c for milk or white chocolate. The chocolate should be tempered. To test, use a small square of silicon paper, dip in chocolate, place on cool place, the chocolate should set at room temperature.

To temper the cocoa butter melt in pot on stove, then pour onto a clean work surface to cool rapidly (around 32°c), add colour as soon as you pour the cocoa butter on table and work with the palette knife. When cool, brush on clear plastic provided working left to right, and keep brushing until cool in same direction to obtain brush strokes. Cover in tempered white chocolate, and cut and shape to desired finish. Place on top of cake as desired.

Assembly
Layer of mousse in bottom of mould
Layer of salted caramel from silicon mould
Layer of jaconde
Layer of mousse
Layer of apple tatin from silicon mould
Layer of jaconde
Layer of mousse
Sable

Buttery Pul Apart Dinner Rolls

Ingredients:

1 cup (8 fl ounces/233 ml) half and half

6 tablespoons (3 ounces/85 grams) unsalted butter, cut into 6 pieces

3 2/3 cups (16 ½ ounces/468 grams) all-purpose flour

2 ¼ teaspoons (1 packet) instant yeast

1/3 cup (2 ½ ounces/71 grams) granulated sugar

1 teaspoon table salt

3 egg yolks from large eggs

Method:

In a small saucepan, slightly warm half-and-half

Add Yeast in the half and half

Leave for 5 - 10 mins until the yeast mixture became frothy

In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, egg, sugar, and salt.

Add yeast mixture into the mixing bowl

Knead the dough until all ingredients combined abour 2 mins

Add melted butter

Knead for another 10- 15mins until all ingredient well combined and dough no longer stick to the side of the bowl

Shape dough into a ball. Lightly grease the bowl and put the dough back into it. Cover the top with damp towel.

Let the covered dough rise in a warm spot until doubled in size, 45 to 55 minutes.

Lightly grease a 9-by-13-inch (22.75-by-33cm) baking dish.

Turn the dough out onto a clean work surface and press down gently to deflate

Divide the dough into 16 equal pieces, (57 to 71 grams) each.

Work with one piece of dough at a time, and keep the others covered with plastic wrap or a damp towel. Again, there’s no need to flour your hands

With a cupped palm, press down gently but firmly, rolling the piece in tight circles on the work surface until it forms a smooth-skinned ball with a seam on the bottom.

Put the ball, seam side down, in the prepared baking dish, cover loosely with plastic, and repeat with the remaining dough. The dough balls can be arranged in rows or placed randomly,just be sure they’re evenly spaced.

Cover the baking dish with plastic wrap and let the balls rise in a warm place until they’re about 1 ½ times their original size and have risen about three-fourths of the way up the sides of the baking dish (they won’t yet fill the dish), 40 to 60 minutes.

Position an oven rack on the middle rung. Heat the oven to 375 degrees (190°C). If making the poppy seed version, sprinkle the rolls with the 1 teaspoon of poppy seeds now.

Bake until the rolls are puffed and well browned, 20 to 25 minutes. Remove from the oven and brush the tops with the melted butter, if using.