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Dark chocolate mousse
By LOUIS FRANCOIS
Italian Meringue
By LOUIS FRANCOIS
Lemon sorbet
By LOUIS FRANCOIS
Hazelnut ice cream
By LOUIS FRANCOIS

Vegan chocolate macaroons
By Richard Hawke

Fruit pastes
Raspberry lavender
By Laurent Moreno

Iced tart
Chestnut - mascarpone
By Jean-Thomas Schneider

Chocolate tart
hazelnut
By Richard Hawke


Strawberry mousse
By LOUIS FRANCOIS
For a total mass of 600 g
Ingredients
385.3 g |
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Process
1. Mix the OvoFree Mousse with the sugar and strawberry puree and beat until stiff.
2. In a bowl, predisperse the pectin in the inulin.
3. Weigh the strawberry purée into a saucepan and gradually add the pectin mixture, mixing well.
4. Bring to the boil, stirring constantly.
5. Stir in coconut oil and cool to 50-60°C.
6. Gently fold in the meringue.
7. Pour into moulds and chill for 24 hours.
Freezing: If you wish to freeze the mousse, increase the pectin by 0.5%.


Dark chocolate mousse
By LOUIS FRANCOIS
For a total mass of 600 g
Ingredients
216 g |
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Process
1. Rehydrate the OvoFree Mousse mix, water (2) and inulin and whip for 3 min.
2. In a bowl, place the pectin in the inulin.
3. Weigh out the water (1) in a saucepan, and gradually pour in the pectin-inulin mixture, mixing well.
4. Bring to the boil, stirring constantly.
Pour the 42°C mixture over the chocolate and blend.
5. Gently fold in the meringue.
6. Pour into moulds and refrigerate for 24 hours.
If you wish to freeze the mousse, increase the pectin by 0.5%.


French macaron shell
By LOUIS FRANCOIS
For a total mass of 500 g
Ingredients
130 g |
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Process
1. Preheat oven to 140°C
2. Mix almond powder, powdered sugar and citrus fiber. Sift to make the tant pour tant.
3. Mix the OvoFree Macaron with the water and sugar and whip up a meringue.
4. Fold the tant pour tant into the meringue and pipe.
Poach using a 12 mm nozzle. Tap plate against marble.
Bake for 16 minutes at 140°C, key open.
Once out of the oven, leave the macaroons to finish baking on the baking sheet for 10 minutes and allow to cool.


Italian Meringue
By LOUIS FRANCOIS
For a total mass of 500 g
Ingredients
105 g |
Water (1)
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Process
1. Blend OvoFree Mousse with water (2).
2. Make a sugar syrup at between 118°C and 120°C with the sugar and water (1).
3. At the same time, whip up the rehydrated OvoFree Mousse mixture.
4. Add the hot sugar syrup and mix for a few minutes to obtain a firm meringue.
*110 g rehydrated preparation


Marble cake
By Manon Derouet
For a total mass of 700 g
1 - Vanilla cake
Ingredients
107.6 g |
Semolina sugar |
Process
Melt the butter in a saucepan at around 40°C. Sift together the flour and baking powder; add the salt. In the Robot-Coupe bowl, emulsify the sugar, eggs, melted butter and vanilla extract for 2 minutes. Add the flour/raising powder/salt mixture and the liquid cream.
Caution! Mixed too long, it becomes hot and runny. Remove and use immediately.
2 - Cocoa cake
Ingredients
103.6 g |
Semolina sugar |
Process
In a saucepan, melt the butter at around 40°C. Sift together the flour, baking powder, cocoa powder and cocoa substitute mix; add the salt. In the bowl of the Robot-Coupe, emulsify the sugar, eggs and melted butter for 2 minutes. Add the flour/raising powder/cocoa/cocoa substitute mix and salt, together with the cream, and emulsify for 1 minute.
Caution! When mixed for too long, the product becomes hot and too liquid. Use immediately.
Molding :
● 2 PM tin cake moulds 14 x 8 cm, height 8 cm
● Q.S. butter Using a grease gun, butter and flour the moulds. Using piping bags, line the molds with 100 g chocolate cake mix, then top with 100 g vanilla cake mix. Pocket another 75 g of chocolate cake mix, then 75 g of vanilla cake mix. Using a pastry bag without a tip, pipe a line of butter along the length of the cake. Bake as soon as possible.
Cooking :
Slide the cakes into a fan-assisted oven at 160°C for 25 minutes, then turn them over and bake for a further 20 minutes. Probe the cakes with a paring knife; as soon as they're cooked, turn them out of the tin and place them on a wire rack until they've cooled completely.


Lemon sorbet
By LOUIS FRANCOIS
Dosage: between 0.5% and 1%.
Ingredients
49.1% |
Water |
Process
1. Pre-disperse the stabilizer in the powders.
2. Mix the powders with the liquids and pasteurize at 85°C with stirring (Thermomix: 15min speed 2.5).
3. Cool quickly, then leave to mature in the refrigerator for 24 hours before transferring to the turbine.


Sphere Gel
By LOUIS FRANCOIS
Dosage: 4-5% of total mass
Ingredients
4% |
Gel Sphère (Louis François) |
Process
1. Freeze the preparation and spherify at -18°C.
2. Mix the Gel sphere in the sugar and mix the powders in the water.
3. Bring to the boil, then cool to approx. 70-80°C.
Prick the frozen core and dip into the bath. To create a stronger layer, dip the sphere twice into the bath.
4. Carefully place the sphere on a support and allow to thaw completely.
Note: frozen beads should not be too cold at the time of soaking; around -18°C is a suitable temperature.
Veils: pour directly after boiling


Hazelnut ice cream
By LOUIS FRANCOIS
Dosage between 0.5 and 1%.
Ingredients
62.5% |
Whole milk |
Process
1. Pre-disperse the stabilizer in the powders.
2. Mix the powders with the liquids and pasteurize at 85°C with stirring (Thermomix: 15min speed 2.5).
3. Cool quickly, then leave to mature in the refrigerator for 24 hours before transferring to the turbine.


Vegan chocolate macaroons
By Richard Hawke
For a total mass of 1000 g
1 - Vegan egg whites - For 1000 g
Ingredients
910 g 86 g 4 g |
Water Potato protein Xanthan gum |
Process
Blend the 2 ingredients and the water together, then whisk at medium speed.
2 - Macaroon shells - For 1000 g
Ingredients
190 g 240 g 50 g 176 g 240 g 80 g 24 g |
Almond powder Icing sugar Cocoa powder Vegan egg whites Granulated sugar I Water Granulated sugar II |
Process
Place the almond powder, powdered sugar and cocoa powder in a food processor and blend for 20-30 seconds.
Add half the vegan egg whites and form a paste. Whip the other half of the vegan egg whites.
Make the syrup by mixing the I sugar and water and heating to 118°C.
Gently pour the syrup over the vegan egg whites, and whip until it reaches a temperature of 35-40°C.
Stir a little meringue into the first almond powder mixture, then fold in the rest.
Poach the mixture onto silicone mats, lightly tap the mats to remove bubbles and flatten the macaroons, then bake at 140°C for 12 minutes, opening the oven door slightly.


Raspberry lavender fruit pasta
By Laurent MORENO
For a total mass of 2436g
Ingredients
1000 g 2 g 180 g 54 g 230 g 950 g 20 g |
10% sweet raspberry pulp Lavender infusion Granulated sugar Extra Slow Set pectin Glucose syrup DE40 Crystal sugar Citric acid solution (50/50) |
Process
Leave the lavender to infuse cold for 24 hours, then strain into a saucepan.
Whisk together the cold pulp, caster sugar and pectin. Bring to the boil.
Add the glucose, then the granulated sugar in two or three additions, always trying to keep the mixture warm.
Cook to 108°/109°C or 72°/73°B on a refractometer. Remove from heat and add citric acid solution. Immediately pour into a frame and leave to cool.
Lightly moisten the top of the square, then turn it over in the crystal sugar and do the same for the underside.
Then cut into 30 mm squares and mix the resulting squares again in the sugar.


Marron - mascarpone ice cream tart
By Jean-Thomas Schneider
For 3 tarts
1 - Financier Pistache - For 800 g
Ingredients
175 g 5 g 70 g 155 g 70 g 0.5 g 30 g 35 g 18 g 175 g 66 g |
Egg whites Gallia white Almond white powder Starch powdered sugar T45 flour Fine salt Pure pistachio paste Honey Rapeseed oil Butter 82% Pistachio chopped |
Process
Make a hazelnut butter and leave to cool.
Mix the egg whites, Gallia white, almond powder, powdered sugar, flour, salt, pistachio paste and honey.
Gradually add the oil and hazelnut butter.
Add the chopped pistachio and bake at 170°C - 50% humidity.
2 - Brown ice cream - For 1000 g
Ingredients
532.3 g 173.8 g 54.1 g 115.9 g 60 g 60 g 4 g |
Whole milk Cream 35% Skimmed milkpowder 0% Candied chestnut paste Sucrose (sugar) (I) Dextrose (I) Stab 2000 |
Process
Mix stabilizer with sucrose sugar (or other sugar).
Mix milk and cream. Stir in milk powder. Heat to 30°C.
Add sugars and other powders. Heat to 40°C. Stir in egg yolks.
Heat to 45/55°C.
Incorporate dry stabilizer mixture. Pasteurize at 85°C.
Incorporate chestnut paste. Blend. Chinoiser. Cool to 4°C. Mature 4 to 12 hours. Blend. Turbinate. Store at -20°C.
3 - Mascarpone ice cream - For 1000 g
Ingredients
545 g 15 g 40 g 110 g 80 g 4 g 200 g 5 g |
Whole milk Cream 35% Skimmed milkpowder 0% Sucrose (sugar) (II) Dextrose (II) Stab 2000 Mascarpone Lemon purée 100% yellow |
Process
Mix stabilizer with sucrose sugar (or other sugar).
Mix milk and cream. Stir in milk powder. Heat to 30°C.
Add sugars and other powders. Heat to 45/55°C. Incorporate dry stabilizer mixture. Pasteurize at 85°C.
Blend. Chinoiser. Cool to 4°C. Ripen 4 to 12 hours.
Incorporate mascarpone. Blend. Stir in lemon purée. Blend. Turbinate immediately.
Store at -20°C.


Chocolate hazelnut tart
By Richard Hawke
For 20 tarts 65 mm in diameter and 35 mm high.
1 - Cocoa paste - For 1200 g
Ingredients
432 g 108 g 84 g 204 g 5 g 283 g 84 g |
Flour Cocoa powder 22% fat Almond powder Icing sugar Salt Margarine Water |
Process
Mix all the powders with the margarine to make a sanding texture.
Finish with the water to form a dough and roll out to 3 mm between two baking sheets.
Line circles 65 mm in diameter and 35 mm high.
Bake at 150°C for 20 minutes before unmolding.
2 - Chocolate almond cream - For 798 g
Ingredients
80 g 80 g 184 g 192 g 160 g 26 g 26 g 26 g 24 g |
Grapeseed oil Cocoa mass Water Almond powder Icing sugar Rice flour Corn flour Potato starch Invert sugar |
Process
Melt the cocoa paste with the oil at 45°C. Add the water and finish with the remaining powders. Add the water and finish with the remaining powders.
Poach around 25 g in each tart shell.
Bake at 170°C for around 10 minutes before allowing to cool.
3 - Creamy Vietnam - For 1000 g
Ingredients
405 g 200 g 5 g 10 g 380 g |
Water Almond drink (calcium) Pectin325NH95 Inulin Chocolate couverture Vietnam 73% |
Process
Heat the water with the drink to 50°C.
Add the powders and blend. Cook to 85°C before pouring over the chocolate couverture.
Emulsify with a hand mixer. Leave to set in a cool place for assembly.
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