Speculoos Fever
Preparation
Praliné soft sponge Method
Whip butter and Cemoi praliné. Beside mix yolks and sugar 1. Sift flour and starch. Whip egg whites and sugar 2. Mix the first mixture with the yolks one. Then add the meringue delicately and as last the flour and starch. Pipe 1 cm thick (850 g per tray 60x40 cm) and then spread all over the hazelnuts crushed. Bake for 13 minutes at 175ºC. Cool down and cut in desired shape.
Hazelnut Mousseline Cream Method
Make a crème pâtissière and then add the gelatin mass and praline. Mix thoroughly. Add the butter and chill. Whip in the mixer while it is very cold and use immediately.
Caramel chocolate and spices Chantilly Method
Heat 80g. of the cream together with the glucose and then pour onto the melted chocolate. Mix well. Add the remaining 300 g of cold cream and mix again. Let 12 hours in the fridge. Whip and use straight.
Golden Rocks Method
Melt chocolate. Add Maltosec and mix well until get like a playdough texture. Brake the dough in small peaces. Place them into the freezer for 5 minutes to get them hard. Remove and rubber them lightly with your hands in order to polish the edges. Dust them with gold powder. Keep at room temperature into an airtight container.
Setting
Finishing
Place the sponge in the bottom of the tartlet. Pipe the Mousseline cream onto and make it flat using a spatula. Place a chocolate decoration on top with a hole in the middle. Whip the Chantilly and them make quenelles with and place them on top of the tartlet. Finish with some golden rocks and crushed hazelnuts.
Ingredients:
Praliné soft sponge
Cemoi Praliné 50% 135 g
Butter 120 g
Sugar 60 g
Egg yolk 165 g
Corn starch 15 g
Cake flour 15 g
Egg whites 240 g
Sugar 2 120 g
Pernigotti hazelnuts (crushed) 60 g
Hazelnut Mousseline Cream
Vanilla pod 1 unit
Milk 325 g
Cream 60 g
Sugar 50 g
Cornstarch 35 g
Egg yolks 75 g
Swissco Vanilla beans 1 unit
Cemoi Praliné 50% 200 g
Bloomed gelatin powder 21 g
Butter softened 180 g
Caramel chocolate and spices Chantilly
Cream 380 g
Speculoos spice mix as needed
Glucose 25 g
Milk caramel chocolate 150 g
Golden Rocks
Maltosec 20 g
Europa Dark chocolate 100 g
Gold powder as needed