At Le Cordon Bleu we have welcomed many incredible chefs through our doors to demonstrate their skill and share their knowledge with our students. Le Club Des Amis is made of up those chefs who we consider as friends of Le Cordon Bleu, and we are excited to share some of their incredible recipes with you.
This recipe is from Consultant Pastry Chef , a specialist in lactose-free, vegan and gluten-free pâtisserie. In 2019, Richard Hawke performed a special guest chef demonstration for students and guests of Le Cordon Bleu London in partnership with Weiss and Ritter Courivaud. Here he shares his enticing recipe for gluten-free praline sponge layered with a chocolatey almond crunch, light praline cream, smooth milk chocolate ganache and topped with gold dusted almonds.
Milky Praline
Serves 24
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Preheat a fan assisted oven to 180°C and line a baking tray with baking parchment
In the bowl of an electric mixer, whisk the egg yolks on medium speed to ribbon stage. Set aside.
In a separate bowl, whip the egg whites then gradually add the coconut sugar to form a meringue.
In another bowl, mix together the butter and praline then fold in the whisked egg yolks.
Fold a small amount of meringue and finish with sifted powders and remaining meringue.
Bake for 12 minutes then cool on wire racks.
Roast almonds then chop into small pieces.
Melt chocolate and add the praline. Melt the mass to 35-40°C before adding almonds and spreading onto the cooled praline sponge.
In a pan, heat the milk to 50°C then add locust bean gum and iota and boil.
Melt the chocolate then pour into a food processor.
Pour the milk mixture onto the melted milk chocolate and add the praline in a robot-coupe. Emulsify then refrigerate until needed.
Melt the chocolate to 35-40°C.
In another bowl, add locust bean gum to water and blend for 2-3 minutes.
Pour the mixture onto the melted chocolate and emulsify with a hand blender.
Add cold cream, finish emulsion and refrigerate overnight.
Spread the almond crunch onto baked and cooled sponge. Refrigerate to set before cutting 3 cm wide lengths (onto the 40 cm edge). Pipe light almond and hazelnut cream with a N.10 piping tip in 3 lengths.
Refrigerate to set before cutting 11 cm lengths.
Place an 11 x 3 cm milk chocolate rectangle on top of each petit gateau.
Using a random gesture, pipe the ganache on top with a rose piping tip (Wilton #124).
Roll roasted whole almonds in gold lustre dust then place 3 per petit gateau.
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