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Recipe Choux bun trilogy

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Ingredient list
Light and crunchy cocoa biscuit
60 g Elle & Vire gourmet butter 82% fat
75 g vergeoise sugar
70 g T55 flour
20 g cocoa powder
Light and crunchy yellow biscuit
60 g Elle & Vire gourmet butter 82% fat
75 g vergeoise sugar
70 g T55 flour
yellow food colouring
Choux pastry
250 g water
100 g semi-skimmed milk
5 g salt
14 g sugar
112 g Elle & Vire gourmet butter 82% fat
187 g T55 flour
250 g eggs
Dark chocolate Chantilly
150 g Excellence whipping cream 35% fat
65 g dark chocolate coating (64% cocoa)
Mango brunoise
1 mango (air-freight)
1 lemon
Creamy mango
337 g mango pulp
30 g water
15 g lemon juice
80 g granulated sugar
20 g starch
8 g gelatine
115 g Elle & Vire gourmet butter 82% fat
1 vanilla pods
Mascarpone cream
2,5 Gelatine leaves
50 g Excellence whipping cream 35% fat
325 g mascarpone
1 vanilla pods
1,5 eggs
80 g sugar
150 g Excellence whipping cream 35% fat
Dark chocolate drop
100 g dark chocolate 70% of cocoa
10 g toasted sesame seeds
Elle & Vire products used

The recipe,
step by step

  1. 1

    Light and crunchy cocoa biscuit

    Attach the flat beater to the mixer and combine all the ingredients. Roll the dough out to a thickness of 1.5 mm between two sheets of greaseproof paper. Freeze then cut out discs using a n°12 pastry nozzle. 

  2. 2

    Light and crunchy yellow biscuit

    Attach the flat beater to the mixer and combine all the ingredients. Add yellow food colouring until bright yellow. Roll the dough out to a thickness of 1.5 mm, between two sheets of greaseproof paper. Freeze then cut out discs using a n°12 pastry nozzle. 

  3. 3

    Choux pastry

    Heat the water and milk with the butter, sugar and salt. Bring to the boil. Add the flour, all at once, and then dry out the dough. Transfer to a bowl then add the beaten egg, a little at a time, until of the correct consistency. Using a sized 8 pastry nozzle, pipe out 3 rounds into a crown shape. Top two of the choux with the 2 light and crunchy biscuit discs. Bake in the oven at 180°C for 20 min, until completely dry. Once cooked, transfer to a cooling rack. 

  4. 4

    Dark chocolate Chantilly

    Bring the cream to the boil and pour onto the chopped dark chocolate. Delicately whisk. Refrigerate for at least half a day. Whisk using a mixer, making sure that the cream does not split. Transfer to a piping bag. 

  5. 5

    Mango brunoise

    Cut the mango into a fine brunoise and add the lemon juice. 

  6. 6

    Creamy mango

    Heat the mango flesh, water, lemon juice and split and scraped vanilla bean to 40°C. Add the dry ingredients. Whisk and boil for 3 minutes, stirring continuously. Remove from the heat and add the gelatine which has been softened in iced water, stir to dissolve. Add the butter, a little at a time, and blend using a hand held immersion blender then refrigerate. Before using, whisk the cream using a mixer. Transfer to a piping bag. 

  7. 7

    Mascarpone cream

    Soften the gelatine in cold water and heat with 50 g of cream and the split and scraped vanilla bean. Incorporate the sugar to the mascarpone .Whisk the eggs, the cream and mascarpone cream together using a mixer then add the jellied cream. Refrigerate overnight. Whisk using a mixer until you reach the consistency of Chantilly cream. Transfer to a piping bag. 

  8. 8

    Dark chocolate drop

    Temper the dark chocolate. Spread a thin layer onto an acetate guitar sheet, sprinkle over the toasted sesame seeds then refrigerate. Cut out 2 cm diameter discs using a pastry cutter. 

  9. 9

    Assembly and presentation

    Slice the choux buns in half, garnish the first one with dark chocolate Chantilly and top with a light and crunchy cocoa biscuit. Garnish the second with creamy mango and top with a dark chocolate drop. Garnish the third with mango brunoise and mascarpone cream and top with a light and crunchy yellow biscuit. 


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