Servings: 8 Pieces
Ingredients
- 375 g choux pastry (for 8 pieces)
- 250 g pastry cream
- 20 g almonds (shaved)
- 50 g caramelized hazelnuts
- 150 g hazelnut praline
- 25 g raftisnow
Instructions
- Make the choux pastry according to our recipe.
- Pipe onto a baking sheet rounds of a good 10cm circumference.
- Cover with about 8 shaved almonds
- Bake in a preheated oven at 170°C for 20 to 25m. Be careful not to burn the shaved almonds.
- Make the 250g pastry cream according to on recipe
Buttercream
- Let the butter come to room temperature.
- Beat the egg together with 15g sugar to a ruban in a mixer.
- Heat 100 sugar with 50g water and with 8g glucose to 119°C
- When at temperature add gently to the ruban while mixing (slowly!) through.
- Let the mixture get well chilled (to a 30°C) and then add the diced butter. Run the mixer until you have an airy mixture.
Mousseline cream
- Combine the bbr and buttercream and add 150g of praline.
- Taste and finish with praline.
- Let cool well in the refrigerator.
Source and inspiration : CVO Ghent – cooking and fat dough course