Paris-Brest

Paris-Brest with mousseline creamA classic French dessert with airy choux pastry, creamy mousseline cream and crunchy almonds.
Total Time: 2 hours
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: French
Keyword: puffs
Servings: 8 Pieces

Ingredients
 

Buttercream

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
    Temperatuurmeter pâte-à-bombe
  • 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.
    Boterroom

Mousseline cream

  • Combine the bbr and buttercream and add 150g of praline.
  • Taste and finish with praline.
  • Let cool well in the refrigerator.

Finish

  • Cut the cooled puffs into 2. The bottom is 2/3, the top is 1/3.
  • Put the mousseline cream in a piping bag with serrated douille 12 and pipe up nicely.
    Paris-Brest - bodem opspuiten met mousselinecrème
  • Place several caramelized hazelnuts all around on top of the cream.
    Paris-Brest - afwerken met gekaramellisseerde hazelnoten
  • Close the puffs and finish with rafti snow.
    Paris-Brest zonder rafti-snow

Source and inspiration : CVO Ghent – cooking and fat dough course

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