26.9.11
Continuation of the Entremet :)
Good Evening Readers,
So I have more entremets to present to you all from last week..yum!
Lets start off with the pithivier..not an entremet per se....but rather more like a pie.
Two disks of puff pastry filled with a sweet or savory filling, in our case sweet, frangipane (almond cream and pastry cream).
Gorgeous!
Big Wang diving in!
And...what did we do with the extra puff? Discard? Of course not....we made apple turnovers...
See!!!
Cutting
Filling
Folding
Baked! so flaky and sweet!
Next is the Raspberry Silk Cake...
A layer of Hazelnut crunch, Hazelnut Dacquoise, Raspberry Gelee and Creme Fraiche White Chocolate Mousse! yeppp...
Ready to spray!
Chef Dimitri prepping the airbrush
Finished product!
Caramel Mousse Cake-
Hazelnut/Almond Dacquoise, Candied Hazelnuts, Caramel Cremeux, Mousse and Caramel Glaze
Filling for the cremeux layer
Assembling the entremet
Heather cutting the Dacquoise
Glazing the cake
First pic of me in the uniform! Not excited about it lol
Deliciosa! Celebrate Life!
Last but not least...
Pistachio Sour Cherry:
Pistachio Dacquoise, cream and glaze with sour cherries and cremeux with granola base.
Piping the dacquiose
Filling the cherry cremeux into flexi molds
Assembly
Glazing
Time to eat! Gorgeous!
So sadly this week is exams! But I will be sure to blog if anything interesting happens!
Hope I didnt make you all too jealous tonight....
Sweet Regards!
-N
So I have more entremets to present to you all from last week..yum!
Lets start off with the pithivier..not an entremet per se....but rather more like a pie.
Two disks of puff pastry filled with a sweet or savory filling, in our case sweet, frangipane (almond cream and pastry cream).
And...what did we do with the extra puff? Discard? Of course not....we made apple turnovers...
See!!!
Next is the Raspberry Silk Cake...
A layer of Hazelnut crunch, Hazelnut Dacquoise, Raspberry Gelee and Creme Fraiche White Chocolate Mousse! yeppp...
Caramel Mousse Cake-
Hazelnut/Almond Dacquoise, Candied Hazelnuts, Caramel Cremeux, Mousse and Caramel Glaze
Last but not least...
Pistachio Sour Cherry:
Pistachio Dacquoise, cream and glaze with sour cherries and cremeux with granola base.
So sadly this week is exams! But I will be sure to blog if anything interesting happens!
Hope I didnt make you all too jealous tonight....
Sweet Regards!
-N
19.9.11
The Art of Entremet
Hello All! Last week I did not get a chance to blog, so tonight is overload!
We are on week two of cakes/entremets.
First off, what is an entremet? or what does entremet mean?
Entremet translates to "between servings". Dishes that were intended to be eaten as well as entertain can be traced back at least to the early Roman Empire. In the 14th century entremets began to involve not just eye-catching displays of amusing haute cuisine, but also more prominent and often highly symbolic forms of inedible entertainment.
Today entremet, the term is used to name mousse cakes or cakes with lots of layers and components.
So far we have made 3 entremets.
Coconut Passionfruit Cake
2 layers of coconut dacquoise ( a think layer of meringue and nut flour), passionfruit mousse, candied pineapple and coconut mousse
EXPRESS YOURSELF- as Chef Dimitri says!
So pretty!
Audrey loved this one:)
Next one:
Honey Nougat Mousse Cake
2 layers of pistachio dacquoise, apricot passionfruit gelee, honey nougat mousse and dried fruits and nuts.
Chef spreading the dacqouise
Heather with the baked dacqiouse :)
Let the layering begin!
Yummmy...like a traditional nougat or torrone, as we like to say in Italian
The last one was an award winning cake from 1997
Chocolate Hazelnut Mousse Cake
1 layer of hazelnut dacquoise, 1 layer of chocolate biscuit, chocolate and hazelnut mousse and caramelized hazelnuts.
Hazelnut dacqouise with candied hazelnuts
Baked chocolate biscuit
Filling the last layer.
Now for the decoration on the chocolate hazelnut cake- a chocolate mirror glaze coats the whole cake and we topped the cake with chocolate decorations made by chef Dimitri, which we will be learning in chocolate class very soon.
Un-molding the cakes
Glazing the cake with chocolate mirror glaze
Chef Dimitri's cake
My cake
Crystal's cake
Alexa's cake
Come on back this week...we are making more puff pastry and started components for our Raspberry Silk Cake.
Lots more love to come...
-N
We are on week two of cakes/entremets.
First off, what is an entremet? or what does entremet mean?
Entremet translates to "between servings". Dishes that were intended to be eaten as well as entertain can be traced back at least to the early Roman Empire. In the 14th century entremets began to involve not just eye-catching displays of amusing haute cuisine, but also more prominent and often highly symbolic forms of inedible entertainment.
Today entremet, the term is used to name mousse cakes or cakes with lots of layers and components.
So far we have made 3 entremets.
Coconut Passionfruit Cake
2 layers of coconut dacquoise ( a think layer of meringue and nut flour), passionfruit mousse, candied pineapple and coconut mousse
Audrey loved this one:)
Next one:
Honey Nougat Mousse Cake
2 layers of pistachio dacquoise, apricot passionfruit gelee, honey nougat mousse and dried fruits and nuts.
Chocolate Hazelnut Mousse Cake
1 layer of hazelnut dacquoise, 1 layer of chocolate biscuit, chocolate and hazelnut mousse and caramelized hazelnuts.
Now for the decoration on the chocolate hazelnut cake- a chocolate mirror glaze coats the whole cake and we topped the cake with chocolate decorations made by chef Dimitri, which we will be learning in chocolate class very soon.
Alexa's cake
Come on back this week...we are making more puff pastry and started components for our Raspberry Silk Cake.
Lots more love to come...
-N
9.9.11
St.Honore, Mille Feuille et Chocolat Nougat Tart!
Today was a happy day...D
I think I made the ladies in my building very happy as well when I adorned them with all my goodies.
Lets get to it...
First things first, we had to get a nice glaze on our puff pastry with confectionary sugar for our Mille Feuille.
Then we assembled our Mille Feuille..
Mille Feuille translates to thousand layers or sheets...or also called napoleans.
We cut them into different sizes and layered three layers of puff with pastry cream. Simple and tasty!
We made a chocolate pudding mixture for our chocolate nougat tart.
We filled the tarts, let them set in the oven for 5 minutes and then topped with pieces of chocolate almond nougat.
So rich and velvety with a nutty sweet crunch!
On t the St. Honore, the God of pastry!
This cake is a true staple for the French and displays a Pastry Chefs true skills:
Puff pastry, pate a choux, pastry cream and cooked sugar!
Here we go....
Filling our choux! We had big choux's to fill---Caracci! haha
Dipped pate a choux in cooked sugar to add a crunchy texture
Filling with creme legere- pastry cream and whip cream!
Tac Tac!
A mini:) I put the creme legere (pastry cream and whip cream) in the center and whip on the out
Life was good today!
Stay tuned to next week....entremets with Chef Dimitri!
So excited:)
-N
I think I made the ladies in my building very happy as well when I adorned them with all my goodies.
Lets get to it...
First things first, we had to get a nice glaze on our puff pastry with confectionary sugar for our Mille Feuille.
Mille Feuille translates to thousand layers or sheets...or also called napoleans.
We cut them into different sizes and layered three layers of puff with pastry cream. Simple and tasty!
We made a chocolate pudding mixture for our chocolate nougat tart.
We filled the tarts, let them set in the oven for 5 minutes and then topped with pieces of chocolate almond nougat.
This cake is a true staple for the French and displays a Pastry Chefs true skills:
Puff pastry, pate a choux, pastry cream and cooked sugar!
Here we go....
Life was good today!
Stay tuned to next week....entremets with Chef Dimitri!
So excited:)
-N
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