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Original creation by
Marc DUCOBU
Relais Desserts,
Pâtisserie DUCOBU,
Waterloo, Belgium

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Recipe for a 60 x 40 cm frame

  • recette de bûche marrons

1. SHORTBREAD

Ingredients

570 g of flour
70 g of almond powder 100%
100 g of eggs
340 g of dairy butter
170 g of icing sugar
6 g of salt

Step

Mix the salt with the sugar and the butter. Add the eggs, then
the almond powder and the flour. Let it stand for at least
2 hours. Spread out on a 60 x 40 cm baking tray, then place in a
frame. Precook the dough to 145°C for 12 minutes.

2. GRANDMOTHER PREPARATION

Ingredients

650 g of dairy butter
600 g of eggs
865 g of sugar
290 g of almond powder 100%
115 g of fresh whole milk
115 g of unsweetened fresh cream (35% fat)
300 g of semi-candied blackcurrants IQF
450 g of chestnuts pieces

Step

Boil the butter. Mix the eggs with the sugar. Add the almond
powder, then the milk and the cream, finally the butter bit by
bit. Add the blackcurrants and the chesnuts pieces. Cook to
160°C for 30 minutes.

3. BLACKCURRANT COULIS

Ingredients

620 g of blackcurrant puree
75 g of sugar
40 g of blackcurrant liquor
80 g of gelatin mass (12 g of gelatin powder and
+ 68 g of water)
2 g of pectin 325 NH

Step

Heat blackcurrant puree, sugar and pectin. Bring to a boil for
5 minutes, then add the blackcurrant liquor and the gelatin
mass. Pour the coulis on the cool sponge. Place the frame in
freezer.

4. CHANTILLY

Ingredients

1 700 g of fresh cream (40% fat)

Step

Beat the cream and pour on the coulis.

5. MOUNT GAY® CHESTNUT CREAM

Ingredients

1000 g of chestnut paste
200 g of syrup
60 g of Mount Gay® rum 55% vol.
100 g of unsweetened fresh cream (35% fat)
180 g of dairy butter

Step

Use a mixer with a paddle attachement to soften the chestnut
paste. Add the syrup, Mount Gay® rum, then cream. Cream the
butter and add to the mixture. Arrange on the chantilly using a
pastry bag with a « Easter nest» tip.

6. TOPPING

Ingredients

250 g of neutral topping
12 g of water

Step

Heat the mixture topping-water to 80°C.

7. FINISHING

Ingredients

No ingredients.

Step

Fill the frame following the assembly drawing and freeze. Spray
the topping on the frozen dessert using a gun. Place a few small
meringues, fresh bilberries and sprinkle with silver flakes.

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