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LOG: PÉRIGORD CHESTNUT

Chef :

Original creation by
Pascal DE DEYNE
1st place Chocolate Award in Bruges 2014
Silver medallist in the 1999 Pastry World Cup

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Quantity :

Recipe for two long cakes for 12 people or 12 individual cakes

recipe for chestnut log

1. SABLÉ PASTRY

Ingredients

1,200 g Debic Croissant Butter
540 g icing sugar
400 g 50% extra almond powder
100 g Callebaut® roasted, chopped hazelnuts
20 g salt
30 g Callebaut® almond praline
30 g Callebaut® hazelnut praline
10 g pure vanilla powder
2,000 g flour

Step

Soften the butter with the icing sugar. Add the almond powder
and chopped hazelnuts. Continue adding the other ingredients,
and then the sifted flour. Place in the fridge. Roll-out to 3 mm,
prick and cut out.

2. WALNUT CREAM

Ingredients

(20 g per person)
164 g Debic Crème butter
82 g walnut pieces
123 g sugar
123 g eggs
131 g 100% almond powder
82 g pastry cream
16.5 g flour

Step

Soften the butter with the sugar and the almond powder.
Incorporate the eggs and the pastry cream. Finish with
the flour and walnuts.

3. CANDIED ORANGE ZEST

Ingredients

No ingredients.

Step

8 mm cubes

4. CHESTNUT PIECES

Ingredients

No ingredients.

5. FROZEN BLACKCURRANTS

Ingredients

No ingredients.

Step

Les Vergers Boiron IQF blackcurrants

6. CHESTNUT MOUSSELINE

Ingredients

(30 g per person)
352 g brown butter with Debic Crème
320 g eggs
160 g 50% extra Paris almond powder
64 g milk
64 g Debic “Stand & Overrun”
40 g sugar
80 g chestnut syrup

Step

Mix the Paris almond powder with the sugar. Warm the eggs and
milk. Add the cream and the syrup. Finish with the warm, liquid
brown butter.

7. ASSEMBLY

Ingredients

No ingredients.

Step

8. CHESTNUT GENOISE

Ingredients

119 g flour
25 g brown sugar
250 g chestnut-vanilla purée
348 g sugar
100 g egg yolks
219 g egg whites
44 g Debic Cake Gold

Step

Beat the yolks with the brown sugar. Melt the butter and mix
with the chestnut-vanilla purée. Combine the two mixtures.
Incorporate the sifted flour. Whip the egg whites with the sugar.
Combine. Spread on a 60 x 40 cm sheet. Bake at 180°C for 8-10
minutes.

9. CHOCOLATE GANACHE

Ingredients

(20 g per person)
263 g Debic Duo cream
88 g sugar
88 g glucose
193 g Callebaut® dark Madagascan chocolate 67.4%
88 g Debic Crème butter

Step

Bring the cream, sugar and glucose to the boil. Pour over the
chocolate. Mix thoroughly. Incorporate the butter at 40°C and
blend.

10. CHESTNUT PIECES

Ingredients

No ingredients.

11. BLACKCURRANT-RED FRUIT COULIS

Ingredients

(15 g per person)
180 g blackcurrant purée
90 g red fruit purée
90 g raspberry purée
45 g blackberry purée
40.5 g lemon purée
40.5 g sugar
9 g Atlas gelatine powder
45 g water

Step

Rehydrate the powder gelatine with the water. Heat the purées
to 60°C. Add the lemon juice and sugar. Incorporate the melted
gelatine. Blend and set aside.

12. CHESTNUT MOUSSE

Ingredients

(40 g  per person)
427 g chestnut-vanilla purée
150 g Debic “Stand & Overrun” cream
17 g Port Charlotte® whisky 50% vol.
10 g Atlas gelatine powder
50 g water
102 g Italian meringue
683 g Debic “Stand & Overrun” cream

Step

Heat the cream to 50-60°C and pour it over the chestnut-vanilla
purée. Homogenize and add the Port Charlotte®whisky. Make
an Italian meringue. Combine the meringue with the chestnutcream mixture. Add the gelatine. Fold in the cream whipped to a
foamy consistency.

13. RED FRUIT GLAZE

Ingredients

150 g water
300 g sugar
300 g glucose
200 g Debic Vegetop
20 g Atlas gelatine powder
100 g water
200 g Callebaut® milk chocolate Power milk 41 – 40.7%
100 g neutral Decorgel
7 g red colouring
200 g red fruit jelly

Step

Cook the sugar, water and glucose to 105°C. Add the other
ingredients one by one. Blend for 4 minutes. Refrigerate for 24
hours. Heat and blend the glaze. Use at 32-34°C.

14. RED FRUIT JELLY

Ingredients

50 g red fruit purée
50 g raspberry purée
100 g sugar
35 g glucose
0.5 g pectin
2 g lemon purée
20 g neutral Decorgel

Step

Cook the purées with 4/5 of the sugar. Mix the remaining sugar
with the pectin. Add to the boiling purée and continue to cook to
105°C. Off the heat, mix in the lemon juice. Pour onto the neutral
Decorgel and blend. Set aside.