Original creation by
Bruno VAN VAERENBERGH
Pastry Chef Debic,
‘Passion Pâtisserie’ Member,
Belgium
RIVIERA
Recipe for 5 tarts with a diameter of 16 cm
1. VANILLA SHORTBREAD
338 g butter
200 g icing sugar
165 g ground almonds 100%
118 g eggs
500 g flour
3 g vanilla powder
3 g baking powder
3 g fine sea salt
Allow all ingredients to come to room temperature before
starting. Using the leaf attachment of the machine, mix butter,
sugar, almond powder and salt. Add eggs, then flour with
baking powder and vanilla. Cover with cling film and store in
the refrigerator. Laminate to a thickness of 2.5 mm and line the
tart rings of 16 cm de diameter.
2. ALMOND CREAM WITH LEMON
250 g butter
88 g eggs
250 g almond powder 100%
250 g icing sugar
125 g flour
Zest of one lemon
100 g pastry cream
Cream the butter, taking care not to add too much air. Add the
sugar, almond powder, lemon zest. Gradually pour in the eggs,
fold in the flour and finish with the pastry cream. Use at once
in the short crust rings. Bake at 170°C during 25 to 30 minutes.
3. CITRUS CREAM
385 g lemon juice
2 mandarins : zest + juice
3 lemons: zest + juice
75 g egg yolks
230 g sugar
40 g corn starch
275 g butter
Squeeze the fruits and keep zest. Save the peels for the citrus
syrup. Bring the juice with half of the sugar and the zest to a
boil. Mix the egg yolks with the remaining sugar and the corn starch and cook as a pastry cream. Add the butter at 40°C,
emulsify with a hand-held blender. Set aside in the fridge.
4. COINTREAU® MOUSSELINE CREAM
1000 g citrus cream
300 g butter
60 g Cointreau® 60%
Turn the cream into a smooth texture. Add the Cointreau® and
whip with the softened butter. Use at once.
5. CITRUS SYRUP
2 mandarins, the remaining peels
3 lemons, the remaining peels
200 g sugar
250 g water
Bring all ingredients to a boil. Set aside for 45 minutes. Strain
and keep cold.
6. ASSEMBLY AND FINISHING
No ingredients.
After cooling of shortbread bases, spread a fine layer of almond
cream with lemon, then punch with the citrus syrup.
Using a St-Honoré nozzle, pipe onto the tarts the Cointreau®
mousseline cream. Smooth and store in the freezer for a
minimum of 1 hour.
Spray with a mixture of white chocolate and cocoa butter in a
quantity equal.
Decorate with red fruits.