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Original creation by
Nicolas PIEROT,
International Consultant
Pastry Chef

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recipe for chestnut and apple individual dessert

COMPOSITION

Ingredients

• Chestnut shortbread
• Chestnut sponge
• Chestnut mousseline cream
• Caramelized apples with Père Magloire® Calvados
• Chestnut whipped ganache with Père Magloire® Calvados
• Mandarin confit
• Finishing: chocolate decor, yellow spray, spray 50/50 cocoa
paste

1. CHESTNUT SHORBREAD

Ingredients

(leaf of 7 cm)
200 g butter (82% fat)
80 g icing sugar
30 g chestnut flour
2 g Fleur de sel
300 g flour T55
30 g egg
Total weight: 642 g

Step

In the bowl of the beater, put butter into small dices, icing
sugar, chestnut flour, crushed Fleur de sel and flour. Work the
ingredients until it is crumbly.
When there is no pieces of butter, add egg.
Knead until the dough becomes homogeneous.
Cover with plastic wrap and set aside for 12 hours in fridge.
Roll out the dough to a thickness of 3 mm and cut as necessary.
Cook to 150°C between two Silpain® for 20 minutes.
Cover with Mycryo® cocoa butter.

2. CHESTNUT SPONGE

Ingredients

(40 x 30 cm)
218 g chestnut dough
82 g chestnut puree
136 g eggs
55 g grape seed oil
19 g cornstarch
82 g egg whites
27 g saccharose
19 g butter (82% fat)
Total weight: 638 g

Step

Pass to the robot-cut the chestnut dough, chestnut puree,
eggs, oil and cornstarch. Whisk the egg whites with saccharose
until they form peaks and incorporate to the first mixture. Add
melted butter. Lay out on baking sheet. Cook to 165°C.

3. CHESTNUT MOUSSELINE CREAM

Ingredients

100 g milk
140 g Imbert chestnut puree
50 g Imbert chestnut dough
150 g Imbert chestnut cream
1 half vanilla pod
8 g cornstarch
67 g egg yolks
5 g gelatine powder 200 blooms
30 g water to rehydrate the gelatine
1 g salt
120 g butter (82% fat)
10 g Père Magloire® Calvados 60%
Total weight: 681 g

Step

Heat milk, puree, dough and chestnut cream with split vanilla
pod. Mix in a bowl cornstarch and egg yolks. Pour part of hot
milk on this mixture and pour it back into the saucepan. Whisk
preparation until boiling, add gelatine (previously soaked), salt
and butter. Emulsify with mixer, add Père Magloire® Calvados,
mix again and pour on a sheet covered with plastic wrap. Place
a plastic wrap directly on the cream and let cool quicky. Whisk
in a mixer with the paddle before using.

4. PÈRE MAGLOIRE® CALVADOS CARAMELIZED APPLES

Ingredients

450 g Golden apples
45 g saccharose (1)
7 g pectin NH
20 g saccharose (2)
45 g Père Magloire® Calvados 60%
Total weight: 567 g

Step

Peel apples, then cut them in small dices of 3 mm side. In a
saucepan, make a quite dark dry caramel with saccharose (1).
Add apples and cook briefly until they start to turn colour.
Add pectin mixed with saccharose (2), then flame with Père
Magloire® Calvados. Let cool and set aside in fridge for the
assembly.

5. CHESTNUT WHIPPED GANACHE WITH PÈRE MAGLOIRE® CALVADOS

Ingredients

183 g cream (35% fat) (1)
100 g frozen chestnut puree
3 g gelatine powder 200 blooms
18 g water to rehydrate the gelatine
97 g ivory couverture 35%
400 g cream (35% fat) (2)
30 g Père Magloire® Calvados 60%
Total weight: 831 g

Step

Boil cream (1) and chestnut puree. Add gelatine (previously
soaked) and pour onto the chocolate. Mix to emulsify, add cold
cream (2) and Père Magloire® Calvados. Set aside in fridge at
least 12 hours before using. Whisk until desired texture.

6. MANDARIN CONFIT

Ingredients

150 g mandarin puree
75 g apricot puree
30 g honey
10 g saccharose
5 g pectin NH
4 g gelatine powder 200 blooms
24 g water to rehydrate the gelatine
Total weight: 298 g

Step

In a saucepan, heat mandarin puree, apricot puree and honey to
40°C. Add saccharose and pectin as rain and boil. Set aside in
fridge to 4°C. Smooth before using

7. CHOCOLATE DECOR

Ingredients

500 g ivory couverture
50 g milk chocolate 40%
0,2 g yellow fat-soluble colour
Total weight: 550.2 g

Step

Melt chocolates to 40-45°C, then add fat-soluble colour and
mix to dissolve. Allow to cool before using