Original creation by
Manuel BOUILLET,
Consultant Pastry Chef,
Twin’s Creative Lab, Taïwan
Sidecar
Recipe for 12 pieces
1. CHOCOLATE SHORTBREAD
114 g of butter
28 g of icing sugar
28 g of brown sugar
2 g of salt flower
57 g of almond powder
48 g of whole eggs
201 g of flour T55
23 g of cocoa powder
Combine soft butter with sugars and salt flower. Add the
almond powder, then half of the mixture flour-cocoa powder.
Add the eggs, then the rest of flour-cocoa powder. Spread at
3 mm. Cut with a ø 9 cm and 2 cm for the middle. Bake on a
Silpain® at 150°C for 14/15 minutes.
2. COINTREAU® BROWNIE
61 g of butter
45 g of sugar
9 g of inverted sugar
0,67 g of salt flower
70 g of dark chocolate 70%
31 g of flour T55
27 g of heavy cream
45 g of whole eggs
12 g of Cointreau® 60% vol.
Combine soft butter, sugars and salt flower. Melt the chocolate
to 45/50°C, then incorporate to the mixture. Add the siften
flour, cream and eggs (room temperature), then Cointreau®.
Spread into a 18 cm square frame. Bake at 160°C for 6 minutes.
3. COINTREAU® RÉMY MARTIN® WHIPPED GANACHE
128 g of heavy cream (1)
1,4 g of lemon zests
15 g of gelatin mass x6
41 g of white chocolate 34%
163 g of heavy cream (2)
19 g of Cointreau® 60% vol.
32 g of Rémy Martin® cognac 50% vol.
Heat the cream (1), then infuse the lemon zests for 10 minutes.
Strain, then adjust to the original weight of the cream. Add the
gelatin mass, then heat at 60°C. Pour over the white chocolate
to make a ganache, then mix well. Add the heavy cream (2),
Cointreau® and Rémy Martin® cognac, then mix again. Chill
then whisk.
4. SIDECAR JELLY
7 g of lemon juice
3 g of sugar
10 g of gelatin mass x6
11 g of Cointreau® 40% vol.
19 g of Rémy Martin® V.S.O.P. 40% vol.
Dissolve the gelatin mass and sugar in the lemon juice to
35/40°C. Add Cointreau® and Rémy Martin® cognac. Cast into
a 15 cm square frame and leave to set in the fridge. Cut with a
14 mm pipe tip
5. ASSEMBLY
No ingredients.
Bake the chocolate shortbread.
Whip the Rémy Martin® Cointreau® ganache, then pipe some dotes on top of the baked chocolate shortbread with a 9 mm pipe tip.
Add few orange segments.
Cut the Sidecar jelly with a 14 mm pipe tip and drop on top of the whipped ganache.
Cut some small cubes of brownie.
Decorate with a few pieces of candied lemon and cocoa nibs.
Pour your usual recipe of Cointreau® Rémy Martin® Sidecar in the cup, then place the Caketail on top of the cup (the edge can be covered beforehand with glucose to ensure the placement of the Caketail)