Snowflake
From chriesi 16 years ago
Ingredients
- For the iceflakes: shopping list
- 80 ml water shopping list
- 220 g fine sugar shopping list
- For the chocolate flakes: shopping list
- 2 g fleur de sel shopping list
- 120 g 70% dark chocolate shopping list
- For the macaroon: shopping list
- 240 g powder sugar shopping list
- 20 g cocoa shopping list
- 140 g grated almond (i used hazelnut) shopping list
- 4 egg white shopping list
- For the caramel flakes: shopping list
- 65 g glucose shopping list
- 70 g sugar shopping list
- 25 g salty butter shopping list
- 40 g butter shopping list
- For the Ganache: shopping list
- 180 g dark chocolate (70% cocoa) shopping list
- 130 ml milk shopping list
- 55 g butter shopping list
- For the mousse sabayon: shopping list
- 20 ml mineral water shopping list
- 70 g sugar shopping list
- 1 egg shopping list
- 3 egg yolk shopping list
- 150 g dark chocolate (70% cocoa) shopping list
- 500 ml cream shopping list
- For the italian basier: shopping list
- 2 egg white shopping list
- 40 ml water shopping list
- 120 g fine sugar shopping list
How to make it
- Prepare the iceflakes 72 hours before serving:
- Cook 200 g sugar in 80 ml water, after pour it into a big plate and when is cooled down sprinkle 20 g sugar over and let it get hard.
- A day before prepare chocolate flakes.
- Chop chocolate and melt 60 g of it, mix fleur de sel. Take it from the steam and add the rest of the chocolate and let it cool down. Than warm it again to 30-33°C.
- Take a folie and roll chochlate out. Chill for an hour and make flakes out of it.
- Preheat oven to 140°C.
- Beat 4 egg white, add powder sugar, cocoa and almond.
- Draw 3 circles on a baking paper (12,15 and 17cm) and with a icing bag make snails on it.
- Bake for 40 minutes in oven which is a little bit open (use a wood spoon to keep it open).
- After baked let it cool down and remove paper with one move.
- Prepare caramel flakes: melt glucose and sugar and cook a dark caramell.
- While stiring add salted and unsalted butter.
- Pour it on a baking sheet with baking paper on it, let it cool down and grated with a help of a mixer.
- Prepare ganache: melt 180 g chocolate in milk, add butter and after ist is cooled down add caramel flakes.
- Prepare mousse sabayon: cook 20 ml of water with sugar for 3 minutes. When it makes big bubbles remove it. Mix egg with egg yolk and add the sirup.
- Melt chocolate and let it cool add to the egg-sirup mixture. Add beaten cream.
- In a bowl put some of the mousse sabayon, than the smallest macaroon and 3/4 of the mousse sabayon and put the middle macaroon on it and smear the caramel-ganache and add the last macaroon
- Cool for 2 hours in a deep freezer and leave in a fridge over night.
- On the day before serving prepare the italien basier: beat egg white add the sirup made of 40 ml water and 120 g sugar and beat it as long as it is cooled down.
- Put the bowl where the cake is prepared for short in hot water and let it fall out of the form. Smear the italian basier on it and decorte with ice- and choclate flakes.
- Do not forget to get it out of the fridge 1 hour before serving.
Iceflakes.
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Preparing macaroon.
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Caramel before being grated.
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Mousse-sabayon.
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Upside-down macaroon in the bowl.
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Preparing the snowflake.
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