Recipe

Snowflake Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Chriesi / All my dishes 1 year, 10 months ago A fantastic creation by Pierre Hermé. Cook time is the time you need for the macaroon. Prepartion time i wrote 0 because for me it took half an hour only to prepare myself mentally for each step i had to do so i have no idea. ;) Cook:40m Servings:10	Chriesi
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Iceflakes.

Preparing macaroon.

Caramel before being

Mousse-sabayon.

Upside-down macaroon

Preparing the snowfl

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Ingredients

For the iceflakes:

80 ml water

220 g fine sugar

For the chocolate flakes:

2 g fleur de sel

120 g 70% dark chocolate

For the macaroon:

240 g powder sugar

20 g cocoa

140 g grated almond (i used hazelnut)

4 egg white

For the caramel flakes:

65 g glucose

70 g sugar

25 g salty butter

40 g butter

For the Ganache:

180 g dark chocolate (70% cocoa)

130 ml milk

55 g butter

For the mousse sabayon:

20 ml mineral water

70 g sugar

1 egg

3 egg yolk

150 g dark chocolate (70% cocoa)

500 ml cream

For the italian basier:

2 egg white

40 ml water

120 g fine sugar

Directions

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.

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