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My absolutly favorite dessert is Banan Split - a really good one with three scoops of ice cream, whipped cream, banana and chocolate sauce. It cannot get any better. So I got really hyped over the idea of making a patisserie banana split. I tried it this week-end and, frankly, not that bad. 
 
Pâte sablée vanille, pâte à choux, chocolate mousse, vanilla bavaroise, raspberry mousse (I know it's supposed to be strawberry, but neither of them are in season for the moment..), topped with a banana mousse and grated chocolate. 

Banana Split.

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Pâte sablée, almond cream, apple-vanilla compote, ganache montée apple cinnamon tea. 
 
Makes 4 pies 10 cm in diameter. 
 
Ganache monthé (prepare the evening before if possible): 
6g gelatine
30g water for hydration
140g cream (min. 30% fat)
40g white chocolate
30g of tea (one tea bag infused in 200ml water) 
 
Pie crust (pâte sablée): 
40g butter (unsalted)
50g icing sugar
26g egg 
1g salt 
8 g almond pouder
104g flour
 
Almond cream:
60g butter 
60g sugar
60g egg
60g almond pouder
The zest of half a lemon
 
Apple compote: 
300g apples, Jona Gold
1/2 teaspoon vanilla pouder 
2 teaspoons of caster sugar
20g lemon juice 
 
Ganache monthé: 
Hydrate the gelatine. Heat 40g of the cream and pour on to the white chocolate and the gelatine. Whilst mixing, add the rest of the cream and the tea. When the mixture is smooth, let set in the refrigerator - preferably over night. 
 
Pie crust: 
Nip together the butter, flour, sugar, salt and almond pouder. Add in the egg and mix until you have a firm, smooth dough. Flatten it out and film it, leaving it to rest 30 minutes in the fridge before using it. 
 
Almond cream: 
Mix the butter and the sugar creamy, add the egg, mix well and then add the almond pouder and lemon zest. All ingredients should be at room temperature for a better incorporation. 
 
Apple compote: 
Peel the apples and dice them inte small cubes, 0,5 cm/side. Put 100g aside and add the lemon juice. Put the remaining 200g into a small saucepan with the vanilla and the caster sugar. Cook until soft. Incorporate the rest of the apples. 
 
Assablage: 
With a rolling pin, roll out the dough about 3mm thick. Place it into circles with a 10cm Ø. Place them in the refridgerator whilst waiting for the oven to heat up - 170ºC. Then cook for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, add the almond cream, about one centimetre in the bottom of each crust. Replace them in the oven and cook for 10 minutes at 190°C. 
Let the pie crust cool down and then add the compote, fill the crust, but the top should be smooth. 
Whip the ganache until creamy and use a round tip nr 10 to pipe the ganache in a spiral form on top. 
 
I chose to decorate with leftover pieces of pie crust, an apple slice and some cinnamon! 
 
(And I want to specify that Lipton is not paying me for this haha, I just love their tea..) 
 
Bisous et bon dimanche! 
/Jo.
 

Apple pie.

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Hello ! 


Last thursday I made this pear tart with milk chocolate ganache and cheesecake mousse. It was as yummy as it looks. Still needs some perfecting though.

I had some chèvre cheese in the mousse and I want to get the balance right.


Tarte aux poires.

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Happy Thursday!  
 
Today is one of my days off and I've been planning this recepie for a while now... Soft and yummy buns with apple bits inside. 
 
Makes 14-16 buns. 
 
Dough: 
  • 100 g of unsalted butter
  • 300 ml of milk 
  • 50 g of yeast, or 13 g of dry yeast (I used dry yeast for this recepie since fresh is hard to find in the stores here) 
  • 1/2 teaspoon of salt 
  • 100 g of sugar 
  • 1 egg 
  • 900-1000 ml of flour (sorry, swedish measurements..) 
Heat the milk and the butter gently until the butter is completely melted, be careful not to heat more than 40°C. Add the yeast and dissolve it in the liquide. Add in the salt, sugar and the egg. Then add the flour progressively until you have a smooth dough that dosen't stick. Cover the bowl with a towl or plastic film and let it rise for 40-45 minutes. 
 
Tip! Place the bowl on a rack in the oven and place a bowl of boiling water underneath, to create a warm, draft-free and humid enviroment for your dough to rise. 
 
Once risen, place the dough on a floured tabletop and flat it out with your hands, no need to knead it. Weigh small pieces of dough, 60 g each, and roll them into balls. 
 
 
For the filling you will need about 1 and 1/2 apples, I used Pink Lady. Cut the apple in to cubes, bigger ones for more crunch, or smaller ones for an apple that is more cooked - do as you please! 
 
Flatten the dough balls and place two pieces of apple in the middle (or if small cubed a tablespoon), fold the dough over to cover the apple and then flip- the joint facing downward- and roll into a ballshape. Place it on a baking sheet in a baking tray and reapeat. 
 
 
Cover the buns with a baking towel or plastic film and let rise for another 30 minutes. 
 
 
In the meantime prepare the crumble
  • 26 g of unsalted butter
  • 26 g of brown suger
  • 26 g of almond flour
  • 26 g of flour 
  • 3 g of cinnamon 
Pinch all of the ingredients together, forming a compact mass. 
 
A shoutout to this ecological whole brown suger, it just smelled amazing, as well as the texture. Baker's heaven. 
 
Preheat the oven to 250°C. 
 
Brush the buns with a mix of milk and some cinnamon and then crumble over the crumble (haha). 
 
 
Cook for 8-10 minutes - be careful not to burn the crumble! 
 
 
Let your buns cool down on a rack, then enjoy! Perfect with a glass of milk...! 
 
I do hope you enjoy this recepie - I loved making it! 
 
Bisous! 

Apple buns with cinna...

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Hello. 
 
It's been a while... but good news: I AM A PATISSIÈRE! Such wow. And I have also moved to Alsace, north of Strasbourg, where I am now on trial in a patisserie in Soufflenheim. Since I am no longer in school, I have more time to bake at home! Especially since I finish at 11 o'clock (starting 4 in the morning..) I have a loong afternoon. 
 
Enough about me. 
 
Here's a version of a Paris-Brest I made yesterday, and it was veeery satisfying. 
  • Pâte à choux, chips de noix coco
  • Crème moussline coco-noisette
  • Coulis fruit de la passion 
 
Keeping the recepie for myself for the moment, it needs a bit of tweeking ;) 
 
Bisous! 

Le Paris-Brest coco-n...