Twist
Recipe by David Redon
I. COMPOSITION
- Chocolate cake
- Pistachio cake
- Orange blossom syrup
- Chocolate cover
- Praline cream
II. CHOCOLATE CAKE
- 1 mold of 3 cylindrical shape of 30 cm
- 72 g Butter
- 24 g Sugar
- 60 g Inverted sugar
- 102 g Emotion 58 Belgian dark couverture chocolate
- 64 g UHT cream 35%
- 140 g Whole eggs
- 1 g Fleur de sel
- 96 g Flour
- 36 g High fat Cocoa Powder
- 4 g Baking powder
PROCESS
- Mix the butter with the sugar and the inverted sugar.
- When it is smooth add the ganache made with the chocolate at 30°C then mix together to obtain a homogene mixture.
- Add the eggs and the salt progressively, then finish with the flour sifted with the cocoa and the baking powder.
III. PISTACHIO CAKE
- 1 mold of 3 cylindrical shape of 30 cm
- 93 g Butter
- 87 g Pure pistachio paste
- 120 g Sugar
- 12 g Inverted sugar
- 144 g Whole eggs
- 1.5 g Fleur de sel
- 136 g Flour
- 6 g Baking powder
PROCESS
- Mix the butter with the sugar and the inverted sugar.
- When it is smooth add the ganache made with the chocolate at 30°C then mix together to obtain a homogene mixture.
- Add the eggs and the salt progressively, then finish with the flour sifted with the cocoa and baking the powder.
IV. ORANGE BLOSSOM SYRUP
- 200 g Natural orange juice
- 280 g Water
- 180 g Sugar
- 6 g Orange blossom extract
PROCESS
- Boil the water with the sugar, add the orange juice and the orange blossom extract.
V. CHOCOLATE COVER
- 500 g Obsession 30 Belgian white couverture chocolate
- 0.7 g Green coloring
PROCESS
- Melt the chocolate, add the color and temper it.
- On a rectangular plastic sheet of 25 x 17 cm apply 2 mm of chocolate and
VI. PRALINÉ CREAM
- 260 g Praline 65%
- 174 g Pure pistaccio paste
- 62 g Deodorized Cocoa butter
- 2 g Fleur de sel
PROCESS
- Melt the cocoa butter at 40°C, pour over the 65%praline and the pure pistaccio paste, mix well.
- Let it cristallyse and whip it to aerate the texture.
VII. ASSEMBLING
- Fill a piping bag with an alternance of chocolate cake batter and pistaccio cake batter.
- Pipe by swirling an amount of 370 gr per shape.
- Bake at 175°C during 25 minutes.
- Once baked and still lukewarm, unmold and dip it totally in the syrup for 15 secondes.
- Once soaked, let it cool down completely and let the syrup fully penetrate.
- Cut out the extremity to see the inside texture and obtain a 28 cm size, make the chocolate cover by wrapping the cake with a rectangular plastic sheet of 28 x 17 cm, cover with 2 mm of tempered chocolate and let it set at 16-18°C.
- Remove the plastic sheet and pipe the praline cream on top, finish with some pistachio and pieces of cocoa beans.