
Mini cakes inspired by the famous Chinese red lantern. The logo on the front is the symbol of the Year of the Rat: 2020. The mini cakes are made with lime financier, milk chocolate mousse, almond biscuit, raspberry-rose anglaise and red glaze.
Ingredients: Veliche™ Gourmet:
- Emotion 58 Belgian dark chocolate couverture
- Intense 35 Belgian milk chocolate couverture
- Obsession 30 Belgian white chocolate
Materials:
- Silicon mat SF 233 (Silikomart)
- Cutter rings, Ø 4.5 cm and Ø 2 cm (interior)
- Cutter ring Ø 4 cm
- PVC tube, Ø 4 cm
Recipe makes ca. 12 cakes
I. Intense 35 milk chocolate mousse
- Gelatine 5 g
- Water (1) 25 g
- Egg yolk 55 g
- Sugar 55 g
- Water (2) 18 g
- Cream 315 g
- Milk 106 g
- Emotion 58 Belgian dark chocolate couverture 35 g
- Intense 35 Belgian milk chocolate couverture 160 g
Method
- Dissolve the gelatine in cold water (1) and leave to soak.
- Whip the cream until you get soft peaks and then place it in the fridge.
- Heat the sugar in water (2) to 120°C.
- Whisk the egg yolk until light and add the sugar syrup (pâte à bombe).
- Heat the milk and dissolve the gelatine in the warm milk.
- Pour the warm milk over the chocolates and whisk until smooth.
- When the mixture has cooled to 35°C, fold in the pâte à bombe with a spatula.
- Finally, fold the whipped cream into the mixture with a spatula.
II. Almond biscuit
- Fresh egg white 180 g
- Sugar (1) 174 g
- Whole egg 258 g
- Sugar (2) 36 g
- Almond powder 180 g
- Flour 54 g
- Salt 3 g
- Butter 34 g
Method
- Whisk the egg white and sugar (1) until light.
- Whisk the almond powder, sugar (2), salt and whole egg until light.
- Melt the butter and add it to the almond powder mixture.
- Using a spatula, fold the light almond mixture into the egg foam.
- Fold the flour into the batter. Mix briefly and cut out at 0.75 cm thickness.
- Bake at 220°C.
III. Raspberry-rose anglaise
- Raspberry puree 140 g
- Rose water/liqueur 25 g
- Cream 159 g
- Milk 30 g
- Sugar 29 g
- Egg yolk 55 g
- Gelatine powder 6 g
- Water 30 g
- Obsession 30 Belgian white chocolate 140 g
Method
- Dissolve the gelatine powder in cold water.
- Bring the cream, milk and raspberry puree to the boil.
- Mix the egg yolk with the sugar.
- Mix the hot cream with the egg yolks and heat the mixture to 82°C.
- Once heated, add the soaked gelatine.
- When the gelatine has dissolved, pour the warm anglaise over the white chocolate.
- Add the rose water.
- Whisk well and cool before use.
(Optional: add a drop of red colouring)
IV. Red Glaze
- Water (1) 112 g
- Glucose 225 g
- Sugar 225 g
- Condensed milk 150 g
- Gelatine powder 15 g
- Water (2) 75 g
- Obsession 30 Belgian white chocolate 150 g
- Emotion 58 Belgian dark chocolate couverture 75 g
- Red food colouring powder 5 g
Method
- Mix the gelatine with cold water (2) and leave to soak.
- Boil the water (1), glucose and sugar.
- Once it has boiled, add the gelatine.
- When the gelatine has dissolved, stir the condensed milk into the mixture.
- Lastly, add the chocolates and the food colouring powder and whisk the glaze until smooth using a stick blender.
- Cool before use.
- Heat and glaze at 40°C.
V. Kaffir Lime Financier
- Almond powder 80 g
- Sugar 120 g
- Egg white 100 g
- Butter 72 g
- Flour 28 g
- Salt 2 g
- Kaffir lime zest 4 g
Method
- Mix the flour, almond powder sugar, salt and the kaffir lime zest.
- Stir the egg white into the mixture at room temperature.
- Melt the butter and stir it through the mixture.
- Pour the mixture in a mould up to 2 cm in height.
- Bake the financier at 190°C.
- After baking, cut out 4 cm slices.
VI. Constructing the dessert
- Prepare the raspberry-rose anglaise as described in the method.
- Bake the almond biscuits as described in the method.
- Cut two square slices measuring 18 x 18 cm out of the biscuit to fit a square mould (or other size if mould is available).
- Place one slice of biscuit in the mould, spread the anglaise over it and top it off with the other biscuit slice. The final height is about 2.5-3 cm.
- Freeze the raspberry-rose anglaise interior and then cut out Ø 4.5 cm with a round cutter. From the middle, you then cut out a Ø 2 cm hole to create a ‘doughnut’.
- Prepare the Intense 35 milk chocolate mousse as described in the method.
- Pipe the chocolate mousse into the silicon mould and press the frozen interior in the mousse.
- Place the silicon mould in the freezer.
- Prepare the red glaze according to the recipe and method.
- Prepare the lime financier according to the method.
- Make the white chocolate rings around a PVC tube measuring Ø 4 cm and 2 cm high (2 per dessert).
- Use one chocolate ring for the bottom of the dessert (around the financier biscuit).
- Make chocolate strings on a frozen marble stone and fix these to the inside of the chocolate ring with chocolate.
- Spray both chocolate rings with gold glitter sparkle.
- After freezing the chocolate mousse, remove the desserts for the mould and glaze straight away with the red glaze.
- Then place the dessert on the financier biscuit with a band of chocolate around it.
- Place the other chocolate ring with slithers on top of the cake (see photo).
- Lastly, stick the chocolate Year of the Rat logo on the front.