Stump
Recipe by François Galtier
I. COMPOSITION
- Soft Speculoos Biscuit
- Chocolate Cream
- White Chocolate Cream
- Cappuccino Mousse
- Transparent Glaze
II. SOFT SPECULOOS BISCUIT (FOR 3 RINGS ø16 CM)
- 75 g Egg White
- 75 g Sugar
- 125 g Egg
- 55 g Egg Yolk
- 95 g Oil
- 35 g Brown Sugar
- 280 g Speculoos Powder
- 55 g Flour
- 2g Salt
- 105 g Butter
PROCESS
- Whip egg white and add gradually the first part of sugar.
- In another bowl, mix egg, egg yolk, oil and second part of sugar.
- Add the speculoos powder, flour, salt and melted butter only when the egg whites are ready.
- Mix delicately both preparations and pour around 290 g per mold ø16 cm.
- Bake at 160°C for 30 minutes.
III. CHOCOLATE CREAM (FOR 3 RINGS ø16 COM)
- 155 g Whole Milk 155 g
- 35 g Gelatin Mass (1/5)
- 125 g Intense 35 Belgian milk couverture chocolate
- 125 g Emotion 58 Belgian dark couverture chocolate
- 2 g Salt
- 310 g Fresh Cream 35%
PROCESS
- Warm up milk and gelatin mass and pour on chocolates and salt to make a ganache.
- Finalize the emulsion with the cold liquid fresh cream.
- Pour around 250 g per mold on top of speculoos biscuit.
- Keep a little of cream to design the lines of the wood on rodoïde sheet using a brush on turn-table and freeze it.
IV. WHITE CHOCOLATE CREAM (FOR 3 RINGS ø16 CM)
- 50 g Whole Milk
- 13g Gelatin Mass (1/5)
- 90 g Obsession 30 Belgian white chocolate
- 100 g Fresh Cream 35%
PROCESS
- Warm up milk and gelatin mass and pour on chocolate to make a ganache.
- Finalize the emulsion with the cold liquid fresh cream.
- Let crystalize in the refrigerator and spread out on top of the wood design made from milk chocolate cream.
- Freeze again.
V. CAPPUCCINO MOUSSE (FOR 3 RINGS ø16 CM)
- 80 g Whole Milk
- 50 g Crushed Coffee Beans
- 23 g Gelatin Mass (1/5)
- 185 g Obsession 30 Belgian white chocolate
- 410 g Whipped Cream 35%
PROCESS
- Boil milk and infuse 15 min the coffee into.
- Take out the coffee and scale again the quantity of milk.
- Boil infused milk with gelatin mass, pour on the cream cheese mixed with icing sugar to make homogeneous mixture.
- At 35°C, add delicately the whipped cream.
VI. TRANSPARENT GLAZE
- Neutral Mirror Glaze SQ
PROCESS
- Brake the texture and apply on surface with spatula.
VII. MONTAGE
- Fill full the mold ø16 cm with mousse on top of the frozen cream and biscuit.
- Apply the plastic rodoïde with wood design made from cream and push well to include the design on surface of the mousse. Freeze.
- Laminate light brown modeling chocolate at 2 mm, mark the surface to give the texture of the skin of the wood and add some powder colors with brush on surface to improve the texture visually.
- Spread out the glaze on surface of the cake, cut a band of same size of the cake and decorate the side with the band of modeling chocolate.
- Decorate with some chocolate nails.