Flourless Chocolate Cake with  chocolate ganache

Chocolate Mousse on a chocolate meringue

Chocolate Semifreddo with a fruit coulis

Flourless Chololate Cake

1 lb Chocolate

1 lb Butter

8 oz Coffee

8 oz light brown sugar

8 Eggs

Method

Heat butter, coffee, and brown sugar until sugar dissolves completely. Pour mixture over chocolate, stir to melt.

Cool down to 100 degrees. Temper in eggs.

Pour into 1/2 sheet pan lined with parchment paper.

Bake @ 350

Chocolate Mousse

1 lb dark chocolate

9 oz butter

5 oz egg yolk

12 oz egg white

2.5 oz sugar

3 oz fruit puree (add into yolks)

Method:

On a double boiler add chocolate and butter, don’t melt chocolate completely. Cool to 100 before tempering in egg yolk.

Whip egg whites and sugar to stiff peaks, and fold into chocolate mixture. Cover with plastic wrap and cool.

Semifreddo

6 oz yolk

8 oz Bombe syprup (Pate a Bombe)

1.35 parts sugar : 1 part water

= 4.6 oz sugar: 3.4 oz water

12 oz cream–whip to soft peaks

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

Method

Whip yolks

Meanwhile heat Bomb syrup to boil

Add chocolate to syrup and continue to whip until it becomes a lighter color and a fluffy consistency.

Fold in whipped cream

Pipe into molds and freeze.

Chocolate Meringue

4 oz egg white

4 oz sugar

4 oz confectioners sugar

————————————> Sift together

2 oz cocoa powder

Method

Whip egg white at speed 3

Once frothy add sugar and whip to stiff peaks.

Sprinkle  half of sugar/cocoa powder mixture and fold in. Add second batch and then transfer to piping bag with 802 tip.

Blood Orange Coulis

3.5 oz fruit puree

1. 75 oz sugar

.75 oz water

.25 oz lemon juice

Cornstarch slurry

Combine ingredients over stove and boil. While boiling add cornstarch slurry until thickened to desired consistency.

Source: Gisslen, Wayne. Professional Baking. Fifth Ed. John Wiley and Sons, 2009. Print.

Lady Finger Sponge (1/2 recipe)

6 oz Egg yolks

3 oz Sugar

9 oz Egg whites

5 oz Sugar

1/4 tsp Lemon Juice

10 oz Pastry Flour, sifted

Procedure

To mixer add:

Egg Whites @ speed 2

Add Lemon juice (to stabilize the whites)

Once it bubbles move to speed 3

Add (2nd quantity of) sugar slowly

Whip to stiff peaks and pour into a bowl—set aside

Whip egg yolk on speed 3

Add sugar and whip to ribbon consistency

Cut and fold egg yolk mixture to egg whites

Sprinkle flour on top and fold in (2 or 3 batches)

Pipe with 806 tip onto a sheet pan

Bake @ 375

Mascarpone Filling

2 egg yolks

6 oz sugar

4 oz water

2 oz corn syrup

1 lb Mascarpone

1 lb 8 oz heavy cream, whipped to soft peaks

Method

In a pot add water and sugar

Add corn syrup

Heat to 220

Temper egg yolks and add to mixer. Beat at speed 3 until a sabayon (ribbon) consistency

Gently fold in cream

Layer Sponge

cut out 2 circles from sheet pan.

Cover 1st layer with coffee syrup

then add a layer of cream

add 2nd layer of sponge

cover with coffee syrup

add 2nd layer of creat

Cover with cocoa powder

Cut a circle of Blitz puff pastry

Dock blitz puff pastry

Line with a circle of Pate a Choux around the edge of the pastry circle. Then make a 2nd circle in the center of the blitz puff pastry

Make a second circle in the center

Bake at 400-425°F

Fill Center with Vanilla Diplomat Cream.

Coat eclairs with carmel (wet method) and use carmel as adhesive to stick around the edge of the tart.

Vanilla Diplomat Cream

Modified from source: Gisslen, Wayne. Professional Baking. Fifth Ed. John Wiley and Sons, 2009. Print.

8 oz milk

1/2 vanilla split

2 egg yolks

1 oz granulated sugar

.67 oz cake flour

.5 oz cornstarch

1 oz Orange Liquor (i.e. Grand Marnier)

6.5 oz Creme Chantilly

On stove: add Milk and vanilla bean

In stainless bowl mix:

egg yolk

cornstarch

a little milk

1/2 sugar

Over stove, add milk to pan w/ vanilla bean and 1/2 sugar.

Bring to boil (scorch).

Make a slurry with egg yolk and cornstarch and temper milk into mixture.

Put mixture back on stove and return to a boil. Remove from heat and stir in liqueur.

Chill cream completely.

Fold in the creme chantilly.

Wet Caramel

Water

Sugar

*more sugar than water, but no need to measure

Heat over stove. Don’t stir until slightly brown. When golden brown remove from heat.

Wear gloves!

Source: Gisslen, Wayne. Professional Baking. Fifth Ed. John Wiley and Sons, 2009. Print.

8 oz heavy cream

1.25 oz confectioners sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Whip together in mixer until soft peaks form

Source: Gisslen, Wayne. Professional Baking. Fifth Ed. John Wiley and Sons, 2009. Print.

Ingredients

1 lb water

8 oz butter

.18 oz salt

12 oz bread flour

1 lb 4 oz eggs

Method

In pan over stove, heat water w/ butter and salt.

Add flour and cook untill dough cleans the pan when stirring it.

Put in to mixer with paddle attachment on speed 1.

Slowly add eggs

Scoop into pastry bags to pipe eclairs, profiteroles, carolines, etc