Chocolate Earl Grey Tart dessert by Corporate Pastry Chef Fabrice Bendano
Plated desserts

Chocolate Earl Grey Tart, Mandarin Marmalade and Chocolate Sorbet

An original recipe by Chef Fabrice Bendano

5 steps

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Components of the dessert:

- Sable dough (to do the day before)

- Manjari 64% Dark Chocolate ganache filling

- Mandarin coulis

- Jivara 40% Milk chocolate chantilly

- Illanka 63% Dark Chocolate ice cream

Recipe Step by Step

Step01

SABLE DOUGH

700g Butter, soften

720g Flour AP

280g Sugar

150g Almond flour

10g Salt

120g Pasteurized yolks

50g Egg (1 ea.)

[To do the day before]:

Soften the butter without emulsifying it, add the salt, the flour and the almond powder.

Whisk the yolks, the egg with the sugar, then add to the first mixture, mix gently and reserve in a cool place.

[To do the day of]:

Reduce to 2 ¼ at the rolling pin between 2 sheets. 

Lining the dough into ring of 24cm or 9.5 inches diameter.

Step02

CHOCOLATE GANACHE FILLING

980g Heavy cream 36%

68g Earl grey tea

1050g Valrhona Manjari 64%

245g Butter

= 2275g

2000g per frame

Warm cream with earl grey then infuses for 15 minutes.

Re-scale the cream to initial amount.

Re-warm the cream and pour to chocolate into robot coupe or bur mixer.  Add soften butter.

Pour right away onto baked frame dough 2000g of ganache. 

Allow to rest overnight and then cut 100 mm discs with waterjet.

Step03

MANDARIN COULIS

1000g Mandarin puree

10g Pectin NH

30g Sugar

In a saucepan, warm mandarin puree and add at warm temperature the mix pectin/sugar.

Boil for 2 minutes then store it.

Step04

MILK CHOCOLATE CHANTILLY

450g Heavy cream

50g Glucose syrup

50g Trimoline

725g Valrhona Jivara 40%

1200g Cold heavy cream

=2070g

In a saucepan, warm cream, glucose and trimoline pour into Jivara 40% chocolate.

Mix all and add cold cream.

Step05

CHOCOLATE ILLANKA ICE CREAM

4360g Milk

45g Milk powder

176g Heavy cream 36%

235g Sugar

325g Invert sugar

25g Ice cream stabilizer

1332g Valrhona Illanka 63%

=7249g

In a saucepan, warm the milk, invert sugar, and heavy cream.

In a separate bowl, mix the granulated sugar with the ice cream stabilizer and set aside.

Once the liquid is warm, sprinkle in the sugar-stabilizer mixture while whisking, and heat to 82°C.

Remove from heat, then add the milk powder.

Strain (chinois) the mixture directly over the Illanka chocolate. Emulsify, then cool rapidly over an ice bath or using a blast chiller.

Assembly and finishing

Chocolate Earl Grey Tart dessert by Corporate Pastry Chef Fabrice Bendano
  • 10g Sable dough
  • 2000g Valrhona Manjari 64% ganache
  • 20g Clementine marmalade
  • 0.15g Chocolate stick
  • 25g Valrhona Jivara 40% Chantilly
  • 6g Open chocolate disc
  • 8g Yellow chocolate ring
  • 3g Mandarin coulis (8 dots)
  • 50g Valrhona Illanka 63% ice cream (1 quenelle)

Place disc of chocolate ganache in the center of the plate and stick with clementine marmalade and add later on top of the disc. Add yellow chocolate ring.