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Chocolate Earl Grey Tart, Mandarin Marmalade and Chocolate Sorbet
An original recipe by Chef Fabrice Bendano
5 stepsLEARN MORE ABOUT CORPORATE PASTRY CHEF FABRICE BENDANO FROM STARR RESTAURANT (WASHINGTON, DC)
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
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.
CHOCOLATE GANACHE FILLING
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.
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.
MILK CHOCOLATE CHANTILLY
In a saucepan, warm cream, glucose and trimoline pour into Jivara 40% chocolate.
Mix all and add cold cream.
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
- 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.