Strawberry Fraisier with Vanilla Crème Mousse, Chocolate Maple Syrup Sauce and Orange Popping Pearls Recipe

  • Brand
  • Difficulty
    Hard
  • Number of servings
    4

Nestlé Golden Chef's Hat Award 2018 National Finalists Dessert Recipe.

Ingredients
Almond Crumb Base
  • Butter g 120
  • Sugar g 60
  • Self Raising Flour g 180
  • Egg pc 1
  • Lemon Zest tbsp 1
  • Almond meal g 100
Chocolate Maple Syrup Sauce
  • Nestlé Sweetened Condensed Milk g 100
  • Maple Syrup g 100
  • Nestlé Continental Bitter Kibble Dark Couverture Chocolate g 100
  • Nestlé Arctic Buttons g 50
  • Cream ml 50
Vanilla Crème Patisserie
  • Nestlé DOCELLO Crème Patisserie Dessert Mix g 90
  • Chilled Water ml 250
  • Vanilla Bean Paste tsp 1
  • Cream ml 400
  • Cream (For Topping) ml 100
Caramel
  • Caster Sugar g 100
Caramelized Walnut
  • Caramel
  • Walnut pc 10
Sugar Glaze
  • Caster Sugar g 100
  • Water g 100
  • Gelatine Sheet pc 1
Base
  • Crumbs (Short Pastry) g 200
  • Butter, Melted g 20
Orange Popping Pearls
  • Orange Juice ml 100
  • Sugar, Caster g 10
  • Alginate Powder g 1
  • Sugar, Caster g 10
  • Calcium Chloride g 20
  • Water L 1
Preparation
  • 1
    Short Pastry
  • 2
    Soften Butter
  • 3
    Whisk butter and sugar until combined
  • 4
    Add Egg
  • 5
    Slowly add flour and almond meal and mix in together
  • 6
    Make a sausage, sandwich with 2 baking paper and start rolling until thin
  • 7
    Set in freezer for 5 minutes
  • 8
    Cut and bake at 180°C for 15-16 minutes, 160°C if fan forced
  • 9
    Chocolate Maple Syrup sauce
  • 10
    Chop Chocolates
  • 11
    Heat up condensed milk and cream, bring to boil
  • 12
    Pour over cream and milk into chocolate
  • 13
    Mix in until melted
  • 14
    Vanilla Crème Patisserie
  • 15
    Mix in Crème Patisserie dessert mix with Vanilla bean paste and chilled water
  • 16
    Blend low for 1 minute
  • 17
    Give 3 minutes to rest
  • 18
    1 minute high blend
  • 19
    On a separate bowl, whip cream (400 ml) until hard peak
  • 20
    Slowly fold in the whipped cream into the crème pat mix
  • 21
    Put in pipping bag then chill
  • 22
    Caramel
  • 23
    Melt Caster sugar into pan while simultaneously stirring
  • 24
    Make a circular motion on top of silpat for garnish
  • 25
    Caramelized Walnut
  • 26
    Dip walnuts to caramel and hang to make a spike look
  • 27
    Sugar Glaze
  • 28
    Bloom gelatine sheet
  • 29
    Bring sugar and water to boil
  • 30
    Add gelatine and cooldown
  • 31
    Base
  • 32
    Combine crumbs from short pastry and add melted butter and press as cake base
  • 33
    Orange Popping Pearls
  • 34
    Mix calcium chloride with water and set aside
  • 35
    On a sauce pan, heat up orange juice and sugar. Cool down
  • 36
    Once cooled, mix in Alginate powder and sugar and add to orange juice
  • 37
    Mix together and wait until bubbles starts to clear
  • 38
    Using a syringe or dropper, slowly drop the syrup into the calcium chloride wait until it sets and scoop out.