dessert - lemon chocolate mirror
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8/3/2019 Dessert - Lemon Chocolate Mirror
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Lemon Chocolate Mirror
Lemon flavoured sugar syrup
Sugar 225g
Water 125ml
Lemon 100mlMethod
1. Place the sugar and water in a pan and bring to the boil, remove from the heat, stir in the lemon
juice and leave to cool.
Pistachio sponge cake
Marzipan 750g
Pistachio blanched & ground 100g
Eggs 9
Apple compote 75gCorn flour 100g
Butter melted 150gMethod
1. Whisk the marzipan, egg yolks and apple compote together until smooth.
2. Mix the pistachio and cornflour together.
3. Beat the egg whites to a stiff peak.
4. Fold half the egg whites into the marzipan mix, then fold in half the flour mix. Repeat with
the remaining ingredients.
5. Finally carefully fold in the melted butter.
6. Pour the mix onto a prepared baking sheet and even out. Cook in a hot oven approx. 210C7. Once cooked, cool and cut in half down its length.
Lemon Mousse
Double cream 500ml
Egg yolks 12
Sugar 100g
Custard powder 50g
Lemon juice 250ml
Gelatine 9 sheets
Egg whites 20
Sugar 350gmMethod
1. Soak the gelatine in cold water.
2. Boil the 350g of sugar to 120C with about 100 mls of water. Meanwhile whip the egg whites to
a peak, once the sugar has reached the correct temperature pour into the egg whites and whisk
until cold
3. Bring the cream to the boil with the egg yolks, sugar, custard powder and lemon juice, stirring
all the time.4. Once the mix has boiled remove from the heat and stir in the drained gelatine. Stir well, strain
and leave to cool.
5. When nearly set fold in to half the Italian meringue, then carefully fold in the remaining
meringue stirring until smooth.
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Chocolate Genoise
Eggs 4 5 10
Sugar 200g 250g 500g
Flour 160g 200g 400g
Cocoa powder 25g 30g 60g
Starch 15g 20g 40g
Butter 40g 50g 100g
Method
1. Set oven to 200-220C Gas 6-7 400-425F
2. Grease Genoise tin with butter and cover bottom with circle of silicone paper or greased
greasproof paper dust lightly with flour
3. Whisk eggs and sugar over hot water in a bowl, (slow cooking) to ribbon stage. Remove from
heat and continue to whisk until cooled
4. Sift the flour with the cocoa powder and the cornflour, twice.
5. Without too much mixing fold in flour keeping the mixture as light as possible.
6. When all the flour is in pour in the butter around the edge of the batter and gently fold in.
Pour gently into the greased and floured tin and oven bake till brown and firm to the touch
about 20 - 30 minutes
7. N.B. If when you run your fingers over the top it leaves imprints the sponge it is not ready.
8. Turn out onto a rack, peel off paper, replace and allow to cool
9. Use as required
Lemon Glaze
Golden jelly (lemon marmalade) 1k
Lemon juice 150mlMethod
1. Bring to the boil and thin with the lemon juice.
Lemon zest
Blanch a fine julienne of lemon zest 3 times then cook in a sugar syrup (1 part water 1 part sugar) for
1 hour.
Assembling the cake
1. Place a metal cake ring that is 4-5 cm high over a cardboard circle. Cut a circular base from
the pistachio sponge cake. Place it over the cardboard inside the ring.2. Fill the ring halfway with lemon mousse.
3. Place a layer of chocolate genoise that is slightly smaller in diameter than the ring over the
mousse just to the rim of the ring.
4. Brush it generously with the lemon flavoured sugar
syrup.
5. Fill with lemon mousse just to the rim of the ring.
6. Place the cake in the freezer to set.
7. Glaze the top of the cake with lemon glaze using a
ladle, and smooth it with a metal spatula.
8. Sprinkle candied lemon zest on top of the cake.
9. Remove the metal ring by heating the outside.Note place a thin strip of plastic around the cake to
protect it and enhance its presentation.