Guanaja | Gianduja | 4 x Orange by Wolfgang Kiessling
The Pastry Chef of Sea Chefs Cruises Wolfgang Kiessling has created a stunning dessert for you with QimiQ Whip Pastry Cream. A delightful combination of guanaja chocolate and oranges will send your guests into food paradise. All we can say is: Bon Appetit!
For the basic custard (crème anglaise)
- 500 ml whipped cream 36 % fat
- 500 ml milk
- 2 vanilla bean(s)
- 200 g egg yolk
- 100 g sugar
For the Gianduja Cremeux
- 500 g vanilla pudding (crème anglaise)
- 500 g gianduja
For the orange sorbet
- 10 Orange(s)
- 120 g sugar
- 40 g glucose
For the Guanaja chocolate mousse
- 500 g QimiQ Whip, chilled
- 500 g vanilla pudding (crème anglaise)
- 600 g Valrhona Guanaja 70% dark chocolate, melted
For the Muscovado & Èclat d'Or crumble
- 200 g butter
- 200 g muscovado sugar
- 200 g wheat flour, type 550
- 200 g almonds, ground
- 6 g lemon peel
- 75 g Eclat d`Or (crumbled wafers)
For the semi-candied orange zest
- 200 g orange peel, grated
- 100 g sugar
- 100 ml water
Miscellaneous
- Orange sauce
- Blood orange(s), cut into wedges
- Milk chocolate, grated
- For the basic custard: infuse the cream and milk with the vanilla pulp for about 20 minutes.
- Mix the egg yolk with the sugar. Bring the cream mixture to the boil. Whisk the egg yolk mixture into the cream mixture over a bain-marie (warm water bath) until it thickens slightly, enough to coat the back of a spoon.
- Strain through a wire chinois and allow half of the mixture to chill.
- For the Gianduja Cremeux: pour the remaining hot basic custard over the melted "Gianduja-style" and make an emulsion as for a ganache. .
- Mix with a hand-held mixer or use the Thermomix to perfect the emulsion, taking care not to incorporate any air into the mixture and to keep the temperature above 35 °C (max. 45 °C).
- For the orange sorbet: fillet the oranges and place into a pacojet beaker to the full mark. Squeeze the remaining flesh well and fill half of the juice into the pacojet beaker.
- Pour a share of the juice into a saucepan, heat and dissolve the sugar and glucose in it. Pour back into the pacojet beaker and allow to cool. Freeze to minus 22 °C for approx. 24 hours.
- For the Guanaja chocolate mousse: whisk the chilled QimIQ Whip Pastry Cream in a mixer until completely smooth. Add the cold basic custard and continue whisking until the full volume has been achieved. Fold in the melted chocolate.
- Pipe the guanaja mousse into suitable silicon moulds and freeze.
- For the Muscovado & Éclat d'Or crumble: dice the cold butter. Mix the muscovado sugar, flour, powdered almonds and lime zest in a mixer with the paddle attachment.
- Add in the Éclat d'Or and mix briefly, but do not let the dough break up too much.
- Bake at 150 °C with the oven door slightly ajar to ensure an amber colouration.
- For the semi-candied orange zest: soak the orange peel in cold water for 2 hours. Drain and slice into julienne. Bleach in cold water twice, drain and place into a saucepan.
- Add the sugar and water and bring to the boil over a very gentle heat. Lower the heat and cook until the water is evaporated taking care that the sugar does not turn into caramel. Remove the candied zest.
- Pacotize the container. The flavour and texture will improve if you pacotize your sorbet twice.
- Assembling and finishing: squeeze a drop of the orange sauce on the edge of the plate. Draw it with the back of a spoon into a divided teardrop across the plate. Place the chocolate mousse slightly off centre on the plate; sprinkle a few muscovado crumbles alongside. Pipe a few dots of the gianduja cremeux around each and place a neat quenelle of the orange sorbet on the plate. Finish the creation with some julienne of the semi-candied orange peel and the blood orange segements.