Dessert by chef Riccardo Menicucci for World Kindness Day
Plated desserts

World Kindness Day Gateau

Made with Guanaja 70%

An original recipe by Riccardo Menicucci

5 steps

Components :
•    Strawberry filling
•    Vanilla Filling 
•    Chocolate Granny’s cake Hose recipe 1” thickness 
•    Guanaja 70% Semifreddo
•    Cacao cookie base 

Garnish 
•    Strawberry Gel 
•    Chocolate leaves and feathers 
•    Strawberry inspiration Ganache
•    FS coin 
•    Cacao Butter Spray

Recipe Step by Step

Step01

STRAWBERRY INSERT

1000g Strawberry puree

120g Sugar

10g Vanilla

10g Orange zest

65g Sosa Gel Crem Hot

1200g Fresh diced Strawberries

 

In a sauce pan, add strawberry puree, sugar, gel crem hot, and all the perfumes.

Bring to boil and let it cool down in hotel pan cover in plastic wrap.

Once is cold, fold the diced strawberries.

Insert a disk in the gateau mold and another one in the center part.

Fill the mold by 1/3 and blast freeze.

Step02

VANILLA WHITE CHOCOLATE MOUSSE

250g Milk

12g Gelatin + 60g H2O

1000g Cream

950g Opalys 33% White chocolate

15g Norohy vanilla

 

Process hydrated gelatin and H2o together.

In a sauce pan, heat the milk and Vanilla to 60°C 70°C, add the rehydrated gelatin, mix.

Melt the Opalys 33% white chocolate and create a ganache with the milk, by slowly combining the two, use an immersion blender .

When the ganache reaches 45°C-48°C fold the whipped cream at soft peaks.

Add the vanilla mousse on top of the frozen strawberry filing, leaving 1/3  of the mold empty.

Once the vanilla mousse is set remove from the blast freezer and push the granny chocolate cake on top of the vanilla.

Step03

GUANAJA 70% SEMIFREDDO

300g Yolks

300g Sugar

100g H2O

200g Cream

30g Gelatin

750g Guanaja 70% Dark chocolate

1400g Whipped cream

In a sauce pan, melt 200g of cream and bloomed gelatin, keep warm on the side.

In the microwave, melt the Guanaja 70% dark chocolate keep at 45°C.

In a sauce pan, add the sugar and H2O, cook until 121°C.

Start whipping in a mixer the yolks when the sugar reaches 110°C.

Drizzle the sugar slowly, try to be consistent and do not splash the cooked sugar but make a continues line of caramel, should take you at least 1 min for the pouring (like making Italian meringue).

Whip until reaches 50°C, then add Guanaja 70% dark chocolate in 5 times, ford delicately do not make chunks of unmixed chocolate (it happens a lot).

Add the cream gelatin mix.

And then, add your whipped cream by folding in 3 times.

Fill the gateau mold at 2/3 and then press the insert in , with a palette knife clean the edges and blast freeze.

Step04

GARNISH

1000g Strawberry puree

120g Sugar

75g Sosa Gel Crem Hot

In a saucepan, add strawberry puree, sugar, gel crem hot.

Bring to boil and let it cool down in hotel pan cover in plastic wrap.

Load in a squeeze bottle or pastry bag.

Store up to 5 days.

Step05

STRAWBERRY GANACHE

360g Milk

60g Trimoline

580g Strawberry Inspiration

Untemper the Strawberry Inspiration in the microwave.

Bring milk and trimoline to simmer, and drizzle 4 times, while mixing to create an emulsion, using a spatula.

Mix with immersion blender for few min.

Store in a container covered with plastic wrap.