8 individual cakes
Equipment
For yellow oolong cream: Silikomart SF009
For the umeshu mousse: Silikomart SI3163
For the umeshu mousse petal piping: Wilton #103 Petal Piping Tip
Yellow oolong cream
- Heat the milk in a small pot. When it comes to 90 degree, add the tea leaves infusing for 5 minutes.
- Strained the tea leaves and we should get 100 grams of milk tea.
- Bloom the gelatin powder with five times weight of water for at least 5 minutes. Keep in the fridge at 4 degree.
- Heat the milk tea in a small pot. Mix the egg yolk with sugar and sifted yellow oolong tea powder. Make Crème Anglaise.
- Add the hydrated gelatin in and mix well. Strain it.
- When the Crème Anglaise cools to 60 degree. Blend with the cold butter.
- Add 8 grams for each in the mould Silikomart SF009. Freeze them until set.
Red Shizo jelly
To make red shizo water:
- Put all the ingredients except shizo leaves into a small pot and boil it.
- Add the shizo leaves and continue boiling with low heat for 3 minutes.
- Strain the shizo leaves. We should get 60 grams of shizo water.
To make red shizo jelly:
- Bloom the gelatin powder with five times weight of water for at least 5 minutes. Keep in the fridge at 4 degree.
- Prepare the red shozo water in a small pot and heat to 40 degree.
- Mix well the sugar and tha agar and add into step 2. Stir until boil.
- Stop heating and mix with the hydrated gelatin and shizo liquor.
- Put 6 grams for each onto the yellow oolong cream. Freeze them until set.
Yellow oolong tea sponge
To make streusel:
- Mix all the ingredients together like crumble.
- Bake at 165 degree for 15 minutes. Cool and break in a food processor.
To make crust:
- Melt the cacao butter and white chocolate separately. Stir together well.
- Mix the steusel and the feulletine together.
- Mix together steps 1 and 2.
- Spread over two pieces of baking paper. Roll to 0.3cm thick. Freeze until set.
Yellow oolong tea sponge
- Mix cake flour and yellow oolong tea powder well.
- Whip other ingredients until it bcomes slightly fluffy and lighter in colour.
- Add step 1 into step 2 and mix with a spatula
- Spread in a 40cm*30cm frame.
- Bake at 165 degree for 8 minutes.
Umeshu mousse
- Bloom the gelatin powder with five times weight of water for at least 5 minutes. Keep in the fridge at 4 degree.
- Blend cream 1, umeshu, egg yolk and sugar together.
- Place in a small pot. Make Crème Anglaise.
- Mix with the hydrated gelatine, white chocolate and butter and strain it. Cool it until 28 degree.
- Whip the cream 2 into soft peaks. Mix with step 4.
White spray
- Melt the cocoa butter and white chocolate seperately.
- Mix together and add the colouring.
- Use with the help of a spray gun at about 40 degree.
Assembly
- Cut the yellow oolong tea sponge with a diameter 5 cm round cutter. Set aside.
- Cut the yellow oolong crust with a diameter 5 cm round cutter. Stick on the yellow oolong sponge. Set aside.
- Unmold the yelow oolong cream and red shizo jelly. Set aside.
- Pipe 25 grams of umeshu mousse in the silikomart SI3163 mould. Add step 3 in.
- Pipe 2 grams of mousse. Place on step 2. Finally seal with the mousse and freeze until set.
- Keep the remaining mousse in the fridge.
- Unmold the mousse and set aside.
- Stir the rest of the umeshu mousse lightly until smooth. Pipe the mousse as petals with wilton #103 tip on step 5 and freeze again until set.
- Apply the white spray.