8 individual cakes
Equipment
Whiskey extra amer ganache: 15×15 square shaped mould
Smoke mascarpone cream: smoking gun
Tube chocolate: 5cm diameter round mousse mould, 6.5cm width
Chocolate biscuit
- Whip the room temperature egg white with the sugar.
- Melt chocolate using microwave or warm up in a double boiler.
- Mix a small amount of meringue with the egg yolk and beat another small amount of meringue with the warm melted chocolate.
- Again mix the two doughs with the rest of the meringue while being careful that the air bubbles do not disappear.
- Place a depron sheet on a baking tray and spread the finished dough evenly.
- Bake in a 180-degree oven for 15 minutes.
Whiskey extra amer ganache
- Heat up the cream and trimoline together.
- To make the ganache, pour half the boiled cream into the chocolate and use a hand mixer to emulsify.
- Pour whiskey into the finished ganache and grind to complete.
Anglaise cream
- Heat up the cream with a small amount of sugar.
- Mix the rest of the sugar with egg yolk.
- Soak the gelatin sheets in cold water with ice cubes.
- When the cream starts to boil, pour half of the hot cream over the mixture of egg yolk and sugar and mix well then return to the saucepan.
- Heat up the cream to 84℃, stir the bottom of the pan so it doesn’t burn.
- Pour the cream in a bowl to mix with gelatin then grind using a hand mixer. Store it in the fridge overnight before using.
Smoke mascarpone cream
- Put anglaise cream and mascarpone in the kitchen-aid bowl. With whipper whisk it without making any lumps.
- Wrap the kitchen-aid bowl with cling film.
- Using the smoking gun, burn the cinnamon sticks to have the smoke in the kitchenaid bowl.
- Continue to create smoke in the kitchen-aid bowl while whisking.
Tube chocolate
- Temper the dark chocolate.
- Spread chocolate thinly on pre-cut mousse ring.
- When chocolate begins to harden, roll the mousse and place it in a round shaped mould then let it harden.
Assembly
- Cut bisquit chocolate into 15×15 square frames and place on bottom of mould.
- Pour whiskey extra amer ganache over moulds, set in refrigerator, and freeze it in a freezer.
- Remove the frozen ganache from the mould, cut it to 2.5cm x 5.5cm, and store it in the freezer again.
- Skim off the mousse of the tube chocolate and fill the tube with smoke mascarpone cream about 1/3 full.
- Slide the cut ganache into the center of the tube, being careful not to break the chocolate.
- Continue filling-in the cream, and use a palette to scrape the cream off both sides of the tube neatly.
- Place the finished tube in a balanced position and finish with cream and gold leaf decoration on top.