Easter Sweets

Easter recipe inspiration. Created by pastry chef Bart de Gans. 
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Lemon cremeux

  • Lemon juice 80g
  • Whole egg 75g
  • Caster sugar 60g
  • Gelatin mass (1:5) 12g
  • Unsalted butter 75g
  • Lemon zest 1g
  • Total 303g

Lemon cremeux

Bloom 2 g gelatin in 10 g cold water to make 12 g gelatin mass. Whisk egg and sugar together; add lemon juice and zest. Cook over gentle heat, stirring constantly, to 82-84°C. Remove from heat, add gelatin mass, then emulsify in the butter with a hand blender. Pipe 20 g into each of 12 insert moulds and freeze.

Honey mousse

  • Whole milk 120g
  • Honey 80g
  • Egg yolk 60g
  • Gelatin mass (1:5) 24g
  • White chocolate 140g
  • Cream, 35% (whipped) 300g
  • Total 724g

Honey mousse

Bloom 4g gelatin in 20g cold water to make 24g gelatin mass. Heat milk with honey. Whisk into the yolks, return to the pan and cook like a creme anglaise to 82-84°C. Add gelatin and pour over white chocolate; emulsify. Cool to 28-30°C. Fold in softly whipped cream. Pipe into moulds, insert frozen lemon cremeux, then seal with a kataifi crunch disc. Freeze until firm.

Kataifi crunch

  • Kataifi pastry, finely cut 120g
  • Unsalted butter 35g
  • Almond praline paste 80g
  • White chocolate 70g
  • Fine salt 1g
  • Total 306g

Kataifi crunch

Toast kataifi in melted butter over medium heat, stirring until crisp and golden. Cool completely. Melt white chocolate and mix with praline paste and salt. Fold in the toasted kataifi. Press into 12 thin discs and chill until set.

Vanilla Chantilly

  • Cream, 35% (cold) 220g
  • Mascarpone 35g
  • Icing sugar 22g
  • Vanilla paste 2g
  • Total 279g

Vanilla Chantilly

Combine all ingredients and whip until smooth, medium-firm peaks form. Keep chilled. Pipe onto the thawed mousse to create the nest finish.

Assembly, layout and finishing

Unmould the frozen honey mousse pastries and thaw in the refrigerator. Pipe vanilla Chantilly on top in a nest shape. Finish with toasted kataifi strands and a Dobla chocolate chick decoration. For the warm orange nest colour in the reference photo, apply a light orange cocoa-butter spray before thawing. The spray and decorations are not included in the component totals.

Enjoy this exciting recipe.

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