The Courchevel
Courchevel The cake is a dessert that I like. I tried to find the taste of this cake in my previous blog and I was pretty satisfied with the outcome, if I remember correctly.
But with a little more experience, especially after re-tasted the Courchevel my pastry that I finally understood where my mistakes were ...
Ingredients for 10-12 people: For pancakes - 250 g flour
- 3 eggs
- 4 tbsp. tablespoons sugar
- 4 tbsp. tb oil
- 50 g butter
- 75 cl of milk
- 1 tsp. a tablespoon rum or Grand Marnier
For the cake (a recipe Lenôtre) -155 sugar + 1 packet of vanilla sugar
- 5 eggs of normal size
- 155 g flour
- 45 g cooled melted butter
For the cream muslin (you can reduce the amount by half, but I'd rather deliver the original recipe, that of Benedict Molin)
- 1 liter milk
- 1 vanilla bean
- 8 yellow
eggs - 150 g sugar
- 60 g flour
- 60 g cornflour
- 1 pinch of salt
- 550 g butter
For mounting
- liquor blackberry
- 2 cups ripe raspberries
The previous morning: Prepare pancakes and the sponge.
For pancakes:
place flour in a large bowl with sugar, eggs, oil, alcohol, and a little milk. Mix everything until dough is thick and without lumps. . Heat the remaining milk over low heat with the butter cut into cubes petis. When it is melted, pour over the mixture and whisk until the mixture for smooth and fluid.
. Lightly oil a frying pan (always the first or pancakes). Pour a small ladle of batter to form pancakes by rotating the pan.
Cook pancakes on one side then the other, and stacked upon each other in a dish, as and when they are cooking.
. Cover with aluminum foil to keep warm and prevent them from drying out.
Set aside.
For the cake: to the bowl of a food in a water bath and whisk sugar and whole eggs to the mixture cool for 1 minute. Remove the bowl from the WB and beat on high speed for 8 minutes, then at low speed for 15 minutes to cool and reduce the mass. The dough should form tape casting (the mass 1).
Melt the butter too warm. Sift flour. Gently stir in flour and vanilla sugar to mass 1, then the butter to lukewarm.
Stop stirring as soon as the mixture is done. Pour into buttered and floured cake.
imméditament Bake in preheated oven at 180 ° C for 30 minutes.
Turn out hot but let the cake cool thoroughly before cutting.
In the early afternoon: Prepare cream muslin.
Heat - boil - the milk with the vanilla bean scraped. Although
whiten the egg yolks with sugar. Add the flour and cornstarch gradually. Relax
the mixture with half the milk.
Pour the batter into the pan containing the remaining milk and bring to a gentle boil, stirring constantly with a whisk.
Whisk 300g of butter into the custard is still hot. Allow to cool in the whipping cream time time - it cools completely in 4-5 hours - then add the 250 g of softened butter remaining.
cream muslin is ready.
Cut sponge in its width into thin slices.
For installation, use the cake pan in which the cake was baked.
nicely Cover the bottom and sides of pan with pancakes made up in the morning.
Cover the bottom of a thick layer of cream muslin. Then sprinkle with raspberries.
Soak a sponge disk (which is neither the basis nor the hat) blackberry liqueur. And place on raspberries. Press down well with the flat of the hand so that the cake begins to take form into the mold.
Pour a second and final layer of cream muslin. Sprinkle again with raspberries (keep some for decoration).
Soak the sponge cake base, this time with blackberry liqueur, and place on top of cake. Press well again by pressing the flat of his hand on the surface of sponge cake.
Close the cake by folding the pancakes on the merits. Place the cake
Courchevel and ready in the refrigerator overnight.
The next day, shortly before serving, unmold the cake, turning on a platter. Decorate by sprinkling cocoa or icing sugar and with remaining raspberries.