The Art of French Pastry

small saucepan and set over low heat. Allow the butter to melt, then stir slowly with the spatula until ...

4 Meanwhile, place the 75 grams sifted almond flour, the 30 grams sifted confectioners’ sugar, the egg yo ...

speed for 30 seconds. Take the bowl out of the mixer and scrape out the mixture into a large bowl. Using a ...

attachment. Immediately move on to the next step so that the flour does not sit too long in the egg mixture ...

on high speed, until semi- stiff but not dry. Remove the mixing bowl from the machine, place a small b ...

to whip the remaining meringue on the lowest speed just to maintain it. 6 Stop the mixer, take ou ...

and bottom of the pan to create a chocolate meringue shell. 7 Fill the chocolate shell with the cake ...

325°F/160°C and bake for another 20 minutes, until firm. Insert the tip of a paring knife into the center of ...

the cake to cool to room temperature; this will take 1 hour. 8 In the meantime, make a half ...

refrigerator or freezer (it’s great for making hot chocolate! Just add a tablespoon to a cup of hot milk, blend ...

middle on an inward 45- degree angle. Repeat on the other side of the cake so that you can now remove the tria ...

gently but firmly so that it sticks to the ganache. Place the cake back in its original mold and refriger ...

IT’S DONE WHEN IT’S DONE Both the chocolate cake and yellow cake should be moist; the ganache should be ni ...

JACQUY’S TAKEAWAYS The reason you have to unmold the cake right away is that if you let it sit in the pan th ...

turn into water, resulting in a wet cake. The V cut is challenging to do at first. You can always choose to ...

the ganache, which will make a more chocolaty cake. Deerback would also be delicious made with hazelnut ...

almond flour so that you will not lose moisture. Chocolate, hazelnut, or pecan with orange are great flavor ...

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YIELD | ONE 9-INCH CAKE Nothing compares to a freshly baked moist, buttery sponge with a crumb as light as ...