Coffee jelly Grand Cru Arpeggio (prepare the night before):
40 ml Grand Cru Apreggio (1 capsule) 3 leaves gelatine
20 g caster sugar
Pastry cream:
500 g milk
125 g egg yolks 100 g caster sugar
40 g cornflour
50 g butter
25 ml Grand Cru Arpeggio (1 capsule)
Sichuan pepper
200 g caramelised pecan nuts
Grand Cru Arpeggio coffee veil:
25 ml Grand Cru Arpeggio (1 capsule)
800 g water
200 g caster sugar 100 g cornflour
Craquelin (crunchy topping): 150 g butter
185 g brown sugar
185 g flour
Making the choux pastry:
Combine the water,milk and butter (melted) in a saucepan
Add the salt and bring to the boil
Add the flour in one go
Work the mixture thoroughly over the heat using a wooden spatula
Work the mixture by stirring to dry it
The dough is ready when it comes away from the sides of the saucepan and forms a smooth ball
Take the saucepan off the heat
Add the eggs one by one,making sure they are completely absorbed into the dough
The dough should be sticky
Tip it into a stainless steel bowl and cover with cling film
Put in the fridge
Making the pastry cream:
Put the milk in a saucepan
Bring to the boil
In a bowl,combine the egg yolks and sugar
Stir vigorously,then add the cornflour
Your mixture should whiten
Add the boiling milk gradually,then transfer the entire mixture back into the saucepan and bring to the boil, whisking continuously
As soon as it boils,pour the mixture into a bowl,add the butter and 25 ml of Grand Cru Arpeggio
Season with Sichuan pepper
Cover with cling film and put in the fridge
Once cold,add the caramelised pecan nuts
Making the craquelin:
Sift the flour
Soften the butter in the microwave
Combine the flour,butter and brown sugar in a bowl
Spread in a layer 1mm thick between two sheets of baking paper using a rolling pin
Place in the freezer
Making the coffee jelly:
Add the sugar to the hot coffee (40 ml) and stir in the drained gelatine
Combine thoroughly and put in the fridge
Piping and baking the choux pastry:
Put the choux dough in a piping bag with a no
16 plain nozzle
On a nonstick tray,pipe 8 balls 3 cm in diameter and 8 balls 1
5 cm in diameter,making them as uniform as possible
Remember to leave a space between each
Cut a piece of craquelin of the same diameter and place it on top of your choux balls
Bake in a hot oven (200°C,gas mark 67) for 2025 mns
Leave to cool at room temperature (do not put in the fridge)
Once cool,make a 0
5 cm hole (the size of a pencil) in the back of each choux ball
Put the pastry cream in a piping bag and fill your choux balls
Place to one side
Serve your cream Nun’s Puff on an Grand Cru Arpeggio jelly mirror
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