Pecan Passion

Calculated 4-step recipe for 12 cakes by Jeremy Del Val for Valrhona Selection


1. Sablé Pecan

Ingredients


  • 85 g Pecan Oil
  • 25 g  Cocoa butter (Valrhona)
  • 50 g  Egg yolks
  • 16 g  Caster sugar
  • 3.3 g Fine salt
  • 2 g Vanifusion (Norohy)
  • 166 g  T45 flour
  • 5.6 g Bakin Baking Powder (Sosa)
  • 40 g Pecan Nuts (Sosa)

Preparation


Melt the cocoa butter then add the pecan oil. Mix the egg yolks, sugar, salt, and vanilla with the paddle attachment, then add the cocoa butter and oil mixture at 25/30°C. Then add the flour mixed with baking powder and finish with the chopped pecans. Spread between 2 sheets to a thickness of 6/7 mm. Let stand overnight, then cut out using the Silikomart "Tarte Ring Oblong" molds. Bake at 150°C in the molds for 15 minutes.


2. Mango passion cream

Ingredients


  • 95 g  Mango puree (Adamance)
  • 113 g Passion fruit puree (Adamance)
  • 1.6 g  Many Batak
  • 3.5 g Vanifusion (Norohy)
  • 62 g Sugar
  • 4.2 g Pectine NH (Sosa)
  • 62 g Egg whites
  • 2.5 g Gelatin (Sosa)
  • 50 g Cocoa butter
  • 25 g  Pecan Oil

Preparation


Boil the mango and passion fruit purées, remove from the heat, add the crushed Batak berries and let it infuse for 7 minutes. Strain and check the weight. Heat a third of the purée to 45°C, add the sugar-pectin mixture, then bring to a boil. Remove from the heat, add the egg whites, cook to 75°C, then add the rehydrated gelatin. Combine with the rest of the purée, then pour in the cocoa butter and pecan oil and mix. Pour into the Silikomart "Oblong Tart Ring Kit" silicone molds.


3. Passion fruit whipped ganache

Ingredients


  • 38 g Passion fruit puree (Adamance)
  • 4 g Sirop glucose DE60 (Sosa)
  • 4 g Invert sugar (Sosa)
  • 0.65 g Gelatin powder (Sosa)
  • 125 g Creme
  • 105 g Inspiration passion (Adamance)
  • 4 g Cocoa butter

Preparation


Heat the pulp with the glucose and invert sugar, add the hydrated gelatin, then pour it over the passion fruit in several batches. Blend as soon as possible to perfect the emulsion. Gradually add the cold cream. Blend again. Refrigerate and let it crystallize, preferably overnight.


4. Passion fruit topping

Ingredients


  • 200 g Absolute crystal (Valrhona)
  • 30 g  Passion fruit puree


Preparation


Bring everything to a boil.

Finishing

Place the cream on the shortbread, poach the passion fruit ganache on the side using a 105 mm nozzle, leave in the oven for a few minutes, then spray. 

Decorate with pecan halves.

- Recipe from Valrhona Selection