The caramel pear cake is aptly named … The harmony of aromas of caramelized pears with honey and caramel mousse is simply divine. This cake will be a significant asset to make your table a compulsory place of passage for all the gourmands around you, do not miss such a delight …
Caramel pear cake
Equipment
- Dessert circle 22 cm in diameter and 4.5 cm in height
Ingredients
- 1 chocolate sponge cake (See the chocolate sponge cake recipe)
- 1 decorated dessert biscuit (See the decorated dessert biscuit recipe)
- Q.S cold icing (See the cold icing for cakes recipe)
Caramel mousse :
- ⅓ l milk
- 150 g caster sugar (for the caramel)
- 5 egg yolks
- 20 g cake flour
- 3 gelatin leaves (2 g each)
- ⅓ l whipping cream
Caramelized pears :
- 300 g pears in light syrup
- 100 g honey
- 40 g whole liquid cream
Instructions
- For this recipe, you need a chocolate sponge cake and a decorative cookie. You will find these recipes on my channel.
- Keep the juice of the pears that you drain in order to soak the sponge cake later.
- Start by cutting the pears into not too small pieces that you put on a plate. Add the cream and honey, mix and then caramelize everything in the oven at 200 ° C for about 30 minutes.
- For the caramel mousse, start by softening the gelatin in cold water. You can replace it with 2 g of agar-agar which you will boil in the caramel cream.
- Pour the milk into a saucepan until it boils. Put the yolks in a container and mix with a tablespoon of caster sugar. Add the flour and mix again.
- Remove the milk from the heat, then make a caramel without liquid in a saucepan, gradually adding the sugar, which you melt and caramelize.
- When the sugar has a nice caramel color, gradually pour the hot milk over it while stirring with a whisk. Continue to melt the sugar.
- Pour the caramel milk over the egg yolks while stirring, transfer the whole to the saucepan and continue cooking while stirring for a minute after the first bubbles.
- Remove from the heat and add the softened and wrung out gelatin, then mix with a whisk. Cover with cling film in contact with the cream, then let it cool.
- Whip the cream into whipped cream, making sure to put the bowl, the whisk and the cream in the refrigerator beforehand. When the whipped cream is firm, stop the mixer.
- To finish the caramel mousse, first mix the cooled cream with a whisk, then add a third of whipped cream and whisk vigorously.
- Add the rest of the whipped cream gently with the whisk, making sure to ventilate thoroughly the caramel mousse.
- I use a 22 cm diameter and 5 cm high circle. Start by cutting 3.5 cm wide strips of decor cookie that you put inside and against the circle.
- Cut the chocolate sponge cake in 2 or 3 depending on the thickness, then place a layer at the bottom of the circle.
- Soak the chocolate sponge cake with the pear syrup using a brush.
- Garnish with a first layer of caramel mousse then scatter the caramelized pears on top.
- Place a second layer of chocolate sponge cake, which you also soak. Finally, complete the circle with caramel mousse and smooth the top with a palette knife.
- Put the caramel pear delight in the freezer for 3 or 4 hours.
- Take and mix some of the cold icing. Pour a drizzle of liquid coffee extract, then mix very lightly with two or three strokes of the spatula to maintain a marbled aspect.
- Take the caramel pear cake out of the freezer, then place the frosting on top. Start by spreading the frosting over the entire surface with a palette knife to achieve the marbled effect.
- Then you can remove the excess frosting with the palette knife.
- Move the caramel pear cake on a golden cardboard or a presentation tray, warm the circle, then gently remove the circle.
- For decoration, give way to your imagination. Here is an example of chocolate decor that you can achieve thanks to my video on chocolate work.
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