Chocolate chestnut mousse

Why not welcome in Autumn with a luxury pastry? This recipe combines chocolate, chestnut and pistachio in a scrumptious pastry no one can refuse.

Pistachio chestnut bread

ingredients preparation
  • 250g
    almond paste
  • 40g
    Pistachio paste

Beat together with paddle attachments.

  • 5
    whole egg(s)

Add. 

  • 45g
    flour
  • 3g
    baking powder

Add.

  • 60g
    butter
  • Q.S.
    candied chestnuts

Cut the chestnuts into pieces, mix and add to the previous.

Spread on a baking tray in a layer of 1 cm thickness. Bake at 200°C.

Chestnut crème

ingredients preparation
  • 50g
    butter

Beat. 

  • 100g
    chestnut paste
  • 100g
    chestnut cream

Add and mix. 

  • 10g
    Whisky

Mix in. 

Chocolate bavarois

ingredients preparation
  • 150g
    milk
  • 1/2
    vanilla bean
  • 150g
    cream
  • 4
    egg yolks
  • 70g
    invert sugar

Make an anglaise. 

  • 60g
    CHM-Q415AR

Melt and mix in the anglaise

  • 2g
    gelatin

Add.

  • 12g
    whipped cream

Add at 30°.