Clementine Cointreau-rum baba

This recipe was crafted during a live tutorial at Callebaut Chocolate Academy, starring chef Ryan J. Stevenson. Here you can find the link to the video, in order to practice while listening to chef Ryan's indications:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adv08hwQqJk

Recipe

Baba paste

ingredients preparation
  • 30g
    yeast
  • 65g
    milk
  • 500g
    T55 flour
  • 10g
    salt
  • 45g
    sugar
  • 400g
    eggs
  • 125g
    melted butter
  1. Dissolve the fresh yeast in warm milk and pour on the mixing tank.
  2. Mix the flour to make a Paste, then add salt and sugar.
  3. Add the eggs little by little until a smooth and elastic homogeneous dough is obtained.
  4. Then do the same with the butter.
  5. Do a break time : 30 to 40 minutes.
  6. Put the dough in the molds (shown in the video tutorial) and let it double in volume.
  7. Bake at 190 ° C in oven.

 

Baba syrup

ingredients preparation
  • 500g
    water
  • 300g
    sugar
  • 200g
    orange juice
  • 100g
    yellow lemon juice
  • 200g
    Cointreau
  1. Make boil water, sugar, orange juice and  lemon juice together.
  2. Add the alcohol at the end.

Mandarin cream

ingredients preparation
  • 600g
    mandarin puree
  • 50g
    yellow lemon juice
  • 90g
    sugar
  • 5g
    Glazing stabilizer
  • 18g
    NH pectin
  • 90g
    egg yolks
  • 140g
    Butter 82% fat
  1. Mix the sugar with the pectin and stabilizer.
  2. Add the egg yolks.
  3. Bake at 82 ° C, then add the butter.

Mandarin whipped Ganache

ingredients preparation
  • 220g
    milk
  • 30g
    orange concentrate
  • 11g
    glucose
  • 390g
    CW2NV
  • 500g
    35% fat liquid cream
  • 20g
    gelatin mass
  1. Heat the milk with the concentrate and glucose.
  2. Melt chocolate and gelatin in the syrup then add the cream and let cool 24H.
  3. Whip and use the Mandarin Ganache

Breton shortbread

ingredients preparation
  • 120g
    egg yolks
  • 264g
    caster sugar
  • 336g
    softened butter
  • 400g
    T45 flour
  • 4g
    salt
  • 16g
    Baking powder
  1. Mix the egg yolks and sugar. Add the butter and mix again.
  2. Stir in the flour, salt, baking powder and mix until you obtain a homogeneous paste.
  3. Bake at 160 ° C during  15 minutes

Gold glazing

ingredients preparation
  • 1000g
    mandarin puree
  • 167g
    water
  • 1000g
    sugar
  • 1000g
    glucose
  • 470g
    gelatin mass
  • 600g
    CHK-R30GOLD
  • 500g
    mirror glaze
  1. Boil the mashed mandarin, water, sugar and glucose up to 105 ° C.
  2. Pour over the W2 chocolate and gelatin and mix well, then add the neutral mirror glaze, mix and boil up to 105°C
  3. Use the Gold glazing at 40°C Finishing: use a cling film to make a mold for the Clementine Cointreau-rum Baba, as shown in the tutorial video.