Serves 5
Difficulty : easy
Price : budget bake
Preparation time : 45 min + 4 heures
Cooking time : 25 min
Mounted ganache
Soak the gelatine in cold water.
Cut the vanilla pod in half lengthways. Scrape out the seeds.
Pour the 70g of cream into a small saucepan and add the honey, vanilla seeds and cut vanilla pod.
Bring to the boil. Stop as soon as it boils.
Leave to infuse for 10 to 15 minutes.
Remove the pod, taking care to extract as many seeds as possible.
Melt your white chocolate in a double boiler.
When melted, gently warm the cream with the vanilla seeds for a few moments.
Add the cream in 3 batches to the melted white chocolate.
Then add the 175g of cold cream and mix well.
Cover with cling film, leaving no air bubbles between the mixture and the film.
Refrigerate for at least 4 hours.
Confit
Place the washed, hulled and quartered strawberries in a small saucepan.
Add the peeled and cubed rhubarb and the vanilla sugar.
Cover and cook over a low heat for around 15 minutes until the mixture resembles compote.
Whisk well and set aside.
Génoise
Preheat your oven to 190 degrees.
Whisk the eggs and sugar in a large bowl.
Put the mixture in a bain-marie and whisk with an electric whisk until the mixture is white and the temperature is around 50 degrees. (The mixture should triple in volume).
Remove from the water bath and continue to whisk until the temperature reaches 25-30 degrees (you should be able to touch the bowl without feeling very hot).
Add the sifted flour and cornflour in 2 additions, mixing gently with a spatula.
Pour into your buttered and floured tin.
Bake for 15 minutes.
Cool on a wire rack.
Finish
Peel and cut the rhubarb into sections.
Heat the water and sugar and add the rhubarb pieces.
Cook for 10 minutes over a low heat, then set the rhubarb pieces aside.
Spread the confit over the sponge cake.
Put the bowl and whisk attachment of your food processor in the freezer for a few minutes.
When the bowl is cold, pour in the ganache and whizz until stiff and compact.
Pour the ganache over the confit.
Arrange the cooked rhubarb pieces and a few pieces of strawberry.
Refrigerate until ready to eat.
After a career in industry, Emmanuelle decided to fully commit herself to her real passion — baking for her nearest and dearest.
She created her blog Casserole&Chocolat (www.casseroleetchocolat.fr) in 2017 and posts all her recipes there. These include sweet and savoury treats and breads, all using a traditional approach and local and seasonal produce. Emmanuelle has a gourmet openness to world cuisine and fills her baking with accents redolent of spices to take your taste buds on a journey.
Emmanuelle has collaborated with De Buyer for several years now, using their innovative utensils in her baking..