sweets & desserts
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 | No Comments
preparation: 20min | cooking: 30min | difficulty: ★★★★★
© 2010 Tony El Batal
serving portion: 8 persons
ingredients
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- 2 rolls of puff pastry (pâte feuilleté)
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- 125g butter
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- 125g powdered sugar
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- 125g dark chocolate, cut in pieces
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- 125g powdered almond
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- 2 eggs
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- 1 Tbsp rum
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- 2 tsp of almond extract
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directions
- Melt chocolate and butter in a saucepan over low heat.
- Meanwhile, beat eggs and sugar, whisk until mixture is smooth; Add it to the butter-chocolate mixture; When the mixture is cool, add the almond powder, rum and almond extract.
- Put the 1st pastry roll in an oven tray, spread over it the marzipan chocolate mixture, making sure to leave a 1.5 cm of dough around the border.
- Place the coin somewhere toward the edge of the marzipan mixture to decrease the possibility of finding it, then spread the 2nd roll pastry by welding the edges well.
- Spread beaten egg yolk on the cake with a brush (to make the surface brownish when cooked) and draw the spirals (below illustration).
- Sprinkle lightly with icing sugar to make the galette shine and bake for 30 minutes in a hot oven (180 °C).
tips
- The person cutting the galettes should be the last one to choose his portion since he might know where the coin is.
- The winner should put a carton crown on his/her head.
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Sunday, December 27th, 2009 | 4 Comments
preparation: 30min | difficulty: ★★★★★
© 2010 Tony El Batal
serving portion: 8 persons / 21cm springform tin
ingredients
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- 250g plain chocolate biscuits
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- 125g butter, melted
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- 250g packet cream cheese, softened
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- 3/4 cup caster sugar
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- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
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- 3 tsp gelatine
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- 1/2 cup water
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- 300ml thickened cream.
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- 250g bittersweet chocolate (orange flavored) bar
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- 1 orange slice
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directions
- Process biscuits until fine. Add melted butter, mix until combined.
- Press fine biscuits mixture evenly over base of 21cm springform tin.
- Melt the 2/3 of the chocolate bar; Dip 1/2 of the orange in the melted chocolate, then keep aside; For the contour of the cheesecake spread the melted chocolate with a spatula on a tray covered with parchment paper; place in the fridge for 5min; once the chocolate starts to thicken score equal size strips of 2cm width and 4cm height; Decorate the outline of the cheesecake. Attach the strips together from the inside by using the melted chocolate as a glue.
- Beat cheese, sugar and juice in large bowl with electric mixer until smooth and creamy; In a small sauce pan heat the water and sprinkle the gelatine; keep stirring until gelatine dissolves; cool 5 min. Whip cream until soft peaks form, fold into cheese mixture; fold in gelatine mixture.
- Pour the cheesecake mixture.
- Shave 1/3 of the orange chocolate on the top, place the orange you previously prepared.
- Refrigerate 3 hours or overnight until set.
tips
- I would go for mascarpone cream cheese it is buttery and creamy.
reference
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