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The Bomb.

11 February 2010 | Europe, chocolate, delicious, dessert, faithful readers, pastries, plated dessert, recipe | 6 Responses

A fucking bomb went off! Chocolate flourless cake, salty caramel core,  milk chocolate shell and blood orange ice cream.  The dessert is inspired by a pastry I had in Paris, from the shop of the revered pastry Chef Pierre Herme.  It was a bombe, tempered shell and caramel core, I enjoyed it on a park bench in Luxembourg gardens. Mr. Herme ingeniously used a macaron base, his desserts were all marked by inventive skill and imagination.  I employ a compressed devil’s food cake sealed with icing to seal in the oozing salty caramel, just a candle held towards Chef Pierre’s brilliance. The milk chocolate shell is just that, tempered 38% milk chocolate.  Here’s a recipe for my faithful readers.

Blood Orange Ice Cream

2 cups milk

2 cups blood orange puree

1 1/2 cups sugar

4 oz butter

pinch o’ salt

2 cups heavy cream

3/4 cup egg yolks

• Place the 2 cups milk and blood orange puree in  vessel in an ice bath and fit it with a strainer.
• Caramelize the sugar until dark amber in a heavy bottom sauce pot
• Remove pan from heat, add the butter and salt, whisking to combine.
• Add the heavy cream and whisk to combine. Return to the heat and btab.
• Temper hot mixture into egg yolks and cook to nape.
• Pour custard through strainer into reaming milk in ice bath.
• Completely chill before spinning.
This is based upon a salted caramel ice cream, the missing recipe from The Perfect Scoop by David Lebovitz, an inspirational Chef and blogger.

P.S.  See this in the Willamette Week?