Special recipes for Valentine’s Day

By Newsroom Odisha Network On Feb 13, 2022

Hazelnut and Coffee Cream Tart

Ingredients:

Chocolate sable:

. Butter (360gm) . Flour (680gm) . Cocoa Powder (40gm) . Icing Sugar (280gm) . Salt (5gm) . Almond Powder (100gm) . Egg (150gm)

Baked chocolate mix:

. Amul cream (480gm) . Milk (200gm) . Dark chocolate (480gm) . Egg (100gm) . Butter (5gm) . Hazelnut Paste (100gm) . Espresso (30gm)

Method:

. For the chocolate sable, cream butter and sugar and add eggs to it. . Add all the dry ingredients and mix. Rest them for six hours after lining the tart mould with a 2 mm thickness. . Half-bake the tart for 12 minutes at 180 degrees. Take out and allow to cool. . For the baked mix, heat up milk and cream and add chocolate, hazelnut, and espresso. Add the eggs at the end. . Pour the mix into a tart shell. Bake in the oven at 100 degrees for 15 minutes. Fromage Blanc and Framboise parfait on Brown Butter Cake

Ingredients:

Yoghurt Mousse:

. Elle and vire cream (300gm) . Yoghurt (240ml) . Caster Sugar (75 nos) . Vanilla bean (5gm) . Gelatin (10gm)

Pistachio Cake:

. Pistachio Paste (90gm) . Butter unsalted browned (70gm) . Caster sugar (100gm) . Egg Yolk (35gm) . Refine flour (150gm) . Sea salt (2gm) . Pistachio powder (130gm)

Raspberry cream:

. Raspberry puree (250gm) . Icing Sugar (60gm) . Gelatin sheets (10gm) . E&V cream (250gm)

Method:

. For pistachio brown butter cake, mix all the dry ingredients and keep them aside. Take the butter, heat it in a pan and make it golden brown. Meanwhile, whisk the egg yolk and add all the dry ingredients. Last, add the brown butter and bake in a tray for 10 min. Take it out of the oven and keep it in the refrigerator. . For the yoghurt mousse, soak the gelatin in cold water. Mix yoghurt and sugar, add cream and add gelatin, and set in the freezer. . For raspberry cream, boil puree, add icing sugar, and add gelatin. Fold in whipped cream and pipe inside the yoghurt mousse and freeze. . Place it in the deep freezer for a day, then serve it on top of the pistachio cake the next day. Balsamic Braised Strawberry Cheesecake with Greek feta

Ingredients:

Cheese mix:

. Philadelphia Cheese (400gm) . Eggs (250gm) . Sugar (100gm) . Corn flour (15gm)

Sable base:

. Flour (250gm) . Sugar (250gm) . Butter (400gm) . Egg White (40gm)

For Garnish:

. Balsamic (50gm) . Fresh strawberry (200gm) . Blueberry (50gm)

Method:

. For the sable base, cream the butter and sugar together and add the egg white gradually. Last, fold in the flour. . Take one cake ring and wrap it with foil. Place it on an aluminised tray. . Spread the sable mixture evenly at a thickness of about 2 cm. Bake it for 10 minutes at 180 degrees and remove it from the heat. . For the cheesecake mix, put cream cheese and sugar in a stand mixer and mix at slow speed. Add eggs and lastly, cornflour. Put the cheese mix on a stable base and bake in a double boiler for 40 minutes at 140 degrees. When finished, remove from the heat. Keep it chilled for one day. . The next day, take out the cake from the ring. . Garnish with a fresh strawberry if desired. (IANSlife can be contacted at ianslife@ians.in)

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