Logs

Logs

For 8 people


  • 100 gr. of chestnuts
  • 100 gr. pears in syrup
     
  • For cream muslin:
  • 250 gr. milk
  • 120 gr. cream brown
  • 125 gr. sugar
  • 160 gr. whipped cream
  • 4 egg yolks
  • 25 gr. of cornstarch
  • 2 sheets of gelatin
     
  • For the chocolate cream:
  • 125 gr. sugar
  • 50 gr. chocolate
  • 40 gr. icing sugar
     
  • For the biscuit:
  • 35 gr. starch
  • 40 gr. flour
  • 75 gr. sugar
  • 3 eggs
     
  • For the syrup:
  • 50 gr. syrup
  • 10 cl. eau-de-vie de poire
  • 30 gr. sugar

 

1 h. 15 + 4 à 5 h. de réfrigération
1 h. 30, 200°C.(th.6/7)/425-450 °F

 


 

 

  1. Preheat oven to 200 ° C. (th.6 / 7)

    2 Prepare cd'oeufs yellow in a bowl.
    In a bowl up the white snow with the sugar farm.
    Pour quickly 2 egg yolks in the whites-mounted snow.

    Gently mix in sifted flour and starch together (with a wooden spoon of a movement from bottom to top).
    Pour the dough on a plate covered with paper.
    Spread in order to obtain a thickness of 1 cm. And Bake for 10 minutes.
     

  2. Prepare the cream muslin:

    In a terrinemélangez sugar and cornstarch. Add the egg yolks while stirring.
    Pour the boiling milk trickle in on the yellow-sugar mixture.
    Reverse all in the pan, without ceasing to stir, cook until the topping spoon.

    Reverse the pastry cream in the refrigerator.
    Draw-in 200 gr.
    Add it using the cream brown, the leaves of gelatine (previously softened in a little cold water and melted in a bain-marie) and whipped cream.
     

  3. Prepare the syrup.

    Then proceed to the assembly of the log:

    Shirts a cake mold with parchment paper. Garnish with half height cream muslin.
    Sprinkle pears and chestnuts diced.
    Put a tape in the center of biscuits previously soaked with syrup.
    Then book in the refrigerator for 5 to 6 h.
     

  4. After this time, beat the butter and icing sugar until a nice consistency, add the melted chocolate.
    Cool book, and 1 h. before dinner, remove the log.
    Brush with a fork, the surface of the log with chocolate cream, forming ripples to imitate wood.