Passion Fruit Entremet

Passion Fruit Entremet

The combination of banana, hazelnut, spices, and passion fruit creates a surprising and winning blend for the taste buds. The Jade milk coating perfectly balances this daring mix of flavors.
Level:
Medium

Banana sponge cake

Ingredients: Banana sponge cake

  • 320 g
    butter
  • 350 g
    brown sugar
  • 240 g
    eggs
  • 300 g
    ripe bananas
  • 155 g
    Banana purée
  • 500 g
    weak flour
  • 15 g
    raising agent
  • 5 g
    salt
  • 4 g
    nutmeg

Preparation: Banana sponge cake

Cream the butter in the blender with the help of a spatula. Add the brown sugar and the eggs at room temperature. Add the previously crushed ripe bananas and the banana purée. Add the sieved flour along with the raising agent and salt. Mix carefully. Coat three 18 centimetre moulds with butter and flour. Cook at 180ºC for 15 minutes.

Chocolate and spice cream

Ingredients: Chocolate and spice cream

Preparation: Chocolate and spice cream

Infuse the cream with the 5 spices for 20 minutes. Add the egg yolks mixed with the sugar and cook at 85ºC. Add the previously soaked gelatin leaves and the melted Jade and Maragda couvertures. Emulsify with a hand held beater and use immediately.

Hazelnut praline mousse

Ingredients: Hazelnut praline mousse

Preparation: Hazelnut praline mousse

Heat the cream to 80ºC, add the soaked gelatin and the hazelnut praline, applying emulsion with the beater. At 30ºC, add the semi-whipped cream and stir carefully. Completely fill the 4 centimetre ring from top to bottom with the sponge disc and 1 centimetre of hazelnut praliné mousse.

Jade and passion fruit bavaroise

Ingredients: Jade and passion fruit bavaroise

Preparation: Jade and passion fruit bavaroise

Heat the milk to 80ºC and add the soaked gelatin, the Jade milk chocolate couverture and the passion fruit purée, applying emulsion with the electric beater. At 30ºC, add the semi-whipped cream and stir carefully. Completely fill the 4.5 centimetre ring from top to bottom with the sponge disc, the hazelnut praline mousse and the Jade and passion fruit bavaroise. Store in the blast chiller until ready for the velvet spray paint.

 

Banana mosaic

Ingredients: Banana mosaic

  • 120 g
    mango puree
  • 120 g
    apricot puree
  • 20 g
    invert sugar
  • 7 g
    gelatin leaves
  • 440 g
    ripe bananas
  • 40 g
    lemon juice
  • 0.8 g
    lime zest
  • 10 g
    sugar
  • 1 g
    pectin

Preparation: Banana mosaic

Cut the bananas into cubes and mix them with the lemon juice. Heat the fruit purées and the invert sugar. Mix the sugar with the pectin and bring to the boil. Add the bananas and the lime zest to the mixture. Mould the rings.

Assembly

Assemble in two stages. First, in a 14 x 14 centimetre ring, place 1 centimetre of sponge cake, the 5 spice cream and the hazelnut mousse. Set aside for 2 hours in the freezer. Make an assembly in reverse order. Place a plastic and methacrylate sheet in a 16 x 4.5 centimetre ring and spoon in the Jade milk chocolate couverture and passion fruit bavaroise. Carefully attach the previously frozen interior. Press down with a sheet of plastic and another of methacrylate. Set aside for 2 hours in the freezer. Spray paint the cake using the velvet technique. Decorate with the banana mosaic and with a band of white chocolate dyed yellow, with small touches of powdered vanilla and matcha tea, imitating the colour of banana skin.