STRAWBERRY & LEMON MOUSSE DESSERT

STRAWBERRY & LEMON MOUSSE DESSERT

Author: Justyna Kowal

Skill level: BEGINNERS 

You will need:

Wedding lemon mousse and strawberry coulis on butter cookie desserts – approx 15-20 pieces

COULIS

  • Saracino La Supreme strawberry food flavouring
  • 500g fresh strawberries
  • 2 table spoons of lemon juice
  • 2 table spoons of corn flour
  • 4 table spoons of water

LEMON MOUSSE

  • Saracino La Supreme lemon food flavouring
  • 130g lemon juice
  • 110g sugar
  • 450g double cream-  30%
  • 3 tsp gelatine disolved in 100g cold water 

BUTTER BISCUITS

  • Saracino La Supreme vanilla food flavouring
  • 360g plain flour
  • 30g sugar powder
  • 1 egg
  • 200g soft butter
  • pinch of salt

SUEDE EFFECT

  • Saracino cocoa butter – aprox 200g
  • Saracino white chocolate drops – approx 200g
  • Saracino white powder colour 

     

    Step 1

    Prepare all your ingredients. Make sure they are all at room temperature.

    Step 2

    Prepare basic confectionery equipment – bowls, spoons, teaspoons, blender, small saucepan, mixer, rolling pin, baking paper, two silicone moulds (for mousses and inserts), a small knife and an airbrush with a wider nozzle (for cocoa butter) and turntable.

    Step 3

    Cut your strawberries into small pieces. 

    Step 4

    Put half of the chopped strawberries in a saucepan and add lemon juice.

    Step 5

    Blend until smooth.

    Step 6

    Prepare a cup of water and cornflour.

    Step 7

    Mix the cornflour and water thoroughly.

    Step 8

    Pour the cornflour mixture into the strawberry, mix and bring to a boil.

    Step 9

    Add the remaining strawberries and 2 teaspoons of strawberry flavour.

    Step 10

    Mix thoroughly and add into a small silicone mould. Freeze over night.

    Step 11

    Prepare the ingredients for the shortbread cookies.

    Step 12

    Put all ingredients in a bowl, add 1 teaspoon of vanilla flavour.

    Step 13

    Manually knead the dough to a uniform consistency.

    Step 14

    Roll the dough to a sausage shape and place it between two layers of baking paper.

    Step 15

    Roll out into an even, thin layer, approx. 2-3mm.

    Step 16

    Using a cookie cutter, cut out shapes approx. 3cm wider than the diameter of the mousse moulds, bake at 190 degrees for approx. 12-15 minutes.

    Step 17

    Allow to cool on a wire rack.

    Step 18

    Prepare the ingredients for the lemon mousse.

    Step 19

    Put lemon juice and sugar in a saucepan, bring to a boil until sugar is dissolved.

    Step 20

    Add soaked gelatin and 1 teaspoon of Saracino lemon flavour to the hot juice, mix thoroughly and allow it to cool to room temperature.

    Step 21

    Prepare a piping bag and mousse moulds.

    Step 22

    Whip the cream.

    Step 23

    Mix 2-3 tablespoons of whipped cream with lemon juice.

    Step 24

    Pour the mixture into the remaining cream and mix very thoroughly with a silicone spatula.

    Step 25

    Put the mousse into the piping bag.

    Step 26

    Remove the frozen strawberry from the freezer. Pipe some of the mousse into a mould, placing a strawberry filling into each, fill each to the top with mousse and freeze.

    Step 27

    Prepare the suede effect ingredients – cocoa butter and Saracino white chocolate drops.

    Step 28

    In a microwave oven melt the cocoa butter on low power.

    Step 29

    Add Saracino powder colour as needed until the desired colour is achieved and blend well.

    Step 30

    Add white chocolate and mix to a smooth consistency (use a blender if necessary), cool to approx. 35 degrees Celsius. Pour the cocoa butter and chocolate mix into the airbrush reservoir.

    Step 31

    Prepare shortcrust biscuits (you can put them on the placemats) and remove the frozen mousses. Remove the mousses from the mould. Using an airbrush, spray the frozen mousses to give a suede effect. Use your turntable and twist the plate while applying so that the mousse is applied evenly in a thin layer.

    Step 32

    Using a spatula, carefully transfer the mousses to the biscuits.

    Step 33

    Decorate with pieces of edible gold or another decoration of your choice.

    Step 34

    ET VOILA! Enjoy your mousses.

    COCONUT CHEESECAKE TUTORIAL

    COCONUT CHEESECAKE TUTORIAL

    Author: Justyna Kowal

    Skill level: BEGINNERS 

    You will need:

    For 10 cheesecakes 120ml each

    • 600g cream cheese
    • 90g desiccated coconut
    • 320g coconut milk or coconut cream
    • 40g butter cookies
    • 30g cream (30-36%)
    • 20g coconut liquor 
    • 300g Saracino white chocolate drops
    • 150g Saracino milk chocolate drops
    • Saracino Supreme Coconut food flavouring 
    • Saracino Supreme Vanilla food flavouring 

     

       

      Step 1

      Prepare all your ingredients. Make sure they are all at room temperature.  

      Step 2

      Pour 220ml of coconut milk into the pan and bring to boil.

      Step 3

      To the hot milk add 70g desiccated coconut and 100g Saracino white chocolate drops

      Step 4

      Add one teaspoon of Saracino Supreme coconut food flavouring. 

      Step 5

      Stir until combined and boil for another 5 minutes on a slow rolling boil, stirring continuously. 

      Step 6

      Cover with cling film making sure it touches the cream. Let it cool down in the fridge over night. 

      Step 7

      Add 20g of desiccated coconut to a heavy based pan.

      Step 8

      Fry until a golden colour is achieved. Make sure you do not burn them. Let them cool down.

      Step 9

      To the blender add 40g butter biscuits and blend until they achieve a sand texture. 

      Step 10

      Add the toasted coconut and mix together. 

      Step 11

      For the cheesecake mixture make sure all the ingredients are at room temperature. 

      Step 12

      Prepare 200g of Saracino white chocolate drops and melt.

      TIP: I use a glass bowl if melting in the microwave and metal bowl if melting over a water bath. Be careful not to over heat. 

      Step 13

      Let the melted chocolate cool down a little bit. 

      Step 14

      Prepare your food mixer, Saracino Supreme Vanilla food flavouring and 20ml coconut liquor.

      Step 15

      Add food flavouring and liquor to your cheese mixture.

      Step 16

      Gently combine on a slow motion. Slowly add the melted chocolate. 

      Step 17

      When all the ingredients are combined. Prepare a piping bag with a star nozzle.

      Step 18

      Add the cheesecake mix to the bag and place in the fridge.

      Step 19

      For the chocolate to go on the top prepare 150g of Saracino milk chocolate drops, 100ml coconut milk and 30g double cream (30-36%)

      Step 20

      Pour milk and cream into the bowl, add chocolate and melt.

      Step 21

      Make sure all the chocolate is melted. Allow to cool down. 

      Step 22

      Prepare small jars, biscuits, cream and chocolate. 

      Step 23

      At the bottom of each jar add biscuits.

      Step 24

      Add the cream cheese mix.

      Step 25

      Add the coconut cream.

      Step 26

      Finish with a layer of melted chocolate.

      Step 27

      Decorate with coconut flakes and ENJOY! 

      BANANA & CHOCOLATE BUNS

      BANANA & CHOCOLATE BUNS

      Author: Justyna Kowal

      Skill level: BEGINNERS 

      You will need:

      For dough: 

      • 600g plain flour
      • 15g dry yeast
      • 60g sugar
      • 80g butter
      • 4 egg yolks
      • 270g milk
      • pinch of salt
      • 2 tsp of Saracino Le Supreme Vanilla food flavouring

      For filling: 

      • 4 large well ripened bananas
      • 120g butter
      • 90g sugar
      • 130g Saracino milk chocolate drops
      • 130g Saracino dark chocolate drops
      • 2 tsp of Saracino Le Supreme Banana food flavouring

      For icing: 

      • 200g icing sugar
      • 30g water

      Step 1

      Prepare all your ingredients. Make sure they are all at room temperature.  

      Step 2

      Pour flour to a big bowl

      Step 3

      Add yeast and salt

      Step 4

      Add sugar

      Step 5

      Melt butter and let it cool down. Warm your milk but don’t boil it.

      Step 6

      Add all the dry ingredients to your food mixer bowl and combine. 

      Step 7

      Add milk and melted butter

      Step 8

      Add egg yolks

      Step 9

      Add two spoons of vanilla food flavouring Le Supreme 

      Step 10

      Mix all the ingredients for around 10 minutes until well combined 

      Step 11

      Dust a bowl with flour and add the dough. Cover with cling film. Leave it in a warm place until it doubles in size. 

      Step 12

      Prepare all your ingredients for the filling

      Step 13

      To a ceramic or glass bowl add chocolate drops, butter and sugar. Melt everything in the microwave or over a pan of boiling water. Let it cool down

      Step 14

      Add bananas to your blender

      Step 15

      Blend until smooth

      Step 16

      Get your chocolate mix ready and Saracino Le Supreme banana food flavouring 

      Step 17

      Add the chocolate to the blended bananas

      Step 18

      Add 2 tsp of banana food flavouring.

      Step 19

      Blend all together 

      Step 20

      Leave it aside and allow it to thicken

      Step 21

      Remove the film from the bowl and place the dough on a floured surface

      Step 22

      Knead it but not for long

      Step 23

      Roll it to a rectangle so the length is double the width.

      Step 24

      Spread a layer of the chocolate mixture and add slices of fresh banana

      Step 25

      Add milk and dark Saracino chocolate drops 

      Step 26

      Roll the dough starting from the shorter side. Be careful not to rip the dough

      Step 27

      Keep rolling until fully rolled with the joint at the bottom.

      Step 28

      With the knife cut slices around 3cm thick

      Step 29

      Put baking paper on your baking tray. Place the buns remembering to leave sufficient space between them as they will increase in size. Apply cling film over the top (don’t press) and leave it for 30 minutes in a warm place

      Step 30

      Remove the film. Place them in a pre warmed oven at 190C and bake for 25 minutes

      Step 31

      They should be baked until a golden colour

      Step 32

      Prepare icing sugar and water

      Step 33

      Mix until a medium consistency is achieved. If it is too runny add some more icing, if it is too thick add a drop of water

      Step 34

      Add to the piping bag and cut the end

      Step 35

      Pipe the icing over the top of the buns

      Step 36

      Voila they are ready!

      SUEDE EFFECT VALENTINE CAKE TUTORIAL

      SUEDE EFFECT VALENTINE CAKE TUTORIAL

      You will need:

      Chocolate cake 

      • 130g plain flour
      • 150g caster sugar
      • 65 g cocoa powder
      • 1/2 tsp of baking powder
      • 1/2 tsp of soda powder
      • pinch of salt
      • 100g buttermilk
      • 50ml vegetable oil
      • 1tsp Saracino Vanilla food flavouring
      • 1 large egg
      • 2 tsp of instant coffee diluted in 250ml boiled water

      Jelly

      • 250g cherry puree
      • 6g gelatine
      • 20g cold water 

      Crunchy base

      • 100g milk chocolate with nuts 
      • 60g Feuilletine
      • 30g Saracino hazelnut and chocolate food flavouring
      • 30g Saracino peanut food flavouring 

      Tiramisu mousse with coffee

      • 8g gelatine 
      • 20g water
      • 3g instant coffee
      • 50g icing sugar
      • 60g Saracino tiramisu food flavouring 
      • 500ml double cream 

      Suede effect 

      • 150g Saracino cocoa butter melted with 150g Saracino white chocolate drops
      • 0.5g Saracino red powder colour 

      Equipment

      • food safe paint spray
      • bowls
      • whisk
      • 7′ cake tins
      • spoons
      • baking paper
      • confectionery mould with a diameter of 12-13 cm
      • heart silicone mould
      • blender 

      Step 1

      For the chocolate cake. Sift the dry ingredients into one bowl (flour, sugar, cocoa, powder with soda and salt). In the second bowl, add the wet ingredients (oil, egg, buttermilk)

      Step 2

      Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix briefly. Get your hot coffee and a whisk ready.

      Step 3

      With a slow stream, pour the coffee and mix it together.

      Step 4

      Pour the mixture into two low 7-inch cake tins, lined with paper for baking.

      Step 5

      Place in an oven preheated to 160 ° (fan oven). Bake for 25 minutes.

      Step 6

      After baking, cool the cakes on a wire rack.

      Step 7

      Now for the jelly get all your ingredients ready.

      Step 8

      Heat the fruit purée to about 50°C, mix the gelatine with water. Prepare a 7 inch shallow dish and cover it with cling film. Heat the gelatine mix in the microwave and add it to the puree. Combine the ingredients.

      Step 9

      Pour into the dish and put it in the freezer for a minimum of 6 hours.

      Step 10

      Prepare your ingredients for the crunchy base.

      Step 11

      Melt the chocolate over a water bath or in a microwave oven. Add both flavour pastes and the Feuilletine. Mix to combine the ingredients.

      Step 12

      We prepare a circular confectionery mould with a diameter of 12-13 cm, baking paper and a baking tray.

      Step 13

      Line the bottom with baking paper, then transfer the mixture. Put in the freezer for a minimum of 8 hours.

      Step 14

       Get all your ingredients ready for the mousse.

      Step 15

      Mix gelatine with water and set aside. Measure 100ml of cream and heat it with chocolate and coffee. Stir until dissolved and combined.

      Step 16

      Heat the gelatine in a microwave and add to the finished chocolate and coffee mixture and combine.

      Step 17

      In a mixing bowl, beat the remaining cream with icing sugar and Tiramisu flavouring paste to a semi-stiff consistency.

      Step 18

      Then, in a slow stream, add the previously prepared chocolate-coffee mixture and gently combine with the cream.

       

      Step 19

      Now for stacking the cake. Pour the mousse mixture into a jug. Prepare a heart shaped silicone form, your frozen jelly, crisp base, cake and baking paper.

      Step 20

      Cut out a heart shape from the paper that matches the size of our mould. Place the template and cut out the heart shape in our cake and jelly.

      Step 21

      To assemble the cake. Place the silicone mould on a rigid base or board. Now prepare the cut jelly, cake and crispy base. Pour a little mousse into the bottom of the mould.

      Step 22

      First we place the frozen jelly.

      Step 23

      Cover the jelly with a little mousse and place the crispy base over.

      Step 24

      Add more mousse and place the cakes. Gently press them down and remove any excess mousse.

      Step 25

      Cover the finished cake with cling film and put it in the freezer for a minimum of 12 hours.

      Step 26

      To make a suede effect we measure out all the necessary ingredients.

       

      Step 27

      Melt the cocoa butter, put the chocolate in a tall dish

      Step 28

      Pour hot cocoa butter over the chocolate.

      Step 29

      Blend until combined.

      Step 30

      Add the red powder colour and combine with a blender.

      Step 31

      We are preparing our Spray Gun. Hire one from Andy. He has everything.

      Step 32

      Check the temperature of the mixture (it needs to be between 40-50°C).

      Step 33

      Take the frozen cake out of the mould.

      Step 34

      Pour the mixture into the tank of the spray gun.

      Step 35

      Spray from a distance of about 10-15 cm.

      Step 36

      Your cake is ready, you can also add edible gold if you want to give a different effect.

      CHOCOLATE MOUSSE AND BISCUIT DESSERT

      CHOCOLATE MOUSSE AND BISCUIT DESSERT

      Author: Justyna Kowal

      Skill level: BEGINNERS 

      You will need:

      • Saracino raspberry food flavouring La Supreme
      • Saracino vanilla food flavouring La Supreme
      • Saracino milk chocolate drops
      • Saracino dark chocolate mirror glaze
      • Saracino gold push pump powder
      • Saracino gold glitter
      • butter
      • icing sugar
      • sugar
      • cinnamon
      • egg
      • plain flour
      • double cream
      • gelatine
      • Rice Krispies
      • plums
      • pectin (jam sugar)
       

      Step 1

      Prepare all your ingredients. Make sure they are all at room temperature. For the equipment you will need a small pan, spoons, 2 silicone moulds (one for the centre and one for the heart mousse), baking paper, food mixer, blender, circular cookie cutter, silicone spatula, piping bag, rolling pin, cup, sugar thermometer, wood skewers, sieve and a kitchen scale.  

      Step 2

      Add 250g plums to the pan.

      Step 3

      Cook and blend plums until a smooth consistency is achieved. 

      Step 4

      Add a table spoon of sugar, a tea spoon of pectin and a tea spoon of La Supreme vanilla flavouring. Bring to the boil for a few minutes stirring the mixture so it does not burn.  

      Step 5

      Pass the cooked mixture through the sieve to remove any lumps and plum skin.

      Step 6

      We will be using this mixture for the centre part. Fill the small mould and freeze. 

      Step 7

      For the cookies (base) prepare 170g plain flour, 20g icing sugar, tea spoon of cinnamon, 1 egg, 100g soft butter. Put the oven on to 190C

      Step 8

      Place all the ingredients in the bowl

      Step 9

      It is important not to over knead mix. The ingredients just need to be combined.

      Step 10

      Roll the dough and cut the circles using your cookie cutter

      Step 11

      Bake at 190C for about 10-12 minutes until a gold colour is achieved. Cool them on a rack.

      Step 12

      Now to get the ingredients ready to make the mousse. You will need 150g milk chocolate drops, 2 tea spoons of gelatine, 700g double cream, half a tea spoon of cinnamon, Vanilla food flavouring La Supreme. 

      Step 13

      Pour 200g of cream into a pan, add chocolate drops, cinnamon, and a tea spoon of vanilla food flavouring. Heat and stir until the chocolate is fully melted. 

      Step 14

      Add 2 tea spoons of gelatine to a bowl and add 2 table spoons of cold water. 

      Step 15

      Add the melted gelatine to the pan with the chocolate. Stir and let it cool down. 

      Step 16

      For the base of our mousse prepare 150g of milk chocolate drops and 20g of cornflakes 

      Step 17

      Melt the chocolate in the microwave or over a water bath and allow to cool down. 

      Step 18

      Add cornflakes and stir quickly. 

      Step 19

      Pour the mixture on to a sheet of baking paper, flatten and put into the fridge. 

      Step 20

      Allow to set and then remove from the fridge to cut circle bases. You want the base to be slightly smaller than plum mixture circle. 

      Step 21

      For the mousse pour 500g of double cream into a bowl and mix until it has thickened.

      Step 22

      Get the chocolate and spatula ready 

      Step 23

      Add half of the cream into your chocolate and using your spatula stir. 

      Step 24

      Add the other half of the mixture and stir

      Step 25

      Pour the mixture into the piping bag

      Step 26

      Add to the heart shaped moulds up to two thirds height in the mould. 

      Step 27

      Remove your frozen plum mixture and get the crunchy bases ready. 

      Step 28

      Add the frozen plum mixture to the mousse. 

      Step 29

      Add the crunchy base over the plum mixture and gently press. 

      Step 30

      Pipe more mousse mixture to fill each mould. Place in the freezer.

      Step 31

      Place your cookies on the mini cake boards. You can add a bit of jam at the bottom to stop them moving. 

      Step 32

      Prepare your mirror glaze, gold pump spray and glitter.

      Step 33

      Place a sheet of foil on your table and position your cooling rack over. Place the frozen hearts on the rack. 

      Step 34

      Heat the mirror glaze to a temperature of 40C. Heating slowly. Pour heated mirror glaze over each heart making sure they are fully covered. 

      Step 35

      Using your wood skewer keep moving the hearts over the rack to remove any excess mirror glaze. Then place each heart on a cookie. 

      Step 36

      Decorate using Saracino gold pump spray and gold glitter