Baileys Cremeux
400g Cream Cheese
100g Sugar
200g Cream
8g Gelatine sheets
100g Baileys
Pie Crust (coffee streusel)
100g Flour mixture
100g Almonds flour
100g Sugar
1 pinch of Salt
100g Butter
1 y ½ teaspoon of Instant coffee
Coffee Ganache
180g Cream
80g Sugar
4g Instante coffee
200g Dark chocolate
30g Butter
For the Baileys cremeux.
1.Hydrate the gelatine sheets in very cold water.
2.Put them in a pot with the cream cheese, the sugar and the cream. Heat them on low fire.
3.Stir to disolve all the cheese lumps.
4.When the mixture is smooth, turn off the fire, drain and add the gelatine and stir.
5.Add in the Baileys and mix properly.
6.Pour the mixture into the chosen mould and freeze.
Preparing the pie crust.
1.Put all the dry ingredients in a bowl: the flour mixture, the almond flour, the sugar and the salt.
2.Melt a bit of the butter and disolve the instant coffee in it. Set aside.
3.Add the rest of the butter to the dry ingredients and knead it until smooth.
4.Add in the coffee disolved in the melted butter.
5.Place the mixture in the chosen mould and smooth it out with a spatula. Bake at 160ºC for 20 minutes (until golden). Cool down and set aside.
For the coffee ganache.
1.Put the cream, the sugar and the coffee in a pot and bring to a boil.
2.Pour this over the chocolate and mix it with a whisk, until the chocolate disolves completely and the resulting mixture is smooth.
3.Wait until the temperature decreases, when the ganache is at 40ºC, add the butter. Mix properly and leave it to cool in the fridge.
4.Once cool, put it in a pastry bag with the desired piping nozzle.
Assembling.
1.Unmould the streusel once completely cool.
2.Unmould the Baileys cream using a blowtorch and place it over the coffee streusel.
3.Spread the truffle around the cake, on the streusel borders.
4.Decorate to your liking.
*The cake ring used for the pie crust was of 20cm of diameter. The Baileys cremeux was done in a 18cm one.
*Use a closed mould for the Baileys cremeux or wrap in plastic film a ring while using a flat mould as a base.
*It's important not to reach a very high temperature while preparing the Baileys cremeux. 38ºC will be enough to disolve the gelatine.
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