CHOCOLATE & CARAMEL TOFFEE ICE CREAM YULE LOG
BY MASTER CHEF CHARLES AZAR
Serves 10 | Preparation 2 hrs | Baking 15 mins | Freezing 4 hrs
INGREDIENTS |
Soft chocolate brownie cake
- Melt the dark chocolate 64% at 45°C.
- Add the softened butter.
- Blanch the eggs with the sugar.
- Incorporate the dark chocolate and soft butter mixture.
- Add the flour and the baking powder.
- Use a piping bag with nozzle n°10 (if available) and bake at 160 °C for 15 minutes.
Chocolate cream
- Make a ganache by boiling the cream pour over the chopped dark chocolate.
- Leave to cool in the refrigerator.
- Beat with a mixer using the whisk like whipped cream.
Caramel toffee ice cream
- Caramelize the sugar by adding it to a heavy-bottom saucepan set over medium heat.
- Add the boiling cream and the butter. Pour over the hot milk.
- Add the egg yolks blanched with the mixture (glucose powder, stabilizer and sea salt) and cook at 85°C.
- Strain and mix for 1 minute, then cool quickly to 3°C.
- Leave to mature for a minimum of 4 hours. Mix again and turbinate in an ice cream machine.
Chocolate ice cream
- Use a saucepan to boil the milk and the heavy cream.
- Blanch the egg yolks with the mixture (sugar, stabilizer) add the milk, hot cream and cook at 85°C.
- Strain it, pour on the chopped chocolate, mix for 1 minute and cool quickly to 3°C.
- Leave to mature for a minimum of 4 hours, mix again and turbinate in an ice cream machine.
Montage
- Use a stainless-steel rectangular frame dimension 12 cm x 30 cm and 10 cm height to place the soft chocolate brownie sponge, garnish with dark chocolate ice Cream Tanzanie 75% and caramel toffee ice cream. Freeze.
- Take out the ice cream cake, pipe the top of the cake with chocolate cream using a Saint Honoré nozzle. Freeze again.
Finishing
- Spray with chocolate velvet and decorate with chocolate and sugar star.
PREPARATION |
Irish cream liquor ice cream
1. Heat the milk and the heavy cream.
2. Blanch the egg yolks with the mixture (sugar and stabilizer).
3. Cook everything at 85°C.
4. Mix and cool as quickly as possible to 3° C.
5. Add the liquor and leave to mature for 4 hours minimum.
6. Mix again and turbinate in an ice cream machine.
Chocolate ice cream
1. Boil the milk and heavy cream.
2. Blanch the egg yolks with the mixture (sugar and stabilizer).
3. Add the milk and hot cream, and cook at 85°C.
4. Strain and pour on the chopped chocolate.
5. Mix for 1 minute and cool quickly to 3°C.
6. Leave to mature for a minimum of 4 hours, mix again and turbinate in an ice cream machine.
Montage
1. In a stainless steel, rectangular frame (dimension 12 cm x 30 cm and 10 cm height), place a base of almond dacquoise garnish with the Irish cream ice cream and the chocolate ice cream.
2. Place in the freezer. Take out the ice cream cake, spread the chocolate cream on a plastic sheet of “faux-bois” and cover it.
3. Place again in the freezer.
Finishing
Unwrap the ice cream cake and spray with chocolate.
Decorate with chocolate leaves.