
Croissant with pastry cream and namelaka
Viennoiserie is completely back! Craftsmanship and creativity come together in this delicious pastry.By Bart de Gans.Ingredients
500gStrong flour
100gDry butter 84%
240gWhole UHT milk
250gDry butter 84% (touring butter)
20gYeast
60gVending machine sugar
12gFine salt
15gInvert sugar
80gVending machine sugar
1000gWhole UHT milk
70gcornstarch
300gChocolate, milk, white, dark
180gWhole eggs
200gWhole UHT milk
400gUHT cream 35%
340gIvoire chocolate
4gGelatine
500gSugar
Preparation
- Base temperature: 50°C.
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- Bring the milk to a boil and pour it over the mixture of eggs, sugar, and starch.
- Cook everything to boiling point.
- Remove from the heat and emulsify the preparation with a silicone spatula by gradually pouring it over the chocolate.
- Mix thoroughly as soon as possible to complete the emulsion. Cool quickly.
- Bring the milk to a boil and add the soaked gelatin.
- Emulsify with a silicone spatula while gradually pouring the mixture over the partially melted chocolate.
- Mix thoroughly as soon as possible to complete the emulsion. Pour out at 45 to 50°C.
- Preferably let crystallize for 12 hours in the refrigerator at 4°C.
- Make a dry caramel by adding portions of sugar to a hot pan. Pour out and grind to powder using a food processor and use over the puff pastry.
- Bake and caramelize at 180°C.
- Prepare your own croissant dough as desired, cut it into a triangle of 6 by 30 cm, and roll it up.
- Process according to the desired procedure.
- Caramelize using caramel powder and cut the croissant in half to fill with pastry cream and namelaka.
- Top with blackberries and sunflower seeds.



