Mango, peach and almond entremet (vegan)

Peaches and mangoes are among my favourite fruits and whenever I receive them with my veggie box I am over the moon. Some I eat as a snack, and some usually end in a dessert. Today it’s an entremets, which is quite refreshing after the holidays.

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The entremet is composed of several elements (as usual!):

-Panna cotta tourbillon

-Mango glaze

-chamomile peach mousse

-Mango coulis

-Almond vanilla sponge cake

-Almond crumble

what a weird looking cake! 🙂

Ingredients and methods:

Almond crumble

20 icing sugar

20 rice flour

20 almond flour

16g coconut oil

Combine until the texture resembles breadcrumbs, then bake at 140C fan for 20 minutes.

50 almonds, some halved and some chopped

28g sugar

8g water

3g coconut oil

Combine water and sugar and heat until 115C. Throw the chopped almonds and stir with a spatula. Keep stirring until caramelised and when you are happy with the color, stir in the coconut oil. Spread evenly in the shape of the cake, and reserve the halved almonds to decorate.

Almond sponge

100g self raising flour

100g sugar

15g almond flour

3/4 tsp baking powder

55ml oil

158ml almond milk

1/2tsp vanilla bean paste

Combine in a bowl the dry ingredients and set aside. In a glass, combine the wet ingredients and then incorporate in the dry ingredients, avoiding overmixing. Bake at 160C static for 50-60 minutes, or until a metal skewer inserted in the sponge will come out dry.

Mango coulis

200g mango purée

Juice from 1/2 lemon

4g agar agar + 20g water

40g sugar

Heat the mango puree with the lemon juice and the sugar. Once it reaches ~40C, stir in the agar agar, which has been previously rehydrated with the cold water. Cook until the mixture startsboiling, then remove from heat and let cool a bit before pouring in your mold (in my case it was a baking tin lined with parchment paper and cling film!). Let cool in the fridge.

Peach and camomile mousse

3 g agar agar+15g water

72 g vegan white chocolate

75 g cocoa butter

120 g heavy cream – infused with 1 Tbsp chamomile at least 2h before using

120 g cream cheese

396 g peach puree

Melt the chocolate and the cocoa butter at 45C in the microwave or with a water bath/double boiler system. Heat the peach puree and the cream stir in the agar agar. Pour the hot puree on the chocolate and stir.

Blend in a blending glass and once cooled a bit add the cream cheese and blend again. Spread evenly in the mould. Then push the mango coulis in, the sponge and then the crumble layer. Freeze for at least 4-5h.

Peach glaze

115g peach puree

40 g water

10g lemon juice

20 g+ 15g caster sugar

25g glucose syrup

2g NH pectin

Heat the peach puree with the lemon juice and the water together with the 20g caster sugar and the glucose syrup. Once warm add the 15g caster sugar and the pectin, stir constantly until the mixture reaches 90C. Transfer to a bowl and cover with cling film touching the surface and let rest for 6h.

Panna cotta

190g heavy cream

25g sugar

1/2 vanilla bean paste

1.5 g agar agar + 1tbsp water

Heat the heavy cream with the sugar and vanilla bean paste. Add the agar agar and cook until the mixture reaches 90C (it is important to activate the agar properly). Pour in the mould (in my case the tourbillon mould) and let set in the fridge for at least 2h. Never freeze pannacotta!

Unmould the mousse and bring the peach glaze to 35C. It has to be glossy and very very smooth. Put the mousse cake on a cooling rack and pour the glaze all over it. Let set. Once set (~30min) put the panna cotta on top and decorate with a few mango cubes and caramelised almonds.