Mille Feuille
Julien Dugourd
Recipe in 6 steps
Cocoa brioche
1| Milk | 160 g | 6.5 % |
| Water | 70 g | 2.8 % |
| Yeast | 30 g | 1.2 % |
| Eggs | 415 g | 16.9 % |
| Flour | 900 g | 36.8 % |
| COCOA POWDER 22/24% | 100 g | 4.0 % |
| Salt | 20 g | 0.8 % |
| Sugar | 150 g | 6.1 % |
| Butter | 600 g | 24.5 % |
| Total | 2445g | 100% |
Mix the milk, water, yeast, eggs, flour, cocoa, salt and sugar for 4 minutes at speed 1 then at 10 minutes at speed 2. Add the butter and knead for 4 minutes at speed 2. Divided into 600g breads. Mould and leave to rise for 3 hours. Bake at 160°C for 1 hour. |
Cocoa syrup
2| Water | 500 g | 74.0 % |
| Sugar | 175 g | 25.9 % |
| COCOA POWDER 22/24% | To taste | 0.0 % |
| Total | 675g | 100% |
Bring to the boil. |
Cream
3| Milk | 500 g | 24.8 % |
| Cream | 500 g | 24.8 % |
| Egg yolks | 180 g | 8.9 % |
| Sugar | 180 g | 8.9 % |
| Dark chocolate MADONG 70% | 325 g | 16.1 % |
| Dark chocolate JAMAYA 73% | 325 g | 16.1 % |
| Total | 2010g | 100% |
Bring the cream and milk to the boil. Prepare like a crème anglaise with egg yolks and sugar. Divide into two equal halves. Pour the first half on the MADONG® 70% couverture and the second half on the JAMAYA® 73% couverture. |
Cocoa sorbet
4| Water | 500 g | 73.4 % |
| Sugar | 100 g | 14.6 % |
| COCOA POWDER 22/24% | 64 g | 9.3 % |
| Super neutrose | 3 g | 0.4 % |
| PURE COCOA PASTE JAMAICA | 14 g | 2.0 % |
| Total | 681g | 100% |
Heat the water. Add the sugar, cocoa and super neutrose and bring to the boil. Pour over the cocoa paste. Freeze. Churn with the pacojet. Pipe out sorbet tubes with a plain n°6 nozzle. |
Chocolate crumble
5| Butter | 315 g | 26.4 % |
| Icing sugar | 150 g | 12.5 % |
| Caster sugar | 150 g | 12.5 % |
| Ground almonds | 190 g | 15.9 % |
| Flour | 190 g | 15.9 % |
| COCOA POWDER 22/24% | 190 g | 15.9 % |
| Salt | 6 g | 0.5 % |
| Total | 1191g | 100% |
Soften the butter in the food processor. Add the remaining ingredients. Bake at 160°C for 7 minutes. |
Opaline
6| Sugar | 375 g | 54.5 % |
| Glucose | 125 g | 18.1 % |
| PURE COCOA PASTE JAMAICA | 125 g | 18.1 % |
| Butter | 62,5 g | 9.0 % |
| Total | 687g | 100% |
Make a pale caramel with the sugar and the glucose. Add the pure paste and the butter. Pour onto a Silpat® sheet and leave to cool. Blend. |