Culinary

Perce Neige Dish

COOKING WITH TEA

Perce Neige

Inside an airy, cloud-like meringue, lies a sweet present for Clara waiting to be unwrapped.

Extracting the hazelnut and smokiness of the Nutcracker tea, Executive Chef Russell Hays of St. Regis Atlanta, creates a tea-infused pastry cream to delight, hidden away amid a wrapping of marshmallow-like clouds.

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Notes from Russell Hays, Executive Sous Chef at the St. Regis Atlanta:

“Meringues are very fragile, and you need to do every step perfectly, or else the meringue may separate and become unusable.”

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Perce Neige

Servings: 1

Keywords: Sweets

  • Prep Time: 0 mins
  • Cook Time: 1 hours 0 mins
  • Total Time: 1 hours 0 mins

Ingredients

Instructions

Ingredients

French Meringue

  • 100 Grams Egg Whites
  • 100 Grams Sugar

Chocolate Bubble Tuile

  • 100 Grams Sugar
  • 2 ½ Grams Pectin
  • 50 ½ Grams Butter
  • 50 ½ Grams Grand Caraque Chocolate
  • 10 ½ Grams Cocoa Powder
  • 40 ½ Grams Glucose or Light Corn Syrup
  • 80 ½ Grams Water

Nutcracker Crème Anglais

Nutcracker Simple Syrup

Mousseline Cream

  • 1 L Whole Milk
  • 1 Vanilla Bean
  • 250 ½ Grams Sugar
  • 100 ½ Grams Eggs
  • 150 ½ Grams Egg Yolks
  • 90 ½ Grams Cornstarch
  • 250 ½ Grams Butter #1
  • 250 ½ Grams Butter #2

Chestnut Filling

  • 500 ½ Grams Chestnut Purée
  • 100 ½ Grams Nutcracker Simple Syrup (see above)
  • 200 ½ Grams Mousseline Cream (see above)

Perce Neige

  • 1 French Meringue Ring (see above)
  • Chestnut Filling (see above)
  • 1 Piece Chocolate Bubble Tuile (see above)
  • Nutcracker Crème Anglaise (see above)

Instructions

French Meringue

  1. Begin whisking the egg whites with the whisk attachment on medium low.
  2. Increase the speed to medium and start adding sugar.
  3. Add the remaining sugar as the whites turn into soft peaks.
  4. Increase the speed to medium-high until the egg whites turn into stiff peaks.
  5. Pipe the meringue into metal ring molds that have been sprayed with nonstick spray.
  6. Steam for 1 to 1.5 min, until the meringue rises slightly.
  7. Remove the metal rings carefully.
  8. Using a large parisian scoop, take out the center and one more scoop from the middle. Save the meringue to cover the same hole later.
  9. Before filling, use the blowtorch to lightly toast the outside all over.
  10. Using a pastry bag with a small hole, pipe in the chestnut mixture until it is flush with the top.
  11. Smooth over the saved meringue.

Chocolate Bubble Tuile

  1. Melt the butter, glucose, chocolate and cocoa powder.
  2. Mix the sugar and pectin well, then add to the warm butter mix.
  3. Add water, then bring the mixture to a boil. After 3-4 minutes it should be thick.
  4. Chill well and portion small “gumballs” on a silpat, and cook at 350ºF until the large bubbles stop (about 6 min). When cool, they should be very crispy.

Nutcracker Crème Anglais

  1. Heat the milk, half of the sugar and TEALEAVES Nutcracker Tea
  2. Mix the egg yolks with the rest of the sugar.
  3. Temper the mixture and put back on low heat stirring constantly until thick.
  4. Strain the tea and put the mixture on ice right away.

Nutcracker Simple Syrup

  1. Combine all the ingredients and bring to a boil.
  2. Let the syrup infuse for 5 minutes, then strain.

Mousseline Cream

  1. Heat the milk, vanilla bean and half the sugar.
  2. Mix the cornstarch with the other half of the sugar.
  3. Add the egg yolks and eggs.
  4. Temper this and mix while stirring until thick.
  5. Add butter number #1 and mix well.
  6. When the mixture is cool, incorporate butter #2.

Chestnut Filling

  1. In a mixer with a whisk, smooth out the puree first, then add the Nutcracker Simple Syrup slowly, and finally add the Mousseline Cream.
  2. Scrape the bowl.
  3. It is done when there are no lumps.

Notes

In time for the holidays, TEALEAVES, in a collaboration with 15+ ballet companies, 10+ luxury hotel partners, and an antiquarian horologist, launched the worldwide Nutcracker #AfternoonTEALEAVES: Gifts of Time initiative. The project is a twist to the traditional gift guide that offers experiential pairings to afternoon tea, themed after the story of the Nutcracker, and celebrates the arts, true craftsmanship, and spending quality time with others.

Piece together your real-life Nutcracker fairytale and explore various ‘Gifts of Time’. Journey to Nutcracker.AfternoonTEALEAVES.com.