Fleur De Myrtille

By Chef Loi Ai Ming

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Ingredients

Cocoa Sable

146 g butter

83 g icing sugar

208 g flour

21 g cocoa powder

42 g egg white

Blueberry Biscuit

20 g milk

85 g sunflower oil

130 g blueberry reduction 40%

95 g egg yolk

15 g inverted sugar

95 g flour

150 g egg white

110 g sugar

Strawberry Confit

320 g Ponthier Strawberry Puree

93 g Ponthier Raspberry Puree

10 g Ponthier Yuzu Puree

34 g inverted sugar

7 g PCB Pectin NHX

36 g sugar

Blueberry Cheese Diplomat

66 g Ponthier Blueberry Puree

40 g water

1/3 nos vanilla pod

17 g sugar

21 g egg yolk

11 g corn starch

28 g gelatin mass

120 g Debic Crème Cheese

16 g blueberry reduction 40%

5 g Ponthier Lemon Puree

191 g Debic Stand & Overrun

85 g meringue base

Meringue Base

47 g egg white

38 g glucose syrup

17 g inverted sugar

Blueberry Glaze

325 g water

5 g PCB Pectin NHX

50 g sugar (1)

525 g sugar (2)

15 g inverted sugar

150 g gelatin mass

200 g Ponthier Blueberry Puree

300 g Valrhona Opalys 33%

75 g cocoa butter

Mascarpone Chantilly

100 g Debic Stand & Overrun (1)

40 g inverted sugar

1/3 nos vanilla pod

18 g gelatin mass

400 g Debic Stand Overrun (2)

120 g mascarpone

Preparation

Cocoa Sable

Paddle the butter, icing sugar, flour and cocoa powder together in a mixing bowl until it reaches sandy texture, add in egg white and mix briefly.

Leave the dough to rest in the chiller.

Roll the dough to 3mm thickness and cut into 11cm diameter flower shapes.

Bake at 150˚C for 20 minutes.

Blueberry Biscuit

Mix puree, sunflower oil, flour, corn starch, blueberry reduction and lemon puree together in a robot coupe and emulsify well.

Make a soft-peaked French meringue with egg white, sugar and trehalose.

Fold the meringue into blueberry batter and spread evenly onto a Flexipan (53cm x 35cm). Bake at 155˚C for 13 minutes.

Strawberry Confit

Mix pectin and sugar together in a bowl.

Cook the purees and inverted sugar together in a saucepan to 45˚C.

Whisk in pectin-sugar mixture and bring to a boil.

Blueberry Cheese Diplomat

Make a crème patisserie with puree, water, vanilla bean, sugar, egg yolk and corn starch together in a saucepan.

Mix in gelatin mass until dissolved.

Followed by cream cheese, blueberry reduction, lemon puree and emulsify well.

Cool down the mixture to 45˚C, then fold in whipped cream and meringue base.

Meringue Base

Make a Swiss meringue with egg white, glucose syrup and inverted sugar.

Mascarpone Chantilly

Warm the whipping cream (1) with inverted sugar, vanilla bean and gelatin mass together to 36˚C.

Emulsify together with whipping cream (2) and mascarpone.

Preserve in the chiller for later use.

Blueberry Glaze

Mix pectin and sugar (1) together in a bowl.

Cook the water in a saucepan to 45˚C, add in pectin-sugar mix and bring to boil.

Gradually add in sugar (2) and glucose, continue to cook syrup to 68 Brix.

Add in gelatin mass and emulsify together with couverture and cocoa butter.

At 40˚C, blend in puree. Used at 65 Brix.

Assembly

On the flower crust base, pipe strawberry confit on the center and each flower petal.

Cut the blueberry biscuit into 11cm x 3cm strips, fold both ends together and stick it onto the flower crust.

Pipe blueberry cheese diplomat into the middle of each blueberry biscuit until it is 90% full.

Then, pipe a thin layer of strawberry confit on top of the blueberry cheese diplomat.

Glaze the frozen blueberry cheese diplomat with blueberry glaze, then pipe mascarpone chantilly surrounding and stick onto the center of the blueberry biscuit flower.

Finishing touch

Decorate with strawberries and dried rose petals.