Mocca Dates

A unique dates inspired cake by Chef Otto Tay served during Hari Raya.

Mocca Peanut Caramel
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Ingredients

For 1 servings

Peanut Dacquoise (1 tray 60x40)

640 g egg white

256 g sugar

392 g peanut powder (toasted)

152 g icing sugar

140 g cake flour

4 g salt

17 g corn flour

1 pc dates per petit gateaux

Peanut Croustillant (60 pcs 5mm)

330 g toasted peanut paste (skinless)

90 g white couverture chocolate 35%

3 g sea salt flake

420 g feulletine

30 g toasted almond nibs

Mocca Cream

4000 g Debic Chocolate Mousse

150 g trimoline

120 g freeze dried coffee powder

240 g gelatin mass

Caramel Cremeux (60 pcs)

515 g milk

160 g sugar

1 pod vanilla pod

75 g egg yolk

17 g sugar

50 g corn starch

2.6 g NH pectin

3 g sea salt

178 g Debic Crème Butter

Preparation

Peanut Dacquoise

Whisk the egg white and sugar till it becomes a meringue. Next, sift dry ingredients. Bake at 170°C for 15 minutes.

Peanut Croustillant

Mix well all together. Flatten to 5mm thickness and keep in the freezer. Cut using a cutter.

Mocca Cream

Mix all ingredients well except gelatin mass and whip till soft peaks. Lastly, add in melted gelatin mass.

Caramel Cremeux

Caramelize 240g of sugar in a saucepan, then deglaze with milk, followed by vanilla bean. Rescale caramel milk at 848g. Cool down the mixture to 45˚C, and add in NH pectin-sugar mix. Then cook a crème patisserie with egg yolk, corn starch and sea salt. Once the mixture has cool down to 40˚C, emulsify with butter.

Recipe tags Mocca Peanut Caramel